Volume 5, Number 2 · August 26, 1965
Growing Up Black
By Paul Goodman
Manchild In the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
Macmillan, 415 pp., $5.95
More than half of this autobiographical romance about a boy's education in Harlem is devoted to the years seven or eight up to fourteen or fifteen, so it is interestingly relevant to the present hullaballoo about underprivileged schooling. Unfortunately there is nothing in the book about the pre-school years which are now the concern of the 'Head Start' programs, but, in my opinion, Claude Brown had plenty of head start, though his parents had been Southern Negro farmers.
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