Volume 5, Issue 7/8. 1975

Themes:

bilingual education; cultural deprivation; Americanization; assimilation, cultural pluralism; Native Americans; historical misrepresentation and suppression; stereotypes; racism and librarians; prejudice and librarians; library science education; cultural awareness; racism awareness training; women's rights; sexism; racism; Chicana feminism; poverty; immigration; Chicano Library & Education Research

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Gloria Gomez, Porfirio Sanchez, Armando Rendon, Sophia Esparza, Marta Cotera, Consuelo Nieto, Mirta Vidal, Jose Taylor, Enrique Lopez, Uvaldo Palomeres, Allen Cohen, Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Joanna Graham, Jane Whittaker, Barbara Walker, Sue Ribner

Materials Reviewed:

Child of Fire by Scott O'Dell. Amazon / WorldCat
Trouble on Treat Street by Anne Alexander. Amazon / WorldCat
Lawyers for the People: A New Breed of Defenders and Their Work by Elizabeth Levy. Amazon / WorldCat
Estebanico by Helen Rand Parish. Amazon / WorldCat
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Black Poet Laureate by Pearle Henriksen Schultz. Amazon / WorldCat
Street Gangs: Yesterday and Today by James Haskins. Amazon / WorldCat
Who I Am by Julies Lester and David Gahr. Amazon / WorldCat
The Real Me by Betty Miles. Amazon / WorldCat
Everett Anderson's Year by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry by Arnold Adoff, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Aztlán: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature by Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner, eds. Amazon / WorldCat
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza. Amazon / WorldCat
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya. Amazon / WorldCat
The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans by Matthew S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera. Amazon / WorldCat
The Chicanos: Mexican American Voices by Edward W. Ludwig, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
El espejo/The Mirror by Octavio I. Romano V. and Heminio Rios, eds. Amazon / WorldCat
Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans by George Isidore Sánchez . Amazon / WorldCat
Forty Acres: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers by Mark Day. Amazon / WorldCat
Grito! Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967 by Richard Gardner. Amazon / WorldCat
I Am Joaquin/Yo soy Joaquin by Rudolfo 'Corky' González. Amazon / WorldCat
The Life Story of the Mexican Immigrant by Manuel Gamio. Amazon / WorldCat
The Mexican-American People: The Nation's Second Largest Minority by Leo Grebler, Joan W. Moore, and Ralph C. Guzman. Amazon / WorldCat
Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation by Rudolfo Acuña. Amazon / WorldCat
Sal si puedes/Escape if You Can: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Peter Matthiessen. Amazon / WorldCat
So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker's Movement by Joan London and Henry Anderson. Amazon / WorldCat
Viva La Raza!: the Struggle of the Mexican-American People by Elizabeth S. Martinez and Enriquete L. Vasquez. Amazon / WorldCat
Voices of Aztlán: Chicano Literature of Today by Dorothy E. Harth and Lewis M. Baldwin, eds. Amazon / WorldCat
We Are Chicanos: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature by Philip D. Ortego, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
A Current Bibliography on Chicanos, 1960-1973 by Helena Quintana. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Bilingual-Bicultural Education for the Spanish-English Bilingual by Atiliano A. Valencai
Language and Poverty: Perspectives on a Theme by Frederick Williams
The Myth of the Deprived Child by Herbert Ginsburg
Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World by Phillip Wayne Powell
The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans by Matt S. Meier and Feliciano Rivera
Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation by Rodolfo Acuna
North from Mexico by Carey McWilliams
Parameters of Institutional Change: Chicano Experiences in Education by Ray Santana
Casa de la Raza: Separatism of Segregation by Southwest Network of the Study Commission on Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers
Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall
Maria by Joan Lexau
Lito and the Clown by Leo Politi
Tia Maria's Garden by Ann Nolan Clark
Fence: A Mexican Tale by Jan Balet
One Luminaria for Antonio: A Story of New Mexico by Flora M. Hood
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Across the Tracks by Bob and Jan Young
All About Us by Eva K. Evans
Almost Brothers by Edna W. Chandler
America's First Civilization by Michael Coe
Amigo by Byrd B. Schweitzer
Angelo the Naughty One by Helen Garrett
The Art of Ancient Mexico by Shirley Glubok
Arts and Crafts of the Mexican People by Edward H. Jones, Jr. and Margaret S. Jones
Back from Bahia de los Muertos by Jane S. Fredericks
Ball Two by Florence W. Taylor
Before You Came this Way by Byrd Baylor
Benito by Clyde R. Bulla
Benito Juárez by Emma G. Sterne
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Bravo Burro by John Fante and Rudolph Borchert
The Burning Mountain by Anico Surany
The Burro Benedicto by Philip Jordan
California Rancho Days by Helen Bauer
Cesar Chavez by Ruth Franchere
Charm for Paco's Mother by Louise A. Stinetorf
Charro: Mexican Horseman by James Norman
Chavez: Man of the Migrants, A Plea for Social Justice by Jean M. Pitrone
Chicano, Amigo by Maurine H. Gee
Chicano Cruz by William T. Cox
Chicano Girl by Hila Colman
Chucho, the Boy with the Good Name by Eula Phillips
Citizen Pablo by Benelle H. Robinson
Colonel Anza's Impossible Journey by Jonreed Lauritzen
The Corn Festival by Florance W. Taylor
Coyote Cry by Byrd Baylor
Cristobal and the Witch by Jan Wahl
Discoverers of the New World by Josef Berger and Lawrence C. Wroth
Don't Come Back a Stranger by James L. Summers
Driving Through the Clouds by Jo Stanchfield
Enchantment of New Mexico by Allan Carpenter
Famous Mexican-Americans by Clarke Newlon
Felipe the Bullfighter by Robert Vavra
Fidelia by Ruth Adams
The First Book of Mexico by Sam and Beryl Epstein
The Flag is Up by Patsey Gray
Francisco Coronado and the Seven Cities of Gold by Ronald Syme
The Friday Surprise by Dorothy R. Freeman
Friend of Miguele by Patricia M. Martin
Funny Mister Clown by Mario W. Crume
Getting to Know Mexico by Barbara Gomez
Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis
Hold the Rein Free by Judy Van Der Veer
The Hungry Moon: Mexican Nursery Tales by Patricia F. Ross
In Mexico They Say by Patricia F. Ross
Juan by Mary Stolz
Juan of Paricutin by Marion I. Whitney
Juan Patricio by Barbara Todd
Juanita by Leo Politi
Juárez: Hero of Mexico by Nina B. Baker
Jump Shot Joe by William Cox
Just for Manuel by Doris Hampton
Knock at the Door, Emmy by Florence C. Means
Latin American Tales by Geneviev Barlow
Lito and the Clown by Leo Politi
Little Egret and Toro by Robert Vavra
Little League Amigo by Curtis Bishop
The Lollipop Party by Ruth A. Sonneborn
Look at Your Eyes by Paul Showers
Lorenzo and Angelina by Eugene Fern
Made in Mexico by Patricia F. Ross
The Maldonada Miracle by Theodore Taylor
Manuel: Young Mexican-American by Carla Greene
Maria by Joan M. Lexau
Maria, Luisa by Winifred Madison
Mario by Marion Garthwaite
The Mayans Knew by Tillie S. Pine
Melinda's Christmas Stocking by Ruth M. Jaynes
Mexicali Soup by Kathryn Hitte
Mexican-American Authors by Americo Paredes and Raymund Paredes
Mexican-American Heritage by Ernest F. Garcia and George Shaftel
The Mexican American: His Life Across Four Centuries by Gilbert Martinez and Jane Edwards
Mexican Americans: Sons of the Southwest by Ruth Lamb
The Mexican Story by May McNeer
The Mexicans in America by Jane Pinchot
Mexico by Patricia F. Ross
Mexico: Land of Eagle and Serpent by Betty Ross
Mexico: Land of the Plumed Serpent by Clara L. Grant and Jane W. Watson
Migrant Girl by Carli Laklan
The Migrant Workers and Cesar Chavez by Jan Young
The Mission Bell by Leo Politi
My Brother, Angel by Hilary Beckett
Nacar, the White Deer by Elizabeth B. De Trevino
New Boots for Salvador by Susan Gaston
New Day by Don Bolognese
A New Home for Pablo by Carol Morgan
New Life: La Vida Nueva: The Mexican Americans Today by Arnold Dobrin
The Nicest Gift by Leo Politi
Nine Days to Christmas by Marie H. Ets and Aurora Labastida
No Golden Cities by Thelma Nason
No, No, Rosina by Patricia M. Martin
The Noble Doll by E. Coatsworth
Old Ramón by Jack Schaefer
Our World: Mexico by Dorothy Witton
Out of the Earth I Sing: Poetry and Songs of Primitive People of the World by Richard Lewis
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Pablo the Bullfighter by Jo Stanchfield
Pablo the Potter by Helen V. Stone
Paco's Miracle by Ann N. Clark
Pancho by Berta and Elmer Hoder
Papacito and his Family by Betsy Warren
Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi
Peg-Leg Willy by Margaret Embry
People Are Important by Eva K. Evans
Pepito's Story by Eugene Fern
Piñatas by Virginia Brock
The Place by Elizabeth Coatsworth
A Plane Ride by Florence W. Taylor
Pornada by Mary F. Shura
Return to Ramos by Leo Cardenas
Right Thumb, Left Thumb by Osmond Molarsky
Rosa by Leo Politi
Secrets at White Owl by Anne M. Halladay
Señor Baby Elephant, the Pirate by Sesyle Joslin and Leonard Weisgard
The Singing Leaf by Florence Rowland
Something Special by David Tucker
The Spanish Conquistadors in North America by Walter Buehr
The Spanish Deed Mystery by Eileen Thompson
Stories Told by the Aztecs: Before the Spaniards Came by Carelton Beals
The Story of Your Skin by Edith L. Weart
Straight Hair, Curly Hair by Augusta R. Goldin
Strangers in Their Own Land: A History of Mexican-Americans by Albert Prago
Summer is for Growing by Ann N. Clark
Sun, Sand, and Steel: Costumes and Equipment of the Spanish-American Southwest by Glen Dines
Tales the People Tell in Mexico by Grant Lyons
Tejanos by Ed Foster
Tell Me, Please, What's That by Ruth M. Jaynes
That Bad Carlos by Mina Lewiton
This for That by Ann N. Clark
This is the Way by Suzanne Morrow
Three Sides to the River by Estelle Carruth
The Tilted Sombrero by Evelyn S. Lampman
The Timid Ghost by Anita Brenner
The Toy Trumpet by Ann Grifalconi
Treasures for Tomás by Edith J. Agnew
Tres Casas, Tres Familias by Edna Beiler
Trina by Patricia M. Martin
Trouble at Second Base by William R. Cox
Truly Elizabeth by Edna Weiss
Two Pesos for Catalina by Ann Kirn
Under the Wide Sky by Thelma C. Nelson
The Vagabundos by Frank Bonham
Victor by Clare Galbraith
Viva Chicano by Frank Bonham
Viva La Patria by Camille Campbell
Viva Morelia by Eugenio Villicana
Walk the World's Rim by Betty Baker
What is a Migrant? by Florence W. Taylor
Where's Luis? by Florence W. Taylor
Who Am I? by June Behrens
Why People are Different Colors by Julian May
Wild Boy by Thomas Fall
Wind in the Pepper Tree by Frieda I. Salas
Wrong-Way Camper by Jo Stanchfield
You Can't Make it by Bus by James L. Summers
Your Skin and Mine by Paul Showers
La Causa Politica: A Chicano Politics Reader by Chris Garcia
Estampas del valle y otras obras/Sketches of the Valley and Other Works by Rolando R. Hinojosa
Introduction to Chicano Studies by Livie Isauro Duran and H. Russell Bernard, eds.
Southwest: Three People in Geographical Change, 1600-1970 by D. W. Meining
Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid by Peter Nabokov
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Américo Parades
...y no lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Part by Tomás Rivera
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack
My Name is Pablo by Aimée Sommerfelt
Maria Luisa by Winifred Madison
Juan by Mary Stolz
Night of the Radishes by Tony Talbot
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Pablo the Potter by Helen V. Stone
School for Julio by Florence W. Rowland
Lanterns for Fiesta by Suzanne G. Fulle
Good-bye, Amigos by Bob and Jan Young
A Home for Memo by Dorothy Rhodes Freeman
Reach Out, Ricardo by Mary Collins Dunne
Trina's Boxcar by Patricia Miles Martin
Citizen Pablo by Benelle H. Robinson
Bad Boy:Good Boy by Marie Hall
What's Wrong with Julio? by Virginia Ormsby
Carlos Goes to School by Eloise Anderson
Grandma's Gun by Patricia Martin
South by Southwest by John Tebbel and Ramon E. Ruiz
Chicanos: The Story of Mexican Americans by Patricia de Garza
Mexican Americans: Past, Present, and Future by Julian Nava
The Story of the Mexican Americans: The Men and the Land by Rudolfo Acuña
A Mexican American Chronicle by Rudolfo Acuña
Cesar Chavez by Ruth Franchere
Mighty Hard Road by James Terzian and Kathryn Cramer
Anza: Hard-Riding Captain by Bob and Jan Young
Sam Houston: Hero of Texas by Jean Lee Latham
California's Father Serra by Sally Duque
Painted Pig by Elizabeth Morrow
And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
The Mexican American in Children’s Literature by Los Angeles Unified School District
Go Up the Road by Evelyn S. Lampman
Graciela: A Mexican/American Child Tells Her Story by Joe Molnar
Buenos Días, Teacher by Ruth MacLeod
We Were There with the California Rancheros by Stephen Holt
Soy Chicano: I Am Mexican-American by Bob and Lynne Fitch
Small Hands, Big Hands by Sandra Weiner
From Texas to Illinois by Florence Taylor
We Live in the Southwest by Lois Lenski
Chicanos: Mexican in the United States by Patricia Miles Martin

Keywords:

bilingual education, cultural deprivation, Chicano, Title VII, ESL, Americanization, assimilation, cultural pluralism, textbooks, Native Americans, historical misrepresentation and suppression, stereotypes, California State Education Code, Ethnic Task Force, Association of Mexican American Educators, Chicano journalism, colonization, La Raza Unida Party, La Raza, El Tiempo, Chicano Times, El Informador, El Renacimiento, Magazin, El Sol, La Luz, El Gallo, Epoca, El Cuaderno, El Hispano, El Tecolote, El Mundo, El Chicano, El Malcriado, United Farmworkers Union, El Ideal, Grafica, Aztlan, El Grito, Spanish, libraries and belonging, Los Angeles Public Library, racism and librarians, prejudice and librarians, library science education, cultural awareness, racism awareness training, Crystal City, Crystal City Memorial Library, President Echevarria, community archive, Cultural Museum and Archive, preferred terms, Latino, Aztlan (UCLA), Quinto Sol, El Movimiento, La Raza, Civil Rights Digest, Chicana, women's rights, sexism, racism, Marianismo, Chicana feminism, Alicia Escalante, Dolores Huerta, International Socialist Review, Mexican-American Political Association, Latino Conference, El Grito del Norte, Regeneracion, Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Francisca Flores, Las Adelitas, The Southwest Network, Chicano Teachers conference, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Tricontinental Film Center, I Am Joaquin, Tierra O Muerte, Chicano Education Digest, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, National Organization of Spanish Speaking Librarians (REFORMA), American Library Association, Committee to Recruit Mexican American Librarians (CRMAL), Mexican American Institute of Library Science, Cora Villegas, Club Femenino de Intercambio (Feminine Exchange Club), numerical analysis, poverty, white savior, immigration, evaluation criteria, "The Mexican American in Children's Literature", Los Angeles Unified School District, Kay Gurule, Mexican American Education Commission, Newbery Award, translation, Aardvark Media, El Dorado Distributors, Curriculum Adaptation Network for Bilingual/Bicultural Education (CANBBE), Materials Acquisition Project (MAP), Projecto Leer, pocho, Con Safos, Trucha Publications Inc., Aztlan Publications, Cucaracha Publicationa, Toltecas en Aztlan Publications, Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE), Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People, Centro de Información de la Raza, Chicana Services Action Center, Chicano Communications Center, Chicano Library & Education Research, Chicano Training Center, Comisión Femenil Mexicana, Commission for Mexican American Affairs, Concilio Mujeres, Cross-Cultural Southwest Ethnic Study Center, Crusade for Justice, Institute for Research and Study of Justice, Lulac National Education Service Centers, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), Mexican American Youth Organizations (MAYO), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA), National Chicano Health Organization (NCHO), National Council of La Raza, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Padres Asociados Para Derechos Religiosos Educativos y Sociales, Raza Association of Spanish Speaking Americans (RASSA), Southwest Network, United Farm Workers, El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworker's Theater), Black Books Bulletin, Salvador Barajas V; Arturo Roman; Guillermo Aranda