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Book Review


A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D. By Florence Ridlon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xxiv, 391 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8263-3339-7.)
The sociologist Florence Ridlon has chronicled the life of a remarkable individual, the African American physician Edward C. Mazique. Ridlon states openly in the introduction that "much of the book is in Eddie's own words. I think his words convey better than I ever could what Edward Craig Mazique was really like" (p. xii). A great deal of this book does indeed consist of lengthy excerpts from interviews with Mazique and from Mazique's writings, with not enough work on the part of Ridlon to engage critically with this evidence or other sources. . . .
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