Volume 8, Issue 1. 1977

Themes:

stereotypes; Native Americans; oppression; misrepresentation; stereotypes; censorship; racism; terminology; tokenism; women's studies; sexism; mass media; slavery; historical misrepresentation and suppression

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Jane Califf, Rosemary Stones, Beryle Banfield, Jean Maude Anyon, Diane M. Burns, Lynn Edwards, Lyla Hoffman, Emily R. Moore, Jose Taylor

Materials Reviewed:

America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to Present by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby. Amazon / WorldCat
A Girl Named Wendy by Beverly Butler. Amazon / WorldCat
Three Wishes by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
Courage to Adventure: Stories of Boys and Girls Growing Up in America by Child Study Association. Amazon / WorldCat
Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children by Mari Evans. Amazon / WorldCat
This Is Espie Sanchez by Terry Dunnahoo. Amazon / WorldCat
Great Black Americans by Ben Richardson and William A. Fahey. Amazon / WorldCat
Quiz Book on Black America by Clarence N. Blake and Donald F. Martin. Amazon / WorldCat
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

More Hand Shadows by Henry Bursell
Will I Have a Friend? by Miriam Cohen
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
Red Fox and His Canoe by Robert Benchley
The First Thanksgiving by Lou Rogers
The Cruise of Mr. Christopher Columbus by Sadyebeth Lowitz and Ansen Lowitz
Best Word Ever Book by Richard Scarry
Wanderings of Mumfie by Katherine Tozer
East End at Your Feet by Farrukh Dhondy
Patatrac by Jean Jacques Loup
Mumbo Jumbo by Marie Hynds
Story Party by Enid Blyton
Pom-Pom and the Ju-ju Man by Ruth Ainsworth
Horses in Battle by Victor G. Ambrus
Wilkins Tooth by Diana Wynne Jones
The Trouble with Donovan Croft by Bernard Ashley
Little Black Doll by Enid Blyton
Here Are the Brick Street Boys by Jane and Allan Ahlberg
Stevie by John Steptoe
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
The Friends by Rosa Guy
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales by Rosa Guy
Two Love Stories by Rosa Guy
Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh
My Brother Sean by Petronella Breinburg
Sean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg
Sally Ann's Umbrella by Petronella Breinburg
What Happened at Rita's Party by Petronella Breinburg
The Stone Angel by Pamela Rogers
Jet, A Gift to the Family by Geoffrey Kilner
Hal by Jean MacGibbon
The Third Class Genie by Robert Leeson
Maroon Boy by Robert Leeson
The White Horse by Robert Leeson
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom,1750-1925 by Herbert Gutman
Blues People by Leroi Jones
Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures by Claudia Zaslavsky
Africa in U.S. Educational Materials by Susan J. Hall
The African Background Outlined by Carter G. Woodson
Afro-American Art and Craft by Judith Wragg Chase
Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade by Basil Davidson
Topics in West African History by Adu Boahen
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheik Anta Diop
The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
A History of West Africa by Basil Davidson
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Peoples and Cultures of Africa by Elliott P. Skinner
A is for Africa by Jean Carey Bond
Adventures of Spider by Joyce C. Arkhurst
Africa: Tradition and Change by Evelyn Jones Rich and Immanuel Wallerstein
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
The Hat-Shaking Dance and Other Ashanti Tales from Ghana by Harold Courlander and Albert K. Prempeh
Playtime in Africa by Efua Sutherland
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Niane
Talking Drums of Africa by Christine Price

Keywords:

stereotypes, Native Americans, American Indians, oppression, misrepresentation, Akwesasne Notes, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alcatraz, Association on American Indian Affairs, evaluation criteria, Wassaja, Native American Solidarity Committee, El Museo del Barrio, Taino Indians, colonialism, Navajo, Hopi, critical thinking, Wampanoag, Britain, Teachers Against Racism, Dorothy Kuya, National Committee on Racism in Children's Books, booklists, Janet Hill, National Association of Multi- Racial Education, stereotypes, Kate Greenaway Prize, censorship, racism, terminology, Other Award, tokenism, Feminist Press, women's studies, syllabi, sexism, lesson plans, curricula, sexism, Ilene Hertz, Sharon Wigutoff, American Library Association (ALA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Clara Stanton Jones, Robert Moore, Mary Lou Byler, Albert V. Schwartz, National Coalition Against Censorship, Teacher's College, Women Library Workers, cataloging, Roots, mass media, slavery, West Africa, Alex Haley, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Africa Report, African Writers Series, Humanities Press