Third World Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 17, 1972

Amherst: Third World Alliance, 1972. The third issue of this student-produced radical bulletin published by the Third World Alliance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during a period of organizing by black and other minority students, faculty, and staff against institutional racism. Distributed free throughout the Five College area, the bulletin served both as an instrument of political mobilization and a means of communicating developments within the university's Third World community. Its principal focus was confronting the university's School of Education, where minority students and employees challenged discriminatory administrative practices, exclusion from institutional decision-making, and what they regarded as the school's superficial commitment to racial equality.

The issue includes statements from the Alliance's Political Committee concerning the establishment of a Minority Caucus, a report on its elected steering committee, and appeals for solidarity with students and workers facing administrative retaliation. A particularly forceful article, “Stop the School of Education Marathon!!!,” condemns a university-sponsored event as an exploitation of minority communities for publicity and fundraising, calling for its cancellation. Other contributions criticize the racial representations in the recently introduced television sitcom Sanford and Son, reproduce Guatemalan revolutionary poet Otto René Castillo's “Apolitical Intellectuals,” and address international struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A calendar of campus cultural events includes a lecture on W. E. B. Du Bois by Herbert Aptheker, a Black arts workshop, and screenings of Mexican films. The bulletin also welcomes the appointment of William Bromery as chancellor while promising to hold the administration accountable to its minority constituencies.

Corner-stapled 14" x 8 ½” sheets mimeographed on rectos only, 12 pp. A fine copy. Not found separately catlaoged in OCLC, so we're unsure how many issues were ultimately published. Item #15397

Price: $125.00