Volume 12, Issue 6. 1981

Themes:

toys; racism; sexism; whitewashing; consciousness-raising; critical education

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Geraldine L. Wilson, Leonore Gordon, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Paul Smith, Sonia Nieto, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Jan M. Goodman

Materials Reviewed:

I'm Still Me by Betty Jean Lifton. Amazon / WorldCat
Nick Joins In by Joe Lasker. Amazon / WorldCat
Talking Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds by William O. Steele. Amazon / WorldCat
Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Stories from El Barrio by Piri Thomas. Amazon / WorldCat
Get Out of Here, Philip Hall by Bette Green. Amazon / WorldCat
An Eye on the World: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer by Beatrice Siegel. Amazon / WorldCat
Stepchild by Terry Berger. Amazon / WorldCat
Portrait of Inequality: Black and White Children in America by Mirian Wright Edelman. Amazon / WorldCat
Man Made Language by Dale Spender. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Changing by Liv Ullman
El Circo Magico Modelo / Finding the Magic Circus by Macduff Everton
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Idalia's Project ABC: An Urban Alphabet Book in English and Spanish by Idalia Rosario
I'm Busy, too by Norma Simon
My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton
My Mother and I Are Growing Strong! / Mi mama y yo nos hacemos fuertes by Inez Maury
My Mother the Mail Carrier / Mi mama la cartera by Inez Murray
Tar Beach by Arthur Getz
Tonweya and the Eagles by Rosebud Yellow Robe
The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky
What's That? by Virginia Allen Jensen and Dorcas Woodbury Italler
When Megan Went Away by Jane Severance
Window Wishing by Jeannette Caines
Childtimes - A Three Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
The Chinese American by Milton Meltzer
Cornrows by Camille Yarborough
Daydreamers by Tom Feelings and Eloise Greenfield
Growin' by Nikki Grimes
Grandpa - A Young Man Grown Old by Harriet Langsam Sobol
Growing Older by George Ancona
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art by Jamake Highwater
The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Benai
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
See Me More Clearly: Career and Life Planning for Teens with Physical Disabilities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf
Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
Talley's Corner by Elliot Liebow
Racism in Psychiatry by A. Thomas and S. Sillen
All of Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol Stack
The Structure of Science by E. Nagel
Federal Funding to Promote Sex Equity in Education, 1980 by S. S. Klein and M. A. Goodman
Two Windows on Research by G. McDonald
The Effects of Sexism on thought: How Male Bias Hurts Psychology and Some Hopes for a Women's Psychology by J. Silveria

Keywords:

toys, racism, sexism, whitewashing, Asian, Latino, Native American, Black, Warren Mann, F. W. Woolworth, ERTL, NY-LINT, Tonka, Toy Center International, Bimbambole, war, Confederate flag, Milton Bradley, Coleco, Emtex, Parker Brothers, Texas Instruments, Shindana Toys, Marcus Garvey, Fisher-Price, Barbie, narcissism, consumerism, Child Guidance Toys, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), day care, Tupperware, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Chanukah, Las Navidades, Chinese New Year, Folkways Records and Service Co., Smithsonian Institute, National Wildlife Association, Audubon Society, American Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Museum, Brooklyn Children's Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of African Art, The Museum of the American Indian, The Smithsonian Institution, consciousness-raising, civil rights, animal rights, critical education, classism, Toys-R-Us, Skillcraft, Creative Products, lesson plans, bibliographies, book lists, research, publishing, National Institute of Education, Department of Education, equity, numerical analysis, journals, Integrate Education, Journal of Black Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, SIGNS, homemaking, Gloria Steinem, sex equity, funding, Carol Gilligan