Volume 5, Issue 5. 1974

Themes:

How to Identify Racism and Sexism in Your Library; Social Change Advocates; racism; sexism; male supremacy; slavery; imperialism; consciousness-raising; literary racism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Barbara A. Schram, Kik Reeder, Binnie Tate, Sharon Bell Mathis, Albert V. Schwartz, Lyla Hoffman, Tanya Joy Cobbs, Roberto Gautier, Elaine Bloom, Ray Anthony Shepard, Armando B. Rendon, Carmen Puigdollers, Celina Marcus, Barbara Walker, Ruth Charnes

Materials Reviewed:

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox. Amazon / WorldCat
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Amazon / WorldCat
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Amazon / WorldCat
On Our Way: Poems of Pride and Love by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
City ABC's by Michael Deasy. Amazon / WorldCat
Hey: Look at Me! City A.B.C. by Sandy Grant. Amazon / WorldCat
Children of the NIght by Edgar White. Amazon / WorldCat
Viva La Raza!: the Struggle of the Mexican-American People by Elizabeth S. Martinez and Enriquete L. Vasquez. Amazon / WorldCat
Puerto Rico en me corazon Puerto Rico in my Heart by Federico Ribes Tovar. Amazon / WorldCat
Jambo Means Hello by Muriel Feelings. Amazon / WorldCat
The Life and Legend of George McJunkin, Black Cowboy by Frank Folsome. Amazon / WorldCat
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis. Amazon / WorldCat
Riverlisp: Black Memories by Frederick Ward. Amazon / WorldCat
Shawn Goes to School by Petronella Breinburg. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach and Margot Zemach
Sidewalk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis
Teacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell Mathis
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl by Whitney Darrow Jr.
Women and Madness by Phyllis Chessler
Education and Racism: An Action Manual by The National Education Association
Early Childhood Newsletters: A Selected Guide by Anne Ernst Stakelon, Integrated Education: Race and Schools
The Friends by Rosa Guy
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Books, Children and Men by Paul Hazard
A Critical History of Children's Literature by Ruth Hill Viguers
Blowfish Live in the Sea by Paula Fox

Keywords:

"How to Identify Racism and Sexism in Your Library", American Library Association (ALA), Al Schwartz, Sharon Bell Mathis, Newbery Award, Jane Galvin Lewis, Social Change Advocates, racism, sexism, Caldecott Award, Task Force, Brad Chambers, Bertha Parker Phillips, Catholic Library World, male supremacist, slavery, imperialism, Emma Hart Willard, Middlebury Female Seminary, Emma Willard Task Force on Education, Kathy Olson, Mary Sornsin, Gerri Perreault, Minnesota State Department of Education Task Force on Sex Bias, consciousness-raising, Minnesota Resource Center for Social Work, Martin Luther King Foundation, bilingual, Black, Puerto Rican, Foundation for Change, Leake and Watts, Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, The Rural Coalition of Mississippi, Interracial Digest, Black Experience, white authors, "literary racism", liberation, Booklegger, The Fourth Street i, Jean Taylor, Betty Dillard, Charles Bible