Black Hands on a White Face; A Timepiece of Experiences in a Black and White America

New York: Dodd, Mead [0-396-06374-8] 1971. (Hardcover) 392pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Minor rubbing on dust jacket. "Here is a powerful selection of fiction and nonfiction mirroring the Negro experience in America. The time sequence of the book extends from the midnight of slave time to now - 11 P.M. (when 'for America this may be the last opportunity she has to deal with black Americans and negotiate... Before the terrifying prospects of internal strife, armed suppression and needless destruction descend fully upon us all.' - Whitney M. Young, Jr.). The changes in black and white consciousness over the years are clearly evident in this clockwise turn of fiction and events". Contributors include James Baldwin, Claude Brown, T.R. Carskadon, Eldridge Cleaver, John Allen Davidson, Robert K. Durkee, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Rudolph Fisher, Chris Frazer, John Howard Griffin, Wayne Grover, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Julius Lester, E.P. O'Donnell, Carl Ruthven Offord, Joseph E. Pumila, Edward Rivera, William Styron, Sandra Taylor, Bob Teague, Michael Thelwell, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright. Locale: United States. (Fiction, Autobiography, Black Americans, Black Studies, Fiction, Race Relations, Short Stories).