Booklist 17:143 Ja ’21
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
Bookm 52:302 Ja ’21 300w + Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w + Cleveland p91 S ’20 20w
“‘The negro faces America’ is the best general survey yet written on the negro in the United States. The book contains much fresh material.” M. W. Ovington
+ Freeman 1:573 Ag 25 ’20 800w
“Besides reporting unanswerable facts Mr Seligmann gives us excellent discussion of such questions as ‘social equality’ and sex relationships.” O. G. V.
+ − Nation 112:121 Ja 26 ’21 890w
“Mr Seligmann has written an interesting book, a generous, ardent piece of agitation, but its usefulness is greatly impaired by its failure to make good upon the pretences of its arrangement. The issue as to the evolutionary inferiority of the negro, which, if it was relevant at all to his purpose, deserved thorough scientific presentation, is superficially handled.” L. B. W.
+ − New Repub 24:151 O 6 ’20 800w
“Mr Seligmann is a vigorous writer, very journalistic, who interests you by the rapid flow of his thought. He has considerable power in arranging his facts, but he quotes and quotes and quotes.”