Volume 10, Issue 4. 1979

Themes:

women and sports;Title IX, evaluation; racism; sexism; omission; erasure; Black women; discrimination; women of color; stereotypes; historical omission and misrepresentation

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Patricia Campbell, Ann Hedge, Ann Marie Davies, Maxine Fisher, Sonia Nieto, Child Care Resource Center, Virginia Wilder, Jane Pennington

Materials Reviewed:

The Get-Away Car by Eleanor Clymer. Amazon / WorldCat
Out of the Bleachers: Writings on Women and Sport by Stephanie L. Twin. Amazon / WorldCat
The Rainbow Colored Horse by Pura Belpré . Amazon / WorldCat
Naptime by Gylbert Coker. Amazon / WorldCat
Blinded by the Light by Robin F. Brancato. Amazon / WorldCat
Oscar the Selfish Octopus by John M. Barrett. Amazon / WorldCat
Ride the Pine Sapling by Beth Bland Engel. Amazon / WorldCat
It Ain't All for Nothing by Walter Dean Myers. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

I Always Wanted to Be Somebody by Althea Gibson
This Life I've Led by Didrickson Zaharias
Janet Guthrie by Ross Olney
Women Who Win series
Superstars series
Women Who Win by Francene Sabin
Black American Athletes series
Women in Sports: Tennis by Marion Meade
Women in Sports: Horseback Riding by Flora Golden
Women in Sports: Swimming by Diana Gleasner
Billie Jean by Billie Jean King
Contributions of Women: Sports by Joan Ryan
Nancy Lopez by James Hahn and Lynn Hahn
Women in Sports: Track and Field by Diana Gleasner
Sheila Young by Joe Soucheray
The Slave Trade by Basil Davidson
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Black Africa by P. E. H. Hair
Britain Since 1700 by R. J. Cootes
The Great White Lie by J. Gratus
The Slave Trade and Its Abolition by Daview J. Langdon
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
The Twentieth Century by M. N. Duffy
Africa from Prehistory to Modern Times by N. Latham
Britain 1760-1970 by E. Longmate
Britain, Europe and the Modern World 1918-1968 by P. Richardson
Men of Power by J. E. N. Hearsey
African Nationalism by J. Hollings
The Move to Europe, Britain 1800-1972 by P. Tread
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber

Keywords:

sports, women, libraries, Olga Korbut, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Title IX, evaluation, book lists, bibliographies, Harvey House, EMC Corporation, Creative Education/Children's Press, racism, sexism, omission, erasure, Pearl Moore, Karen Stevenson, Linda Fernandez, Chako Hiquchi, Miki Gorman, Black women, discrimination, women of color, stereotypes, Jana Hlavaty, Suzy Chaffee, Barbara Cochran, Kathy Schmidt, Janet Lynn, Karen Magnussen, Marion Ladewig, Micki King, Annemarie Moser-Proell, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Peggy Fleming, Paula Serber, Sammy Francher Thurmon, Patty Van Wolvelaere, feminism, Jane Frederick, Project on the Status and Education of Women, Cheryl Toussaint, Wilma Rudolph, classism, Carol Blazejowski, Linda Fernandez, Pearl Moore, Shirley Muldowney, Marion Seidler, Karen Stevenson, National Association for Multi-racial Education (NAME), textbooks, historical omission and misrepresentation, Africa, Caribbean, Britain, slavery, colonialism, liberation struggles, numerical analysis, evaluation, abolition, terminology, white savior, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Hola Camp, Cecil Rhodes, propaganda, King Lobengula, South Africa, Central African Federation, Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), Ian Smith, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Sexism Awareness Training, Mary A. Hall, Fredrick Woodard, Tools for Consciousness-raising Task Force, Mary Lewis, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Lydia Bragger, Gray Panthers, Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Social Responsibility Round Table, New Day Films. Phoenix Films, Educational Development Center, SPRINT, Educomics, Affirmative Action Coordinating Center (AACC), Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Indochina Curriculum Group (ICG), The Feminist Press, McCarthyism, HealthRight, Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), Bridge, Asian American, 9to5, Ronald Brown, June Gaddy