Color and Race by John Hope FranklinReview by: T. G. M.Caribbean Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Oct., 1969), p. 125Published by: Institute of Caribbean Studies, UPR, Rio Piedras CampusStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25612160 .

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V. BOOK NOTES

Color and Race, Edited by John Hope Franklin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. xvi + 391 pp. Index. $6.95.

With the exception of two of the essays in this book (the first and the last) the rest appeared in the spring 1967 issue of Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The book might be divided into two parts. The first part contains a series of essays on race and color as they relate to the intellectual, international relations, Christianity, western values, human relations and other phenomena in the modern world. The

second half of the book deals with race and color in specific areas in the world like Japan, India, Africa, Central America, Britain, the West Indies, and the United States. In both parts of the book the Caribbeanist will find essays of exceptional interest. Roger Bastide in a brief but perceptive essay outlines the changing relationship of the various divisions of Christianity toward race and color. In one of the more substantial essays in the book

David Lowenthal draws on a breadth of sources (over a hundred and seventy citations of mostly recent works) for his brilliant study of a narrow, but too often allowed definition of the West Indies. To exclude the Spanish speaking islands from the West Indies is to cut the population and importance of the Caribbean into half of what it reaUy is. We are fast approaching the day when the scholar is going to feel extremely uncomfortable in using the European cultural divisions as an excuse for limiting the scope of his supposed concern. Lowenthal, an outsider to the Caribbean but none the less an astute scholar of the area as his books and essays testify, exudes in places an almost extreme Caribbean nationalism as he delights in pointing out the reasons why the West Indian proved to be several jumps ahead of his soul brothers to the north. Julian Pitt-Rivers contributed a rather disappointing and superficial essay on race and color in Central America and the Andes. E. R. Braithwaite's essay on the colored immigrant in Britain is engagingly drawn on his own experience and observations. As a whole the book is a rewarding one, worthy of serious attention.

T. G. M.

Taxes and Tax Harmonization in Central America, by Virginia G. Watkin, Cambridge: Harvard Law School International Tax Program, 1968. 519 pp.

This study is a comprehensive analysis of the tax systems of the Central American republics which are members of the CACM. It focuses its attention on the identification of the specific problems of tax harmonization arising from the formation of the common market, the tax objectives of the region, and the future agreements for the realization of the objectives.

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