Volume 8, Issue 4/5. 1977

Themes:

The Speaker (ALA film); intellectual freedom; racism; free speech; human rights; censorship; historical misrepresentation and suppression; stereotypes; myth of Black inferiority; consciousness-raising; Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, internment

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Sanford Berman, James R. Dwyer, Jackie Eubanks, E. J. Josey, Ernest Kaiser, Beryle Banfield, Horace Seldon, June Sark Heinrich, Porfirio Sanchez, Moose Pamp, Lyla Hoffman, Lynn Edwards, Emily Moore, Linda Humes

Materials Reviewed:

Mexican American Movements and Leaders by Carlos Larralde. Amazon / WorldCat
The Dream Runner by Audree Distad. Amazon / WorldCat
The Canbe Collective Builds a Be-Hive by Bert Garskof. Amazon / WorldCat
Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis. Amazon / WorldCat
Sara and the Door by Virginia Allen Jensen. Amazon / WorldCat
The Clever Princess by Ann Tompert. Amazon / WorldCat
Ludell and Willie by Brenda Wilkinson. Amazon / WorldCat
White Falcon: An Indian Boy in Early America by Eileen Thompson. Amazon / WorldCat
Max by Rachel Isadora. Amazon / WorldCat
My Brother Steven Is Retarded by Harriet Langsam Sobol. Amazon / WorldCat
Phoebe and the General by Judith Berry Griffin. Amazon / WorldCat
Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The IQ Controversy by N.J. Block and Gerald Dworkin
The Stranglehold of the I.Q. by Benjamin Fine
The Science and Politics of I.Q. by Leon Kamin
Race Differences by Otto Klineberg
Psychological Testing of American Minorities: Issues and Consequences by Ronald J. Samuda
Race and Intelligence: The Fallacies Behind the Race-IQ. Controversy by David Spears et al. eds
Racism and Psychology by Kenneth B. Clark
How to Increase Your Intelligence by Win Wenger
Intelligence Can be Taught by Arthur Whimbey and Linda Shaw
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny by George M. Frederickson
Race: The History of an Idea in America by Thomas F. Gossett
White Racism: Its History, Pathology, and Practice by Barry N. Schwartz and Robert Disch
The Racial Attitudes of American Presidents: From Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt by George Sinkler
Our Racist Presidents: From Washington to Nixon by Melvin Steinfield
Institutional Racism in America by Louis Knowles and Kenneth Prewitt
Blaming the Victim by William Ryan
For Whites Only by Robert W. Terry
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove

Keywords:

American Library Association (ALA), Office for Intellectual Freedom, Intellectual Freedom Committee, The Speaker, racism, free speech, Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Neo-Conservative, first amendment, racism, propaganda, human rights, censorship, suppression, historical misrepresentation and suppression, stereotypes, anti-humanism, ethnocentrism, myth of Black inferiority, consciousness-raising, critical thinking, eugenics, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, internment, IQ testing, Moynihan Report, Arthur Jensen, Richard Herrnstein, William Shockley, Cyril Burt, bibliography, booklists, Harvard Black Student Union, Stephen Jay Gould, Carl T. Rowan, segregation, institutional racism, Michigan-Ohio Regional Educational Laboratory, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Miriam Braverman, Association of American Publishers, Judith Krug, Vision Associates, Florence McMullin, Bay Area Social Responsibilities Round Table, Sunshine Resolution, Avery W. Williams, Clara Stanton Jones, Nancy Kellum-Rose, Jackie Eubanks, Eric Moon, Major Owens, Geraldine Clark, Ervin Gaines, Gerald R. Shields, classism, Civil Liberties Committee, integration, SCAMI, Freedom to Read Foundation, Community Change Inc., Metropolitan Planning Project (MPP), Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), Massachusetts Coalition for Human Rights, plays, Elizabeth Blake, Family Service Association of America, National Assembly for Social Policy and Development Inc., Carolyn Coverdale, Institute for Open Education, National Center for Education Statistics, numerical analysis, statistics, Native Americans, Indians, terminology, mass media, colonialism, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Lydia M. González, Mildred D. Taylor, Gwendolyn Patton, Charles Poor Thunder, self-esteem, Research Review of Equal Education, ageism, Queens College School of Library Science, Pilipino Peoples' Far West Convention, The Association of Chinese Teachers (TACT), murals, Asian American Resource Center, food, Childcare Switchboard, older people, games, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Quaker Project on Community Conflict, Childhood Education International, Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), People's Press, China Resources Project, People's Republic of China, Cuba, Emergency Committee to Defend Latin American Filmmakers (ECDLAF), Operation Namibia, South Africa, Namibia National Conference Library, Union of Democratic Thais (UDT), Committee for a Democratic Thailand (CDT), Friends of ZANU, Zimbabwe African National Union Struggle,Paul T. Goodnight, Lorraine Logan