Volume 6, Issue 8. 1975

Themes:

Puerto Rico; colonialism; neo-colonialism; imperialism; censorship; historical misrepresentation and suppression; Native American; cultural appropriation; Taino Indians; military occupation; Chicano; women's studies; "Racism and sexism in Children's Books"

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Dorothy Kuya, Carol Snyder, Jacqueline Moniquette, Patricia Ann Smith, Vicky Lawrence, Lyla Hoffman, Lydia Basset, Diane M. Burns, Elizabeth Young, Patricia Ann Spencer, Lynne Rosenthal

Materials Reviewed:

A Question of Courage by Marjorie Darke. Amazon / WorldCat
A Bicycle from Bridgetown by Dawn E. Thomas. Amazon / WorldCat
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers. Amazon / WorldCat
The Glad Man by Gloria Gonzalez. Amazon / WorldCat
Last Night I Saw Andromeda by Charlotte Anker. Amazon / WorldCat
Malcolm X: Black and Proud by Florence M. White. Amazon / WorldCat
Patrick Des Jarlait: The Story of an American Indian Artist by Patrick Des Jarlait and Neva Williams. Amazon / WorldCat
Circus Cannonball by Judy Varga. Amazon / WorldCat
Super Sam and the Salad Garden by Patty Wolcott. Amazon / WorldCat
The Truth about the Man Behind the Book That Sparked the War Between the States by Frances Cavanaugh. Amazon / WorldCat
Marly the Kid by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Hablamos! Puerto Ricans Speak by Henrierra Yurchenko
Puerto Rico: A Profile by Kal Wagenheim
Puerto Rico: A Socio-Historic Interpretation by Manuel Maldonado-Denis
Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, State, or Nation? by Byron Williams
We, the Puerto Rican People: A Story of Oppression and Resistance by Juan Angel Silén
Mississippi: A History by John K. Bettersworth
Mississippi: Yesterday and Today by John K. Bettersworth
Your Mississippi by John K. Bettersworth
Mississippi: Conflict and Change by Charles Sallis and James W. Loewen, eds.
Black Child Care by Alvin Poussaint
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Work in Other Lands by Edna Walters
Geography at the Drapers by Florence West
The British Commonwealth and Empire by M. Masefield
This is Your Neighbor by A. Elliott-Cannen and Derek Stewart
Clive of India by D. W. Sylvester
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Native Son by Richard Wright
Wole Soyinka by Eldred D. Jones
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Keywords:

Puerto Rico, Bicentennial, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, UN Special Committee on Decolonization, independentistas, Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, Mississippi History Textbook Committee, censorship, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, evaluation, Alvin Poussaint, general Assistance Center of Teachers College, Brenda Baum, Native American, Britain, cultural appropriation, Taino Indians, Ramon Emeterio Betances, Foraker Act, Jones Act, Luis Munoz Marin, military occupation, Akwesasne Notes, American Library Association (ALA), Chicano, Southwest Network, annotated bibliography, California Association of School Librarians, National Organization for Women (NOW), women's studies, "Racism and sexism in Children's Books", Fred Gomez, Puerto Rican Family Institute, Miriam D. Ross, The Advisory and Learning Exchange, Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Association on American Indian Affairs (A.A. I. A.), Mi Cultura, bilingual, Stella Alvo, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Mississippi, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Clayton Brascoupe, Lloyd H. Stevens, Vincent Smith