Volume 15, Issue 7/8. 1984

Themes:

South Africa; historical misrepresentation and omission; bias; racism; apartheid; racial containment; segregation; white supremacy; civil rights; independence struggle; poverty; racial slurs; myth of Black inferiority

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Brenda Randolph-Robinson, Jo Sullivan, Mbye Cham, Adwoa Dunn, Robert Edgar, Nana Seshibe, Katherine Thuermer, Louise Crane, Ellen Kornegay, Bernard Magubane, Joseph Jordan, Bheki Langa, Mary Mubi, Themba Vilakazi, Marylee Crofts, Mokubung Nkomo, Geraldine L. Wilson, Carolynne Bethka, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Emily Strauss Watson, W. Keith McCoy, Christine Jenkins, Lyla Hoffman, April Robbins, Angela Gilliam, Beryle Banfield

Materials Reviewed:

The Jafta Series by Hugh Lewin. Amazon / WorldCat
An Uncommon Gift by James S. Evans. Amazon / WorldCat
Kachinas: Color and Cut-Out Collection by Julie West Staheli. Amazon / WorldCat
O Wakaga: Activities for Learning about the Plains Indians by Linda Skinner Brewer. Amazon / WorldCat
Daybreak Star Preschool Activities Book by Sharon Patacsil and Colleen Neal. Amazon / WorldCat
The Mamook Book: Activities for Learning about the Northwest Coast Indians by Sharon Matters, Linda Skinner, and Terry Tafoya. Amazon / WorldCat
The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith. Amazon / WorldCat
Copycat Sam: Developing Ties with a Special Child by Alfred T. Stefanik. Amazon / WorldCat
Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers. Amazon / WorldCat
The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees. Amazon / WorldCat
I Will Be a Doctor!: The Story of America's First Woman Physician by Dorothy Clarke Wilson. Amazon / WorldCat
Music, Music for Everyone by Vera B. Williams. Amazon / WorldCat
Angel Face by Norma Klein. Amazon / WorldCat
Here's Looking at You, Kid by Jane Breskin Zalben. Amazon / WorldCat
Three Friends by Myron Levoy. Amazon / WorldCat
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by Vincent Harding. Amazon / WorldCat
Understanding the Multicultural Experience in Early Childhood Education by Olivia Saracho and Bernard Spodek, eds. Amazon / WorldCat
Poverty in the American Dream: Women and Children First by Karin Stallard, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Holly Sklar. Amazon / WorldCat
The Slave Narrative: Its Place in American History by Marion Wilson Starling. Amazon / WorldCat
Diversity in the Classroom: A Multicultural Approach to the Education of Young Children by Frances E. Kendall. Amazon / WorldCat
How to Tape Instant Oral Biographies by William Zimmerman. Amazon / WorldCat
Women in the Global Factory by Annette Fuentes and Barbara Ehrenreich. Amazon / WorldCat
Women in Development: A Resource Guide for Organization and Action by ISIS Women's International Communication Service. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Africa in U.S. Educational Materials, Thirty Problems and Responses by Susan Hall
Basic Facts on the Republic of South Africa and the Policy of Apartheid by Julian Friedman
House of Bondage by Ernest Cole
South Africa by Peter Magubane
Black Child by Peter Magubane
The Politics of History in South Africa by Bernard Magubane
Black Leaders in Southern African History by Christopher Saunders, ed.
The Sun Will Rise, Statements from the Dock by Southern African Political Prisoners by Mary Benson, ed.
If You Want to Know Me by Peggy Halsey et al.
To Honour Women's Day by International Defence and Aid Fund
Divide and Rule, South Africa's Bantustans by Barbara Rogers
Antidevelopment, South Africa and Its Bantustans by Donald Moerdijk
Forbidden Pastures, Education Under Apartheid by Freda Troup
Bank Loans to South Africa 1979 - Mid-1982 by Beate Klein
Facelift Apartheid, South Africa After Soweto by Judy Seidman
Africa by Milton Belasco and Harold Hammond
People, Places, and Change by Leonard Berry and Richard B. Ford
Africa, South of the Sahara by James Clark
The World and Its People - Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia by Kenneth Cooper
Land and People, A World Geography by Gerald Danzer and Albert Larsen
The World by Grace Dawson et al.
People on Earth by Dorothy Drummond and Robert Drummond
The Eastern Hemisphere by Harold Drummond and James Hughes
World Neighbors by Loyal Durand and Hubert J. Anderson
World Geography by Educational Challenges Inc.
World Geography by Herbert Gross
World Geography Today by Saul Israel et al.
People and Our World by Allan Knownslar and Terry Smart
Our World and Its People by Edward Kolevzon and John Heine
The World by Leonard Martelli et al.
A Global History by Leften Stavrianos et al.
History and Life by T. Walter Wallbank et al.
Exploring Our World - Eastern Hemisphere by Ralph Sandlin Yohe et al.
The Statesman's Yearbook
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Information Please
Reader's Digest 1983 Almanac and Yearbook
The Countries of the World and Their Leaders 1983
Ba Ye Zwa, The People Live by Judy Seidman
The Bantu Civilization of Southern Africa by E. Jefferson Murphy
Behind the Back of the Mountain by Verna Aardema
Black as I Am by Zindzi Mandela and Peter Magubane
Cry, The Beloved Country: A Verse Drama by Felicia Komai
Indaba: Let's Talk by Stephen Bruton et al.
Down Second Avenue by Ezekiel Mphahlele
Getting to Know South Africa by Leonard Ingalls
Go Well, Stay Well by Toeckey Jones
A History of Southern Africa by N.E. Davis
I Saw You From Afar: A Visit to the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert by Carol Morse Perkins and Marlin Perkins
If You Want to Know Me: Reflections of Life in Southern Africa by Peggy L. Halsey, Gail Morland, and Melba Smith
In the Fog of the Season's End by Alex La Guma
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Kung of the Kalahari by Walter Bateman
The Land and People of South Africa by Alan Paton
The Lazy Little Zulu Boy by James Holding
Let My People Go by Albert Luthuli
Let's Visit South Africa by Bernard Newman and John C. Caldwell
Maru by Bessie Head
Meet South Africa by Jon Gunther, Sam Epstein and Beryl Epstein
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams
A New History of Southern Africa by Neil Parsons
The Search for the Little Yellow Men by Macdonald Hastings
Secret of the Tiger's Eye by Phyllis Whitney
Shaka, King of the Zulus by Daniel Cohen
South Africa: Coming of Age Under Apartheid by Jason Laure and Ettagale Laure
South African Statesman, Jan Christiaan Smuts by Joan Joseph
Southern Africa by Robert Clayton
Southern Africa by Harry Stein
Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana by Rhoda Blumberg
Southern Africa: The Critical Land by Clarke Newlon
Tales from the Troubled Land by Alan Paton
Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa by Peter Abrahams
Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters by Reba Mirsky
A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
With Livingston in South Africa by George More
The Young Masters by Alan Scholefield
The Zulu of South Africa by Sonia Bleeker
Apartheid: The Facts by International Defence and Aid Fund
Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa by Millard Arnold
Automating Apartheid: U.S. Computer Exports to South Africa and the Arms Embargo by NARMIC
Honorary White by Edward Braithwaite
Children under Apartheid by IDAF and United Nations Center Against Apartheid
Apartheid: Power and Historical Falsification by Marianne Cornevin
Economic Disengagement and South Africa: The Effectiveness and Feasibility of Implementing Sanctions and Divestment by Jennifer Davis
Poets to the People, South African Freedom Poems. by Barry Feinberg, ed.
117 Days by Ruth First
Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology by Gail Gerhart
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Apartheid by Alex La Guma
South Africa: Foreign Investment and Apartheid by Lawrence Litvak
The Politics of History in South Africa by Bernard Magubane
No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Island in Chains: Ten Years on Robben Island by Indres Naidoo
Namibia: The Facts by IDAF
Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele
Ushaba, The Hurtle to Blood River by Jordan Ngubane
Apartheid, the Real Hurdle: Sport in South Africa and the International Boycott by IDAF
Divide and Rule, South Africa's Bantustans by IDAF
Black Leaders in Southern African History by Christopher Saunders
Decoding Corporate Camouflage by Elizabeth Schmidt
A Window in Soweto by Joyce Sikakane
South Africa's Nuclear Capability by Dan Smith
South Africa: Time Running Out by Study Commission on U.S. Policy toward Southern Africa
Muriel at Metropolitan by Miriam Thali
Forbidden Pastures by Freda Troup
Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cheryl Walker
Women Under Apartheid by IDAF

Keywords:

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