Volume 14, Issue 6. 1983

Themes:

censorship; racism; sexism; stereotypes; people of color; disabilities; one-parent families; comic books; patriarchy; white supremacy; gender; sex-roles; Korean War; Vietnam War

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Sanford Berman, Gwyneth Britton, Margaret Lumpkin, Leonard Rifas, Jim McGinnis and Kathy McGinnis, Lyla Hoffman, Caryl Drescher, Ruth Charnes, Elizabeth Martinez, Gloria Kumagai, Nina E. Yahr, Albert V. Schwartz, Leonore Gordon, Geraldine L. Wilson, Doris Seale, Kipp Watson

Materials Reviewed:

The Do-Something Day by Joe Lasker. Amazon / WorldCat
Angie and Me by Rebecca C. Jones. Amazon / WorldCat
The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1650-1950 by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
So What? by Miriam Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis. Amazon / WorldCat
What If They Knew? by Patricia Hermes. Amazon / WorldCat
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff. Amazon / WorldCat
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams. Amazon / WorldCat
Something Special for Me by Vera B. Williams. Amazon / WorldCat
The Best Way Out by K. Follis Cheatham. Amazon / WorldCat
My Friend Has Four Parents by Margaret O. Hyde. Amazon / WorldCat
Tomahawks and Trombones by Barbara Mitchell. Amazon / WorldCat
Last One Chosen by Dorothy Hamilton. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Dick and Jane as Victims by Women on Words and Images
The Silent Language by Edward Hall
Jungle War Stories comic book
Guerilla Warfare comic book
Tales of the Green Berets comic book
Todd Holt Super Green Beret comic book
G. I. Joe comic book series
Bread and Justice: Toward a New International Economic Order by Jim McGinnis
Christian Parenting for Peace and Justice by Board of Discipleship
Education for Peace and Justice by Institute for Peace and Justice
Educators Acting for Peace by Institute for Peace and Justice
Parenting for Peace and Justice by Kathy McGinnis and Jim McGinnis
Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua and Peru by Institute for Peace and Justice

Keywords:

Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven, First Amendment, American Library Association (ALA), censorship, racism, sexism, Fourteenth Amendment, stereotypes, self-esteem, South Africa, dialogue, people of color, women, disabilities, content analysis, bias, German, Mexican, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, numerical analysis, basal readers, Hartley and Watson, depictions, militarism, one-parent families, comic books, patriarchy, white supremacy, gender, sex-roles, Black, Korean War, Vietnam War, Charlton Comics, D. C. Comics, Geneva Convention, Nazis, Sandinistas, nuclear war, Fidel Castro, Native American, historical misrepresentation and omission, Institute for Peace and Justice in St. Louis, Phil Donahue Show, Martin Luther King Jr., Kent State, Jackson State, Cambodia, ROTC, Parenting for Peace and Justice (PPJ); solidarity; direct service; social change; Ronice Branding; Nestle, boycott, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, Latin American Interfaith Coalition, Clergy and Laity Concerned, United Farm Workers, Center for Concern, Cornerstone, Eighth Day Center for Justice, Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace, Mennonite Central Committee, Peacemaking Project of United Presbyterian Church, Riverside Church Disarmament Program, United Church of Christ, Dorothy Solomon, Hispanic, multicultural, Joanne Koziatek, Bill Pierce, Susan Leet, affirmative action, Parenting for Peace and Justice Network (PPJN), El Salvador, Central America, National Labor Committee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador, National Education Association (NEA), Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Association Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos (ANDES), unions, assassinations, Honduras, Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade, Richard Gaugert, TABS, Women's Information Exchange, SEICUS, Third World, mass media, Action for Children's Television (ACT), Progressive Education, M. Gentle Men for Gender Justice, Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT) Feminist Task Force, Women in Libraries, Public Affairs Committee, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), Women Library Workers, Pediatrics for Parents