Volume 6, Issue 3/4. 1975

Themes:

gender roles; same-sex marriage; sexism; racism; stereotypes; biological determinism; homosexuality, bisexuality; sex education; censorship, overt censorship, and censorship by omission; institutional racism, institutional sexism; whiteness in publishing; book review practices; Library of Congress subject headings, cataloging, and Sanford Berman; library schools; social consciousness

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Joan Scherer Brewer, Jeanie Chin, Wayne Kabak, Steve Wolf, Nancy Larrick, Janet Freed(wo)man, Barbara A. Schram, Harry Wallace, Joyce E. Arkhurst, Celina Marcus Snowden, Lydia Bassett, Frank Ray Harjo, Ina King, Barbara Walker, Sue Ribner, Marjorie Johnson, Fran Dory, Robert F. King

Materials Reviewed:

How Babies Are Made by Andrew C. Andry and Steven Schepp. Amazon / WorldCat
Making Babies: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together by Sara Bonnett Stein. Amazon / WorldCat
Growing Up: How We Become Alive, Are Born, and Grow by Karl De Schweinitz. Amazon / WorldCat
Girls Are Girls and Boys Are Boys by Sol Gordon. Amazon / WorldCat
The True Story of How Babies Are Made by Per Holm Knudsen. Amazon / WorldCat
A Baby Is Born: The Story of How Life Begins by Milton I. Levine and Jean H. Seligmann. Amazon / WorldCat
A New Baby Comes by Julian May. Amazon / WorldCat
How We Are Born by Julian May. Amazon / WorldCat
Where Do Babies Come From? by Margaret Sheffield. Amazon / WorldCat
A Baby Starts to Grow by Paul Showers. Amazon / WorldCat
Before You Were a Baby by Paul Showers and Kay Sperry Showers. Amazon / WorldCat
The Wonderful Story of You: Your Body, Your Mind, Your Feelings by Benjamin C. Gruenberg and Sidonie M. Gruenberg. Amazon / WorldCat
Sex: Telling It Straight by Eric Johnson. Amazon / WorldCat
Love and Sex and Growing Up by Eric W. Johnson and Corinne B. Johnson. Amazon / WorldCat
A Story About You by Marion O. Lerrigo and Helen Southard. Amazon / WorldCat
Boys and Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy. Amazon / WorldCat
Girls and Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy. Amazon / WorldCat
The Kids Own XYZ of Love and Sex by Siv Widerberg. Amazon / WorldCat
The Eye in the Forest by Mary Q. Steele and William O. Steele. Amazon / WorldCat
The Birthday Visitor by Yoshiko Uchida. Amazon / WorldCat
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor. Amazon / WorldCat
Garden of Broken Glass by Emily Cheney Neville. Amazon / WorldCat
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis. Amazon / WorldCat
Crazy Horse: The Story of an American Indian by John R. Milton. Amazon / WorldCat
Arthur Mitchell by Tobi Tobias. Amazon / WorldCat
My Special Best Words by John Steptoe. Amazon / WorldCat
Something Queer at the Ball Park: A Mystery by Elizabeth Levy. Amazon / WorldCat
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat
JD by Mari Evans. Amazon / WorldCat
Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans by Arnold Adoff, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Long Journey Home by Julius Lester. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Liberated Man by Warren Farrell
Sexual Signatures by John Money and Patricia Tucker
The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack
Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Johnny Hong of Chinatown by Clyde Robert Bulla
I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Silver for General Washington by Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Sounder by William H Armstrong
Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence
Who Look at Me by June Jordan
Don't You Turn Back by Langston Hughes
I Am the Darker Brother by Arnold Adoff
Black Boy by Richard Wright
We'll Do it Ourselves: Combatting Sexism in Education by Walter Blumenfeld et al.
M. C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Time-Age Tales of Jahdu by Virginia Hamilton
Channeling Children: Sex Stereotypes on Prime Time TV by Women on Words & Images
Parties in Interest: A Citizen's Guide to Improving Television and Radio by Robert Lewis Shayon
Betrayed by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Jimmy Yellow Hawk by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
High Elk's Treasure by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
When Thunders Spoke by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Busy Busy World by Richard Scarry

Keywords:

gender roles, same-sex marriage, open marriage, sexism, racism, stereotypes, biological determinism, anti-humanistic, homosexuality, bisexuality, sex education, censorship, overt censorship, censorship by omission, United States Civil Rights Commission, institutional racism, institutional sexism, publishing - whiteness, selection, Library Bill of Rights, book review practices, librarians, library collections, ALA Children's Services Division, Committee on Intellectual Freedom, Asians, Asian Americans, Chinatown, New York Public Library, Barbara Rollock, Virginia Swift, Angela Lee, classism, San Francisco Library, Chinese Affirmative Action Media Committee, Little Black Sambo, Lynne R. Pickens, Marge Lewis, Effie Lee Morris, Lollipop Press, independent publishers, Pauline Robinson, Priscilla Moxom, alternative presses, Feminist Press, Third World Press, Kit Breckenridge, Helen Mullins, weeding, Notable Books Re-evaluation Committee, Library of Congress subject headings, cataloging, Sanford Berman, Cataloging Bulletin, Bwana Syndrome, Eurocentrism, Edward J. Blume, ALA Resources and Technical Services Division (RTSD), Social responsibilities Roundtable, Ethnic Materials Task Force, multiracial books, library schools, social consciousness, library science, information science, profession-enhancement, Multicultural Resources, Emergency Librarian, Barbara Clubb, Tricontinental Film Center, People Acting for change Together (PACT), Momma, Resource Center on Sex Roles in Education, Sarah Slavin Schramm, Mildred Johnson, Society of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U. S. (MELUS), Ernest Falbo, The Liberty Cap, The Black Scholar, Society of Children's Book Writers, National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, Center for Understanding Media, Ken Brown, Action for Children's Television (ACT), Women's studies Abstracts, integrate education, New School Exchange, The Cay, John Donovan, Theodore Taylor, Children's Book Council, Samuel B. Ethridge, Bertha Jenkinson, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Black Times, The Feminist Press, Bay Area Radical Teachers' Organizing Collective (BARTOC), The Stanton Project, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Canadian Women's Educational Press, People's Press, Women's Action alliance, Barbara Sprung, Nebraska Curriculum Development Center, Diana Press, Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, The African Book Publishing Record, African Books in Print, Hans M. Zell, New York Southern Africa Committee, Brazilian Information Bulletin, Canadian Studies, Venceremos Brigade, Center for Cuban Studies, Leeds Women's Literature Collective, Patterns of Prejudice, Institute of Jewish Affairs, Spare Rib, New Internationalist, New World Coalition, textbooks, Ronald English, Judith Krug, George Williams, Roscoe C. Keeney, Newbery Award, Virginia Hamilton,Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Sioux, Mary Lou Byler, Association on American Indian Affairs, Midwest Center for Equal Educational Opportunity, Media Watch, Gray Panthers, Kay Brown, Mahiri Fufuka, Linda Hiwot