Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States. Edited by Pyong Gap Min. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. lxix + 795 pp. 3 vols. Photos, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, appendix, and index. $249.95 (cloth).

Elliott Robert Barkan
Emeritus, California State University, San Bernardino

With the assistance of five editors and thirty-two contributors, Pyong Gap Min has compiled a most unusual encyclopedia not so much because the information is unique (and some is) but due to the exceptional decision to break topics into multiple sub-entries. For example, African Americans have not one principal entry but twelve of varying lengths on topics such as "Black Anti-Semitism," "Black Conservatives," " 'Black English' (Ebonics)," "Black-Korean Conflicts," "Black Nationalist Movement," "Black Political Disenfranchisement," "Black Power" [a paragraph on Stokeley Carmichael and Charles Hamilton's book], and "Blacks, Wage Discrimination against." One must then search farther for the seven entries on slavery that are included among the list of seventy-eight items under the African American "Guide to Related Entries."