Short reviews

Reynolds Farley, BLACKS AND WHITES: NARROWING THE GAP? Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984, xii + 235 pp., £18.00; $24.75. Alphonso Pinkney, THE MYTH OF BLACK PROGRESS, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, x + 198 pp., £15.00. Walker Connor, THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN MARXIST‐LENINIST THEORY AND STRATEGY, Princeton University Press, 1984. xvii + 614 pp, £47.00/$47.50 (h.b); £11.20; $14.50 (p.b.). Ira Katznelson, CITY TRENCHES: URBAN POLITICS AND THE PATTERNING OF CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES, University of Chicago Press, 1981. 268 pp. $11.50; £9.25. George M. Frederickson, WHITE SUPREMACY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY, Oxford University Press, 1981, 339 pp., $19.95. Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson (eds), THE FRONTIER IN HISTORY: NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA COMPARED, Yale University Press, 1981, 346 pp. £26.25 (h.b);£6.55 (p.b.). Robin Ward and Richard Jenkins (eds), ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN BUSINESS: STRATEGIES FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, xii +270 pp., £25.00. Carolyn L. Karcher, SHADOW OVER THE PROMISED LAND: SLAVERY, RACE AND VIOLENCE IN MELVILLE'S AMERICA, Louisiana State University Press, 1980, 327 pp., $8.95. John D. Brewer, MOSLEY'S MEN: THE BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS, Gower, Aldershot, 1984, xii + 159 pp., £13.50

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