Volume 11, Issue 8. 1980
Themes:
Eurocentrism; historical misrepresentation and omission; indigenous people; Native Americans; racism; sexism; feminism; color blindness
Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:
Nadema Agard, Robin Gordon, Twiss Butler, Horace Seldon, Lyla Hoffman, Melanie N. Lee, Patricia B. Campbell, Paula Wolff, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Betty Bacon, Beryle Banfield, Donald Kao, Liz Gong
Materials Reviewed:
I Hate to Talk About Your Mother by Hettie Jones. Amazon /
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Wilhemina Jones, Future Star by Dindga McCannon. Amazon /
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It's Just Too Much by Jean Davies Okimoto. Amazon /
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Giant Steps for Steven by Carol J. Bennett. Amazon /
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On Site: The Construction of a High-Rise by Richard Younker. Amazon /
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A Way of Love, A Way of Life: A Young Person's Introduction to What It Means to be Gay by Frances Hanckel and John Cunningham. Amazon /
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Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art by Jamake Highwater. Amazon /
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Mean Maxine by Barbara Bottner. Amazon /
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Grandpa: A Young Man Grown Old by Harriet Langsam Sobol. Amazon /
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Grandmama's Joy by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon /
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Talk about a Family by Eloisa Greenfield. Amazon /
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What's That? by Virginia Allen Jensen. Amazon /
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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet, Maybe You Should Be a Vet by Theo LeSieg. Amazon /
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Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools by Sheila Harty. Amazon /
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Asian American Study Prints by Asian American Bilingual Center. Amazon /
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Growing Up Equal by Jeanne Kohl Jenkins and Pam MacDonald. Amazon /
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Materials Highlighted:
The Chichi Hoohoo Boogeyman by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
African Crafts by Jane Kerina
Anpao... An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
Art of Africa by Shirley Glubok
Art of Ancient Mexico by Shirley Glubok
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
High Elk's Treasure by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
When Thunder Spoke by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Betrayed by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep
Sweetwater by Laurence Yep
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings
Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Benai
A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno
Tonweya and the Eagles by Rosebud Yellow Robe
Gay: What You Should Know about Homosexuality by Morton Hunt
How Does it Feel to be Old? by Norma Farber
Children of Che: Childcare and Education in Cuba by Karen Wald
Keywords:
art, Eurocentrism, historical misrepresentation and omission, Navajo, Maasai, Samoan, Inuit, Asahanti, Taino, Huichol, Tlinglit, Pueblo, R. C. Gorman, Diego Rivera, Helen Cordero, Romare Bearden, Black, indigenous people, Native American, Sioux, Lakota, Ojibway, Dakotas, Choctaw, censorship, textbooks, National Organization for Women (NOW), guidelines, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), PEER, Fourteenth Amendment, Texas, Education Task Force of Texas NOW, Texas Education Agency, phonics, Judeo-Christian, conservative, racism, sexism, feminism American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, color-blind, Boston Covenant Committee, Black is Beautiful, ant-racist, multicultural, institutional racism, National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN); Akinshiju Ola, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Social Responsibilities round Table (SRRT); boycott; Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC); Campbell's; Libby's; Nestle; Karen Wald; Cuba; Latin American Children's Project; Long Sleeve records; disability, Asian American, Phoenix Films, National Black Child Development Institute, White Deer of Autumn, Winged Crescent Woman, women's history, Women in Libraries, Kay Cassell, The Film Fund, KNOW Inc., Women's Health Network, Title IX, Lutheran Church in America, ARTS Inc., Women Library Workers, Civil Rights, index