Volume 15, Issue 1/2. 1984

Themes:

minstrelsy; blackface; censorship; racism; historical misrepresentation and omission; stereotyping; injustice; racial slurs; anti-racism; critical education

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Frederick Woodard, Donnarae MacCann, Albert V. Schwartz, Madelon Bedell, Geraldine L. Wilson, John O. Killens, Margaret Allen, Lucille Clifton, Tom Feelings, Arlene Harris Mitchell, Walter Dean Myers, Allen B. Ballard, Dorothy Gilliam, Sonia Sanchez, Mari Evans, Carolynne Bethka, Lyla Hoffman, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Geraldine L. Wilson, Betsy Gimbel, Susan L. Wizowaty, Allen B. Ballard, Dorothy Gilliam, Sonia Sanchez, Mari Evans, Carolynne Bethka, Lyla Hoffman, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Geraldine L. Wilson, Betsy Gimbel, Susan L. Wizowaty

Materials Reviewed:

The Teenage Hospital Experience: You Can Handle It! by Elizabeth Richter. Amazon / WorldCat
Friends and Neighbors by Howard Goldsmith. Amazon / WorldCat
The Scared One by Dennis Haseley. Amazon / WorldCat
Kio and Gus by Matthew Lipman. Amazon / WorldCat
Hush, Puppies by Barbara Mitchell. Amazon / WorldCat
On with My Life by Patti Trull. Amazon / WorldCat
Star Boy by Paul Goble. Amazon / WorldCat
The Once in a While Hero by C.S. Adler. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Children and Books by Zena Sutherland, Dianne L. Monson, and May Hill Arbuthnot
Children's Literature in Elementary School by Charlotte Huck
Children and Their Literature by Constantine Georgiou
Children Experience Literature by Bernard J. Lonsdale and Helen K. Mackintosh
Literature for Today's Young Adults by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen
Books and the Teen-Age Reader: A Guide for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents by Robert Carlsen
Cliffs Notes
Monarch Notes
Black Theater in America by James Hoskins
The Selected Letters of Mark Twain by Charles Neider
The Grotesque Essence: Plays from the American Minstrel Stage by Gary Engle
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events by Mark Twain
Tambo and Bones: A History of the American Minstrel Stage by Carle Wittke
Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit by Paul Fatout
Mark Twain and His World by Justin Kaplan
The Selected Letters of Mark Twain by Charles Neider, ed.
The Complete Minstrel Guide by William Courtright
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer by Henry Nash Smith
The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Including Chapters Now Published for the First Time by Charles Neider, ed.
Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor by James M. Cox
Mark Twain and the South by Arthur G. Petit
My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
Mark Twain and the Three R's: Race, Religion, Revolution - and Related Matters by Maxwell Geismar, ed.
Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. by Anne Lyon Haight and Chandler B. Grannis

Keywords:

minstrelsy, blackface, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, censorship, racism, historical misrepresentation and omission, stereotyping, injustice, Black, racial slurs, Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), American Library Association (ALA), sensitivity training, First Amendment, fundamentalists, right-wing, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Beverly Cole, anti-racism, critical education, humanism, Virginia Minstrels, Alan Green, African American, Carl Wittke, "Jim Crow" Rice, white savior, William Dean Howells, slavery, Civil War, Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, white supremacy, misogyny, sexism, Gloria Steinem, Kate Millet, African, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Eurocentrism, social justice, depictions, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Frederick Douglass, lesson plans, Marie Ariel, index