Volume 7, Issue 1. 1976

Themes:

racism; sexism; self-esteem; white supremacy; collectivism; individualism; neutrality; representation; colonization; culture of resistance; historical misrepresentation and suppression; classism; Puerto Rico; Native Americans

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Robert B. Moore, Melvin Leventhal, Jenne Baum, William Kunstler, General Assistance Center at Teachers College, Jack Agueros, Mary Lou Byler, Association on American Indian Affairs, Eloise Greenfield, Armando Rendon, Elinor Wong Telemaque, Jack Leventhal, NAACP, Warren Halliburton, Beryle Banfield, Frances Dory, Jean Carey Bond, William Loren Katz, Robert Moore, Jean Bain, Albert V. Schwartz, Florence Jackson, Cora Rust, Women's Research Action Project, John Henry Memorial Foundation, Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), Ojibway Indian Nation, KNOW INC., National Youth Alternatives Project

Materials Reviewed:

What It's All About by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat
Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson. Amazon / WorldCat
Let Me Be a Free Man: A Documentary of Indian Resistance by Jane B. Katz, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
What Can She Be? A Police Officer by Gloria Golreich and Esther Goldreich. Amazon / WorldCat
What Jazz Is All About by Lillian Erlich. Amazon / WorldCat
Amy and the Cloud Basket by Ellen Pratt. Amazon / WorldCat
New York City Too Far From Tampa Blues by T. Ernesto Bethancourt. Amazon / WorldCat
Kate Ryder by Hester Burton. Amazon / WorldCat
Michael Naranjo: The Story of an American Indian by Mary Carroll Nelson. Amazon / WorldCat
My Brother Fine with Me by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
Saddles and Sabers: Black Men in the Old West by LaVere Anderson. Amazon / WorldCat
Hidden Heroines: Women in American History by Elaine Landau. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Your Mississippi by John Bettersworth
Mississippi: Conflict and Change by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis, eds.
Black Child Care by Alvin Poussaint and James Comer
El Pito de Plata de Pito by Jack Agueros
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Chicano Manifesto by Armando Rendon
Harlem: A History of Broken Dreams by Warren Halliburton
Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976 by Judith O'Sullivan and Rosemary Gorelick
Women and the "Equal Rights" Amendment by Catharine R. Stimpson
Women's Movement Media by Catherine Ellen Harrison

Keywords:

Reader survey response, Little Black Sambo, textbooks, Robert B. Moore, court testimony, racism, sexism, self-esteem, self-image, white supremacy, cultural racism, collectivism, individualism, cultural transmission, Puerto Rico, neutrality, White authors, representation, colonization, culture of resistance, historical misrepresentation and suppression, classism, national identity, Mississippi, Melvin Leventhal, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, textbooks, civil rights, Textbook Review Committee, IQ testing, seldon, Long Island, Jenne Baum, Native American, Blackfeet, white educators - racism, terminology (ethnic), Seldon Junior High School, William Kunstler, American Indian Community House, General Assistance Center at Teachers College, Jack Agueros, Mary Lou Byler, Association on American Indian Affairs, Eloise Greenfield, Armando Rendon, Elinor Wong Telemaque, Jack Leventhal, NAACP, Warren Halliburton, Chicano, Spanish, stereotypes, Beryle Banfield, evaluation, Frances Dory, Jean Carey Bond, William Loren Katz, Robert Moore, Jean Bain, Albert V. Schwartz, Florence JAckson, Cora Rust, child care, Women's Research Action Project, John Henry Memorial Foundation, Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), Ojibway Indian Nation, KNOW INC., Childcare Switchboard, Youth Liberation, oral history, NAtional Youth Alternatives Project, Smithsonian Institution, Ventura Press, Bowker, FPS: A Magazine of Young People's Liberation, Pat Cummings, Benjamin Jones, Ben Bey