Volume 10, Issue 5. 1979

Themes:

Sesame Street; Children's Television Workshop; sexism; feminism; racism; Black vernacular; multiculturalism; stereotypes; whitewashing

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Ruth Charnes, Kay E. Hoffman, Lyla Hoffman, Ruth S. Meyers, Carole E. Gregory, Laurence Yep, Ronice Branding, Jane Pennington, Maxine Fisher, Beryle Banfield, Eloise Skeen Scott, Eugene S. Rave, Beryl C. Gillespie, Child Care Resource Center, Lyla Hoffman, Vicki Breitbart

Materials Reviewed:

The Cimaroons by Robert Leeson. Amazon / WorldCat
The Undertaker's Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel. Amazon / WorldCat
Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography by Shirley Graham Du Bois. Amazon / WorldCat
Crossing the Line by William H. Hooks. Amazon / WorldCat
The Loner: A Story of the Wolverine by Paige Dixon. Amazon / WorldCat
Everett Anderson's Nine Month Long by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
Great-Grandfather, the Baby and Me by Howard Knotts. Amazon / WorldCat
Ask Me What My Mother Does by Katherine Leiner. Amazon / WorldCat
Conquista! by Clyde Robert Bulla. Amazon / WorldCat
Learning for Little Kids: A Parent's Sourcebook for the Years 3 to 8 by Sandy Jones. Amazon / WorldCat
The Griot Sings: Songs from the Black World by Edna Smith Edet. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Sesame Street Storybook
The Sesame Street Mother Goose
The Sesame Street One, Two, Three Story Book
Big Bird's Busy Book
The Perils of Penelope
The Sesame Street ABC Storybook
The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook
The Sesame Street Book of Fairy Tales
The Sesame Street Little Library
The Sesame Street Pop-up Riddle Book
Sweetwater by Laurence Yep
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep

Keywords:

Sesame Street, The Sesame Street Library, Random House, Children's Television Workshop, Bill Most, Funk and Wagnalls, Eleanor Ehrhard, Jeannette Neff, sexism, numerical analysis, fairy tales, Dulcy Singer, feminism, Roosevelt Franklin, racism, Black vernacular, multiculturalism, stereotypes, depictions, bilingual, William F. Whaley, Lenore H. Ringler, Little Black Sambo, Afro American, Black, Puerto Rican, Asian American, parents, surveys, Chinese American, science fiction, Harper and Row, Fong Joe Guey, amusement parks, Action Against Apathy (AAA), Six Flags, Native Americans, American Indians, Pow Wow Committee, David L. Paltzik, self-esteem, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Sexism Awareness Training Workshop, Sexism and Racism Training Committee, Jenelyn Block Associates, ageism, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Task Force on Tools for Consciousness-Raising, Fredrick Woodard, Carol Jacobs, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Lydia Bragger, Gray Panthers, Mary C. Lewis, Richard L. Darling, Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), Benjamin Spock, Nestle, boycott, women's studies, Women's Educational Equity Communications Network (WEECN), TABS, Kenneth B. Clark, segregation, A New day Film, strike, Pheonix Films, Educational Development Center, Interculture Associates, Sex Discrimination News, Carlos E. Cortes, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Equal Rigths Amendment (ERA), Helaine Victoria Press, Institute for Responsive Education (IRE), The National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (CRESS), South End Press, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), whitewashing