Volume 7, Issue 6. 1976

Themes:

ageism; stereotypes; racism; sexism; liberation; institutional racism; ethnocentrism; behavioral change; multicultural education; prejudice, power; China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide; "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Edward F. Ansello, Albert V. Schwartz, Elizabeth Martinez, Jane Califf, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Moore, Jimmie Durham, Lydia Bragger

Materials Reviewed:

Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor. Amazon / WorldCat
Where's Florrie? by Barbara Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
Three Stalks of Corn by Leo Politi. Amazon / WorldCat
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
Shawn's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg. Amazon / WorldCat
Sitting on the Blue-Eyed Bear: Navajo Myths and Legends by Gerald Hausman. Amazon / WorldCat
Fish for Supper by M.B. Goffstein. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Tenth Good Things about Barney by Judith Viorst
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein
Grandpa by Barbara Borack
Ultra-violet Catastrophe by Margaret Mahy
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter
Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway
Under the Window by Kate Greenaway
Don't Count Your Chicks by Ingri Parin d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Away Went Wolfgang! by Virginia Kahl
Grandfather and I by Helen Buckley
Long, Broad and Quickeye by Evaline Ness
Peggy's New Brother by Eleanor Schick
Franklin Stein by Ellen Raskin
Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel
Grandpa's Farm by James Flora
Fisherman's Luck by Josephine Aldridge
Grandpa by Barbara Borack
Tim to the Lighthouse by Edward Ardizzone
A Story, A Story by Gail Haley
William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow
My Grandson Lew by Charlotte Zolotow
My Very Special Friend by Lucille Hein
Kevin's Grandma by Barbara Williams
Granny and the Indians by Peggy Parish
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mandy's Grandmother by Liesel Skorpen
Why Survive? Being Old in America by Robert Butler
Aging and Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial Approaches by Robert N. Butler and Myrna I. Lewis
The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead
You and Your Pension by Ralph Nader and Kate Blackwell
Old Age: The Last Segregation by Claire Townsend
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
LaVon Leak by Illustrator's showcase
Yvonne Bandy by Illustrator's showcase
Tomas Vega by Illustrator's showcase
Everybody's Studying Us: The Ironies of Aging in the Pepsi Generation by Irene Paull

Keywords:

stereotypes, dictionary, Ms. Magazine, Ossie Davis, racism, sexism, liberation struggles, protest, Foundation for Change, New Perspectives on Race, institutional racism, Racism Awareness Center for Educators (RACE), ethnocentrism, Gloria Fauth, behavioral change, sensitivity/encounter session, multicultural education, Center for Program Development in Equal Educational Opportunity, National College of Education, prejudice, power, Black author bibliography, West Indies, British Standard, W. I. Standard, Ms. Merle Hodge, Freedomways, Women's History Research Center, American Library Association (ALA), Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Washington Area Free School Clearing house, Boston Educational Research, The Printshop, Literary Guild of India, Laliti Rananaware, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Third World, Britain, Children's Rights Workshop, Campaign to Impede Sex Stereotyping in the Young (CISSY), London Women's Education Collective, Exeter Children's Fiction Conference, immigrants, Gulten Wagner, South Africa, Pan-African Liberation Committee, Anti-Apartheid News, Foundation Books, Kenya, The Native Press in Canada, New German Critique, Jack Zipes, Jorg Becker, International Youth Library, Margarita M. Tura-Soteras, Arlene Posner, Arne J. de Keijzer, China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide, Interracial Digest, Children's Rights workshop, Merseyside Women's Literature Group, The Children's Book Study Group, Guyana, Materials Production Unit of the Guyana Ministry of Education, Philippines Information Bulletin, Wolfgang Keempke, International Bulletin of Comics Literature, Portuguese Colonialism from South Africa to Europe, Angola Comite, Write the Liberation, The Cay, White Supremacy, National Education Association, Freedways, Teachers College: Columbia, Bertha Jenkinson, Jane Adams Children's Book Award, NBC, Albert B. Schwartz, Norma Rogers, Samuel B. Ethridge, consciousness-raising, Herminio Traviesas, Dennis Mollura, racism - definition of, IQ testing, institutional racism, cultural racism, National Council for Social Studies, Emma Willard Task Force, Black Feminist Organization, American Women's Movement, double oppression, Deborah Singletary, Gerri Perreault, "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials", Florence Jackson, Lyla Hoffman, Geneva Gay, Beryle Banfield, National Council of Teachers of English, Task Force Against Racism and Bias, Carmen Puigdollers, McGraw-Hill, textbooks, bilingual education, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Ruth Bradley, Aaron Berman, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Gordon Cawelti, Portuguese Communication Conference, Julia Gonsalves, Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Journal of Negro History, Children's Book Council, Racism and Social Justice Committee, James A. Banks, Irma Garcia, Harriett Brown, Marjorie Johnson, Norma Rogers, Chicano Communications Center, myth of Black inferiority, LaVon Leak, Yvonne Bandy, Tomás Vega