Volume 15, Issue 5. 1984

Themes:

social justice; militarism; racism; sexism; colonialism; feminism; people of color; historical misrepresentation and omission; bias; classism; activism; civil rights; Native Americans; tokenism; censorship; oppression

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Ruth Charnes, Margot Allen, Beryle Banfield, Patricia B. Campbell, Nina E. Yahr, Doris Seale, Lyla Hoffman, Jan M. Goodman, Geraldine L. Wilson, Caryl Drescher, W. Keith McCoy, Susan L. Wizowaty, Emily Strauss Watson, Caryl-Robin Drescher, Leonore Gordon, Emily Strauss Watson

Materials Reviewed:

A Season of Secrets by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali. Amazon / WorldCat
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz. Amazon / WorldCat
Northern Fried Chicken by Roni Schotter. Amazon / WorldCat
Strike! by Barbara Corcoran. Amazon / WorldCat
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton. Amazon / WorldCat
Under the Shadow by Anne Knowles. Amazon / WorldCat
History of Women for Children by Vivian Sheldon Epstein. Amazon / WorldCat
Danny by Margaret Sturgis. Amazon / WorldCat
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind by Athena V. Lord. Amazon / WorldCat
Making Room for Uncle Joe by Ada B. Litchfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Anna Joins In by Katrin Arnold. Amazon / WorldCat
Daddy's Girl by J.D. Landis. Amazon / WorldCat
Someone Special, Just Like You by Tricia Brown. Amazon / WorldCat
The Tempering by Gloria Skurzynski. Amazon / WorldCat
Voyage by Adele Geras. Amazon / WorldCat
A-B-C-ing: An Action Alphabet by Janet Beller. Amazon / WorldCat
Watermelons Not War! A Support Book for Parenting in the Nuclear Age by Kate Cloud, Ellie Deegan, et al. Amazon / WorldCat
No Turning Back: Lesbian and Gay Liberation for the '80's by Gere Goodman, George Lakey, Judy Lashof, and Erika Thorne. Amazon / WorldCat
Now Read On: Recommended Fiction for Young People by Bob Dixon. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Peace or War, The American Struggle by Merle Curti
America Revised by Frances FitzGerald
The Americans by Robert S. Bednarz
History of the United States by Daniel Boostin et al.
History of a Free People by Henry W. Bragdon et al.
Our History by Joann Cangemi
Rise of the American Nation by Merle Curti and Lewis Paul Todd
This Great Nation by Henry F. Graff
History of the U. S. by Norman Risjord and Jarry L. Haywood
The New Exploring American History by Melvin Schwartz and John O'Connor
The American Dream by Lew Smith
The Challenges of Freedom by Robert Sobel et al.
A People and a Nation by Clarence Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter
This is American's Story by Howard Wilder et al.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Merchant of Venice, Black and White Mixed Marriages by Ernest Porterfield
Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield
In the Sky Over Nagasaki by Nagasaki Prefecture Hibakusha Teachers Association
Resources for Affirmative Action by Joan Bartczak Cannon and Ed Smith

Keywords:

textbooks, social justice, militarism, racism, sexism, colonialism, Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, T. H. Bell, feminism, people of color, historical misrepresentation and omission, Madelon Bedell, History Project on Social Justice and U.S. History Textbooks, Howard Dodson, Institute for the Black World, bias, democracy, William Safire, terminology, classism, Native American, Black, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Asian American, Eurocentrism, content analysis, women's history, activism, protest, Gray Panthers, civil rights, nuclear freeze movement, Jacques Barzun, immigration, Iroquois Confederation, multicultural, Iroquois, Delaware, Narragansett, Pequot, Mahican, Catawbas, Tuscarora, Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Ibo, Mandingo, Fula, Yoruba, Ashanti, slavery, Middle Passage, Pocahontas, Sacajawea, Farmers Alliance, Daniel Shays, American Revolution, Vietnam War, depictions, nationalism, Huck Finn, tokenism, personal accounts, censorship, oppression, people of color, racial slurs, Jane Madsen, research, Sterling A. Brown, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, discrimination, institutional racism, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); Ida Belle Minnie, NAACP, K. Leroy Irvis, Virginius Thornton, Conference on American Comedy, Fredrick Woodard, Roy L. Austin, James Stewart, Children of Interracial Families, self-esteem, Larry Glasco, anti-miscegenation laws, Ernest Porterfield, Alvin Poussaint, Joyce Ladner, interracial, biracial, Asian, Hispanic, assimilation, Brazilian, Cuban, computers, technology, software, video games, Honey Productions, Helaine Victoria Press, women's history, librarians, nuclear war, Parents and Teachers for Social Responsibility (PTSR); The Disability Rag, SourceNet, sports, Modern Talking Pictures, New Song Library, Traprock Peace Center, Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (CCHW); equity, reproductive rights