Volume 4, Issue 3/4. 1972-1973

Themes:

profiles of minority publishers; The ABC's of Racism in Children's Books; stereotypes; anger; institutional racism; Black publishing; kidnapping (American Indians); feminist publishers; sexism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Allan A. Fenty, George Ford, Jorg Becker, Antonia Perez, Miriam Morton

Materials Reviewed:

Prejudices and Antipathies by Sanford Berman. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Chicano Community and Education by Sara Valdez Macpherson
Voices of Emerging Nations by Clinton E. Boutwell
Red Women's Detachment by Yujie Song
Observation Post 3 by Ju-ching Li
The Horse-Headed Fiddle by Chi Chih-Hsi and Yu Fan-Chin
Brave Little Shepherd Chaolu by Chiang Nan
Hunting with Grandad by Fu-hsin Chao
Commander Yang's Young Pioneers by Hsu Kuo
It Happened in a Coconut Grove by Yeh Tan and Lin Wan-Tsui
Stories from Liu Hu-Lan's Childhood by Chʻün’li and San-chuan Hua
Jimmy Yellow Hawk by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
High Elk's Treasure by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
My Dog by Oren Lyon
Sumi's Special Happening by Yoshiko Uchida and Kazu Misumura
Getting to Know Puerto Rico by Regina Tor
Joshua's Day by Sandra Lucas Surowiecki
Martin's Father by Margrit Eichler
The Sheep Book by Carmen Good Year
Exactly Like Me by Lynn Phillips
Challenge to Become a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Leah Lurie Heyn
Puerto Rico: A Socio-Historic Interpretation by Manuel Maldonado Denis
Let's Visit Russia by Julian Popescu and John C. Caldwell
Black Johnny by Alfredo Bannenberg
Black Christian by Herma Costa-Pruscha
Oh Barbara by Sophie Gasser
Goliath is Accused by Annemarie Froemme-Bechem
Polly Finds a Home by Guenther Hemmer
Wolly and the Kronen Children by Guenther Hasselbusch
Skin Color is a Minor Matter by Hans Georg Noack
Diogenes and Black, Black Tom by Eva Marder
The Dark Mirror, or the Necessary Friendliness by Irmela Bender
Little Heart - White World by Gerta Hartl
Little Heart - Distant Goals by Gerta Hartl
Little Heart - Little Luck by Gerta Hartl
From the Rhyne to the Pyrenees by Erhart Eckert
The Rock Cried Out by Florenz Webbe Maxwell
The Unusual Puerto Rican by Theodore Laguer-Franceschi
Morning Song by Min Fong Ho
The Red Door by Gloria Fowler Bildson
Manuel's Costume by Herminio Vargas
The Nene Bridge by Lynette Y.C. Chang
Between the Devil and the Sea by Brenda A. Johnson
A Small Breath of Fresh Air by Doris Chong
Yague Days by Cruz Martel
Searching for the Secret of a Life Handmade by Shawn H. Wong
Ghetto Fairy by Eugene Perkins
Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal
Voices: Selected Readings from El Grito by Octavio Romano
Y no se lo trago la tierra by Tomás Rivera
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Perros y Antiperros by Sergio Elizondo
The American Adventure by Kenneth Bailey
The Social Studies and Our Country by Frederick M. King
Exploring Regions of the Eastern Hemisphere by Ralph Sandlin Yohe
The Human Adventure by Frank J. Cappelluti and Ruth H. Grossman
Oriental World, Ocean World by Clark N. Crain, Theodore Herman, and David Hudson
Quest for Liberty: Investigating United States History by June R. Chapin
The Story of Latin America by Peter Greco and Philip Bacon
Voices of Emerging Nations by Gerhard Norman Rostvold
Voices of Latino Cultures and Ancient Civilizations by James J. Jones
Voices of the Americans by Carl G. Winter
We the People by David E. Bidna
The Toad is the Emperor's Uncle: Animal Folktales from Vietnam by Vo Dinh
The Beggar in the Blanket and Other Vietnamese Tales by Gail B Graham
The Wishing Pearl and Other Tales of Vietnam by Kaye Nielsen
The Fisherman and the Goblet: A Vietnamese Folktale by Mark Taylor
The Tortoise and the Sword by Beatrice Tanaka

Keywords:

Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, California, textbooks, China, translation, Foreign Languages Press of Peking, Cultural Revolution, sexism, gender, Guyana, colonialism, Materials Production Unit of the Curriculum Development Center, Tom Feelings, Action Conference and Workshop ("The ABC's of Racism in Children' Books"), Charles G. Hurst, Mary Lou Byler, Luis Nieves Falcon, Betty Lee Sung, Enrique "Hank" Lopez, stereotypes, anger, Sharon Bell Mathis, Florenz Webb-Maxwell, Gloria Fowler Bidson, Beryle Banfield, booklists, selection criteria (book list), institutional racism, Black publishing, kidnapping (American Indians), sterilization, textbook evaluation - university students, political prisoners, frito bandito, Spanish, feminism, feminist publishers, sexism, International Exchange, West Germany, "Gypsies", United Nations' Committee on Decolonization and Dependent Territories, Quinto Sol Publications, Octavio I. Romano. V, El Grito, Vietnam, Black Academy Workshop, Newbery, Caldecott, Franz Boas Workshop for Teachers (1943), Harlem Committee, Brown Berets, Chicano, Mexican American Education Commission, Black Education Commission, Lollipop Power, The Feminist Press, Charles Bible, Felix J. Morales-Plaza