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Autobiography by Malcolm X (New York: Grove Press, 1965). Malcolm X argues that “gaming” and “put-ons” are an important part of Negro life.
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown (New York: Macmillan, 1965). Brown describes some of the games he ran on people as a youth.
Tally’s Corner by Elliot Liebow (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967). The author describes the attempts the men make at running games on their women, on one another, and on “the man.”
Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1967, pages 23–93. In “The Leader and the Lost: A Case Study of Indigenous Leadership in a Poverty Program Community Action Committee,” Louis A. Zurcher discusses the put-on and the ways in which American Indians dealt with the poverty program. It comes very close to the conclusions of this article.
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David Wellman is on the editorial staff ofThe Movement, a news journal affiliated with the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee and students for a Democratic Society. He is a graduate student in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and is research coordinator for a study on racism, manhood, and culture in American society.
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Wellman, D. Thewrong way to find jobs for negroes. Trans-action 5, 9–18 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180442
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