Volume 16, Issue 1. 1985

Themes:

Civil Rights; bias; stereotypes; racism; whiteness in publishing; sexism; handicapism; ageism; homophobia; militarism; classism; interlocking oppressions

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Beryle Banfield, E. J. Josey, Charles T. Williams, Ward L. Kaiser, Estelle T. Hazelwood, Karen Plattes, Emily Strauss Watson, Albert V. Schwartz, Naomi Schott, Doris Seale, Leonore Gordon, Betty Bacon

Materials Reviewed:

The Quilt by Ann Jonas. Amazon / WorldCat
I Can -- Can You? by Peggy Parish. Amazon / WorldCat
Circle of Giving by Ellen Howard. Amazon / WorldCat
Prank by Kathryn Lasky. Amazon / WorldCat
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty. Amazon / WorldCat
Buffalo Woman by Paul Goble. Amazon / WorldCat
My Mommy Makes Money by Joyce Mitchell. Amazon / WorldCat
Nobody's Baby Now by Carol Lea Benjamin. Amazon / WorldCat
Grace by Liesel Moak Skorpen. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Night by Elie Wiesel
Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoess
By Cheyenne Campires by George Bird Grinnell
The Friendly Wolf by Paul Goble
As We Were by May Sarton

Keywords:

Civil Rights, bias, stereotypes, racism, publishing - whiteness, anti-humanism, sexism, handicapism, ageism, homophobia, militarism, classism, textbooks, Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, publishing, sensitivity training, activism, librarians, AV, anti-racist, anti-sexist, colonialism, equity, interlocking oppressions, Ruth Charnes, Kate Shackford, American Library Association (ALA); social justice, National Education Association (NEA); maps, U.S.S.R., Brazil, Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Peters Projection World Map, Mercator's Projection, India, Scandinavia, depictions, ethnocentrism, Nicolas Sanson, John Henry Lambert, John Paul Goode, Arno Peters, Buckminster Fuller, United Nations, World Council of Churches, Vatican, Lutheran Church, Coordination and Development Inc. (CODEL), General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATTS), Brandt Commission, Vernon Mulchany, cultural imperialism, index, subscription fee increase, Bradford Chambers