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Blacks & Whites: The Role Identity & Neighborhood
Action Game.
Board game. 11
3
/
4
x9x2
1
/
4
inches, complete with instructions, game board,
two dice, game pieces, and playing money; in pristine condition.
California: Psychology Today, 1970
[300/400]
This satirical Monopoly-esque board game was made to underscore the socioeconomic disparities
between Blacks & Whites. It was “designed for educational use . . . to give middle-class whites a taste
of the helplessness that comes from living against implacable odds.” The game begins when 3 to 9
players select whether to play as white or black. White players are then instructed to begin with
$1,000,000; black players begin with just $10,000. The goal of the highly controversial game is to
achieve economic equality, yet the game is strategically designed to make a black win impossible.
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Volume I, Number 1 of The Probe,
Voice of the “New” African American
Community (all published).
Illustrated.
Large folio. 28 pages, pictorial self-wrap-
pers; some wear and soiling to rear cover.
Harlem, New York, 1967
[400/600]
An exceptional production, but unfortunately
the only issue published. Includes articles on the
drug problem in Harlem, a play by Archy
Shepp, a photo essay, the proposed changes to
the actual neighborhood in terms of architecture
and planning, and “Toward Black Liberation”
a very early piece by Stokely Carmichael, who
had just the year before become head of SNCC.