Volume 12, Issue 3. 1981

Themes:

sexism; stereotypes; critical education; apartheid; race bias; sex bias; racism; Native Americans

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Elaine Wagner, Patricia B. Campbell, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Lyla Hoffman, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Judy Yung, Beryle Banfield, Sonia Nieto, Geraldine L. Wilson, Jay Meryl, Paul Smith, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education

Materials Reviewed:

The Day the Loving Stopped: A Daughter's View of Her Parents' Divorce by Julie Autumn List. Amazon / WorldCat
Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prisons by Phyllis Elperin Clark. Amazon / WorldCat
Window Wishing by Jeannette Caines. Amazon / WorldCat
The Dragon's Village: An Autobiography of Revolutionary China by Yuan-Tsung Chen. Amazon / WorldCat
A Young Genius in Old Egypt by Beatrice Lumpkin. Amazon / WorldCat
The Story of a Young Gymnast: Tracee Talavera by Karen Folger Jacobs. Amazon / WorldCat
The Wentletrap Trap by Jean Craighead George. Amazon / WorldCat
John Brown: A Cry for Freedom by Lorenz Graham. Amazon / WorldCat
Breaking Up by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat
My Mother Lost Her Job Today by Judy Delton. Amazon / WorldCat
The Throwing Season by Michael French. Amazon / WorldCat
Young, Gay, and Proud! by Sasha Alyson, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Three Cheers for Mother Jones by Jean Bethell. Amazon / WorldCat
Tar Beach by Arthur Getz. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
Sex in Education or a Fair Chance for Girls by Edward H. Clarke
The Gynecological Patient: A psych-Endocrine Study by Somers Sturgis and Doris Menzer-Benaron
Pattern and Growth in Personality by G. W. Allport
Parenthood: Its Psychology and Psychopathology by E. J. Anthony and T Benedek
Maternal Care and Metal Health by J. Bowlby
For Her Own Good by B. Ehrenreich and D. English
Infant and Child in the Culture of Today by A Gesell and F. L. Ing
Cyril Burt, Psychologist by L. S. Hearnshaw
Aequanimitas: With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses, and Practitioners of Medicine by W. Osler
The First Year of Life: A Psychoanalytic Study of Normal and Deviant Development of Object Relations by R. Spitz
The Leopard's Spots: Scientific Attitudes Toward Race in America by W. Stanton
The Measurement of Intelligence by L. M. Terman
Racism and Psychiatry by A. Thomas and S. Sillen
American Indian Authors for Young Readers by Mary Gloyne Byler
Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt
Geronimo, His Own Story by Geronimo
I Am a Pueblo Indian Girl by Louise Abeita
Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder by Mountain Wolf Woman
Indian Children's Books by Hap Gilliland
Squanto and the Pilgrims by A. M. Anderson
His Indian Brother by Hazel Wilson
Medicine Man's Daughter by Ann Clark
Season of the Two-Heart by Lois Duncan
Books on American Indians and Eskimos by Mary Jo Lass-Woodfin
Komantcia by Harold Keith
Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian by Clair Huffaker
The Pink Puppy by Flora Hood
Riding the Earthboy 40 by James Welch
Native Americans in Selected Children's Media by Marilyn Schafstall and Lillian Francois
Mission Indians of California by Sonia Bleeker
Red Fox and His Canoe by Nathaniel Benchley
Glooskap's Country and Other Tales by Cyrus Macmillan
Literature by and About the American Indian by National Council of Teachers of English
These Were the Sioux by Mari Sandoz
Folklore of the North American Indians by Library of Congress
Navajo Myths Retold by Margaret S. Link
The Indians Book by Natalie Burlin
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico by Frederick W. Hodge
The North American Indian by Edward Curtis
Educational Materials By and About the American Indian by Sue Ann Vasquez
Wonders of the Bison World by Sigmund Lavine
Osceola by Wyatt Blassingame
Tell Them They Lie : The Sequoyah Myth by Traveller Bird
A Gathering of Power: An Annotated Bibliography of Highly Recommended Books by and About Native Americans by White Deer of Autumn

Keywords:

sexism, Scholastic, Wildfire, Richard Robinson, New York City board of Education, National Education Association, National Organization for Women (NOW), Lorraine Shepard, stereotypes, critical education, Carol Poll, Judith Mosson, Sharon Robinson, Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), Ku Klux Klan (KKK), apartheid, research, race bias, sex bias, racism, objectivity, IQ testing, Samuel Morton, George Romanes, Carl Vogt, Louis Terman, "intellectual inferiority", Cyril Burt, Arthur Jensen, Gordon Allport, A. B. Evarts, Arnold Gesell, G. L. Austin, W. W. Bliss, Edward H. Clark, biological determinism, G. Stanley Hall, John Bowlby, status quo, bibliographies, book lists, Native American, Eurocentrism, Simon J. Ortiz, Craig Strete, reviewers, depictions, Akwesasne Notes, American Indian Quarterly, Indian Historian, Wassaja, Anne Fadum, Women Against Nuclear Development (WAND), Africa, Gale Research, Education Exploration Center, Educomics, Asian Canadian, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Nurturing News, Emergency Librarian