PREJUDICE AND RACE RELATIONS

by Raymond W.--Ed. Mack ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 10, 1970

Another New York Times book based on the proposition that articles from the Sunday Magazine section are fit to reprint, which may be true in individual cases but does not ensure effective anthologies. As this book amply demonstrates, grouping articles around a common topic and even under five subheadings does not necessarily provide balance, focus, or thrust, particularly when the editor stands aloof from the proceedings. There are no lead-in comments to the sections or the articles, and Mack's Introduction introduces the general problem of racial relations but does not once mention the eighteen pieces in the book or refer at all to the purposes or even the fact of the collection. The first section, on ""Race and Its Consequences,"" includes an anthropological view of race differences, a look at Professor Jensen's controversial study of IQ disparities, and an essay questioning the school integration drive. ""Race Relations in Different Societies"" offers only a 1961 piece on white Rhodesians, a 1966 assessment of South Africa's apartheid, and an ""Aloha for the Fiftieth State."" Then come four articles on different institutional effects of prejudice, a scanty gallery of black ""Leaders in Change"" (Roy Wilkins, Eldridge Cleaver, Julian Bond vs. a Top Segregationist, and Charles Evers), and, finally, a few diverse ""Options Facing Americans"" (by Reese Cleghorn, Nathan Glazer, W. Arthur Lewis, and Bayard Rustin). Largely unremarkable pieces, tenuously bound.

Pub Date: July 10, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Quadrangle

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION