Volume 2, Issue 4. 1970

Themes:

Chicano movement; white supremacy; Mexican Americans; stereotypes; Acclaimed Interracial Books of 1969

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Byron Williams, Prof. LaLange Bown, David Cohen, Clara Jackson

Materials Highlighted:

East African How Stories by Pamela Ogot
East African Why Stories by Pamela Ogot
The Hunter and the Hen by Oladele Taiwo
Sugar Girl by Kola Onadipe
Akpan and the Smugglers by Rosemary Uwemedimo
Mammy-Wagon Marriage by Rosemary Uwemedimo
People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi
Iska by Cyprian Ekwensi
An African Night's Entertainment by Cyprian Ekwensi
Fourteen Hundred Cowries by Abayomi Fuga
Oda Oak Oracle by Tsegaye Bagre-Hedhin
Rhythm of Violence by Lewis Nkosi
Not Even God is Ripe Enough by Bakare Gbadamosi and Ulli Beier
The Origin of Life and Death by Ulli Beier
The Imprisonment of Obatala Obotunde Ijimere: A Book of African Verse by John Reed and Clive Wake
Freedom and After by Tom Mboya
Kenneth Kaunda by Raymond Trudgian
On Trial for My Country by Stanlake Samkange
Sundiata by Djibril Tamsir Niane
Onyango's Triumph by Leo Odera Omolo
Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele
Tell Freedom by Peter Abraham
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
Secret of Monkey Rock by Asenath Bole Odaga
The Passport of Mallam Ilia by Cyprian Ekwensi
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion by Herbert Aptheker
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
Chronicles of Black Protest by Bradford Chambers
Black Folktales by Julius Lester
A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading by Nancy Larrick
Crocodile and Hen by Joan M. Lexau
Black is Beautiful by Ann McGovern
The Chosen People, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall
I Thought I Heard the City by Lilian Moore

Keywords:

International, Chicano movement, Africa, racial and ethnic book lists, Sharon Bell Mathis, Margot S. Webb, Virginia Cox, Rev. James Streeter, Rosa Guy, Tom Feelings, white supremacy, Emiliano Zapata, Mexican American, stereotypes, Nat Turner, Acclaimed Interracial Books of 1969 (these titles are not included in materials highlighted section for this issue), Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Black professional - absence, Puerto Rican professional - absence, white authors, Alaska reader, Indians, Cecil Brath, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Donald Crews, Vincent Lewis, Charlamae Rollins, Walter Dean Myers