The monitor., 1928-11-16
AMERICAN NEes0
GIVEN PROMINENCE
In PUBLICATION
Annals of American Academy of So
eial Science Devotes November
Issue to Race Rela-
tions.
GREAT ARRAY OF SUBJECTS
Negroes Contribution to Art, His .e-
gal Status, Eeonofaic Achieve
ments, Mental Ability and
Organizations Noted.

the American Academy of Political
and Social Science is devoted to the
American Negro and contains 80 ar
ticles on all phases of the Negroes
problems, written by those familiar
with the subject. The editor Of the
volume is Donald Young, assistant
professor of sociology at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and the advis-
DRY editorial committee includes
Charles S. Johnson, chairman; F. O..
Nichols, Graham R. Taylor, James
Weldon johnson, and Mary Van
Kleeek.
The volume is divided into seven
parts as follows:
Part /. Race Relations.-Race and
Class Parallelisn, by Herbert Adolph-
US Miller, Ohio State university; Race
Relations in the United States, by
w. E. B. Du Bots, editor of The Cri-
sis; The Basis CT Race Prejudice, by
Robert E. Park, department of So
GEOLOGY, Chicago university; Self-Re-
spect AS a Factor in Racial Advance
ment, by Fl. NJ. Bond, department of
social science, Fisk university.
Part ii. The Negro As An Element
in the Population of the United
States.-The Negro in the United
States, A Statistical Statement, by
Charles Luther Fry, Institute of So
cial and Religious Research, New
York; The American Mulatto, by E.
B. Reuter-, professor of sociology,
Iowa State university; The Negro
Family, by E. Franklin Frazier, Chi
cago Urban league; The Negro Grim
inal, A Statistical Note, by Thorsten
Sellin, assistant professor of sociol-
ogy, University of Pennsylvania;
Predetermined and Pauper Negroes
in Public Institutions, by Niles Car
penter, professor of sociology, Uni
versity of Buffalo; The Health of
the Negro, by Louis /. Dublin, Stats
tician, Metropolitan Life Insurance
company; tuberculosis and the Ne
gro, by DIR. H. NJ. R. Lands, Phipps
Institute.
Part III. The Legal Status of the
Negro.-Legal Aspects of the Negro
Problem, by James Weldon Johnson,
secretary, and Herbert ]. Seligmann,
director of publicity, The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People; Government and the
Negro, by Kelly Miller, Howard uni
versity; Residential Segregation in
American Cities, by Ernest w. Bur-
CESS, department of sociology, Uni
versity of Chicago.
Part w. The Economic Achieve
ment of the Negro.-The Progress of
the American Negro in Slavery, by
Roy F. Nichols, assistant professor of
history, university of Pennsylvania;
Industrial Training for the Negro, by
James E. Gregg, principal, Hampton
Normal and Agricultural Institute;
The Changing Economic Status of
the Negro, by Charles S. Johnson,
director, department of social sci
ence, Fisk university; The Negro in
Business and the Professions, by
/ Monroe N. Work.. director, depart
ment of records and research, Tuske-
gee Institute; The Negro in the New
South, by Will w. Alexander, direct
or, commission of interracial CO.
operation, New York City.
Part v. The Mental Ability and
Achievement of the Negro.-Early
African Culture as an Indication of
Present Negro Potentialities, by Leo
Frobenius, head of the research in
stitute for culture morphology,
Frankfurt am Main, translated by
Howard P. Becker, University OF
Pennsylvania; The Mental Status OF
the Negro, by Morris s. Viteles, as
sistant professor of psychology, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; Methods OF
Investigating Comparative Abilities
in Races, by Joseph Peterson, JesuI
Psychological Laboratory, Peabody
college; The Musical Ability Of the
Negro, by Yale s. Nathanson, depart
ment of psychology, University Of
. Pennsylvania; Three New Approaches
to the Study of Negro Music, by Car
e. Seashore, State university Of