Volume 7, Issue 2/3. 1976

Themes:

Asian Americans in Children's Books; model minority; racism; sexism; elitism; historical misrepresentation and suppression; immigration; internment; "Stereotypes, Distortions and Ommissions in U. S. History Textbooks: A Content Analysis Instrument for Detecting Racism and Sexism"; ethnocentrism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Frank Chin, Connie Young Yu, Shawn H. Wong

Materials Highlighted:

The Cable Car and the Dragon by Herb Caen
Charley Yee's New Year by Juanita B. Anderson
Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
Mr. Charley's Chopsticks by Doris P. Evans
Mister Chu by Norma Keating
Moy Moy by Leo Politi
The Rice Bowl Pet by Patricia Miles Martin
A Sky Full of Dragons by Mildred Whatley Wright
Soo Ling Finds a Way by June Behrens
The White Horse by Edith Thacher Hurd
China Boy by Kay Hugaard
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Fire Dragon by Barbara Benezra
The Green Ginger Jar by Clara Ingram Judson
Johnny Hong of China by Clyde Robert Bulla
The Moon Guitar by Marie Niemeyer
San Francisco Boy by Lois Lensky
Willy Wong: American by Vanya Oakes
Wingman by Manus Pinkwater
Yellow Silk for May Lee by Shirlee Petkin Newman
Chinatown Sunday: The Story of Lillian Der by Carol Ann Bales
The Chinese Helped Build America by Dorothy Dowdell and Joseph Dowdell
The Chinese in America by Claire Jones
The Chinese in America by Betty Lee Sung
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
Hawaii's People from China by Margaret Young
Passage to the Golden Gate: A History of the Chinese in America to 1910 by Samuel Chu and Daniel Chu
Plant Wizard: The Life of Lue Gim Gong by Marian Murray
The Birthday Visitor by Yoshiko Uchida
Dance, Dance, Amy-Chan! by Lucy Hawkinson
Meet Miki Takino by Helen Copeland
Michiko, or Mrs. Belmont's Brownstone on Brooklyn Heights by Clay Lancaster
Mieko by Leo Politi
Momo's Kitten by Mitsu Yashima and Taro Yashima
Suki and the Invisible Peace by Joyce Blackburn
Suki and the Magic Sand Dollar by Joyce Blackburn
A Time for Flowers by Mark Taylor
Umbrella by Taro Yashima
Jenny Kimura by Betty Cavanna
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Myeko's Gift by Kay Haugaard
Mystery in Little Tokyo by Frank Bonham
The Promised Year by Yoshiko Uchida
Samurai of Gold Hill by Yoshiko Uchida
Shortstop from Tokyo by Matt Christopher
Tradition by Anne Emery
The Two Worlds of Noriko by Vivian Breck
What It's All About by Norma Klein
Burma Rifles: A Story of Merrill's Marauders by Frank Bonham
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuik Houston and James Houston
Isamu Noguchi: The Life of a Sculptor by Tobi Tobias
The Japanese Helped Build America by Dorothy Dowdell and Joseph Dowdell
The Japanese in America by Noel L. Leathers
Journey to Topac by Yoshiko Uchida
Justice Denied: A History of the Japanese in the United States by Jennifer Cross
Chinese Eyes by Marjorie Wayhill
Understanding Kim by Pelagie Doane
First Snow by Helen Coutant
Promises to Keep by Paige Dixon
The Boy Who Spoke Chinese by Jessica Krasilovsky
The Widdles by Pearl Augusta Harwood
Asians in the West by Edwin P. Hoyt
A Child in Prison Camp by Shizuye Takashima
East Meets West by George Goldberg
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese
The Last Days of the Republic by P. W. Donner
The Pageant of American History by Gerald Leinwald
Mountain of Gold by Betty Lee Sung
The Impact of our Past by Bernard A. Weisberger
Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers by Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Hsu Wong
Asian American Experience by Lloyd Inui and Franklin Odo
Asian Americans: Psychological Perspectives by Stanley Sue and Nathaniel Wagner
The Asian in the West by Stanford Lyman
Contracts and Conflicts: The Asian Immigration Experience by Asian American Studies Center
A Grain of Sand by Chris Iijima
Roots: An Asian American Reader by Amy Tachiki, Eddie Wong, Franklin Odo, and Buck Wong, eds.
Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown by Victor G. Nee and Brett de Bary
Chinese Working People in America by Wei Min She Labor Committee
Asian American Authors by Kai-Yu Hsu
Republic or Empire by Daniel Boone Schirmer
The Making of a Filipino by Renato Constantino
East Across the Pacific by Hilary Conroy and Miyakawa T. Scott
Prejudice, War, and the Constitution by Jacobus Tenbroek, Edward N. Branhart and Floyd W. Matson
The Spoilage by Dorothy Thomas and Richard Nishimoto
Korean American Writings by Brenda Paik Sunoo, ed.

Keywords:

Asian American Children's Book Project, Chinese american, Japanese American, Korean American, Vietnamese American, numerical analysis, stereotypes, model minority, white authors, evaluation criteria, racism, sexism, elitism, social studies, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, legislation, immigration, internment, "Stereotypes, Distortions and Omissions in U. S. History Textbooks: A Content Analysis Instrument for Detecting Racism and Sexism", ethnocentrism, California Curriculum Commission, Legal Compliance Committee, white savior, terminology (Oriental), Lin sing, Yick Wo, Ng Poon Chew, Lue Gin Gong, Amerasia Journal, Asian Americans for Action, Asian Americans for Equal Employment Newsletter, Asian American Review, Bridge, Chinese Affirmative Action Newsletter, Asian American Studies Central Inc., UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Chinese Media Committee of the Chinese for Affirmative Action, Asian American Bilingual Center, Amherst Asian American Education Committee, The Center for Open Learning and Teaching, The Services Center for Teachers of Asian Studies of Ohio State University, Association for Childhood Education, Appalachia, Proyecto Leer, Advisory and Learning Exchange, Pittsburgh Area Preschool Association, New Directions for Women, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Joyce White Mills, Task Force on Gay Liberation of the American Library Association (ALA), Barbara Gittings, Toys That care and Other Items, Music Center (Los Angeles), Illinois Labor History Society, Farewell to Manzanar, Arlan Huang, Tomie Arai, Alan A. Okada