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The historian Joel A. Rogers, in World's Great Men of Color, describes the brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) as "the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time" and "one of America's greatest minds." Rogers adds (amid chapters on Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey), "No one worked more seriously and indefatigably to enlighten his fellow-men" and "none of the Afro-American leaders of his time had a saner and more effective program."¹

When White northern teachers flocked to the South after the Civil War to educate the newly emancipated Blacks, there seemed to be one common sentiment among the educators in regard to their new pupils, made clear by the following assertion from a White female teacher: "they need so much instruction." Slavery did not, despite a master narrative that until recently had us believe otherwise, construct an undifferentiated mass out of Black people.

Seymour Melman, After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2001).

Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom, From 1776 Until Today; Preface by Herbert Marcuse, and a new Foreword by Joel Kovel (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2000).

Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre, Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, trans. by Catherine Porter (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Briefwechsel Oktober 1864 Bis Dezember 1865 [The First International and the American Civil War]. Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe III, vol. 13. Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Amsterdam (Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002).

The volumes published so far in the MEGA Correspondence Section (vols. 1-8, 10) were prepared in Moscow, whereas this volume was prepared by a Russian-German group of scholars with the support of a long list of individuals and institutions in several countries.

Roger S. Gottlieb, Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change (Cambridge, Mass.: Westview Press, 2002)

Mark D. Naison, White Boy: A Memoir (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002).

For two months I have carried an increasingly dog-eared copy of White Boy: A Memoir, by Professor Mark Naison in my bag. I had flown through the book in a few hours. Yet it took two months of contemplation before I could sit down and write this review. And after all this deep thought I am still stuck on the title: White Boy. Perhaps that's the place to start.

Lawrence Blum, "I'm Not a Racist, But." (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).

We are radical scholars and intellectuals. Many of us are activist-academics who work in, around, and in spite of institutions of higher education. Many of us are activist-scholars and activist-intel- lectuals who work in non-academic settings. Some of us are veterans of the sixties, and some of us are younger; all of us are active participants in today's new movements. In 2002-2003, we came together in the streets, the teach-ins, the academic associations and elsewhere in opposition to the war in Iraq; we oppose the governmental lies that brought the U.S. into the war, and we oppose U.S.