Volume 13, Issue 2/3. 1982

Themes:

Central America; censorship by omission; stereotypes; racism, Indigenous people; economic exploitation; poverty; sexism; critical education; genocide

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Victoria Ortiz, Paul Wasserman, Dolores Schaeffer, A. Faulkner Watts, Elmo Doig, Sally Smith, Jan M. Goodman, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Sonia Nieto, Doris Seale, Emily Moore, Sally Smith

Materials Reviewed:

Amy Goes Fishing by Jean Marzollo. Amazon / WorldCat
Politics: How to Get Involved by Dorothy Levenson. Amazon / WorldCat
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. Amazon / WorldCat
The Ten-Woman Bicycle by Tricia Vita. Amazon / WorldCat
Like Everybody Else by Barbara Girion. Amazon / WorldCat
A Shadow Like a Leopard by Myron Levoy. Amazon / WorldCat
Moonsong Lullaby by Jamake Highwater. Amazon / WorldCat
Oh, Boy! Babies by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali. Amazon / WorldCat
Morning Glory Afternoon by Irene Bennett Brown. Amazon / WorldCat
Marty McGee's Space Lab, No Girls Allowed by Martha Alexander. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Britannica Junior Encyclopedia
World Book Encyclopedia
Central America: Lands Seeking Unity by Charles Paul May
Chico of Guatemala by Betty Cavanna
El Salvador in Pictures by Nathan A. Haverstock and John P. Hoover
Enchantment of Central America: Costa Rica by Allan Carpenter
The Enchantment of Central America: Panama by Allan Carpenter
Getting to Know Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua by Charles R. Joy
Getting to Know Guatemala and the Two Honduras by Grace Halsell
History and Life by T. Walker Wallbank et al.
Homelands of the World by Jack Abramowitz and Kenneth Job
Honduras in Pictures by Ken Waddle
The Human Expression by Paul Thomas Welty
Insights: Latin America by Thomas Orin Flickema and Paul W. Kane
Aztecas del Norte: The Chicanos of Aztlan by Jack D. Forbes
Land and People: A World Geography by Gerald A. Danzer and Albert J. Larson
LAnd and People of Central America by Ruth Karen
Lands of Latin America by Education Research Council of America
Let's Visit Central America by John C. Caldwell
Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies by Robert Clayton
Nicaragua in Pictures by Nathan A. Haverstock and John P. Hoover
Our World and Its People by Edward R. Kolevzon and John A. Heine
Panama and the Canal Zone in Pictures by Peter English
A People and a Nation by Clarence L. Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter
The Western Hemisphere by Harold D. Drummond
World Cultures by Clarence L. Ver Steeg
World Geography by Alan Backler and Stuart Lazarus
World Geography Today by Saul Israel et al.
World History by Bertram L. Linder
America: In Space and Time by Bryan Strong
America: Its People and Values by Leonard C. Wood et al.
American Dream by Lew Smith
American History by Jack Abramowitz
American Nation: Adventure in Freedom by Jack Abramowitz
The American Pageant: A History of a Republic by Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy
American Studies by Irving L. Gordon
Americans: A History of the United States by Social Studies Curriculum Center
As It Happened: A History of the United States by Charles G. Sellers
The Challenge of America by Mitchell Okun and Stephen H. Bronz
Episodes in American History by Boyd C. Burns et al.
History of the American People by James I. Clark
In Search of America by Martin W. Sandler
Land of Challenge by Margaret Stimmann
Land of the Free: A History of the United States by John W. Caughey et al.
Man in America by Joseph H. Dempsey
The New Exploring American History by Melvin Schwartz and John R. O'Connor
Pageant of American History by Gerald Leinwand
A People and a Nation by Clarence L. Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter
People and Our Country by Norman K. Risjord and Terry L. Haywoode
People Make a Nation by Martin W. Sandler et al.
Promise and Performance of the American Democracy by Richard A. Watson
Rise of the American Nation by Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti
Two Centuries of Progress: United States History by Harold E. Eibling et al.
United States History for High Schools by Boyd C. Schaffer et al.
United States History: Search for Freedom by Richard N. Current et al.
We the People by David B. Bidna et al.
The Boy with the Parrot by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Costa Rica in Pictures by Sandra Sawicki
Enchantment of Central America: El Salvador by Allen Carpenter and Eloise Baker
Enchantment of Central America: Nicaragua by Allan Carpenter and Tom Balow
Image of ... series by Organization of American States
Magic Maize by Mary Buff and Conrad Buff
Pirates in Panama by F. N. Monjo
Cry of the People by Penny Lernoux, Archbishop Romero - Martyr of El Salvador
El Salvador: Background to the Crisis by David Samuel
El Salvador: Central America in the Cold War by Marvin E. Gettleman, Patrick Lacefield, Louis Menasche, Ronald Radosh, and David Mermelstein, eds.
El Salvador: The Face of Revolution by Robert Armstrong and Janet Schenk
El Salvador: The Hungriest People in Latin America by Action Alert
El Salvador Packet by Amnesty International
Report on Human Rights in El Salvador by America's Watch Committee and ACLU
Report on El Salvador by Religious Task Force
Women and War in El Salvador by Women's International Resource Exchange
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
Dollar Diplomacy by Scott Nearing and Joseph Freedman
Guatemala by Susan Jones and David Tobis eds.
Guatemala: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win by Concerned Guatemala Scholars
Guatemala: A Government Program of Political Murder by Amnesty International
Guatemala: The Horror and the Hope by Rarihokwats
Guatemala: Occupied Country by Eduardo Galeano
Guatemala: Repression and Resistance by National Lawyer's Guild and La Raza Legal Alliance
The War of the Dispossessed by Thomas P. Anderson
Guardians of the Dynasty: A History of the U.S.-Created Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua and the Somoza Family by Richard Millett
Look! A New Thing in the Americas! The Church and the Revolution in Nicaragua by Peter Hinde
The Loss of Fear: Education in Nicaragua Before and After the Revolution by Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign of London
Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas
Nicaraguan Women and the Revolution by Women's International Resource Exchange
Nicaragua: A People's Revolution by EPICA Task Force
Nicaragua in Revolution by Thomas W. Walker, ed.
Nicaragua in Revolution: The Poets Speak by Bridget Aldaraca
Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle by Margaret Randall
PANAMA: Sovereignty For a Land Divided by EPICA Task Force

Keywords:

Central America, censorship by omission, stereotypes, Nancy Anderson, Rochelle Beck, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, content analysis, numerical analysis, racism, Indigenous, Black, economic exploitation, poverty, United Fruit Company, Guatemala, International Railways of Central America, Central Alliance, "La Matanza" ("The Slaughter"), Monroe Doctrine, Panama Canal, Arbez, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Alliance for Progress, depictions, sexism, machismo, Aztec, Maya, Eurocentrism, publishing, textbooks, critical education, Pablo Neruda, terminology, mestizo, Ladino, imperialism, Good Neighbor Policy; American Indian, Toltec, genocide, Panama, Belize, Chiapas, Spanish, cash crop, military, Somoza, Sandinistas, teaching supplements, sexism, women's rights, feminism, illiteracy, Fraternidad de Mujeres, Asociación de Mujeres de El Salvador (AMES), People's Revolutionary Army, Asociación de la Mujer Nicaragüense ante la Problematica Nacional (AMPRONAC), Dora Maria Tellez, Asociación de la Mujer Nicaragüense Luisa Amanda Espinosa (AMNLAE), tourism, Quiche, Cakchiquels, Kakchi, Mam, Pedro de Alvarado, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Judy Butler, Miskitu, maroons, Felipillo Mozambique, Anton Mandinga Mozambique, "limpieza de sangre", immigration, Elroy Blanco, Third Congress of Blacks in the Americas, The Black Congress, Alberto Smith, Melvia Lowe de Goodin, Antillean Blacks, Reina Torres de Arauz, migration, Spanish, West Indian, slavery, Jim Crow, lesson plans, Teachers' Committee on Central America, Amnesty International, Data center, Ecumenical Project for Inter-American Communication and Action (EPICA), H. A. N. D., Latin American Working Group (LAWG), Maryknoll Sisters, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), OXFAM-America, Religious Task Force on Central America, Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE), Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Committee in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, National Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), Casa Nicaragua, National Network in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People (NNSNP), National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Barbara Stein, Title IX, sports, Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), Orin Hatch, Project EMBERS, Jack Kleinman, National Education Association