Volume 9, Issue 3. 1978

Themes:

historial repression and misrepresentation; Eurocentrism; stereotypes; racism; white supremacy; slavery; IQ testing; Apartheid; assimilation; consciousness-raising

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Susan J. Hall, Luis Nieves Falcon, Virginia Wilder, Daphne Silas, Lyla Hoffman, Emily R. Moore, B. R. Walters, Lorraine V. McNamara, Daphne Silas, Donna Lovell

Materials Reviewed:

I'll Love You When You're More Like Me by M.E. Kerr. Amazon / WorldCat
Ghost Fox by James Houston. Amazon / WorldCat
Kid Power by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Amazon / WorldCat
I Been There by Carol Hall. Amazon / WorldCat
Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Barbara Smucker. Amazon / WorldCat
Zanbanger by R.R. Knudson. Amazon / WorldCat
Two Homes to Live In: A Child's-Eye View of Divorce by Barbara Shook Hazen. Amazon / WorldCat
The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz. Amazon / WorldCat
Voices in the Wind: Central and South American Legends by Alex Whitney. Amazon / WorldCat
How Far Is Berkeley? by Helen Chetin. Amazon / WorldCat
Bus Ride by Nancy Jewell. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The New Exploring the Non-Western World by Melvin Schwartz and John R. O'Connor
The Afro-Asian World: A Cultural Understanding by Edward R. Kolevzon
People, Places, and Change by Leonard Berry and Richard B. Ford
Africa in U.S. Educational Materials by Susan J. Hall
African Resources for Schools and Libraries by The African-American Institute
African Encyclopedia by W. Senteza Kajubi, L.J. Lewis, and C.O. Taiwo
The Student Africanist's Handbook by Gerald W. Hartwig and William M. O'Barr

Keywords:

textbooks, Africa, African-American Institute, Asia, evaluation, South Africa, colonialism, historial repression and misrepresentation, Eurocentrism, stereotypes, racism, white supremacy, slavery, IQ testing, Apartheid, "Bantu", National Coalition to Support African Liberation, terminology, bilingual, Conference on Bilingual Curriculum, Northeast Curriculum Development and Dissemination Center, assimilation, self-esteem, Spanish, consciousness-raising, publishing, amusement parks, stereotypes, racism, sexism, Disneyland, Great American Park, Frontier Land, Six Flags Over Mid-America, Six Flags Over Georgia, Busch Gardens, Coney Island, Chinatown Fair and Museum, Native American, Asia, Asian-American, Great Adventure, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Library Administration Division (LAD), Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), College of Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland, The Speaker, Committee to Defend Intellectual Honesty, First Amendment, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Joan S. Hyman, Mary Lou Byler, Irma Garcia, Ginlin Woo, Walter Dean Myers, Jane Califf, Albert V. Schwartz, Beryle Banfield, Carmern Puigdollers, Brad Chambers, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), National Organization for Women (NOW), National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, working-class, Ronald Dixon, Kenneth Davenport