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Canada and the United States

Jonathan Scott Holloway. Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 290. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

As Jonathan Scott Holloway notes in his introduction, the subjects of his study—economist Abram Harris, Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche—have already attracted varying degrees of historical interest. Bunche has received the most attention, Harris the least. 1

Holloway opens his book with the Second Amenia Conference in 1933. Hosted by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president Joel E. Spingarn, the conference was intended to bring together young African-American leaders to create new solutions to the new problems African Americans faced in the Depression. Harris, Frazier, and Bunche attended, and all three saw themselves as part of a new generation and framed their work to distinguish it from the work of the "race men" of a previous generation. All three men had some connection to Howard University in Washington, D.C., the center of black intellectual life in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century. Indeed, one of the great strengths of Holloway's book is its vivid portrayal of the culture of Howard University during this time. . . .

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