Soledad Brother: the prison letters of George Jackson (book review)
Ghetto of the mind Book review published in New Society April 1971 America is insane. An 18 year old robs a petrol station of $70 and ends up in …
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A rap on race (book review)
Published as ‘Bucking the burden’ in New Society 22 July 1971. A Rap on Race by Margaret Mead and James Baldwin Three rounds of conversation, stretching over seven and a …
From Gandhi to Guevara (book review)
Review of From Gandhi to Guevara: the polemics of revolt by C.R.Hensman, ’An African elephant cannot stumble’, complained Malcolm X, ’without falling on a white man with a shovel.’ The …
Black Suicide (book review)
Under title ‘Moral Atonement’ this was review of Black Suicide by Herbert Hendin was published in New Society 23 April 1970. “Grief,” wrote a Harlem boy, “is a gigantic snake …
Soul on Ice (book review)
Soul on Ice. By ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (London, Jonathan Cape, 1969). xv + 210 pp. 35s. Life is a renewal, an assertion, a continual yea-saying. It holds out no new truths, …
Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation (book review)
Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation byClaude .M Lightfoot (International Publishers, 18s 6d., 192pp) Claude Lightfoot is one of the Communist Party’s old faithfuls. He joined the party in 1931, …
Black Power – The Politics of Liberation (book review)
Black Power-The Politics of Liberation in America. By STOKELY CARMICHAEL and CHARLES V. HAMILTON (London, Jonathan Cape, 1968). xiv+ 198 pp. 30s. Chaos or Community. By MARTIN LUTHER KING (London, …
Vicious Circle (Book review)
Vicious Circle. By WILFRED WOOD and JOHN DOWNING (London, S.P.C.K., 1968). 88 pp. 6s. The Closed Race Relations in Britain Today. By DICK PIXLEY (London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1968). 140 pp. …
Home: social essays (book review)
Home: social essays by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) It was ’endless questioning’ Baldwin tells us that ’gave him himself’- and himself, he ultimately found, was American, no narrower than that. …
James Baldwin Review
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. By JAMES BALDWIN (London, Michael Joseph, 1968). 407 pp. 35s. The Furious Passage of James Baldwin. By FERN MARJA ECKMAN (London, Michael …