Commentary: Black is Black?

Africa and United States Policy, by Emerson Rupert . Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1967. 117 pp. map. See chapters 3 and 5 for a succint and brief historical summary of this topic.

Africa Seen by American Negroes. New York, American Society of African Culture, 1960. 418 pp. High school level reader stressing traditional relations.

“The African Diaspora—Or the African Abroad,” by Shepperson G. , In: African Forum, N.Y., Summer 1965, pp. 76–93. Critical analysis of African influences in U.S. and Latin America. Includes bibliography.

“African Negritude—Black American Soul,” by Jeanpierre W. A. , In: Africa Today, Denver, Colorado, December 1967, pp. 10–11. Stresses identification of Soul with African concepts of Negritude and African Personality.

“African Survivals in American Culture,” by Garrett Romeo B. , In: Journal of Negro History, Washington, D.C., October 1966.

“Africans and Afro-Americans and the Word ‘negro’,” by Turner Nat . In: Negro Digest, Chicago, September 1965, pp. 36–39. Surveys dispute concerning usage of term Negro in United States and Africa.

“Africans in Darkest New York: United Nations Delegates,” by Rosen Jane K. , In: New York Times Magazine, N.Y., February 28, 1965, pp. 30+.

“Africans vs. Afro-Americans,” by Echewa Thomas O. , In: Negro Digest, Chicago, January 1965, pp. 33–38. Comparative survey of attitudes.

“Afro-American Interchange: Proposals For a Two-Way Flow,” by Dillon W. S. , In: Social Education, Washington, D.C., March 1965, pp. 1–9. Proposals for educational exchange.

“America and Negro Africa: A Survey of Attitudes and Behavior,” by Horner G. , In: Journal of American Scientific Affiliation, June 1964, pp. 43–47.

“The American Dilemma in a Changing World: The Rise of Africa and the Negro American,” by Emerson Rupert Kilson Martin . In: Daedalus, Boston, Fall 1965, pp. 1055–1084.

“The American Negro and Africa,” by Davis John A. , In: Jewish Frontier, N.Y., March 1964, pp. 11–15.

“An American Negro Leader's Veiw of African Unity,” by Farmer James . In: African Forum, N.Y., Summer 1965, pp. 69–89.

American Negro Sentiments on Africa, 1800–1850, by Hill Adelaide Kilson Martin . Addis Ababa, International Press Agency, 1965? 1 v.

“American Negroes and Africa,” by DuBois W. E. B. , In: The World and Africa, by the author, N.Y., International Publishers, 1965, pp. 265–268. Historical summary.

“The American Negro's Impact,” by Browne R. S. Clark J. H. , In: Africa Today, Denver, Colorado, v. 14, no. I, 1967, pp. 16–18. Contemporary role in U.S. foreign relations with Africa.

“The American Negro's Relation to Africa,” by Drake St. Clair . In: Ibid., December 1967, pp. 12–15. Surveys long tradition of identification with peoples of Africa by persons of African descent in North America.

A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, compiled by Work Monroe N. , N.Y., Octagon Books, 1965. 698 pp. Originally published in 1928.

Black Orpheus: An Anthology of African and Afro-American Prose, ed. by Beier Ulli . N.Y., McGraw-Hill, 1965, 156 pp. Some selections refer to interrelations.

“The Blacks,” by Mphahlele Ezekiel . In: Africa Today, Denver, Colorado, August 1967, pp. 22–25. Brief historical survey of traditional relations.

“A Dialogue; Negro vs. African: Open Letter to an African,” by Williams John A. ; “Reply to an American Negro,” by Echwa Thomas O. , In: Negro Digest, Chicago, September 1965, pp. 22–35.

“Du Bois and Garvey Confront Liberia: Two Incidents of the Coolidge Years,” by Chalk Frank . In: Canadian Journal of African Studies, Montreal, November 1967, pp. 135–141.

First American Ambassador to Guinea, by Morrow John H. , New Brunswick, N.Y., Rutgers University Press, 1968. 291 pp. illus. Experiences of American Negro as an ambasador both in U.S. and Guinea.

Handbook of American Resources for African Studies, ed. by Duignan Peter . Stanford, California, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1967. 218 pp. Guide to historical resources held by American institutions, museums, and private persons.

“The Ideology of Blackness: African-American Style.” In: Africa Today, Denver, Colorado, pp. 2–4, illus. Comparative analysis of Black Power as opposed to ideologies in African context.

“The Influence of Africans on American Culture,” by Davis John A. , In: Annals of the American Academy of Science, Phildelphia, July 1964, pp. 75–83.

“Mbari: The Missing Link,” by Ulansky Gene . In: Phylon, Atlanta, Fall 1965, pp. 247–254. Traditional ties between Africans and black community in U.S.

“Negro Missionary Reaction to Africa,” by J. Davis and others. In: Practical Anthropology, Tarrytown, N.Y., March 1964, pp. 61–70.

“The Negro's Stake in Africa,” by Drake St. Clair . In: Negro Digest, Chicago, June 1964, pp. 33–48. Contemporary role of black community in U.S. and its concern for Africa.

The New World Negro: Selected Papers in Afro-American Studies, edited by Herskovits Melville J. Herskovits F. S. , Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1966. 370 pp. illus. Includes bibliography.

“Les Noirs américains et l'Afrique,” by Amalric J. , In: Mois en Afrique, Dakar, March 1966, pp. 42–56. Historical survey of ties between countries of Africa and black community in U.S.

“Notes on Negro American Influences on the Emergence of African Nationalism,” by Shepperson George . In: Independent Black Africa, ed. by Hanna William J. , Chicago, Rand McNally, 1964, pp. 192–207.

“Race and Color in International Relations,” by Gardiner Robert K. A. , In: Daedalus, Boston, Spring 1967, pp. 296–311.

“Racialism and Assimilation in Africa and the Americas,” by van den Berghe Pierre L. , In: South Western Journal of Anthropology, v. 19, no. 4, 1963, pp. 424–431.

“U. S. Ideological Intervention in Africa.” In: International Affairs, Moscow, no. 9. 1967, pp. 52–57. Discusses use of American Negroes as a weapon in the Cold War.

“U. S. Negroes' Goal: To Set African Policy.” In: U.S. News and World Report, N.Y., January 11, 1965, pp. 60–61. Stresses Negro influence on U.S. policies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“Visitors From Africa,” by Wedge Bryant M. , In: Visitors to the United States, and How They See Us, by the author, Princeton, N.J., D. Van Nostrand, 1965, pp. 6–27.

“Worlds of Color,” by DuBois W. E. B. , In: Africa: A Foreign Affairs Reader, ed. by Quigg Philip W. , 1964, pp. 33–52. Originally published in 1925.