Volume 16, Issue 4. 1985

Themes:

Friendship; sexism; stereotypes; racism; classism; socio-economic status (SES); discrimination; inequality; historical misrepresentation and omission

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Leonore Gordon, Geraldine L. Wilson, Patricia Barthalow Koch, Jessie Wenning, Valerie Ooka Pang, Lyla Hoffman, Betty Bacon, Emily Strauss Watson, Doris Seale, Kipp Watson, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, Marilyn M. Smith, Ward L. Kaiser

Materials Reviewed:

Night Markets: Bringing Food to the City by Joshua Horwitz. Amazon / WorldCat
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. Amazon / WorldCat
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers by Milton Meltzer. Amazon / WorldCat
A Little Love by Virginia Hamilton. Amazon / WorldCat
I'm Not Your Other Half by Caroline B. Cooney. Amazon / WorldCat
Callie's Way by Ruth Wallace-Brodeur. Amazon / WorldCat
The Handy Girls Can Fix It! by Peggy Kahn. Amazon / WorldCat
Downwind by Louise Moeri. Amazon / WorldCat
The Promise of Moonstone by Pat Engebrecht. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Working by Studs Terkel
Saturday's Child: 36 Women Talk About Their Jobs by Suzanne Seed
An Early Childhood Curriculum for Teaching About Work by Jessie Wenning and Sheli Wortis
Airport by Byron Barton
The Brown Spices ABC Coloring Book
Department Store by Gail Gibbons
Fire! Fire by Gail Gibbons
New road by Gail Gibbons
Don't You Remember by Lucille Clifton
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings
My Mommy Makes Money by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
My Special Best words by John Steptoe
My Street's a Morning Cool Street by Ianthe Thomas
Saturday Night is Papa Night by Ruth A. Sonneborn
Stevie by John Steptoe
Willie Blows a Mean Horn by Ianthe Thomas
Word is Out by Nancy Adair and Casey Adair
A Way of Love, A Way of Life by Frances Hanckel and John Cunningham

Keywords:

YWCA, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC); Friendship Press, work, sexism, stereotypes, racism, classism, Hispanic, Black, socio-economic status (SES), lesson plans, graffiti, discrimination, Langston Hughes, rage, people of color, disability, gay, income inequality, Whitney Museum, Duane Hanson, mass media, oral history, status, historical misrepresentation and omission, Protestant Work Ethic, Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, WASPs, African American, Latino, librarians, reflection, self-esteem, technology, computers, TABS, book lists, bibliographies, The Muse, depictions, conservative, Asian American, African American, violence, anti-Semitism, homosexual, lesbian, disability, films, Mask, Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliot, Rocky Dennis, The Center for Women's Studies, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)