Volume 10, Issue 6. 1979

Themes:

censorship; racism; sexism; Civil Rights; self-esteem; disability; stereotypes; discrimination; representation; whitewashing; Black writers

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Arlene Hirschfelder, Jane Califf, Walter Myers, Lenore Gordon, Child Care Resource Center, Eugene S. Rave, Beryl C. Gillespie, Lyla Hoffman, Maxine Fisher, Donna Lovell, Karen Wald

Materials Reviewed:

Happy Endings Are All Alike by Sandra Scoppetone. Amazon / WorldCat
Hey, Dollface by Deborah Hautzig. Amazon / WorldCat
My Daddy Don't Go to Work by Madeena Spray Nolan. Amazon / WorldCat
Eskimos by Jill Hughes. Amazon / WorldCat
Plains Indians by Christopher Davis. Amazon / WorldCat
The Human Rights Book by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
Overkill: Weapons of the Nuclear Age by John Cox. Amazon / WorldCat
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians by Nancy Wood. Amazon / WorldCat
The Murderer by Felice Holman. Amazon / WorldCat
Response Guides for Teaching Children's Books by Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington. Amazon / WorldCat
Black Literature for High School Students by Barbara Dodds Stanford and Karima Amin. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Occasional Papers in Old Colony Studies by Catherine Marten
A Relation. or, Journal of the Proceeding of the Plantation Settled at Plymouth in New England / Mourt's Relation by G. Mourt
Thanksgiving: Its Source, Philosophy and History by H. S. J. Sickel
The Gift is Rich by E. Russell Carter
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby
The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation by Donald A. Grinde
Textbooks and the American Indian by J. Henry and R. Rosti, eds.
American Indian Medicine by Virgil Vogel
Who's the Savage? A Documentary History of the Mistreatment of the Native North American by D. R. Wrone and R. S. Nelson Jr., eds.
Where Does the Day Go? by Walter Dean Myers
The Dancers by Walter Dean Myers
The Dragon Takes a Wife by Walter Dean Myers

Keywords:

textbooks, censorship, racism, sexism, Civil Rights, Fourteenth Amendment, Publishers Weekly, self-esteem, disability, First Amendment, Carol Amyx, stereotypes, discrimination, publishing, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), E. J. Gaines, neutrality, multicultural, KKK, conservative, National Education Association (NEA), Gablers of Texas, Kanawha County, pluralistic, inclusive, Howard N. Meyer, Thanksgiving, lesson plans, Native Americans, American Indians, colonialism, Wampanoags, critical education, Akwesasne Notes, Patuxet, Wabonake, Tisquantum, Samoset, George Wymouth, slavery, Edward Winslow, Massasoit, Metacomet, terminology, Frank James, Black, representation, whitewashing, Black writers, Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Sheppard, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Margaret Musgrove, Mildred Taylor, Great Society, publishing - racism, REHABFILM, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, People Acting for Change Together (PACT), EDC/WEEAP, Institute for Responsive Education, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Center for Independent Living, Randolph Counts, Marian Straw