Volume 14, Issue 5. 1983

Themes:

censorship; intellectual freedom; diversity; critical education; Black Experience; societal racism; civil rights; institutional racism; historical misrepresentation and omission; cultural appropriation; cultural authenticity

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Sanford Berman, Beryle Banfield, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lucille Clifton, Nancy L. Arnez, Eloise Greenfield, Tom Feelings, Julius Lester, Sharon Bell Mathis, Ossie Davis, Paule Marshall, Lerone Bennett, Mari Evans, George Ford, Virginia Hamilton, Kristin Hunter, Sonia Sanchez, Marcia V. Roebuck-Hoard, Walter Dean Myers, Leo Carty, Lorenz Graham, Brenda Wilkinson, John Oliver Killens, Camille Yarborough, Nikki Giovanni, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Susie Rogers, Green Family, Elizabeth Martinez, Jane Califf, Sonia Nieto, Jan M. Goodman, Doris Seale

Materials Reviewed:

Big Sixteen by Mary Calhoun. Amazon / WorldCat
Circle of Fire by William H. Hooks. Amazon / WorldCat
The Man Who Dropped from the Sky by Kevin Shyne. Amazon / WorldCat
Families by Meredith Tax. Amazon / WorldCat
The Bomb by Sidney Lens. Amazon / WorldCat
My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter. Amazon / WorldCat
Tic Tac Toe an Other Three-in-a-Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer by Claudia Zaslavsky. Amazon / WorldCat
Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky. Amazon / WorldCat
Sonya's Mommy Works by Arlene Alda. Amazon / WorldCat
Piñatas and Paper Flowers/Piñatas y flores de papel: Holidays of the Americas in English and Spanish by Lila Perl. Amazon / WorldCat
Ten Miles High by Felice Buckvar. Amazon / WorldCat
Starting School by Muriel Stanek. Amazon / WorldCat
Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Promote Race, Sex, Class and Age Equity by Nancy Schneidewind and Ellen Davidson. Amazon / WorldCat
American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A reader and Bibliography by Arlene B. Hirschfelder. Amazon / WorldCat
Equal Their Chances: Children's Activities for Non-Sexist Learning by June Shapiro, Sylvia Kramer, and Cathering Hunerberg. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Two Little Confederates by Thomas Nelson Page
Free Joe and the Rest of the World by Joel Chandler Harris
Bobbsey Twins series by Laura Lee Hope
Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margot Zemach
Good, Says Jerome by Lucille Clifton
Black Power USA: The Human Side of Reconstruction by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Reconstruction: The Promise and Betrayal of Democracy by CIBC
Black Reconstruction in America by W. E. B. DuBois
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
The Era of Reconstruction by Kenneth M. Stampp
Image of the Black in Children's Literature by Dorothy Broderick
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
A Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Brainwashing in the High Schools by E. Merrill Root
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Censors and the Schools by Jack Nelson and Gene Roberts, Jr.

Keywords:

Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven, censorship, selection, libraries, John C. Frantz, Judy Krug, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Intellectual Freedom Office, American Library Association (ALA), Ethnic Materials Information Exchange (EMIE), diversity, Black, Native American, Asian American, Spencer Shaw, Lotsee Smith, Suzine Har Nicolescu, American Association of School Librarians, Heritage Foundation, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Al Shanker, critical education, T. H. Bell, Black Experience, racism, sexism, African American, Rayford Logan, Reconstruction, Fourteenth Amendment, Jim Crow, terminology, stereotypes, societal racism, slavery, Sterling Brown, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, civil rights, institutional racism, Center for Social Policy, Dorothy Sterling, colonialism, self-esteem, historical misrepresentation and omission, Little Black Sambo, Eloise Greenfield, anti-Black, depictions, cultural appropriation, Farrar Strass, cultural authenticity, First Amendment, publishing, Henry McNeal Turner, textbooks, Texas Textbook Project, People for the American Way, Freedom to Learn Project, Far Right, Barbara Parker, Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, Texas Civil Liberties Union, Texas Coalition for Excellence in Science Education, National Education Association (NEA), bias, militarism, classism, nuclear war, feminism, gay rights, New Right, Cold War, communist, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Operation Textbook, America's Future, E. Merrill Root, John Birch Society, McCarthyism, Texans for America, fundamentalism, Ralph Bunche, Langston Hughes, J. Frank Dobie, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), Association for American Publishers, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Organization for Women (NOW), reviewers, evaluation criteria, Women's Education; Equity Act (WEEA); Title IX, Leslie Wolfe, Educational Equity Concepts, Teachers' Committee on Central America, Interracial Family Studies Project (IFSP); lesson plans, TABS, Arts Resources for Children and Students Inc (ARTS), American Indian, sexual abuse, Lambda Rising, Radical Teacher, Straight Talk, The Data Center, Oxfam America, Organization of Pan Asian American Women, Caribbean, Jewish, Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment (CEASE)