Volume 12, Issue 7/8. 1981

Themes:

American Revolution; Native American; racism; classism; stereotypes; racial slurs; slavery; abolition; censorship by omission; historical misrepresentation and omission; cultural awareness; romance series

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Joel Taxel, Patricia B. Campbell, Sheli Wortis, Val Hinderlie, Patricia Simmons, Paula Kassell, Leonore Gordon, Emily Strauss Watson, Sonia Nieto, Lyla Hoffman, Geraldine L. Wilson, Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Jan M. Goodman, Paulette Fairbanks Molin, Diane M. Burns, Glenn Anderson, Paul Smith, Paulette Molin, Joseph K. Adjaye, Jay Meryl, Frieda Zames

Materials Reviewed:

Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, the Dump Queen by Norma Fox Mazer. Amazon / WorldCat
Accident by Hila Coleman. Amazon / WorldCat
Home for a Stranger by Joan Talmage Weiss. Amazon / WorldCat
Nobody's Perfect, Not Even My Mother by Norma Simon. Amazon / WorldCat
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis DeVeaux. Amazon / WorldCat
The People Therein by Mildred Lee. Amazon / WorldCat
Head Over Wheels by Lee Kingman. Amazon / WorldCat
Daddy Is a Monster... Sometimes by John Steptoe. Amazon / WorldCat
Fairytales of Gold by Alan Garner. Amazon / WorldCat
Finding Your First Job by Sue Alexander. Amazon / WorldCat
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence Meiman White. Amazon / WorldCat
The Kissimmee Kid by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver. Amazon / WorldCat
We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin. Amazon / WorldCat
Everybody Knows That! by Susan Pearson. Amazon / WorldCat
Tortillas para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes in Spanish and English by Margot C. Greigo, Betsy L. Bucks, Sharon S. Gilbert, Lauren H. Kinmall, translators. Amazon / WorldCat
Let's Be Friends: A Picture Song by Jackie Weissman. Amazon / WorldCat
All About Me: A Picture Song by Jackie Weissman. Amazon / WorldCat
Button Eye's Orange by Jan Wahl. Amazon / WorldCat
Sesame Street Sign Language Fun with Linda Bove by Tom Cooke. Amazon / WorldCat
Jemmy by Jon Hassler. Amazon / WorldCat
Rainbow Jordon by Alice Childress. Amazon / WorldCat
Buffalo Bill, Wild West Showman by Mary R. Davidson. Amazon / WorldCat
This Song Remembers: Self Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts by Jane B. Katz. Amazon / WorldCat
Growing Up Maasai by Tom Schachtman. Amazon / WorldCat
A Friend of China by Joyce Milton. Amazon / WorldCat
Breakfast with My Father by Ron Roy. Amazon / WorldCat
Come Out Smiling by Elizabeth Levy. Amazon / WorldCat
What's the Matter, Sylvie, Can't You Ride? by Karen Born Anderson. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Battle Lanterns by Merritt Parmellee Allen
Green Cockade by Merritt Parmellee Allen
The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. Altsheler
Who Comes to King’s Mountain? by John and Patricia Beatty
The Crystal Cornerstone by Lorna Beers
Drums by James Boyd
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
Ruffles and Drums by Betty Cavanna
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln and Christopher Collier
Land for My Sons: A Frontier Tale of the American Revolution by Maribelle Cormack and William P. Alexander
Freedom's Daughter by Gertrude Crownfield
Wilderness Clearing by Walter D. Edmonds
When the World's On Fire by Sally Edwards
April Morning by Howard Fast
Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson
Redcoat in Boston by Ann Finlayson
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hopkins Forbes
Janice Meredith by Paul L. Ford
Early Thunder by Jean Fritz
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Rising Thunder by Jean Fritz
Rebel Siege by Jim Kjelgaard
A Continental Dollar by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe
Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
Silver for General Washington by Enid LaMonte Meadowcraft
Treason at the Point by J. C. Nolan
American Twins of the Revolution by Lucy F. Perkins
The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery
Rifles for Washington by Elsie Singmaster
Silent Scot by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Freelon Starbird by Richard F. Snow
Peter Treegate's Musket by Leonard Wibberly
The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement by John Franklin Jameson
The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism by Alfred F. Young
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, Ideology and, Cultural Production by N. Barrett, P. Corrigan, A. Kuhnm, J. Wolff, eds.
Chimpanzees by Robert Mearns Yerkes
The Mark of Oppression by Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey
Black Rage by William H. Grier and Price M.Cobbs
Seasons of a Man's Life by Daniel J. Levinson

Keywords:

American Revolution, numerical analysis, Black, Native American, librarians, racism, classism, stereotypes, racial slurs, slavery, depictions, Patrick Henry, abolition, Thomas Jefferson, censorship by omission, historical misrepresentation and omission, classism, Jesse Lemisch, research, bias, publishing, socio-economic status, R. C. Wylie, observation effects, Black experience, Hispanic, Asian American, U. S. Census, Gallup Poll, normative, sexism, testing, IQ testing, child care, day care, multicultural, Multicultural Project for Communication and Education (MPCE), Asian, discrimination, diversity, self-esteem, liberation, consciousness-raising, bibliographies, evaluation criteria, Child Care Resource Center, cultural awareness, cultural awareness workshops, Portuguese, Haitian, African American, Geraldine L. Wilson, equal pay, inequity, quiz, journals, National Audiovisual Center, disabilities, NARMIC, nuclear arms, The Learning Seed Company, crime, National Association of Women Deans, The Women's Center, National Institute of Education, ARTWORKS, National Committee for Citizens in Education, Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP), Indian County Press, Plus Publications, New Women's Times, The Testing Digest, women's history, Wider Opportunities for Women, Agency for International Development, South Africa, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), romance series, financial support request, index