Volume 7, Issue 4. 1976

Themes:

Librarians; racism; sexism; censorship; intellectual freedom; overt and covert censorship; whiteness in publishing; social responsibility; ethnocentrism; Native Americans; genocide

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Sanford Berman, Sue Ribner, Elizabeth Young, Diane M. Burns, Irma Garcia, Michael Claxton, Clarice Ericsson, Lyla Hoffman

Materials Reviewed:

Free Woman: The Life and TImes of Victoria Woodhull by Marion Meade. Amazon / WorldCat
The Soong Sisters by Roby Eunson. Amazon / WorldCat
Four Women of Courage by Bennett Wayne, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho. Amazon / WorldCat
An Eskimo Birthday by Tom D. Robinson. Amazon / WorldCat
El Bronx Remembered: A Novella and Stories by Nicholas Mohr. Amazon / WorldCat
Four Corners of the Sky: Poems, Chants, and Oratory by Theodore Clymer. Amazon / WorldCat
I Cry When the Sun Goes Down: The Story of Herman Wrice by Jean Horton Berg. Amazon / WorldCat
What Can She Be? A Musician by Gloria and Esther Goldreich. Amazon / WorldCat
Heart-of-Snowbird by Carol Lee Lorenzo. Amazon / WorldCat
Making Our Way: America at the Turn of the Century in the Words of the Poor and Powerless by William Loren Katz and Jacqueline Hunt Katz. Amazon / WorldCat
Chicano Roots Go Deep by Harold Coy. Amazon / WorldCat
Blue Trees, Red Sky by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

For Whites Only by Robert W. Terry
Institutional Racism in America by Louis Knowles and Kenneth Prewitt
"The Rightness of Whiteness": The World of the White Child in Segregated Society by Abraham F. Citron
White Racism: Its History, Pathology, and Practice by Barry N. Schwartz and Robert Disch
And Jill Came Tumbling After: Sexism in American Education by Judith Stacy, Susan Bercaud, and Joan Daniels
Women's Studies for Teachers and Administrators: A Packet of Inservice Education Materials by Merle Frosch, Florence Howe, and Sharon Kaylem
Africana Library Journal: A Quarterly Bibliography and Resource Guide
Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers by Frank Chin, Jeffrey Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Hsu Wong
Akwesasne Notes: Newspaper of the Mohawk Nation
The Black Scholar
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner, ed.
El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican Thought
History of Puerto Rico by Loida Figueroa
Occupied America: The Chicanos Struggle Toward Liberation by Rudolfo Acuña
The Rican Journal
Textbooks and the American Indian by Jeannette Henry
Viva La Raza! by Elizabeth S. Martinez and Enriqueta L. Vasquez
American Indian Authors for Young Readers: A Selected Bibliography by Mary Gloyne Byler
The Black American in Books for Children by Donnarae MacCann and Gloria Woodward
Dick and Jane as Victims by WOWI
The Image of the Black in Children's Fiction by Dorothy Broderick
Starting Out Right: Choosing Books About Black People for Young Children Pre-School through Third Grade by Bettye I. Latimer
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
Jimmy Yellow Hawk by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho
Sidewalk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis
Yagua Days by Cruz Martel
450 Years of Chicano History by Chicano Communication Center
Education in the People's Republic of China by Fred Pincus

Keywords:

American Library Association (ALA), librarians, racism, sexism, censorship, anti-humanist, selection, Children's Services Division (CSD), Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Library Bill of Rights, covert censorship, Dorothy Broderick, Donald High Smith, library education, library school, cataloging, Donnarae MacCann, institutional racism, YWCO, "One imperative: Eliminate racism", Robert Moore, cultural racism, reading lists, The Feminist Press, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), numerical analysis, terminology, stereotypes, Michael Banton, reevaluation, overt censorship, United States Civil Rights Commission, publishing - whiteness, Little Black Sambo, review processes, social responsibility, ethnocentrism, Maryland Library Conference, Albert V. Schwartz, Patricia Finley, Judy Richardson, David R. Bender, Daphne Muse, Emily R. Moore, Jeanne Baum, Native American, genocide, Pajarito Publishing, bilingual, Indigena, Chicano, La Raza, De Colores, National Council for the Social Studies, Mexican American Curriculum Office, Chicano Communications Center, Women Library Workers, National Women's Agenda, Women's Action Alliance (WAA), Time/Out, Southwest Resource and Information Center, environment, The Public Art Workshop, African-American Institute, African Books in Print, bibliography, International Scholarly Book Services, Clearing House on Migration Issues, Australia, New Hogtown Press, David Campbell, Arawak Indian, China, Research Group One, Cuba, Tricontinental Film Center, Jugend und Volk, Voluntary Committee on Overseas Aid and Development (VCOAD), Brent Bailer, Stephanie Douglas, Richard Barcliff