Volume 10, Issue 8. 1979

Themes:

social injustice; institutional racism; institutional sexism; labor history; civil disobedience; stereotypes; Chinese Exclusion Act; Japanese Internment; Indian Removal Act; cultural racism; cultural sexism; historical omission and misrepresentation

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Lucy Picco Simpson, Patricia Campbell, Sonia Nieto, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lorraine Dong, Lyla Hoffman, Lydia Bragger, Jane Pennington

Materials Reviewed:

Queen of Hearts by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver. Amazon / WorldCat
Alicia Alonso: The Story of a Ballerina by Beatrice Siegel. Amazon / WorldCat
Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough. Amazon / WorldCat
Land of the Iron Dragon by Alida E. Young. Amazon / WorldCat
John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat by Jenny Wagner. Amazon / WorldCat
The Rocking Chair Rebellion by Eth Clifford. Amazon / WorldCat
Old Cat and the Kitten by Mary E. Little. Amazon / WorldCat
Contemporary Women Scientists of America by Iris Noble. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The How and Why Wonder Book of the Civil War
The Civil War by Earl Schench Miers
The Negro in the Making of America by Benjamin Quarles
Confrontation: Black and White by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
American Working Women
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Amendment that Refused to Die by Howard N. Meyer
Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson
An Album of the Civil War by William L. Katz
Worth Fighting For: A History of the Negro in the U.S. During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Agnes McCarthy
Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman by Ann McGovern
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play About Harriet Tubman by Alice Childress
Captain of the Planter by Dorothy Sterling
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls by Louise Meriwether
Four Took Freedom by Philip Sterling and Rayford W. Logan
The Emancipation Proclamation by John Hope Franklin
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Negro in the Civil War by Benjamin Quarles
The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-65 by Dudley T. Cornish
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Negro's Civil War: How the American Negro Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by James M. McPherson
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to Present by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby, eds.
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner, ed.
Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner
The American Heritage School Dictionary
The Ginn Intermediate Dictionary
The HBJ School Dictionary
Scott Foresman Begninning Dictionary
American Heritage School Dictionary

Keywords:

social injustice, institutional racism, institutional sexism, lesson plans, labor history, civil disobedience, stereotypes, Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Internment, Indian Removal Act, evaluation, Beryle Banfield, cultural racism, cultural sexism, Black, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Native American, Asian American, Civil War, slavery, historical omission and misrepresentation, terminology, racism, sexism, Harriet Tubman, Robert Smalls, Fredrick Douglass, President Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Emancipation Proclamation, Ernest Kaiser, Amy Swerdlow, feminism, numerical analysis, content analysis, TABS, dictionaries, index