Volume 7, Issue 5. 1976

Themes:

racism; language; terminology; slurs; symbolism; stereotypes; colonialism; Native Americans; Eurocentrism; intellectual freedom; sexuality; feminism; social consciousness; Human (and Anti-Human) Values in Children's Books; Racism and Sexism in Instructional Materials; consciousness-raising

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Elizabeth Martinez, Carmen Figueroa, Emily R. Moore, Patricia Spence, Emily Moore, Nikki Grimes, Lyla Hoffman, Zalamaquawe

Materials Reviewed:

!Perico Bonito!/Pretty Parrot! by Monica Gunning. Amazon / WorldCat
Senora Pepino and Her Bad Luck Cats by Esther de Michael Cervantes and Alex Cervantes. Amazon / WorldCat
Yagua Days by Cruz Martel. Amazon / WorldCat
My Street's a Morning Cool Street by Ianthe Thomas. Amazon / WorldCat
Cuba Today by Lee Chadwick. Amazon / WorldCat
The Creoles of Color in New Orleans by James Haskins. Amazon / WorldCat
Big Sister Tells Me that I'm Black by Arnold Adoff. Amazon / WorldCat
Equal! The Case for Integration vs. Jim Crow by Leonard A. Stevens. Amazon / WorldCat
Lion Yellow by Betty Dinneen. Amazon / WorldCat
Around and Around - Love by Betty Miles. Amazon / WorldCat
African Adventure by Marian Hostetler. Amazon / WorldCat
Basil in Mexico: A Basil of Baker Street Mystery by Eve Titus. Amazon / WorldCat
Two Sides of the River by David Crippen. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume
Blubber by Judy Bloom
Iggie's House by Judy Blume
Deenie by Judy Blume
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Bloom
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Bloom
Hooray for Me by Remy Charlip and Lillian Moore
New Life: New Room by June Jordan
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
Founding Mothers by Linda Grant De Pauw
Garden of Broken Glass by Emily Cheney Neville
Let Me Be a Free Man by Jane B. Katz
Long Man's Song by Joyce Rockwood
Making Our Way by William Loren Katz and Jacqueline Hunt Katz
A Question of Courage by Marjorie Darke
Amy and the Cloud Basket by Ellen Pratt
Becky and the Bear by Dorothy Van Woerkom
The Girl Who Would Rather Climb Trees by Miriam Schlein
The Quitting Deal by Tobi Tobias
Arthur Mitchell by Tobi Tobias
Contributions of Women: Education by Mary Burgess
An Eskimo Birthday by Tom D. Robinson
Last Night I Saw Andromeda by Charlotte Anker
After the Wedding by Hila Colman
The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square by Joseph Ziemian
Dust of the Earth by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
The Girl with Spunk by Judith St. George
The Glad Man by Gloria González
I Cry When the Sun Goes Down by Jean Horton Berg
Julius Nyerere: Teacher of Africa by Shirley Graham
Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson
A Man Ain't Nothin But a Man by John Oliver Killens
The Meat in the Sandwich by Alice Bach
Winter Wheat by Jeanne Williams
Women Who Win by Francene Sabin
American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker
Black Reconstruction in America,1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner ed.
Captain of the Planter by Dorothy Sterling
Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad by Henrietta Buckmaster
Freedom Road by Howard Fast
Great Gettin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vessey by John O. Killens
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railway by Ann Petri
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction by Dorothy Sterling ed.
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

Keywords:

Racism, language, terminology, slurs, symbolism, stereotypes, bilingual, David R. Burgest, colonialism, Native Americans, Eurocentrism, Evelyn Jones Rich, American Library Association (ALA), Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Social Responsibilities Roundtable (SRRT), Jackie Eubanks, Patrice Harper, The Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Children's Services Division Discussion Group on Sexism in Library Materials, neutrality, Clara Stanton Jones, Pat Schuman, Stephen Fulchimo, Robert Wedgeworth, Judy Blume, sexuality, feminism, social consciousness, Human (and Anti-Human) Values in Children's Books, numerical analysis, rubric, evaluation, The Teacher's Incorporated, Black Andaiye, Tom Feelings, Ernest Gregg, Aishah S. Abdullah, Secondary and Elementary Education Act, Barbara Walker, Elton Fax, Jane Kerina, Vivian Grice, Oyamo, Racism and Sexism in Instructional Materials Workshop, Racism Awareness Workshop, First National Conference on Non-Sexist Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Freedom Committee of the New York Library Association, Gone with the Wind, media, consciousness-raising, Tricontinental Film Center, Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting (NCCB), La Confluencia, The Feminist Press, EdCentric, Revista Chicano-Riquena, National Children's Directory, Urban Information Interpreters, Sense and Sensibility Collective, Shameless Hussy Press, Robert M. Waring, Tina Yvonne Utsey, Crystal McKenzie