Volume 5, Issue 3. 1974

Themes:

racism; stereotypes; sexism; critcal literacy; tokenism; consciousness-raising; women's studies; historical misrepresentation and suppression; colonialism; slavery; police brutality; sexist language and non-sexist language

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Janice Law Trecker, Deborah Stead, Roberto Gautier, Linda Mead, Sandy Kavanaugh, Norma Rogers, Elaine Williams

Materials Reviewed:

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers. Amazon / WorldCat
Friend Monkey by P.L. Travers. Amazon / WorldCat
The LIFE History of the United States by LIFE Publishing. Amazon / WorldCat
Fannie Lou Hamer by June Jordan. Amazon / WorldCat
I Am by Sonia Lisker. Amazon / WorldCat
Girls Can Be Anything by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat
I Can Be Anything You Can Be! by Joel Rothman. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico: Island of Contrasts by Geraldo Rivera. Amazon / WorldCat
Good, Says Jerome by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
Don't You Remember by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
A Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. by Eleanor Flexner
The Woman in American History by Gerda Lerner
Up From the Pedestal by Aileen S. Kraditor
Women and Work in America by Robert Smut
Woman's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies by Julia Cherry Spruill
Bonnet Brigades by Mary Elizabeth Massey
Non-Sexist Language Guidelines by Alma Graham
Emiliano Zapata by Rene G.D. Montemar, Roberto Alfonso, and the Chicano Communications Center

Keywords:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, racism, revision, New York Public Library, stereotypes, Fang of Gabon, sexism, critical literacy, evaluation, guidelines, white authors, tokenism, self-image, self-esteem, multiracial, feminist, textbooks, consciousness-raising, women's studies, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Sacajawea, Phillis Wheatley, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Laney, Mary Bethune, Fanny Liu Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Pocahontas, Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mariana Bracetti, El Grito de Lares, Lola Rodriguez de Tio, Juana Colon, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA), Mary Gloyne Byler, Indian Affairs, numerical analysis, youth reviewers, "American Indian Authors for Young Readers", colonialism, slavery, South, police brutality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Freedom Farm Cooperative, Association of American Publishers, California Curriculum Commission, sexist language, non-sexist language, Action for Children's Television (ACT), American Indian Media Directory, Appalachian South Folklife Center, Don West, Michele P. robinson, Mildred D. Taylor, Dorothy Tomiye Okamoto, Jack Agueros, Mitzi Tanaka, Fatisha, Beryl Banfield, Mary Gloyne Byler, Kristin Hunter, Ray Anthony Shepard, New York Book Fair, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP), American Library Association (ALA)