British thinking about race before and after 1945 Paul B. Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1986,272 pp., £25. Reassessing the 'black presence' in English literature David Dabydeen (ed.), The Black Presence in English Literature, Manchester University Press, 1985, 214 pp.. £5.95 pb. 1 The Colonial Encounter: A Reading of Six Novels (Rex Collings, 1977). 2 The Study of Literature in an African University was published in St. Antony's Papers Number 21, African Affairs, Number Three, Oxford University Press, 1969 (edited by Kenneth Kirkwood). Journeys into dream worlds Wilson Harris, Carnival, Faber and Faber, 1985, 172 pp., £10.95 cloth. Wilson Harris, The Guyana Quartet, Faber and Faber, 1985,464 pp., £5.95 p.b. Race relations or industrial relations? Kenneth Lunn (ed.). Race and Labour in Twentieth-Century Britain, Cass, London, 1985, 186 pp., n.p. 1 'Pivots and Presents: Asian Brokers in British Foundries', in Sandra Wallman (ed.), Ethnicity at Work (Macmillan, London, 1979). Festschrift for Philip Vernon Christopher Bagley and Gajendra K. Verm a (eds.). Personality, Cognition and Values, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, 1986, 229 pp., £27.50 h.b. Applied approaches to community relations Lucy Mair, Anthropology and Development, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1984, 146 pp., n.p. 'Closure', 'encapsulation', 'marginality' Vaughan Robinson, Transients, Settlers and Refugees: Asians in Britain, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, viii + 261 pp., £22 h.b. The 'Southernisation' of America? Lewis M. Killian, White Southerners (revised edition). University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986, 216 pp., $25.00 cloth; $8.95 p.b. Sociological theories about race John Richardson and John Lambert, The Sociology of Race, Causeway Press, 1985,88 pp., £2.25 p.b. Educational and post-school achievement and aspiration: complex causes Gajendra K. Verma with Brandon Ashworth, Ethnicity and Educational Achievement in British Schools, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1986, 198 pp., £8.95 p.b. Multiracial education: theory and practice Ranjit Arora and Carlton Duncan (eds.). Multicultural Education: Towards Good Practice, RKP, 1986,221 pp., £14.95 cloth. Barry Troyna and Jenny Williams, Racism, Education and the Slate, Croom Helm, Beckenham, 1985, 138 pp., £6.96 p.b. Ageing settlers C. S. Fenton, Race, Health and Welfare, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, 1985, 102 pp., £5.00 p.b. Inner city home ownership Valerie Karn, Jim Kemeny and Peter Williams, Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair?, Gower Publishing, Aldershot, 1985, 162 pp., £16.50 h.b. 1 The building society practice of red-lining involves the designation of areas in which the institution is unwilling to lend. Physician, sensitise thyself? John Black, The New Paediatrics: Child Health in Ethnic Minorities, British Medical Journal, London, 1985, 64 pp.. £4.50 p.b. Cecil Helman, Culture Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals, Wright-PSG, Bristol, 1984, 242 pp., £19.50 h.b. 1 See, for example, 'Cross-Cultural Medicine - a Teaching Aid', by J. Poulton and G. Rylance, Medical Teacher 7:2,1985, pp. 157-163. 2 J. Poulton, G. W. Rylance and M. R. D. Johnson, 1986, 'Medical teaching of the cultural aspects of ethnic minorities - does it exist?', Medical Education 20, in press. Police innovations, limitations and management Mollie Weatheritt, Innovations In Policing, Croom Helm/The Police Foundation, London, 1986, 165 pp., £16.95 h.b. David Bradley, Neil Walker and Roy Wilkie, Managing the Police: Law, Organisation and Democracy, Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1986, 232 pp., £7.95 p.b. A positive approach to immigration Ann Dummett (ed.), Towards a Just Immigration Policy, Cobden Trust, London, 1986, xii + 244 pp., £7.95 p.b. Bob Hepple Introduction to migration theory John A. Jackson, Migration, Longman, London, 1986, 91 pp., £4.95 p.b. Ethnic migration and settlement in Western Europe Stephen Castles with Heather Booth and Tina Wallace, Here for Good: Western Europe's Ethnic Minorities, Pluto Press, London, 1984, 259 pp., £7.50 p.b. Differing French institutional responses to immigrants R. D. Grillo, Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France: The Representation of Immigrants, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 328 pp., £27.50 h.b. Between laughter and tears RobertE. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography, Camden Press, London, 1986,371 pp.,£7.95p.b. Women breaking their silence Mineke Schipper (ed.), Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, the Caribbean and Latin America, Allison & Busby, London, 1985,288 pp., £4.95 p.b. Words that can kill Simon Taylor, Prelude to Genocide, Duckworth, 1985, 228 pp., £19.50 h.b. British Jewry today Stanley Waterman and Barry Kosmin, British Jewry in the Eighties: a Statistical and Geographical Guide, Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1986, 56 pp., n.p.