Volume 11, Issue 7. 1980

Themes:

censorship; book banning; colonialism; freedom of speech; racism; feminism; historical misrepresentation and omission; Black experience; non-violence

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Geraldine L. Wilson, Rudine Sims, Fay Wilson-Beach, Glyger G. Beach, Kathy Baxter, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Betty Bacon, The Multicultural Project, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman

Materials Reviewed:

Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems by Nancy Hoffman. Amazon / WorldCat
The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks. Amazon / WorldCat
Aging by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Glen Silverstein. Amazon / WorldCat
I'm Busy, Too by Norma Simon. Amazon / WorldCat
Teepee Tales of the American Indian: Retold for Our Times by Dee Brown. Amazon / WorldCat
Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book by Betty Miles. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Growing Up Free by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten
Negro Americans, What Now? by James Weldon
Stone Giants and Flying Heads by Joseph Bruchac
Turkey Brother and Other Tales by Joseph Bruchac
Sound of Flutes and Other Indian Legends by Richard Erdoes
Sitting on the Blue-Eyed Bear: Navajo Myths and Legends by Gerald Hausman
Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Tales by Rosebud Yellowrobe

Keywords:

censorship, Mary Poppins, book banning, librarians, colonialism, Joan Dillon, San Francisco Public Library, American Library Association (ALA), Judith Krug, Office for Intellectual Freedom, freedom of speech, racism, Fourteenth Amendment, feminism, National Organization for Women (NOW), McCarthyism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Black editors, Asian American, Publisher's Weekly, toys, Black, Puerto Rican, Asian American, F. A. O. Schwartz, sexism, racism, colonialism, war, humanist, anti-racism, anti-sexism, classism, Eurocentrism, whitewashing, (cultural appropriation), depictions, Gabriel Company, Pressman Company, sports, Willie May Aiken, Manny Trillo, Effanbee, Gerber, Amore, Sasha, Shindana, Calvin Klein, anti-war movement, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), O. J. Simpson, Lego, Sprocketeers, Tupperware, Metropolitan Art Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, Museum of Natural History, Studio Museum of Harlem, El Museo de Barrio, Sandy Berman, Public Assistance, Carl Snowden, NAACP, Children's Book Award, American Book Award, Words by Heart, International Reading Association, The Cay, Sounder, The Slave Dancer, reviewers, Best Books for Young Adults, Kristin Hunter, Zora Neale Hurston, Civil War, historical misrepresentation and omission, Black experience, non-violence, Roots, Harlem Writers Guild, Emily V. Gibbes, June Jordan, Tom Feelings, Sharon Bell Mathis, Eloise Greenfield, George Ford, Wilber T. Washington, John Oliver Killens, Lorenz Graham, Pamela Douglas, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., prison, Third World Children's Book and Film Festival, Candelaria Silva, Judy Richardson, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), Jamila Gaston, Montana Council for Indian Education