Volume 16, Issue 5/6. 1985

Themes:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; South Africa; apartheid; prison; non-violence; activism; Civil Rights; white supremacy; critical education; segregation; equity; scientific racism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Beryle Banfield, Dorothy Kuya, Merle Froschl, Barbara Sprung, Howard Dodson, Mokubung Nkomo, Paul Hartmann, May Katzen, Sakumzi Macozoma, Amelia House, Dinah, Dumisani Kumalo, Violet Cherry, Brenda Randolph, William Bigelow, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lyla Hoffman, Christine Jenkins, Jacqueline M. Dean, Emily Strauss Watson, Doris Seale

Materials Reviewed:

Elizabeth Jones: Emergency by Stephanie Gordon Tessler. Amazon / WorldCat
The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America by Margaret Hope Bacon. Amazon / WorldCat
Surrogate Sister by Eve Bunting. Amazon / WorldCat
Barefoot a Thousand Miles by Patsey Gray. Amazon / WorldCat
Show Me No Mercy: A Compelling Story of Remarkable Courage by Robert Perske. Amazon / WorldCat
Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Amazon / WorldCat
Susan B. Anthony by Ilene Cooper. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
I Am David by A. Holm
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick
The Secret Garden by F. H. Burnett
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Hardy Boys Adventures by F. W. Dixon
Famous Five Exploits by Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew by Carolyn C. Keene
Adventure by Willard Price
Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
A History in Black and White by Elizabeth Dean, Paul Hartmann, and May Katzen
History for Standard 10 by C. J. Joubert
Active History, Standard 8 by A. P. J. Van Rensburg, J. Schoeman, and B. J. Vorster
The New Illustrated History, Standard 8 by F. A. Van Jaarsveld
Active History, Standard 9 by A. P. J. Van Rensburg and J. Schoeman
Europe and South Africa, Part 2: A History for Standard 10 by A. N. Boyce
A Dying Colonialism by Franz Fanon
Toward the African Revolution by Franz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon
The Africa Reader by Wilfred Cartey
Whispers of a Continent by Wilfred Cartey
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Lawrence van der Post
Kraal and Castle, Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa by Richard Elphick
The house of Phalo, A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence by J. B. Peires
A New History of South Africa by Neil Parsons
Transformations on the Highveld: The Tswana and Southern Sotho by William Lye and Colin Murray
Moshoeshoe, Founder of a Nation by Neville Grant
Southern Africa since 1800 by Donald Denoon
The Reluctant Rebellion by Shula Marks
From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964 by Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter, eds.
No. 46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein
To Honor Women's Day by International Defence and Aid Fund
The Sun Will rise: Statements from the Dock by Southern African Political Prisoners by Mary Benson, ed.
For their Triumphs and for Their Tears: Women in Apartheid South Africa by Hilda Bernstein
Man of Christian Action, Canon John Collins, the Man and His work by Ian Henderson, ed.
117 Days by Ruth First
Torture in South Africa by Catholic Institute for International Relations
Unity in Action, a Photographic History of the ANC, South Africa 1912-1982 by African National Congress
Women and resistance in South Africa by Cheryl Walker
Crying in the Wilderness by Desmond Tutu
Hope and Suffering by Desmond Tutu
Let My People Go by Albert Luthuli

Keywords:

Affirmata, National Committee on Racism in Children's Books, Bradford Chambers, Educational Equity Concepts Inc., Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, South Africa, apartheid, police, prison, P.W. Botha, Allan Boesak, United Democratic Front, non-violence, activism, Nelson Mandela, boycott, Black, Civil Rights, personal accounts, Soweto, students, white supremacy, critical education, Hendrik Verwoerd, segregation, equity, South African Information Service, propaganda, Asian, Bantu Education Act, Philip Tobias, Communist Party, South African Students Organization (SASO), consciousness-raising, Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Azanian Student Organization (AZASO); technical school, white supremacy, "Coloured", Eric Ashby, authoritarianism, textbooks, democracy, Centre for Mass Communication Research of the University of Leicester, UNESCO, content analysis, Afrikaner, ethnocentrism, nationalism, African National Congress, scientific racism, Boer, Xhosa, Khoi, pass laws, Andree-Jeanne Totemeyer, slavery, historical misrepresentation and omission, China, forced removal, libraries, librarians, censorship, research, AV, materials selection, Makweng, Transvaal Provincial Library Service, book banning, Dennis Brutus, Lewis Nkosi, Peter Abraham, Alex La Guma, Bloke Modisane, Es'kia Mphahlele, Richard Rive, W. E. B. DuBois, Shirley Graham DuBois, Lorenz Graham, Langston Hughes, Kristin Hunter, Ann Petry, Alice Walker, Frantz Fanon, Wilfred Cartey, Kwame Nkrumah, C. L. R. James, Mother Tongue Instruction, Dutch Reformed Church, Students Christian Movement (SCM), South African Student Organization (SASO), South African Student Movement (SASM), South African Council of Churches, Population Registration Act, Enid Blyton, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Rudyard Kipling, Dickens, Shakespeare, bilingual, Alistair McLean, Mary Stewart, Ian Fleming, Xhosa, ubuntu, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Albert Luthuli, Alan Paton, Wole Soyinka, Olive Schreiner, Zululand, Sharpeville Massacre, Indian, resistance, Neil Aggett, Allan Boesak, Canon John Collins, Yusef Dadoo, Ruth First, Abram Fischer, Mohandas Ghandi, Jane Gool, Albert Luthuli, Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, Fatima Meer, Govan Mbeki, Bertha Mkhize, Florence Mkhize, James S. Moroka, Zephania Mothopeng, Beyers Naude, Duma Nokwe, Dorothy Nyembe, John Phillip, Albertina Sisulu, Walter Sisulu, Joe slovo, Robert Sobukwe, Andreas Stockenstrom the younger, Oliver Tambo, Nimrod Boyce Tantsi, Joseph Tlhoe, Desmond Tutu, Alfred Bitini Zuma, Doman, Makhanda, slavery, Moshoeshoe, Bambatha, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, Clements Kadalie, Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, Steve Biko, Helen Joseph, Winnie Mandela, false superiority - white, repression, Human Awareness Programme, Black Parents' Association, Concerned Citizens' Action Committee, Cradock Residents Association, Detainees' Parents Support Committee, Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organization, Soweto Civic Association, Association for Rural Development, Black Sash, Health Care Trust, Human Awareness Programme, South African Institute of Race-Relations, South African Indian Congress, United Democratic Front (UDF), Catholic Conference of Bishops, South African Council of Churches, National Union of South African Students, genocide, Native Land Act of 1913, white savior, Black Consciousness, IBM, Ford, myth of Black inferiority