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The New Negro
Munz, Charles Curtis | December 13, 1941 issue

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This article literally criticizes the book "12,000,000 Black Voices," by Richard Wright. If a book is to be judged by what it claims to be, this book is disappointing. It is described in. the subtitle as a folk history of the Negro of the U.S., but beyond a little doggerel verse from a few Negro folk songs and an occasional sharp interpretation of the Negro's mind at work, it is not a folk history at all. Little or nothing will be found here that is not already known to the moderately keen observer, and certainly this book does not contain half as much information about the Negro as other writers already have presented.

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12,000,000 Black Voices (Book); WRIGHT, Richard; AFRICAN Americans; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; UNITED States
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