Volume 12, Issue 1. 1981

Themes:

Native Americans; indigenous people; prejudice; racism; racial slurs; stereotypes; critical literacy; scientific racism; colonization; assimilation; immigration; segregation

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Hartmut Lutz, Arlene B. Hirschfelder, David Milner, Robert Lipsyte, Patricia B. Campbell, Robert Moore, Doris Seale, Ashley Jane Pennington, Kipp Watson, Jan M. Goodman, John Tchen, Donna Lovell, Melanie M. Lee, Janet Acevedo, Ruth S. Meyers, Lyla Hoffman, Vicki Breitbart, Ron Finney

Materials Reviewed:

People by Peter Spier. Amazon / WorldCat
Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Niethammer. Amazon / WorldCat
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers. Amazon / WorldCat
See Me More Clearly: Career and Life Planning for Teens with Physical Disabilities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell. Amazon / WorldCat
Women Pioneers of Science by Louis Haber. Amazon / WorldCat
The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
The Ballad of Penelope Lou... And Me by Drew Stevenson. Amazon / WorldCat
The Star Husband by Jane Mobley. Amazon / WorldCat
The Twins Strike Back by Valerie Flournoy. Amazon / WorldCat
Words in Our Hands by Ada B. Litchfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Once I Was a Plum Tree by Johanna Hurwitz. Amazon / WorldCat
Rinehart Lifts by R.R. Knudson. Amazon / WorldCat
A Treasure Hunt by Christopher Wilson. Amazon / WorldCat
Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's by Letty Cottin Pogrebin. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
The History, Manners, and Customs of Indian Nations by John G. E. Heckewelder
Winnetou III by Karl May
James Fenimore Cooper: A Re-Appraisal
Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind by Roy Harvey Pearce
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier 1600-1860 by Richard Slotkin
Free to Be Muhammad Ali by Robert Lipsyte
The Contenders by Robert Lipsyte
Sports World: An American Dreamland by Robert Lipsyte
Summer Rules by Robert Lipsyte
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Life on the Run by Bill Bradley
Paper Lion by George Plimpton
Haven is a Playground by Rick Telander
Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
Women in Sports: Swimming by Diana Gleasner
Women in Sports: Track and Field by Diana Gleasner
Girlsports by Karen Folger Jacobs

Keywords:

Native Americans, indigenous people, American Indians, Germany, West Germany, prejudice, racism, lesson plans, research, evaluation, Sinti, Roma, Karl May, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, racial slurs, terminology, cross-national comparison, stereotypes, critical literacy, scientific racism, colonization, assimilation, depictions, nationalism, American Indian Movement (AIM), Britain, multicultural, immigration, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, selection criteria, Asian, sports, sexism, integration, segregation, John R. Tunis, Alex Karas, Hilda G. Finney Center, mass media, Song of the South, slavery, Clarence Muse, Barrio Bilingual Communications, bibliographies, Barbara Gittings, Gay Task Force, Community Media Project, OHOYO, Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE), educational disabilities, Callaloo, Consumers Union, women's liberation, Asian American Bilingual Center, Edith King, Langston Hughes Study Conference, Universal Declaration of Human Rights