It has a noble history of scholarship, justice and positive action, and in the twentieth century it was mainly practiced in an unenlightened, unjust and negative society. The 28 contributors here published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power movement, a time when African American practitioners of social were both students and objects of a segregated society. Offerings include such classics as Cromwell's "The Attitude of the American Mind toward the Negro Intellect" and Terrell's "The Progress of Colored Women," Du Bois's "The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population" and Davis's "Caste, Economy and Violence." Articles cover African Americans in American cultural production, including expression, literature and authorship; the political economy of race, including Harris's "Economic Foundations of American Race Division;" Bunche's startling post-war "Race and Imperialism;" and later studies on poverty, identification, women and competitive race relations. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)