Volume 8, Issue 8. 1977

Themes:

racism; dialects; Carribean; colonialism; bilingualism; stereotypes, historical suppression and misrepresentation; segregation; civil rights

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

William Rose, Minfong Ho, Barbara Schram, Donna Lovell, Emily Fabiano, Sue Ribner, Better Pendler, Daphne Silas, Lyla Hoffman, Donna Lovell, Sue Ribner, Karen Odom, Dorothy Starks

Materials Reviewed:

And It Is Still That Way: Legends Told by Arizona Indian Children by Byrd Baylor. Amazon / WorldCat
Mama by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Amazon / WorldCat
All It Takes Is Practice by Betty Miles. Amazon / WorldCat
The World of Ben Lighthart by Jaap ter Haar. Amazon / WorldCat
The Summer Maker: An Ojibway Indian Myth by Margery Bernstein. Amazon / WorldCat
Tales of the Elders: A Memory of Men and Women Who Came to America as Immigrants, 1900-1930 by Carol Ann Bales. Amazon / WorldCat
Sam Baker, Gone West by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Amazon / WorldCat
The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link. Amazon / WorldCat
Billy Learns Karate by B. Wiseman. Amazon / WorldCat
Bill Pickett: First Black Rodeo Star by Sibyl Hancock. Amazon / WorldCat
Walk in my Moccasins by Mary Phraner Warren. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho
Color Me Equal: Women's Lib Coloring Book
The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgement on America by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard

Keywords:

Spanish, racism, education, dialects, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Chicano, Catalon, Castile, Basque, colonialism, fluency, bilingual, White authors, stereotypes, historical suppression and misrepresentation, evaluation, Thailand, consciousness-raising, International Hotel, San Francisco, Pilipino, Filipino, eviction, Kearny Street Workshop, segregation, civil rights, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Bill 622, discrimination in schools, racism, sexism, textbooks, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Brookline, Ethel Sadowsky, Iris Stern Strom, vocational education, Native Americans, Indigenous people, oppression, ethnocide, Eurocentrism, International Conference on Discrimination Against Populations in the Americas, Sub-Committee on Racism Racial Discrimination Apartheid and Colonization, Special Committee on Human Rights, United Nations, Columbus Day, International Solidarity Day with American Indians, survival schools, Treaty Council office (New York), Native American Solidarity Committee (NASC), Jimmie Durham, Geneva Conference, sterilization, forced removal, Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA), genocide, International Indian Treaty Council, First International Indian Treaty Conference, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, numerical analysis, facts and figures, women's studies, Feminist Press, The Speaker, American Library Association (ALA), California Library Association, Rita Jones, Northern California Librarians Black Caucus (CLBC), Centro Infantil de la Raza, San Francisco Bay Area SRRT, TABS, Lucy Picco Simpson, NOW New York Textbooks Committee, Beryle Banfield, Jane Califf, Albert V. Schwartz, Robert Moore, Center on Human Policies, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Tricontinental Film Center, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, mass media, interlinked oppression, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), Helaine Victoria, Captains Courageous, Star Wars, critical literacy, Frieda Zames, Disabled in Action (DIA), Center for Independent Living, Joan Lewis Guidance Associates