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  • Volume 1, Issue 1. 1966

    Themes:

    integration and books; segregation in publishing; white authors

    Materials Reviewed:

    Jazz Country by Nat Hentoff
    North Town by Lorenz Graham
    South Town by Thomas Y. Crowell
    Little Runner of the Long House by Betty Baker, ill. Arnold Lobel
    Two is a Team by Lorraine Beim, ill. Ernest Crichlow
    The Case of the Cat's Meow / The Case of the Hungry Stranger by Crosby Bonsall
    What Mary Jo Shared by Janice May Udry, ill. Eleanor Mill
    The Snowy Day / Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

  • Volume 1, Issue 2/3. 1967

    Themes:

    integration and books; historical misrepresentation and suppression

  • Volume 2, Issue 1/2. 1968

    Themes:

    terminology; civil rights; historical misrepresentation and suppression

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Isabelle Suhl, Nancy Larrick, Franklin Folsom, Philip Sterling

    Keywords:

    Walter Myers, Kristin Hunter, IBCB awards, poetry, terminology ("Negro", "Black Man", "Afram"), civil rights, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Nancy Bloch Memorial Award, student division

  • Volume 2, Issue 4. 1970

    Themes:

    Chicano movement; white supremacy; Mexican Americans; stereotypes; Acclaimed Interracial Books of 1969

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Byron Williams, Prof. LaLange Bown, David Cohen, Clara Jackson

    Keywords:

    international, Chicano movement, Africa, racial and ethnic book lists, Sharon Bell Mathis, Margot S. Webb, Virginia Cox, Rev. James Streeter, Rosa Guy, Tom Feelings, white supremacy, Emiliano Zapata, Mexican American, stereotypes, Nat Turner, Acclaimed Interracial Books of 1969 (these titles are not included in materials highlighted section for this issue), Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Black professional - absence, Puerto Rican professional - absence, white authors, Alaska reader, Indians,

  • Volume 3, Issue 1. 1970

    Themes:

    Black experience; NAACP book list (books for children: Black and White); storytellers; minority publishing; minority printing; white supremacy; Mexican American stereotypes; Chicano movement; historical misrepresentation and suppression; Black poets and writers

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Rae Alexander, Arnold Hinton (photos), Albert V. Schwartz

    Materials Reviewed:

    Sounder by William H. Armstrong

    Keywords:

    Black experience, self-esteem, NAACP book list (books for children: Black and White), selection criteria (book list), Shirley Graham Du Bois, storytellers, community action program, library, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Leo Carty, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Don Robertson, George Wilson, Joyce Carty, Muriel Feelings, Nikki Giovanni, Jeannene Gosey, Miguel Ortiz, Dorothy Robertson, Margueritta Rouette, Frances Wilson, Pura Belpre, Peri Thomas, Harriett Brown, minority recruitment - publishing, minority publishing,minority printing, Sharon Bell Mathis, Leo Carty, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Virginia Cox, Margot S. Webb, book lists, information clearing house, white supremacy, Chicano publishing, El Barrio Publishing Co., Eskimo, teaching in own language, Black publishing, Buckingham Learning, Emerson Hall, The Third Press, Oswald White, Drum and Spear, Alfred Prettyman, New Dimensions, Joseph Okpaku, Mexican American stereotypes, Chicano movement, Eleanor Fogelson, Virginia Rice, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, hi-lo, South, Black poets and writers, Galen Williams, material support- publishing

  • Volume 3, Issue 2/3. 1971

    Themes:

    Mexican stereotypes in advertising; minority publishing; women's liberation movement; Children's Booklist for Small Public Libraries; racism and sexism in publishing

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Lois Kalb Bouchard, Albert V. Schwartz, Chris Acemandese Hall

    Materials Reviewed:

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
    Little Zeng Takes Us to Ancient Africa by Robert Harris and Chris Acemandese Hall

    Keywords:

    Publisher's Weekly, Hoyt W. Fuller, Alfred E. Prettyman, Joseph Okpaku, Donald Holder, material support- publishing, institutional racism, representation, Edward E. Booher, Roberty J. R. Follett, Rupert Costo, Indian Historian Press, Okechukwu Mezu, Black Academy Press, library, Henry Raymont, Gerald Frasier, advertising - Mexican stereotypes, imperialism, Chicano, Shirley Graham Du Bois, material support - publishing, minority publishing, Association of American Publishers, "Little Black Sambo", Social Responsibilities Round Table, Alternative Press Index, Alternative in Print, women's liberation movement, National Information Network on Latin America, booklists, selection procedure, Children's Booklist for Small Public Libraries, Frances Clarke Sayers, Anne Carol Moore, Let's Read Together, Cuba, War Resisters League, Minority Publishing Development and Insurance Fund, Roger Smith, Brad Chambers, Ron Hobbs, Charles Harris, Carter Smith, publishing - sexism, publishing - racism, Negro Digest, Black World Magazine, Journal of African Literature and the Arts, National Mexican American Anti-Defamation Committee, Inc., Council to Advance and restore the Image of the Spanish-Speaking and Mexican American (CARISSA), Involvement of Mexican Americans in Gainful Endeavors (IMAGE), Justicia, Midwest Chicano Mass Media Committee, frito bandito, Emiliano Zapata, Puerto Rico, Grupo Proyecto, Afro-Arts, Phil Petri, copyright, Schomberg Collection, New York Public Library, Afro-Am Publishing Co, Barrio Press, Black Academy Press, Black Star Publishers, Broadside Press, Buckingham Learning Corp. Drum and Spear Press, Edward W. Blyden Press, Emerson Hall Publishers Inc., Indian Historian Press, MICTLE Publications, New Dimensions Publishing Co., Third Press, Third World Press, Kuntu Dzigns, Black Standard Publishing,

  • Volume 3, Issue 4. 1971

    Themes:

    historical misrepresentation and suppression; minority publishers; Native Americans, imperialism; cultural discrimination

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Ray Anthony Shepard, Kerstin Stjarne, Albert V. Schwartz

    Materials Reviewed:

    Chronicles of American Indian Protest by The Council on Interracial Books for Children
    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
    Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
    A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
    Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats
    Hi Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats
    Apt. 3 by Ezra Jack Keats
    Stevie by John Steptoe
    Uptown by John Steptoe
    Train Ride by John Steptoe
    The Cay by Theodore Taylor

    Keywords:

    textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, white authors, Publisher's Weekly, liberation struggles, Loretta Barrett, Cheryl Chisholm, Stan Steiner National Indian Short Story Awards, George Ford, Spanish, Coretta Scott King Award, theater, stereotypes, Rosa Lee Nash, Association of American Publishers, minority publishers, Minority Publishers' Committee, Congressional Black Caucus, Black Writers' Workshop, Anne Crittendon, Alfred E. Prettyman, Charles A. Wesley, racism, ad hoc committee on Minority Publishing, publisher loans, Association of Negro Life, Associated Publishers, Carter G. Woodson, Rayford Logan, Joseph Okpaku, Third Press, Inc., Cortland Cox, Drum and Spear Press, Black publishers, Jeannette Henry, Indian Historian Press, Native Americans, imperialism, Puerto Rico, textbooks, Grupo Proyecto, cultural discrimination, Little Black Sambo, Scandinavia, book lists, bilingual education, Black language, Children's Art Workshop, mass media, Caldecott Award,

  • Volume 4, Issue 1 / 2. 1972

    Themes:

    The Status of Puerto Rico; racism; sexism; colonialism; class; self-identity; assimilation; self-esteem; exploitation

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Piri Thomas, Diana Caballero, The Children's Art Collective, Irma Garcia, Jose Garcia, Latin American Students Organization (LASO), Emanuel Crespo, Edith Davila, Charles DeLeon, Arlene Riviera, Jose Santiago, Alan West, Miguel Ortiz, Dolores Prida, Carmen Puigdollers, Brad Chambers, Nessa Darren, Henry Gordillo, Constance Gruen, Susan Ribner, Virginia Rice, Al Schwartz, Lillian Smith, Ralph Tavarea, Byron Williams

    Materials Reviewed:

    Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
    Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand by Piri Thomas
    Black Spirits-A Festival of New Black Poets in America
    Papo Got His Gun by Victor Hernandez Cruz
    Snaps by Victor Hernandez Cruz
    Have You Seen Liberation? by Jesus Papoleto Melendez
    Historia de Nuestros Indios by Ricardo E. Alegria
    Descubrimiento, conquista y colonización de Puerto Rico by Ricardo E. Algerio
    Cuentos folklóricos de Puerto Rico by Ricardo E. Alegria
    Pipa-Pemas Infantiles by Virgilio Davilia
    Pedrusquito y sus Amigos by Anibal Diaz Montero
    Nanas
    Ester Feliciano Mendoza)
    Fabian by Luis Nieves Falcon, Poemas y Colores
    What is a Birthday Child by Ruth M. Jaynes
    Dear Uncle Carlos by Seymour Reit
    What Do I Do? by Norma Simon and Joe Lasker
    Carmen by Bill Binzen
    Maria by Joan M. Lexau
    I Am Here / Yo Estoy Aqui by Rose Blue
    Angelita by Wendy Kesselman
    Rosa-Too-Little by Sue Felt
    My House is Your House by Tony Talbot
    Magdalena by Louisa R. Shotwell
    A Present from Rosita by Celeste Edell
    The Spider Plant by Yetta Speevack
    Rosaria by Susan Thaler
    Gang Girl by H. Samuel Fleischman
    The Girl from Puerto Rico by Hila Colman
    Don't Look at Me That Way by Caroline Crane
    The Puerto Rican Woman by Frederico Ribes Tovar

    Keywords:

    Puerto Rico, racism, sexism, colonialism, class, self-identity, assimilation, white savior, resistance, Third World, "The School", Children's Art Workshop, stereotypes, self-image, self-esteem, publishing, Accion Social Inc., Libreria Internacional, silk screening, Sociedad de Autores Puertorriquenas, Isabel Cuchi Coll, Ateneo, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, liberation, New Directions, Research for Urban Education, Pura Belpre, Maria Brau, Antonio Colorado, John Figuera, Pablo Figuero, numerical analysis, Lorenzo Homar, Sam Morales, Bill Negron, "how-to-adjust-to-the-ghetto", exploitation, Taino, Pedro Albizu Campos, Nationalist Movement, Caribs, Spanish conquistadors, slave uprisings, Jones Act, Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico, Editorial Edil, Editorial Cultural, Editorial Cordillera, Editorial Club La Prensa, Ramon Emetrio Betances, Julio Vizcarrondo, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Lola Rodriguez de Tio, Rosendo Matienzo Citron, Pedro Albizu Campos, Mariana Bracetti, Jose de Diego, Young Lords Party, women's movement, Fleischmann Commission, Awilda Orta, Puerto Rican Educators Association (PREA), Spanish, bilingual, Batey Book Distributing Co., Children's Music Center, Inc., Puerto Rican Heritage Publication, Puerto Rican Research and Resource Center, Spanish Book Corporation of America, Trans-Culture Books, The Status of Puerto Rico: Selected Background Studies Prepared for the United States - Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico, asimilistas, separatistas, censorship, United Bronx Parents, Sin Nombre, Asomante, Projecto LEER, Palante

  • Volume 4, Issue 3/4. 1972-1973

    Themes:

    profiles of minority publishers; The ABC's of Racism in Children's Books; stereotypes; anger; institutional racism; Black publishing; kidnapping (American Indians); feminist publishers; sexism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Allan A. Fenty, George Ford, Jorg Becker, Antonia Perez, Miriam Morton

    Materials Reviewed:

    Prejudices and Antipathies by Sanford Berman

    Keywords:

    Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, California, textbooks, China, translation, Foreign Languages Press of Peking, Cultural Revolution, sexism, gender, Guyana, colonialism, Materials Production Unit of the Curriculum Development Center, Tom Feelings, Action Conference and Workshop ("The ABC's of Racism in Children' Books"), Charles G. Hurst, Mary Lou Byler, Luis Nieves Falcon, Betty Lee Sung, Enrique "Hank" Lopez, stereotypes, anger, Sharon Bell Mathis, Florenz Webb-Maxwell, Gloria Fowler Bidson, Beryle Banfield, booklists, selection criteria (book list), institutional racism, Black publishing, kidnapping (American Indians), sterilization, textbook evaluation - university students, political prisoners, frito bandito, Spanish, feminism, feminist publishers, sexism, International Exchange, West Germany, "Gypsies", United Nations' Committee on Decolonization and Dependent Territories, Quinto Sol Publications, Octavio I. Romano. V, El Grito, Vietnam, Black Academy Workshop, Newbery, Caldecott, Franz Boas Workshop for Teachers (1943), Harlem Committee, Brown Berets, Chicano, Mexican American Education Commission, Black Education Commission, Lollipop Power, The Feminist Press,

  • Volume 5, Issue 1 / 2 . 1974

    Themes:

    institutional racism; minority publishing; self-esteem; cultural imperialism; sexism; anti-Semitism; ethnocentrism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    H. M. Zell, Miriam Morton, G. J. A. Murray, Jr., Carla Stevens, KAren Wald,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Adventures of Guguze by Spiridon Vangheli

    Keywords:

    East African Publishing House, African Universities Press / Pilgrim Books, East African Cultural Trust, East African Literature Bureau, Njogu Gitene Publications, National Educational Company of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda Foundation, Tanzania Publishing House, East African Branch of Oxford University Press, Ghana Publishing Corporation, Nwankwo - Ifejika Publishers / Nwamife Publishers), Chinua Achebe, Ethiope Publishing Corporation, Philip Nkwocha, Onibonoje Press, Nigerian Branch of Oxford University Press, Evans Brothers, Heinemann Educational Books, University of London Press, Nelson and Longman's, Cyprian Ekwensi, East Central State Library Board, racism, institutional racism, Race Today, Teachers Against Racism (TAR), Books for Children: The Homelands of Immigrants in Britain, Doctor Dolittle, Little Black Sambo, Black Studies, People Against Racism in Education (PARE), How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System, Bridget Harris, Dorothy Kuya, minority publishing, numerical analysis, U.S.S.R., Soviet Union, bilingual, multilingual, Detskaia Literatura, self-image, self-esteem, Pionerskaya Pravda (Pioneer Truth), Pioneer (Pioneer), Grigorii Khodzer, Nanaian, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia, colonialism, Russification, Lenin, Stalin, whitewash, indigenous, All-Union Writers' Union, Sharaf Rashidov, Kamil Yashin, Turdakun Usubalieva, Syunbai Eraliev, institutional racism, conformist, "Gypsies", Minority Rights Group, concentration camp, stereotype, Bela Toth, In the Last Seat, Jose Marti, Cuba, Eliseo Diego, Conrado Benitez, cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban, Bohemia, El Instituto Cubano del Libro, Gramma, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, International Exchange, Ruben Martinez Villena, sexism, La Vida de mi Patria, People's Republic of China, Shanghai People's Publishing House, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Kirin Provence People's Publishing House, Revolutionary Group of the Metropolitan Publishing House, People's Publishing House of Tibet, China Books and Periodicals, East Wind, Ssu-Shin-Four-New, Avalon Chinese Emporiums, Yenan Books, Lu Hsun, Four Continents Book Corporation, United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, Jewish people, anti-Semitism, Yiddishist, Latin America, Ordfront, Gidlunds, Verdani, India, India Book House Education Trust, Nira Benegal, textbooks, ethnocentrism,

  • Volume 5, Issue 3. 1974

    Themes:

    racism; stereotypes; sexism; critcal literacy; tokenism; consciousness-raising; women's studies; historical misrepresentation and suppression; colonialism; slavery; police brutality; sexist language and non-sexist language

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Janice Law Trecker, Deborah Stead, Roberto Gautier, Linda Mead, Sandy Kavanaugh, Norma Rogers, Elaine Williams

    Materials Reviewed:

    Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
    Friend Monkey by P. L. Travers
    The LIFE History of the United States by magazine series
    Fannie Lou Hamer by June Jordan
    I Am by Sonia Lisker
    Girls Can be Anything by Norma Klein
    I Can Be Anything You Can Be! by Joel Rothman
    Puerto Rico: Island of Contrasts by Geraldo Rivera
    Good, Says Jerome by Lucille Clifton
    Don't You Remember by Lucille Clifton

    Keywords:

    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, racism, revision, New York Public Library, stereotypes, Fang of Gabon, sexism, critical literacy, evaluation, guidelines, white authors, tokenism, self-image, self-esteem, multiracial, feminist, textbooks, consciousness-raising, women's studies, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Sacajawea, Phillis Wheatley, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Laney, Mary Bethune, Fanny Liu Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Pocahontas, Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mariana Bracetti, El Grito de Lares, Lola Rodriguez de Tio, Juana Colon, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells, Mother Jones, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, Carrie Nation, Frances Willard, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA), Mary Gloyne Byler, Indian Affairs, numerical analysis, youth reviewers, "American Indian Authors for Young Readers", colonialism, slavery, South, police brutality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Freedom Farm Cooperative, Association of American Publishers, California Curriculum Commission, sexist language, non-sexist language, Action for Children's Television (ACT), American Indian Media Directory, Appalachian South Folklife Center, Don West, Michele P. robinson, Mildred D. Taylor, Dorothy Tomiye Okamoto, Jack Agueros, Mitzi Tanaka, Fatisha, Beryl Banfield, Mary Gloyne Byler, Kristin Hunter, Ray Anthony Shepard, New York Book Fair, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP), American Library Association (ALA)

  • Volume 5, Issue 4. 1974

    Themes:

    Native Americans; Latinos; Japanese; segregation; Chinese; nationalism; English as a Second Language (ESL); Puerto Rican; African American; Haitian Creole; assimilation; Mexican American Caribbean; discrimination; Cuban; institutional oppression; ethnocentrism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Kik Reeder, Baryel Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, Jane Califf, Vivian C. Gaman, Janice Law Trecker, Roberto Gautier, Susan Ribner, Ray Anthony Shepard, Jose G. Taylor, Jane Califf, Ed Celina Marcus, Nessa Darren

    Materials Reviewed:

    Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
    Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff
    Langston Hughes: American Poet by Alice Walker
    The All-American Coeds by Betsy Madden
    Not Bad for a Girl by Isabella Taves
    An Album of the Puerto Ricans in the United States by Stuart J. Brahs
    Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture by Claudia Zaslavsky
    Lanterns for Fiesta by Suzanne Fulle

    Keywords:

    Geraldine L. Wilson, bilingual, Native American, Latino, Spanish, Mexico, Japanese, Asian, segregation, Chinese, World War I, nationalism, German, English as a Second Language (ESL), Puerto Rican, African American, Haitian Creole, assimilation, Kenji Hakuta, Jim Cummins, transitional, immersion, Mexican American, French, Canada, G. Richard Tucker, Caribbean, discrimination, Latino, Cuban, IQ testing, teacher education, institutional oppression, ethnocentrism, Teachers College, Columbia University, Richmond College, CUNY, Pennsylvania State University, Feminist Resources for Schools and Colleges,

  • Volume 5, Issue 5. 1974

    Themes:

    How to Identify Racism and Sexism in Your Library; Social Change Advocates; racism; sexism; male supremacy; slavery; imperialism; consciousness-raising; literary racism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Barbara A. Schram, Kik Reeder, Binnie Tate, Sharon Bell Mathis, Albert V. Schwartz, Lyla Hoffman, Tanya Joy Cobbs, Roberto Gautier, Elaine Bloom, Ray Anthony Shepard, Armando B. Rendon, Carmen Puigdollers, Celina Marcus, Barbara Walker, Ruth Charnes,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
    The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
    On Our Way: Poems of Pride and Love by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed.
    City ABC's by Michael Deasy
    Hey: Look at Me! A City A. B. C. by Sandy Grant
    Children of Night by Edgar White
    Viva La Raza! by Elizabeth S. Martinez and Enriqueta L. Vasquez
    Puerto Rico En Me Corazon / Puerto Rico in My Heart by Federico Ribes Tovar
    Jambo Means Hello by Muriel Feelings
    The Life and Legend of George McJunkin, Black Cowboy by Frank Folsome
    Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
    Riverlisp by Frederick Ward
    Shawn Goes to School by Petronella Breinberg

    Keywords:

    "How to Identify Racism and Sexism in Your Library", American Library Association (ALA), Al Schwartz, Sharon Bell Mathis, Newbery Award, Jane Galvin Lewis, Social Change Advocates, racism, sexism, Caldecott Award, Task Force, Brad Chambers, Bertha Parker Phillips, Catholic Library World, male supremacist, slavery, imperialism, Emma Hart Willard, Middlebury Female Seminary, Emma Willard Task Force on Education, Kathy Olson, Mary Sornsin, Gerri Perreault, Minnesota State Department of Education Task Force on Sex Bias, consciousness-raising, Minnesota Resource Center for Social Work, Martin Luther King Foundation, bilingual, Black, Puerto Rican, Foundation for Change, Leake and Watts, Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, The Rural Coalition of Mississippi, Interracial Digest, Black Experience, white authors, "literary racism", liberation, Booklegger, The Fourth Street i,

  • Volume 5, Issue 6. 1974

    Themes:

    stereotypes; racism; sexism; liberation struggles; protest; institutional racism; ethnocentrism; multicultural education; prejudice; power; Campaign to Impede Sex Stereotyping in the Young (CISSY); China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide; White Supremacy; consciousness-raising; "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials"

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Barbara A. Schram, Claire Halversom, Eugenia Mauldin, Helen Jackson, Tany Cobbs, Charles Isaacs, Mary Shepard, Gayle High Pine, Barbara Chang Bosch, Sandy Kavanaugh, Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Ray Anthony Shepard, Patricia M. Bidol

    Materials Reviewed:

    African Rhythm, American Dance: A Biography of Katherine Dunham by Terry Harnan
    The Riddle of Racism by S. Carl Hirsch
    Gyo Fujikawa's A to Z Picture Book by Gyo Fujikawa
    Le Lechuza: Cuentos de Mi Barrio by Alonso M. Rerales
    Bright Eyes: The Story of Susete La Flesche, an Omaha Indian by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
    First Snow by Helen Coutant
    Girls Are Equal Too: the Women's Movement for Teenagers by Dale Carlson
    James Weldon Jonhson by Ophelia Settle Egypt
    Adam Clayton Powell: Portrait of a Marching Black by James Haskins

    Keywords:

    stereotypes, dictionary, Ms. Magazine, Ossie Davis, racism, sexism, liberation struggles, protest, Foundation for Change, New Perspectives on Race, institutional racism, Racism Awareness Center for Educators (RACE), ethnocentrism, Gloria Fauth, behavioral change, sensitivity/encounter session, multicultural education, Center for Program Development in Equal Educational Opportunity, National College of Education, prejudice, power, Black author bibliography, West Indies, British Standard, W. I. Standard, Ms. Merle Hodge, Freedomways, Women's History Research Center, American Library Association (ALA), Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Washington Area Free School Clearing house, Boston Educational Research, The Printshop, Literary Guild of India, Laliti Rananaware, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Third World, Britain, Children's Rights Workshop, Campaign to Impede Sex Stereotyping in the Young (CISSY), London Women's Education Collective, Exeter Children's Fiction Conference, immigrants, Gulten Wagner, South Africa, Pan-African Liberation Committee, Anti-Apartheid News, Foundation Books, Kenya, The Native Press in Canada, New German Critique, Jack Zipes, Jorg Becker, International Youth Library, Margarita M. Tura-Soteras, Arlene Posner, Arne J. de Keijzer, China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide, Interracial Digest, Children's Rights workshop, Merseyside Women's Literature Group, The Children's Book Study Group, Guyana, Materials Production Unit of the Guyana Ministry of Education, Philippines Information Bulletin, Wolfgang Kempke, International Bulletin of Comics Literature, Portuguese Colonialism from South Africa to Europe, Angola Comite, Write the Liberation, The Cay, White Supremacy, National Education Association, Freedways, Teachers College: Columbia, Bertha Jenkinson, Jane Adams Children's Book Award, NBC, Albert B. Schwartz, Norma Rogers, Samuel B. Ethridge, consciousness-raising, Herminio Traviesas, Dennis Mollura, racism - definition of, IQ testing, institutional racism, cultural racism, National Council for Social Studies, Emma Willard Task Force, Black Feminist Organization, American Women's Movement, double oppression, Deborah Singletary, Gerri Perreault, "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials", Florence Jackson, Lyla Hoffman, Geneva Gay, Beryle Banfield, National Council of Teachers of English, Task Force Against Racism and Bias, Carmen Puigdollers, McGraw-Hill, textbooks, bilingual education, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Ruth Bradley, Aaron Berman, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Gordon Cawelti, Portuguese Communication Conference, Julia Gonsalves, Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Journal of Negro History, Children's Book Council, Racism and Social Justice Committee, James A. Banks, Irma Garcia, Harriett Brown, Marjorie Johnson, Norma Rogers, Chicano Communications Center,

  • Volume 5, Issue 7/8. 1975

    Themes:

    bilingual education; cultural deprivation; Americanization; assimilation, cultural pluralism; Native Americans; historical misrepresentation and suppression; stereotypes; racism and librarians; prejudice and librarians; library science education; cultural awareness; racism awareness training; women's rights; sexism; racism; Chicana feminism; poverty; immigration; Chicano Library & Education Research

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Gloria Gomez, Porfirio Sanchez, Armando Rendon, Sophia Esparza, Marta Cotera, Consuelo Nieto, Mirta Vidal, Jose Taylor, Enrique Lopez, Uvaldo Palomeres, Allen Cohen, Quandra Prettyman Stadler, Joanna Graham, Jane Whittaker, Barbara Walker, Sue Ribner,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Child of Fire by Scott O'Dell
    Trouble on Treat Street by Anne Alexander
    Lawyers for the People: A New Breed of Defenders and Their Work by Elizabeth Levy
    Estebanico by Helen Rand Parish
    Paul Laurence Dunbar: Black Poet Laureate by Pearle Henrickson Schultz
    Street Gangs: Yesterday and Today by James Haskins
    Who I Am by Julius Lester and David Gahr
    The Real Me by Betty Miles
    Everett Anderson's Year by Lucille Clifton
    My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry by Arnold Adoff, ed.

    Keywords:

    bilingual education, cultural deprivation, Chicano, Title VII, ESL, Americanization, assimilation, cultural pluralism, textbooks, Native Americans, historical misrepresentation and suppression, stereotypes, California State Education Code, Ethnic Task Force, Association of Mexican American Educators, Chicano journalism, colonization, La Raza Unida Party, La Raza, El Tiempo, Chicano Times, El Informador, El Renacimiento, Magazin, El Sol, La Luz, El Gallo, Epoca, El Cuaderno, El Hispano, El Tecolote, El Mundo, El Chicano, El Malcriado, United Farmworkers Union, El Ideal, Grafica, Aztlan, El Grito, Spanish, libraries and belonging, Los Angeles Public Library, racism and librarians, prejudice and librarians, library science education, cultural awareness, racism awareness training, Crystal City, Crystal City Memorial Library, President Echevarria, community archive, Cultural Museum and Archive, preferred terms, Latino, Aztlan (UCLA), Quinto Sol, El Movimiento, La Raza, Civil Rights Digest, Chicana, women's rights, sexism, racism, Marianismo, Chicana feminism, Alicia Escalante, Dolores Huerta, International Socialist Review, Mexican-American Political Association, Latino Conference, El Grito del Norte, Regeneracion, Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Francisca Flores, Las Adelitas, The Southwest Network, Chicano Teachers conference, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Tricontinental Film Center, I Am Joaquin, Tierra O Muerte, Chicano Education Digest, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, National Organization of Spanish Speaking Librarians (REFORMA), American Library Association, Committee to Recruit Mexican American Librarians (CRMAL), Mexican American Institute of Library Science, Cora Villegas, Club Femenino de Intercambio (Feminine Exchange Club), numerical analysis, poverty, white savior, immigration, evaluation criteria, "The Mexican American in Children's Literature", Los Angeles Unified School District, Kay Gurule, Mexican American Education Commission, Newbery Award, translation, Aardvark Media, El Dorado Distributors, Curriculum Adaptation Network for Bilingual/Bicultural Education (CANBBE), Materials Acquisition Project (MAP), Projecto Leer, pocho, Con Safos, Trucha Publications Inc., Aztlan Publications, Cucaracha Publicationa, Toltecas en Aztlan Publications, Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE), Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People, Centro de Información de la Raza, Chicana Services Action Center, Chicano Communications Center, Chicano Library & Education Research, Chicano Training Center, Comisión Femenil Mexicana, Commission for Mexican American Affairs, Concilio Mujeres, Cross-Cultural Southwest Ethnic Study Center, Crusade for Justice, Institute for Research and Study of Justice, Lulac National Education Service Centers, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), Mexican American Youth Organizations (MAYO), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA), National Chicano Health Organization (NCHO), National Council of La Raza, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Padres Asociados Para Derechos Religiosos Educativos y Sociales, Raza Association of Spanish Speaking Americans (RASSA), Southwest Network, United Farm Workers, El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworker's Theater), Black Books Bulletin

  • Volume 6, Issue 1. 1975

    Themes:

    censorship; right-wing extremism; ethnocentrism; self-esteem; "Guide to Racism Rating"; "Criteria for Evaluating the Treatment of Minority Groups in Textbooks and Other Curriculum Materials"; stereotypes; sexism; Title IX; cultural bias

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Mary Kay Stark, Judith Kram, Mary Ellen Shepard, Sue Ribner, Claudia Strauss, Edwin Henry, Celina Marcus Snowden, Ray Anthony Shepard, Vicki Cobb

    Materials Reviewed:

    She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield
    Naomi in the Middle by Norma Klein
    All in a Day's Work by Miriam Levitt Baygell and Anne Ackerman
    Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen
    Doctor Shawn by Petronella Breinberg
    A Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
    War and Peas by Michael Foreman
    The Amazing Travels of Ingrid Our Turtle by Peter Lippman

    Keywords:

    multicultural texts, National Education Association's Teacher Rights Division, censorship, selection, right-wing extremism, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, textbooks, ethnocentrism, self-esteem, "Guide to Racism Rating", Foundation for Change, "Criteria for Evaluating the Treatment of Minority Groups in Textbooks and Other Curriculum Materials", Robert Cutler, series, stereotypes, Edward Stratemeyer, revision, Dorothy Massie, Ginn and Company, Ben DeLuca Jr., Doris Colomb, obscenity, Ku Klux Klan, Non-Christians Against the Books, NAACP, Black Alliance Against child Neglect, Reverend Ronald English, Kanawha County Coalition for Quality Education, Metro-Ministry Task Force, Holly Knox, Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, sexism, Title IX, Elizabeth Blackwell, Susan B. anthony, Ms., Womansport, Ethel Sadowsky, Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, Stratemeyer Syndicate, International Women's Year Arts Festival, M. Newfield, IQ. tests, testing, cultural bias, Larry P. vs. Riles, Puerto Rican, ASPIRA of New York, ASPIRA of America, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund

  • Volume 6, Issue 2. 1975

    Themes:

    sexism; stereotypes; racism; right-wing extremism; employment discrimination; racism awareness training

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Deborah Stead, Wayne Kabak, Jorg Becker, Taye Brooks Zerihoun, Ernest Dunbar, Sue Ribner, Roberto Gautier, Harry B. Wallace, Karen Asakawa, Frank Ray Harjo, Celina Snowden, Johann Lee, Albert V. Schwartz,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
    Der Anti-Struwwelpeter by Friedrich Karl Waechter
    Peter Struwwel by Claude Lapointe and Petrina Stein
    The Leopard by Cecil Bodker
    Washington vs. Main Street: The struggle Between Federal and Local Power by Jules Archer
    Women Who Win by Francene Sabin
    That New Baby by Sara Bonnett Stein
    About Handicaps by Sara Bonnett Stein
    Sioux Trail by John Upton Terrell
    Children of the Dragon: A Story of the People of Vietnam by Terry Karl, Gail Dolgin, Martha Williams, Rob Kessler, and Sarah Dandridge
    Chief Joseph: The Story of an American Indian by R. P. Johnson
    New Life: New Room by June Jordan
    Wingman by Manus Pinkwater
    My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel by Peggy Mann

    Keywords:

    Children's television Workshop, children's magazines, sexism, stereotypes, racism, National Institute of Education, right-wing extremism, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE), learner verification, career education, Fran Dory, employment discrimination, Aishah S. Abdullah, Abelardo Delgado, Antonia A. Hernandez, Taino, Puerto Rico, Chicano, Black, Directive Instructional System for Teachers in Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR), Science research Associates (SRA), racism awareness training, Nancy Larrick, American Library Association (ALA), ALA-CIMC Task Force on Children's Books, Bertha Jenkinson, California Indian Educational Association, Asian Americans for a Fair Media, Minority Affairs Multi-Ethnic Handbook, Herb Kohl, Sagaris, Teaching Ethnic Studies, James A. Banks, NAtional Council for Social Studies, Children's Defense Fund, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Wasaja (Let My People Know), Change for Children, bibliography, Margaret Musgrove, Janice Peters, Beryle Banfield, Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Anthony Shepard, Jack Agueros, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Nanabah Chee Dodge, Mildred D. Taylor, Chicano authors, Center for Mexican American Studies, Asian American Writers Conference, Christopher Chou

  • Volume 6, Issue 5/6. 1975

    Themes:

    early childhood education; cultural sensitivity; cultural relevancy; American Standard English, Black English, bilinguailism, ESL, and Spanish; racism; sexism; formal curriculum and hidden curriculum; consciousness-raising; staffing diversity; classism; segregation; ghettoization; stereotypes; children as authors; mass media violence; consumerism; ageism; intellectual freedom; Social Change Advocates; collective organizing

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    George Bussey, Connie Jackson, Blanca Nieves, Debby Leong, Barbara Schram, Marcia Newfield, Sian Williams, Itty Chan, Lisel Burns, Albert V. Schwartz, Deirdre Breslin, Eileen Marino, Johann Lee, Gelvin Stevenson, Sue Ribner, Betita Martinez, Lydia Bassett, Beryle Banfield, Joyce Toney, Akiko Justesen, June Kushino, Lyla Hoffman, Liz Fong, Porfirio Sanchez, Harry Wallace, Fred Ribner

    Materials Reviewed:

    One Monster After Another by Mercer Mayer
    Nicky Goes to the Doctor by Richard Scarry
    Busy People and How They Do Their Work by Joe Kaufman
    Animal Manners by Barbara Shook Hazen
    Hamilton Duck's Springtime Story by Arthur Getz
    Day Care: A Handbook by Belle Evans and George E. Saia
    The Day Care Book by Vicki Breitbart et al.
    Opium War in China by Robin McKown
    Nancy Ward, Cherokee by Harold W. Felton
    A Book for Jordan by Marcia Newfield
    Josie's Handful of Quietness by Nancy Covert Smith
    The Queen Who Couldn't Bake Gingerbread, An Adaptation of a German Folk Tale by Dorothy Van Woerkom
    Walk Home Tired, Billy Jenkins by Ianthe Thomas
    Roots of Time: A Portrait of African Life and Culture by Margo Jefferson and Elliott P. Skinner
    Me and Nessie by Eloise Greenfield
    Three Strong Women by Claus Stamm
    Mandy's Grandmother by Liesel M. Skorpen
    Kevin's Grandma by Barbara Williams
    Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
    The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House by Marge Blaine
    La Aventura De Yolanda/Yolanda's Hike by Tomas Rodriguez
    The Adventures of Yoo-La-Teen by Ellen Tiffany Pugh

  • Volume 6, Issue 7. 1975

    Themes:

    mass media; hidden curriculum; institutional racism; consciousness-raising; fairy tales; stereotypes; Eurocentrism; sexism; materialism; patriotism; historical misrepresentation and suppression; "new white consciousness"; censorship; over and covert censorship

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Robert Moore, Elizabeth Young, Sue Ribner, Mary E. Shepard, Carol Snyder, Ina Henriques King, Judy Richardson, Debria Smith, Joyce Arkhurst, Jane Califf

    Materials Reviewed:

    Morris and the Brave Lion by Helen Spelman Rogers
    Amy by Julia First
    Cissy's Texas Pride by Edna Smith Makerny
    Nobody's Family is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh
    Amelia Mixed the Mustard by Evaline Ness
    Fanny Kemble's America by John Anthony Scott
    George Washington Carver by Reta Torine
    A Man Ain't Nothin' But A Man by John Oliver Killens
    Who Goes There, Lincoln? by Dale Fife
    Liliuokalani by Mary Malone
    Song of the Boat by Lorenz Graham
    Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz

    Keywords:

    Action Against Apathy, Committee for Action Through Education, St. Louis, Roni Branding, mass media, minority employment, education, hidden curriculum, institutional racism, consciousness-raising, St. Louis Broadcast Coalition, Foundation for Change, PACT, Citizens Communication Center, anti-humanism, fairy tales, stereotypes, Eurocentrism, sexism, family structures, materialism, American revolution, patriotism, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, Judith Sloane Haberman, La Causa Publications, Chicano, Asian American, Amherst Asian American Committee, Alternatives for Education, The Little Magazine, June Jordan, Carol Oates, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, American Association of University Women, women's movement, Women's Action Alliance, Cherokee, Native American, Center for Cuban Studies, Tricontinental Film Center, Art Resources for Teachers and Students (A.R.T.S.), Lerone Bennett, "new white consciousness", censorship, American Library Association (ALA), Moon Dea, over censorship, covert censorship, Los Angeles Public Library, General Assistance Center of Teachers College, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), Appalachia Children's Interracial Book exhibit, John Henry Memorial Foundation, California Library Association, National Organization for Women (NOW), American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Bicentennial

  • Volume 6, Issue 8. 1975

    Themes:

    Puerto Rico; colonialism; neo-colonialism; imperialism; censorship; historical misrepresentation and suppression; Native American; cultural appropriation; Taino Indians; military occupation; Chicano; women's studies; "Racism and sexism in Children's Books"

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Dorothy Kuya, Carol Snyder, Jacqueline Moniquette, Patricia Ann Smith, Vicky Lawrence, Lyla Hoffman, Lydia Basset, Diane M. Burns, Elizabeth Young, Patricia Ann Spencer, Lynne Rosenthal,

    Materials Reviewed:

    A Question of Courage by Marjorie Darke
    A Bicycle from Bridgetown by Daun E. Thomas
    Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
    The Glad Man by Gloria González
    Last Night I Saw Andromeda by Charlotte Anker
    Malcolm X: Black and Proud by Florence M. White
    Patrick Des Jarlait: The Story of an American Indian Artist by Neva Williams
    Circus Cannonball by Judy Varga
    Super Sam and the Salad Garden by Patty Wolcott
    The Truth About the Man Behind the Book that Sparked the War Between the States by Frances Cavanaugh
    Marly the Kid by Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Keywords:

    Puerto Rico, Bicentennial, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, UN Special Committee on Decolonization, independentistas, Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, Mississippi History Textbook Committee, censorship, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, evaluation, Alvin Poussaint, general Assistance Center of Teachers College, Brenda Baum, Native American, Britain, cultural appropriation, Taino Indians, Ramon Emeterio Betances, Foraker Act, Jones Act, Luis Munoz Marin, military occupation, Akwesasne Notes, American Library Association (ALA), Chicano, Southwest Network, annotated bibliography, California Association of School Librarians, National Organization for Women (NOW), women's studies, "Racism and sexism in Children's Books", Fred Gomez, Puerto Rican Family Institute, Miriam D. Ross, The Advisory and Learning Exchange, Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Association on American Indian Affairs (A.A. I. A.), Mi Cultura, bilingual, Stella Alvo, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Mississippi

  • Volume 7, Issue 1. 1976

    Themes:

    racism; sexism; self-esteem; white supremacy; collectivism; individualism; neutrality; representation; colonization; culture of resistance; historical misrepresentation and suppression; classism; Puerto Rico; Native Americans

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Robert B. Moore, Melvin Leventhal, Jenne Baum, William Kunstler, General Assistance Center at Teachers College, Jack Agueros, Mary Lou Byler, Association on American Indian Affairs, Eloise Greenfield, Armando Rendon, Elinor Wong Telemaque, Jack Leventhal, NAACP, Warren Halliburton, Beryle Banfield, Frances Dory, Jean Carey Bond, William Loren Katz, Robert Moore, Jean Bain, Albert V. Schwartz, Florence Jackson, Cora Rust, Women's Research Action Project, John Henry Memorial Foundation, Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), Ojibway Indian Nation, KNOW INC., National Youth Alternatives Project.

    Materials Reviewed:

    What It's All About by Norma Klein
    Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson
    Let Me Be A Free Man: A Documentary of Indian Resistance by Jane B. Katz ed.
    What Can She Be? A Police Officer by Gloria Golreich and Esther Goldreich
    What Jazz is All About by Lillian Erlich
    Amy and the Cloud Basket by Ellen Pratt
    New York City Too Far From Tampa Blues by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
    Kate Ryder by Hester Burton
    Michael Naranjo: The Story of an American Indian by Mary Carroll Nelson
    My Brother Fine with Me by Lucille Clifton
    Saddles and Sabers: Black Men in the Old West by LaVere Anderson
    Hidden Heroines: Women in American History by Elaine Landau

    Keywords:

    Reader survey response, Little Black Sambo, textbooks, Robert B. Moore, court testimony, racism, sexism, self-esteem, self-image, white supremacy, cultural racism, collectivism, individualism, cultural transmission, Puerto Rico, neutrality, White authors, representation, colonization, culture of resistance, historical misrepresentation and suppression, classism, national identity, Mississippi, Melvin Leventhal, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, textbooks, civil rights, Textbook Review Committee, IQ testing, seldon, Long Island, Jenne Baum, Native American, Blackfeet, white educators - racism, terminology (ethnic), Seldon Junior High School, William Kunstler, American Indian Community House, General Assistance Center at Teachers College, Jack Agueros, Mary Lou Byler, Association on American Indian Affairs, Eloise Greenfield, Armando Rendon, Elinor Wong Telemaque, Jack Leventhal, NAACP, Warren Halliburton, Chicano, Spanish, stereotypes, Beryle Banfield, evaluation, Frances Dory, Jean Carey Bond, William Loren Katz, Robert Moore, Jean Bain, Albert V. Schwartz, Florence JAckson, Cora Rust, child care, Women's Research Action Project, John Henry Memorial Foundation, Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), Ojibway Indian Nation, KNOW INC., Childcare Switchboard, Youth Liberation, oral history, NAtional Youth Alternatives Project, Smithsonian Institution, Ventura Press, Bowker

  • Volume 7, Issue 2/3. 1976

    Themes:

    Asian Americans in Children's Books; model minority; racism; sexism; elitism; historical misrepresentation and suppression; immigration; internment; "Stereotypes, Distortions and Ommissions in U. S. History Textbooks: A Content Analysis Instrument for Detecting Racism and Sexism"; ethnocentrism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Frank Chin, Connie Young Yu, Shawn H. Wong

    Keywords:

    Asian American Children's Book Project, Chinese american, Japanese American, Korean American, Vietnamese American, numerical analysis, stereotypes, model minority, white authors, evaluation criteria, racism, sexism, elitism, social studies, textbooks, historical misrepresentation and suppression, legislation, immigration, internment, "Stereotypes, Distortions and Omissions in U. S. History Textbooks: A Content Analysis Instrument for Detecting Racism and Sexism", ethnocentrism, California Curriculum Commission, Legal Compliance Committee, white savior, terminology (Oriental), Lin sing, Yick Wo, Ng Poon Chew, Lue Gin Gong, Amerasia Journal, Asian Americans for Action, Asian Americans for Equal Employment Newsletter, Asian American Review, Bridge, Chinese Affirmative Action Newsletter, Asian American Studies Central Inc., UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Chinese Media Committee of the Chinese for Affirmative Action, Asian American Bilingual Center, Amherst Asian American Education Committee, The Center for Open Learning and Teaching, The Services Center for Teachers of Asian Studies of Ohio State University, Association for Childhood Education, Appalachia, Proyecto Leer, Advisory and Learning Exchange, Pittsburgh Area Preschool Association, New Directions for Women, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Joyce White Mills, Task Force on Gay Liberation of the American Library Association (ALA), Barbara Gittings, Toys That care and Other Items, Music Center (Los Angeles), Illinois Labor History Society, Farewell to Manzanar

  • Volume 7, Issue 4. 1976

    Themes:

    Librarians; racism; sexism; censorship; intellectual freedom; overt and covert censorship; whiteness in publishing; social responsibility; ethnocentrism; Native Americans; genocide

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sanford Berman, Sue Ribner, Elizabeth Young, Diane M. Burns, Irma Garcia, Michael Claxton, Clarice Ericsson, Lyla Hoffman

    Materials Reviewed:

    Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull by Marion Meade
    The Soong Sisters by Roby Eunson
    Four Women of Courage by Bennett Wayne ed.
    Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho
    An Eskimo Birthday by Tom D. Robinson
    El Bronx Remembered: A Novella and Stories by Nicholasa Mohr
    Four Corners of the Sky by Theodore Clymer
    I Cry When the Sun Goes Down: The Story of Herman Wrice by Jean Horton Berg
    What Can She Be? A Musician by Gloria and Esther Goldreich
    Heart of Snowbird by Carol Lee Lorenzo
    Making Our Way: America at the Turn of the Century in the Words of the Poor and Powerless by William Loren Katz and Jacqueline Hunt
    Chicano Roots Go Deep by Harold Coy
    Blue Trees, Red Sky by Norma Klein

    Keywords:

    American Library Association (ALA), librarians, racism, sexism, censorship, anti-humanist, selection, Children's Services Division (CSD), Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Library Bill of Rights, covert censorship, Dorothy Broderick, Donald High Smith, library education, library school, cataloging, Donnarae MacCann, institutional racism, YWCO, "One imperative: Eliminate racism", Robert Moore, cultural racism, reading lists, The Feminist Press, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), numerical analysis, terminology, stereotypes, Michael Banton, reevaluation, overt censorship, United States Civil Rights Commission, publishing - whiteness, Little Black Sambo, review processes, social responsibility, ethnocentrism, Maryland Library Conference, Albert V. Schwartz, Patricia Finley, Judy Richardson, David R. Bender, Daphne Muse, Emily R. Moore, Jeanne Baum, Native American, genocide, Pajarito Publishing, bilingual, Indigena, Chicano, La Raza, De Colores, National Council for the Social Studies, Mexican American Curriculum Office, Chicano Communications Center, Women Library Workers, National Women's Agenda, Women's Action Alliance (WAA), Time/Out, Southwest Resource and Information Center, environment, The Public Art Workshop, African-American Institute, African Books in Print, bibliography, International Scholarly Book Services, Clearing House on Migration Issues, Australia, New Hogtown Press, David Campbell, Arawak Indian, China, Research Group One, Cuba, Tricontinental Film Center, Jugend und Volk, Voluntary Committee on Overseas Aid and Development (VCOAD)

  • Volume 7, Issue 6. 1976

    Themes:

    ageism; stereotypes; racism; sexism; liberation; institutional racism; ethnocentrism; behavioral change; multicultural education; prejudice, power; China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide; "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Edward F. Ansello, Albert V. Schwartz, Elizabeth Martinez, Jane Califf, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Moore, Jimmie Durham, Lydia Bragger

    Materials Reviewed:

    Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor
    Where's Florrie? by Barbara Cohen
    Three Stalks of Corn by Leo Politi
    Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer
    Shawn's Red Bike by Petronella Breinberg
    Sitting on the Blue-Eyed Bear: Navajo Myths and Legends by Gerald Hausman
    Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein

    Keywords:

    stereotypes, dictionary, Ms. Magazine, Ossie Davis, racism, sexism, liberation struggles, protest, Foundation for Change, New Perspectives on Race, institutional racism, Racism Awareness Center for Educators (RACE), ethnocentrism, Gloria Fauth, behavioral change, sensitivity/encounter session, multicultural education, Center for Program Development in Equal Educational Opportunity, National College of Education, prejudice, power, Black author bibliography, West Indies, British Standard, W. I. Standard, Ms. Merle Hodge, Freedomways, Women's History Research Center, American Library Association (ALA), Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Washington Area Free School Clearing house, Boston Educational Research, The Printshop, Literary Guild of India, Laliti Rananaware, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Third World, Britain, Children's Rights Workshop, Campaign to Impede Sex Stereotyping in the Young (CISSY), London Women's Education Collective, Exeter Children's Fiction Conference, immigrants, Gulten Wagner, South Africa, Pan-African Liberation Committee, Anti-Apartheid News, Foundation Books, Kenya, The Native Press in Canada, New German Critique, Jack Zipes, Jorg Becker, International Youth Library, Margarita M. Tura-Soteras, Arlene Posner, Arne J. de Keijzer, China: A Resource and Curriculum Guide, Interracial Digest, Children's Rights workshop, Merseyside Women's Literature Group, The Children's Book Study Group, Guyana, Materials Production Unit of the Guyana Ministry of Education, Philippines Information Bulletin, Wolfgang Keempke, International Bulletin of Comics Literature, Portuguese Colonialism from South Africa to Europe, Angola Comite, Write the Liberation, The Cay, White Supremacy, National Education Association, Freedways, Teachers College: Columbia, Bertha Jenkinson, Jane Adams Children's Book Award, NBC, Albert B. Schwartz, Norma Rogers, Samuel B. Ethridge, consciousness-raising, Herminio Traviesas, Dennis Mollura, racism - definition of, IQ testing, institutional racism, cultural racism, National Council for Social Studies, Emma Willard Task Force, Black Feminist Organization, American Women's Movement, double oppression, Deborah Singletary, Gerri Perreault, "Racism Awareness Workshop: Identification, Criteria and Evaluation of Materials", Florence Jackson, Lyla Hoffman, Geneva Gay, Beryle Banfield, National Council of Teachers of English, Task Force Against Racism and Bias, Carmen Puigdollers, McGraw-Hill, textbooks, bilingual education, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Ruth Bradley, Aaron Berman, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Gordon Cawelti, Portuguese Communication Conference, Julia Gonsalves, Carter G. Woodson Book Award, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Journal of Negro History, Children's Book Council, Racism and Social Justice Committee, James A. Banks, Irma Garcia, Harriett Brown, Marjorie Johnson, Norma Rogers, Chicano Communications Center, myth of Black inferiority

  • Volume 7, Issue 8. 1976

    Themes:

    intellectual freedom; historical misrepresentation and suppression; art as politics; neutrality; racism; sexism; ageism; elitism; materialism; conformism; oppression; stereotypes; self-esteem; white false superiority; social and political change; feminism; old age

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Edward F. Ansello, David Cole, Dorothea Cole, Elizabeth Martinez, Emily Moore, Jean Bond, Ruth Charnes, Lyla Hoffman, Patricia Spence, Dean Chavers, Lynn Edwards, Ianthe Thomas,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Juanito's Railroad in the Sky by Vic Herman
    Marcia by John Steptoe
    The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth
    Two Special Cards by Sonia O. Lisker and Leigh Dean
    A Button in Her Ear by Ada B. Litchfield
    Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Years by Mark Evans
    Osceola: Seminole Leader by Ronald Syme
    Old is What You Get: Dialogues on Aging by the Old and the Young by Ann Zane Shanks
    The Case of the Sneaker Snatcher (Billy Jo Jive: Super Private Eye) by John Shearer
    Who Are You? A Teenager's Guide to Self-Understanding by Elizabeth McGough
    Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp by Mercer Mayer

    Keywords:

    National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Jean Cary Bond, Judith Krug, American Library Association (ALA), Intellectual Freedom, Lillian Gerhardt, historical misrepresentation and suppression, art, art as politics, neutrality, reviews, reviewing, mass media, representation, Little Black Sambo, Dr. Dolittle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, women, racism, sexism, ageism, elitism, materialism, conformism, oppression, stereotypes, accuracy, self-esteem, false superiority - white, social and political change, feminism, critical thinking, old age, socially constructed concepts, Center on Aging, numerical analysis, representation, underrepresentation, omission, People's Republic of China, Foreign Languages Press, collectivity, non-hierarchical, ignorance, responsibility, politics in children's books, Roots, slavery, West Africa, Alex Haley, Eric Moon, Beryle Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, Textbook Committee of the Education Department of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Teacher's College, cataloging, Women Library Workers, imperialism, Akwesasne Notes, Guatemala, Boston Area Women-In-Libraries, booklist, The Women's Press, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Puerto Rico, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Media Report to Women, United Front Press, California Association for Older People, Education for Peace Project, Emergency Librarian, Barbara Clubb, index

  • Volume 8, Issue 1. 1977

    Themes:

    stereotypes; Native Americans; oppression; misrepresentation; stereotypes; censorship; racism; terminology; tokenism; women's studies; sexism; mass media; slavery; historical misrepresentation and suppression

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Jane Califf, Rosemary Stones, Beryle Banfield, Jean Maude Anyon, Diane M. Burns, Lynn Edwards, Lyla Hoffman, Emily R. Moore, Jose Taylor

    Materials Reviewed:

    America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to Present by Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby
    A Girl Named Wendy by Beverly Butler
    Three Wishes by Lucille Clifton
    Courage to Adventure: Stories of Boys and Girls Growing up with America by Child Study Association
    Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children by Mari Evans
    This is Espie Sanchez by Terry Dunnahoo
    Great Black Americans by Ben Richardson and William A. Fahey
    Quiz Book on Black America by Clarence N. Blake and Donald F. Martin
    The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

    Keywords:

    stereotypes, Native Americans, American Indians, oppression, misrepresentation, Akwesasne Notes, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alcatraz, Association on American Indian Affairs, evaluation criteria, Wassaja, Native American Solidarity Committee, El Museo del Barrio, Taino Indians, colonialism, Navajo, Hopi, critical thinking, Wampanoag, Britain, Teachers Against Racism, Dorothy Kuya, National Committee on Racism in Children's Books, booklists, Janet Hill, National Association of Multi- Racial Education, stereotypes, Kate Greenaway Prize, censorship, racism, terminology, Other Award, tokenism, Feminist Press, women's studies, syllabi, sexism, lesson plans, curricula, sexism, Ilene Hertz, Sharon Wigutoff, American Library Association (ALA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Clara Stanton Jones, Robert Moore, Mary Lou Byler, Albert V. Schwartz, National Coalition Against Censorship, Teacher's College, Women Library Workers, cataloging, Roots, mass media, slavery, West Africa, Alex Haley, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Africa Report, African Writers Series, Humanities Press,

  • Volume 8, Issue 2. 1977

    Themes:

    stereotypes; covert and overt censorship; intellectual freedom; Title IX; racism, sexism; Phillipines; historical misrepresentation and suppression; reverse racism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Connie Young Yu, Beryle Banfield, Diane M. Burns, Lyla Hoffman, Rene Botofasina, Elizabeth Martinez, Emily Fabiano, Diane M. Burns, Regina Williams, Nessa Darren,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Taken by the Indians: True Tales of Captivity by Alice Dickinson
    Just the Beginning by Betty Miles
    Looking at Nigeria by Colin Latcham
    Sights and Sounds of the City / Vistas y Sonidos de la Ciudad by Hope Warriner
    Lizzie Lies a Lot by Elizabeth Levy
    Peace Treaty by Ruth Nulton Moore
    Ruby by Rosa Guy
    Why am I Different? by Norma Simon

    Keywords:

    National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund, Italian American Committee, stereotypes, National Coalition Against Censorship, Richard Heffner, Motion Picture Association, Peggy Charren, Action for Children's Television, Nat Hentoff, John J. O'Connor, Harriet Pilpel, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Robert Moore, covert censorship, overt censorship, American Library Association (ALA), Intellectual Freedom Committee, Title IX, Dorothy Broderick, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, textbooks, racism, sexism, fourteenth amendment, regulation, Caspar Weinberger, Women's Educational Equity Act, Joan Duval, Pilipino (Filipino), California State Board of Education, Pilipino Far West Task Force on Education, Philippines, Filipino Revolutionary Army, Albert Tee, Jessica Ordona, Cynthia Bonta, Spanish-American War, Pat Henry, Asians, Asian-Americans, imperialism, Chinese-Americans, Roots, slavery, reconstruction, mass media, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Mildred Taylor, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Newbery Award, Caldecott Medal, Young Adult Services Division, vocational education, Deposit your Experience, Title II, Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA), Lorraine Hansberry Arts and Letters Series, National Council for Social Studies, Native American Solidarity Committee, International Indian Treaty Council Information Office, Media Action Research Center Inc., Kemper Insurance Companies, terminology, reverse racism, Tricontinental Film Center, Manzanar Project Committee, Japanese internment, Feminist News Service - U.S.A., Bettye Latimer, Booklegger Press, Libro Libre Inc., First World, Citizens in Education, Asian Women's Journal, bibliography, book list, Business and Professional Women's Foundation, Learn Me

  • Volume 8, Issue 3. 1977

    Themes:

    stereotypes; Chinese; Asian American; racism; Chinese American; sexism, sex roles; collectivism; anti-fascist; Holocaust; capitalism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Albert V. Schwartz, Jane Califf, Donna Grund-Slepak, Nessa Darren, Elizabeth Martinez, Rosinda Lewins, Emily Fabiano, Moose Pamp, Lyla Hoffman, Lynn Edwards

    Materials Reviewed:

    Wilma and the Water Pistol that Wouldn't Shoot Straight by Nancy Roth Bjorkman
    Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians by Aliki
    From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown by Lucille Schulberg Warner
    Mexican Folk Tales by Juliet Piggott
    Why Me? The Story of Jenny by Patricia Dizenzo
    Woman Chief by Rose Sobol
    I Want to Be a Fisherman by Sandra Weiner
    Eliza's Daddy by Ianthe Thomas
    I Have a Sister - My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson
    The United States in the Mexican War by Don Lawson

    Keywords:

    The Five Chinese Brothers , Claire Huchet Bishop, Kurt Wiese, Chinese Exclusion Act, stereotypes, Chinese, Asian American, racism, reader reviews, Chinese American, terminology, racism, white authors, reviews, reviewing, Reichskbarett, Grips Theater for Children, West Berlin, plays, acting, German Democratic Republic, sexism, sex roles, Gwyneth Britton, numerical analysis, collectivism, housework, class, anti-fascist, Lenin, Marx, Karl Liebknecht, August Bebel, Rosa Luxemburg, Nazi, fascism, Holocaust, capitalism, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Jackie Eubanks, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Zoia Horn, Nancy White, E. J. Josey, Library Bill of Rights, Ella Yates, Clara Stanton Jones, Newbery Award, Caldecott Medal, Lydia Milagros González, Puerto Rico, Luis Nieves Falcon, Charles Poor Thunder, Gwendolyn Patton, Albert V. Schwartz, Beryle Banfield, Bradford Chambers, Social Responsibility Round Table, Oscars, mass media, Rocky, Network, From These Roots, William Greeves Productions, Asian American Resource Center, Women Make Movies Inc., bibliographies, book lists, National Student Coalition Against Racism, Legacy Books, Grassroots Action Information Network (GAIN), Children's Books and Music Center, National Women's Studies Association,

  • Volume 8, Issue 4/5. 1977

    Themes:

    The Speaker (ALA film); intellectual freedom; racism; free speech; human rights; censorship; historical misrepresentation and suppression; stereotypes; myth of Black inferiority; consciousness-raising; Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, internment

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sanford Berman, James R. Dwyer, Jackie Eubanks, E. J. Josey, Ernest Kaiser, Beryle Banfield, Horace Seldon, June Sark Heinrich, Porfirio Sanchez, Moose Pamp, Lyla Hoffman, Lynn Edwards, Emily Moore, Linda Humes

    Materials Reviewed:

    Mexican American Movements and Leaders by Carlos Larralde
    The Dream Runner by Audree Distad
    The Canbe Collective Builds a Be-Hive by Bert Garskof
    Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis
    Sata and the Door by Virginia Allen Jensen
    The Clever Princess by Ann Tompert
    Ludell & Willie by Brenda Wilkinson
    White Falcon: An Indian Boy in Early America by Eileen Thompson
    Max by Rachel Isadora
    My Brother Steven is Retarded by Harriet Langsam Sobol
    Phoebe and the General by Judith Berry Griffin
    Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield

    Keywords:

    American Library Association (ALA), Office for Intellectual Freedom, Intellectual Freedom Committee, The Speaker, racism, free speech, Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Neo-Conservative, first amendment, racism, propaganda, human rights, censorship, suppression, historical misrepresentation and suppression, stereotypes, anti-humanism, ethnocentrism, myth of Black inferiority, consciousness-raising, critical thinking, eugenics, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, internment, IQ testing, Moynihan Report, Arthur Jensen, Richard Herrnstein, William Shockley, Cyril Burt, bibliography, booklists, Harvard Black Student Union, Stephen Jay Gould, Carl T. Rowan, segregation, institutional racism, Michigan-Ohio Regional Educational Laboratory, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Miriam Braverman, Association of American Publishers, Judith Krug, Vision Associates, Florence McMullin, Bay Area Social Responsibilities Round Table, Sunshine Resolution, Avery W. Williams, Clara Stanton Jones, Nancy Kellum-Rose, Jackie Eubanks, Eric Moon, Major Owens, Geraldine Clark, Ervin Gaines, Gerald R. Shields, classism, Civil Liberties Committee, integration, SCAMI, Freedom to Read Foundation, Community Change Inc., Metropolitan Planning Project (MPP), Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), Massachusetts Coalition for Human Rights, plays, Elizabeth Blake, Family Service Association of America, National Assembly for Social Policy and Development Inc., Carolyn Coverdale, Institute for Open Education, National Center for Education Statistics, numerical analysis, statistics, Native Americans, Indians, terminology, mass media, colonialism, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Lydia M. González, Mildred D. Taylor, Gwendolyn Patton, Charles Poor Thunder, self-esteem, Research Review of Equal Education, ageism, Queens College School of Library Science, Pilipino Peoples' Far West Convention, The Association of Chinese Teachers (TACT), murals, Asian American Resource Center, food, Childcare Switchboard, older people, games, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Quaker Project on Community Conflict, Childhood Education International, Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), People's Press, China Resources Project, People's Republic of China, Cuba, Emergency Committee to Defend Latin American Filmmakers (ECDLAF), Operation Namibia, South Africa, Namibia National Conference Library, Union of Democratic Thais (UDT), Committee for a Democratic Thailand (CDT), Friends of ZANU, Zimbabwe African National Union Struggle,

  • Volume 8, Issue 6/7. 1977

    Themes:

    The Psychological Impact of Disability; handicapism; disability; social bias; stereotypes; interlinked oppression; objectification

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Douglas Biklen, Robert Bogdan, Albert V. Schwartz, Frieda James, Joan Tollifson, Beryle Banfield, Paula Wolff, Emily R. Moore, Donald Kao, Daphne Silas, Emily Fabiano, Karen Odom, Dottie Starks,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Daddy by Jeannette Canes
    Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep
    The Sound of Flutes and Other Indian Legends by Richard Erdoes
    But I Thought You Really Loved Me by Evelyn Minsull
    A House for Jonnie O. by Blossom Elfman
    Diving for Roses by Patricia Windsor
    Danbury's Burning: The Story of Sybil Ludington's Ride by Anne Grant
    Muhammad Ali: The Champion by Arnold Hano
    Coyote the Trickster: Legends of the North American Indians by Gail Robinson and Douglas Hill
    A Time to Be Human by John Howard Griffin

    Keywords:

    handicapism, disability, social bias, disability rights movement, stereotypes, Center for Indepedent Living (CIL), Diabled in Action (DIA), American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, activist, interlinked oppression, terminology, social oppression, myth of personal responsibility, objectification, Center on Human Policy, evaluation, selection criteria, censorship by omission, Department of Special Education (Long Island University), Early Childhood Bibliography, Books in Print, Newbery Award, analysis, "super crip", Disabled Rights Movement, Judy Heumann, Civil Right Movement, Great Society, Vietnam war, anti-war movement, Rehabilitation Act, TRANSBUS, United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, The Psychological Impact of Disability, infrastructure, statistics, equipment for disabled people, facts and figures, ciritcal literacy, educational resources, consciousness-raising, job discrimination, accessibility, experiential simulations, Council on Exceptional Children, Federation of Children with Special Needs, Committee for the Handcapped (People to People Program), American Speech andHearing Association, resource guides, National Association of Social Workers, National Education Association, The Exceptional Parent, National Center for Law and the Handiapped, Madness Network News, National Information Center for the Handicapped, The Speaker, American Library Association (ALA), First Amendment, freedom of speech, Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), San Francisco International Film Festival, Dorothy Broderick, Publishers Library Promotion Group, National Coalition Against Censorship, Judith Krug, Other Award, Children's Rights Workshop, Frederick Grice, Advertising Council, capitalism, depictions, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Education Exploration Center of Minneapolis, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Robert Moore, Beryle Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Puerto Rico, Latin American Film Project, Action for Children's Television (ACT), sexism, women's liberation, Asian American Studies Center, The National Center on Black Aged, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Akwesasne Notes, Opportunities for Minorities in Librarianship, American Library Association Black Caucus, Scarecrow Press, Art Resources for Teachers and Students (A.R.T.S.), American Indian Movement (A.I.M.), survival school, Teachers Association of Chinese Teachers (T.A.C.T.), Manzanar Project Committee, Title IX, mass media, disability pornography,

  • Volume 8, Issue 8. 1977

    Themes:

    racism; dialects; Carribean; colonialism; bilingualism; stereotypes, historical suppression and misrepresentation; segregation; civil rights

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    William Rose, Minfong Ho, Barbara Schram, Donna Lovell, Emily Fabiano, Sue Ribner, Better Pendler, Daphne Silas, Lyla Hoffman, Donna Lovell, Sue Ribner, Karen Odom, Dorothy Starks

    Materials Reviewed:

    And It Is Still That Way: Legends Told by Arizona Indian Children by Byrd Baylor
    Mama by Lee Bennett Hopkins
    All It Takes is Practice by Betty Miles
    The World of Ben Lighthart by Jaap ter Haar
    The Summer Maker: An Ojibway Indian Myth by Margery Bernstein
    Tales of the Elders: A Memory of Men and Women Who Came to America as Immigrants, 1900-1930 by Carol Ann Bales
    Sam Baker, Gone West by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese
    The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link
    Billy Learns Karate by B. Wiseman
    Bill Pickett: First Black Rodeo Star by Sibyl Hancock
    Walk in My Moccasins by Mary Phraner Warren

    Keywords:

    Spanish, racism, education, dialects, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Chicano, Catalon, Castile, Basque, colonialism, fluency, bilingual, White authors, stereotypes, historical suppression and misrepresentation, evaluation, Thailand, consciousness-raising, International Hotel, San Francisco, Pilipino, Filipino, eviction, Kearny Street Workshop, segregation, civil rights, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Bill 622, discrimination in schools, racism, sexism, textbooks, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Brookline, Ethel Sadowsky, Iris Stern Strom, vocational education, Native Americans, Indigenous people, oppression, ethnocide, Eurocentrism, International Conference on Discrimination Against Populations in the Americas, Sub-Committee on Racism Racial Discrimination Apartheid and Colonization, Special Committee on Human Rights, United Nations, Columbus Day, International Solidarity Day with American Indians, survival schools, Treaty Council office (New York), Native American Solidarity Committee (NASC), Jimmie Durham, Geneva Conference, sterilization, forced removal, Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA), genocide, International Indian Treaty Council, First International Indian Treaty Conference, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, numerical analysis, facts and figures, women's studies, Feminist Press, The Speaker, American Library Association (ALA), California Library Association, Rita Jones, Northern California Librarians Black Caucus (CLBC), Centro Infantil de la Raza, San Francisco Bay Area SRRT, TABS, Lucy Picco Simpson, NOW New York Textbooks Committee, Beryle Banfield, Jane Califf, Albert V. Schwartz, Robert Moore, Center on Human Policies, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Tricontinental Film Center, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, mass media, interlinked oppression, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), Helaine Victoria, Captains Courageous, Star Wars, critical literacy, Frieda Zames, Disabled in Action (DIA), Center for Independent Living, Joan Lewis Guidance Associates

  • Volume 9, Issue 1. 1978

    Themes:

    depictions of Africa; historical misrepresentation and suppression; slurs; cultural exaggeration; racism; colonialism; language; exoticism; murals; consciousness-raising; public art

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Susan J. Hall, Tomie Arai, Emily Moore, Emily Strauss, Moose Pamp, (self redacted - gay reviewer), Virginia Wilder, Robert Moore, Lyla Hoffman, Virginia Wilder, Donna Lovell, Daphne Silas,

    Materials Reviewed:

    William by Irene Hunt
    Joanna's Miracle by William H. Armstrong
    Squirrel's Song by Diane Wolkstein
    Gay: What You Should Know About Homosexuality by Morton Hunt
    The Butterfly by A. Delaney
    That's What a Friend Is by P. K. Hallinan
    Ladies Were Not Expected: Abigail Scott Duniway and Women's Rights by Dorothy Nafus Morrison
    Lady for the Defense: A Biography of Belva Lockwood by Mary Virginia Fox
    Phoebe's Revolt by Natalie Babbitt

    Keywords:

    Africa - depictions of, stereotypes, African-American Institute (AAI), ethnocentrism, historical misrepresentation and suppression, slurs, terminology, cultural exaggeration, racism, colonialism, language, Muslims, Swahili, exoticism, depictions, folktales, racism, African Studies, murals, consciousness-raising, public art, beautification, Walls of Black Pride, Mission District (San Francisco), Puerto Rican Heritage Murals, Cityarts Workshop, National Murals Newsletter, Public Art Workshop, Social and Public Art Resource Center (S. P. A. R. C.), critical literacy, Chicago Mural Group, Citywide Mural Project, Galeria de la Raza, sportscasting, racism, Raymond E. Rainville, Edward McCormick, myth of Black inferiority, bias, prejudice, Gloria Fauth, materialism, The Speaker, National Education Association (NEA), American Library Association (ALA), Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), Terry Herndon, Black Caucus, Library Bill of Rights, ALA Council, anti-racism, censorship, Dorothy Broderick, First Amendment, Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Sixty Minutes, Clara Stanton Jones, Allan Bakke, "reverse racism", Young Americans for Freedom, Nazi Party, affirmative action, People Against Racism in Education (P. A. R. E.), ALA Gay Liberation Task Force, Barbara Gittings, National Gay Task Force, Racism and Sexism Awareness Training Committee, Lillian N. Gerhardt, Mary A. Hall, Task Force on Women, Diane Gordon Kadanoff, SRRT Task Force on Tools for Awareness Training, National Coalition to Support African Liberation (NCSAL), Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), American Committee on Africa (ACOA), African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), anti-aparthied, apartheid, African Liberation Day, boycott, feminism, book challenges, Right to Read Defense Committee of Chelsea, Judy Caravaglia, anti-racist, anti-sexist, "reverse discrimination", institutional racism, institutional sexism, disability, self-esteem, "Feeling Free", handicapism, The Center on Human Policy, Native American, Indigenous people, Three Warriors, Tom Feelings

  • Volume 9, Issue 2. 1978

    Themes:

    Native Americans; indigenous people; racism; colonialism; stereotypes; social responsibility; historical suppression and misrepresentation; genocide; land rights; reservations

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Michael Dorris, Jim Gale, Dorothy Levenson, Emily R. Moore, Pedro Ramírez, Sue Ribner, Virginia Wilder, Donna Lovell, Elizabeth Martinez, Beryle Banfield,

    Materials Reviewed:

    With My Face Rising to the Sun by Robert Martin Screen
    We All Come from Someplace: Children of Puerto Rico by Julia Singer
    We All Come from Puerto Rico, Too by Julia Singer
    Women in Sports: Track and Field by Diana C. Gleasner
    What Kind of Guy Do You Think I Am? by Sidney Offit
    Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru by John Bierhorst
    Who Needs Espie Sanchez? by Terry Dunahoo
    Honey, I Love and Other Poems by Eloise Greenfield

    Keywords:

    Native Americans, Aboiginies, Australia, indigenous people, racism, colonialism, stereotypes, social responsibility, publishing, Regional Center for Educational Training, historical suppression and misrepresentation, depictions, Dell Goodwin, Native American Council of Dartmouth College, censorship, ethnocentrism, Mohawk, terminology, Children's Books in Print, genocide, land rights, reservations, Gurindji, sexism, Eurocentrism, Aboriginal Land Fund, Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), Mollie G. Dyer, Minority Mental Health Program Act of 1977, mental health, psychology, legislation, institutional racism, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), American Library Association (ALA), Zoia Horn, Eric Moon, Clara Stanton Jones, Annette L. Phinazee, Black Caucus, Helen Josephine, Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, consciousness-raising, Donnarae MacCann, Beryle Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, Robert Moore, book lists, bibliographies, disabilities, Mafex Associated, The Feminist Press, Asian American Studies Center, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), Developmental Learning Materials, feminism, Documentary Photo Aids Inc.

  • Volume 9, Issue 3. 1978

    Themes:

    historial repression and misrepresentation; Eurocentrism; stereotypes; racism; white supremacy; slavery; IQ testing; Apartheid; assimilation; consciousness-raising

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Susan J. Hall, Luis Nieves Falcon, Virginia Wilder, Daphne Silas, Lyla Hoffman, Emily R. Moore, B. R. Walters, Lorraine V. McNamara, Daphne Silas, Donna Lovell,

    Materials Reviewed:

    I'll Love You When You're More Like Me by M. E. Kerr
    Ghost Fox by James Houston
    Kid Power by Susan Beth Pfeffer
    I Been There by Carol Hall
    Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railway by Barbara Smucker
    Zanbanger by R. R. Knudson
    Two Houses to Live In: A Child's-Eye View of Divorce by Barbara Shook Hazen
    The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
    Voices in the Wind: Central and South American Legends by Alex Whitney
    How Far is Berkeley? by Helen Chetin
    Bus Ride by Nancy Jewell

    Keywords:

    textbooks, Africa, African-American Institute, Asia, evaluation, South Africa, colonialism, historial repression and misrepresentation, Eurocentrism, stereotypes, racism, white supremacy, slavery, IQ testing, Apartheid, "Bantu", National Coalition to Support African Liberation, terminology, bilingual, Conference on Bilingual Curriculum, Northeast Curriculum Development and Dissemination Center, assimilation, self-esteem, Spanish, consciousness-raising, publishing, amusement parks, stereotypes, racism, sexism, Disneyland, Great American Park, Frontier Land, Six Flags Over Mid-America, Six Flags Over Georgia, Busch Gardens, Coney Island, Chinatown Fair and Museum, Native American, Asia, Asian-American, Great Adventure, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Library Administration Division (LAD), Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), College of Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland, The Speaker, Committee to Defend Intellectual Honesty, First Amendment, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Joan S. Hyman, Mary Lou Byler, Irma Garcia, Ginlin Woo, Walter Dean Myers, Jane Califf, Albert V. Schwartz, Beryle Banfield, Carmern Puigdollers, Brad Chambers, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), National Organization for Women (NOW), National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, working-class,

  • Volume 9, Issue 6. 1978

    Themes:

    homosexuality; sexism; discrimination; Proposition 6; homophobia, abortion, child-care; stereotypes; consciousness-raising; historical repression and omission

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Marilyn Foodim, Johanna Martines, Ruth Myers, Robert Moore, Virginia Lee Wilder, Michael Dorris, Beryle Banfield, Lyla Hoffman, Betsy Gimball, Paula Wolff, Frieda Zames, Gaylord Hassan, Candida Alvarez

    Materials Reviewed:

    Jimmy Carter by Charles Mercer
    Groundhog's Horse by Joyce Rockwood
    Edith Jackson by Rosa Guy
    And What Do You Do? by George Ancona
    Women at Their Work by Betty Lou English
    New Women Series by Kathleen Bowman
    To Walk on Two Feet by Marjorie Cook
    Jenny and the Tennis Nut by Janet Schulman
    Grandpa - and Me by Stephanie S. Tolan
    Struggle and Lose / Struggle and Win: The United Mine Workers by Elizabeth Levy and Tad Richards

    Keywords:

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), lesson plans, critical literacy, June Christ, sexism, discrimination, National Organization for Women (NOW), NOW's Legal Defense and Education Fund, constitution, slavery, abolition, Declaration of American Women, Conservative, gay, Proposition 6, Briggs Initiative, California, homophobia, abortion, child-care, National Council on teachers of English (NCTE), affirmative action, capital punishment, American Psychological Association (APA), John Monks, death penalty, slurs, civil liberties, free speech, Anita Bryant, Phyllis Schlafly, lesbian, National Women's Conference, feminist, Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, stereotypes, consciousness-raising, racism, historical repression and omission, Native American, Little Black Sambo, NAACP, textbooks, Frankfurt Book Fair, World Council of Churches, Solidarity Day, Puerto Rico, United Nations Committee on Decolonization, American Library Association (ALA), Basement Workshop, Asian American, Apartheid, disability, Disabled In Action (DIA), parenting, Polymorph Films, McGraw-Hill Films, MTI Teleprograms Inc., Native American Solidarity Committee, bibliography, women's liberation, The Association of Chinese Teachers (TACT), Women Library Workers, Public Affairs Committee, New Schools Exchange, Research Relating to Children, National Organization for Non-Parents (N.O.N.),

  • Volume 9, Issue 7. 1978

    Themes:

    Racism in Children's and School Textbooks; publishing; racism; critical awareness; whiteness in publishing; colonialism; stereotypes; "cultural drag"; storytelling; consciousness-raising

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Michael Dorris, Susan Alperin, Virginia Wilder, Lyla Hoffman, Susan Z. DeSanto, Betsy Gimbel, Beryle Banfield, Virginia Wilder

    Materials Reviewed:

    How to Become King by Jan Terlouw
    Half a Kingdom: An Icelandic Folktale by Ann McGovern
    The Simple Prince by Jane Yolen
    The Complete Beginner's Guide to Judo by Stuart James
    The Martial Arts by Susan Ribner and Dr. Richard Chin
    Wheelchair Champions: A History of Wheelchair Sports by Harriet May Savitz
    Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
    The Great Gilley Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
    Women Against Slavery: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe by John Anthony Scott
    I Greet the Dawn: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar by Ashley Bryan
    Ike and Mama and the Once-A-Year Suit by Carol Snyder

    Keywords:

    World Council of Churches, "Racism in Children's and School Textbooks", publishing, racism, selection criteria, Beryle Banfield, Luis Nieves Falcon, Puerto Rico, Dorothy Kuya, National Committee on Racism in Children's Books, Frankfurt Book Fai, Eurocentrism, critical awareness, publishing - whiteness, colonialism, Native American, Thanksgiving, stereotypes, "cultural drag", ethnocentrism, self-esteem, Halloween, sexism, story-telling, consciousness-raising, Portland Oregon Children's Book Group, evaluation criteria, bibliography, book lists, Chinese, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Jane Addams Award, Coretta Scott King Award, HR13105, Communications Act, Institutional Racism, Media Action Research Center, Nelson Price, disability,

  • Volume 10, Issue 1/2. 1979

    Themes:

    International Year of the Child; disability rights; racism; representation; alternative publishing; anti-Semitism; Nazis; fascism; Native American; stereotypes

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Beryle Banfield, Jorg Becker, Dorothy Kuya, Lorna Lippman, Rolf Lupke, Hartmut Lutz, Luis Nieves Falcon, Roy Preiswerk, Child Care Resource Center, Eloise Greenfield, Betsy Gimbel, Lyla Hoffman, Virginia Wilder,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Super-Vroomer by Carol Hall
    Enchantment of Africa: Nigeria by Allan Carpenter
    Moose and Goose by Marc Brown
    Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker: Photographs of Women at Work by Wendy Saul
    P. S. Write Soon by Colby Rodowsky
    Rabbit Island by Jorg Steiner
    What About Gods? by Chris Brockman
    Windsong Summer by Patricia Cecil Hass
    Growing Older by George Ancona
    I Know You Cheated by Valjean McLenighan

    Keywords:

    International Year of the Child, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, IYC Secretariat, non-sexist, non-racist, activists, feminist, Gray Panthers, disability rights, racism, representation, Jean Young, Arnoldshain Conference, Program to Combat Racism (PCR), World Council of Churches (WCC), Fankfurt Book Fair, racism, Dorothy Kuya, librarians, Jan Kok, self-esteem, racism awareness training, publishing, capitalism, alternative publishing, UNESCO, authors, The Church, evaluation criteria, sexism, African American, slavery, anti-Semitism, Nazis, West Germany, fascism, Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, United States, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Aboriginal, Native, religion, white savior, colonialism, terminology, Eurocentrism, Native American, American Indian, stereotypes, Geronimo, Hitler, American Indian Movement (AIM), Puerto Rico, classism, mesitza, Ramon Betances, Jose Campeche, Luis Munoz Marin, advertisement, ethnocentrism, evolution, cultural evolution, bibliography, depiction, Pacific-Asia Resource Center, Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (DAGA), Black Resource Center Collective of Brisbane, Roter Elefant, Campus Verlag, Pluto Press, Institute of Race Relations, National Association for Multi-racial Education (NAME), Minorty Rights Group, National Committee on Racism in Children's Books, Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart,

  • Volume 10, Issue 3. 1979

    Themes:

    Black playwrights; Black experience; racism; erasure; self-reflection; self-esteem

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Eloise Greenfield, Useni Eugene Perkins, Ruth Ford, Beryle Banfield, Child Care Resource Center, Evelyn Jones Rich, Donna Lovell, Virginia Wilder, Betsy Gimbel, Maxine Fisher, Elizabeth Martinez, Patricia Campbell, Grey Panther Media Watch Collective

    Materials Reviewed:

    Poochie by Ted Pontiflet
    A New Mother for Martha by Phyllis Green
    Understanding Africa by E. Jefferson Murphy
    The Creek Indians by Grant Lyons
    Full Circle: Rounding Out a Life by Martha E. Munzer
    Don't Forget Tom by Hanne Larsen
    Janet at School by Paul White
    Tales of Indentured Servants by Joseph and Edith Raskin
    My Mother and I Are Growing Strong/ mi mama y yo nos hacemos fuertes by Inez Maury
    Brothers Are All the Same by Mary Milgram
    Babe Didrikson, The World's Greatest Woman Athlete by Gene Schoor
    Tatterhood and Other Tales by Ethel Johnston Phelps

    Keywords:

    authors, librarians, Black experience, racism, Black Books Bulletin, self-reflection, self-esteem, advertising,Black playwrights, Eurocentrism, erasure, African, African American, folktales, Louise Bennett, Ranny Williams, poetry, James Weldon Johnson, Margaret Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sterling brown, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, history, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Highland Garnet, William Still, Charlotte Forten, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, ageism, lesson plans, Catholic Committee for the Aging, San Francisco Commission on Aging, consciousness-raising, Bookshop Joint Action committee, sexism, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Council on Education, Mothers & Daughters, National Association of Secondary School Principals, William Tucker Collection, Annette L. Phinazee, Equal Rights Ammendment (ERA), Caldecott Medal, Newbery Award, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, mass media, Learning Corporation of America, Phoenix Films, Tricontinental Film Center, women's history, disability, Parents' Magazine Films, Center for National Policy Review, Black Arts Museum, Commonground Press, Women Make Movies, Asian American Bilingual Center, The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, Women's History Research Center, National Science Teacher's Association, bibliographies, The Feminist Press, Title IX,

  • Volume 10, Issue 4. 1979

    Themes:

    women and sports;Title IX, evaluation; racism; sexism; omission; erasure; Black women; discrimination; women of color; stereotypes; historical omission and misrepresentation

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Patricia Campbell, Ann Hedge, Ann Marie Davies, Maxine Fisher, Sonia Nieto, Child Care Resource Center, Virginia Wilder, Jane Pennington,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Get-Away Car by Eleanor Clymer
    Out of the Bleachers: Writings on Women and Sport by Stephanie L. Twin
    The Rainbow Colored Horse by Pura Belpre
    Naptime by Gylbert Coker
    Blinded by the Light by Robin F. Brancato
    Oscar the Selfish Octopus by John M. Barrett
    Ride the Pine Sapling by Beth Bland Engel
    It Ain't All for Nothing by Walter Dean Myers

    Keywords:

    sports, women, libraries, Olga Korbut, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Title IX, evaluation, book lists, bibliographies, Harvey House, EMC Corporation, Creative Education/Children's Press, racism, sexism, omission, erasure, Pearl Moore, Karen Stevenson, Linda Fernandez, Chako Hiquchi, Miki Gorman, Black women, discrimination, women of color, stereotypes, Jana Hlavaty, Suzy Chaffee, Barbara Cochran, Kathy Schmidt, Janet Lynn, Karen Magnussen, Marion Ladewig, Micki King, Annemarie Moser-Proell, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Peggy Fleming, Paula Serber, Sammy Francher Thurmon, Patty Van Wolvelaere, feminism, Jane Frederick, Project on the Status and Education of Women, Cheryl Toussaint, Wilma Rudolph, classism, Carol Blazejowski, Linda Fernandez, Pearl Moore, Shirley Muldowney, Marion Seidler, Karen Stevenson, National Association for Multi-racial Education (NAME), textbooks, historical omission and misrepresentation, Africa, Caribbean, Britain, slavery, colonialism, liberation struggles, numerical analysis, evaluation, abolition, terminology, white savior, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Hola Camp, Cecil Rhodes, propaganda, King Lobengula, South Africa, Central African Federation, Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), Ian Smith, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Sexism Awareness Training, Mary A. Hall, Fredrick Woodard, Tools for Consciousness-raising Task Force, Mary Lewis, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Lydia Bragger, Gray Panthers, Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Social Responsibility Round Table, New Day Films. Phoenix Films, Educational Development Center, SPRINT, Educomics, Affirmative Action Coordinating Center (AACC), Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Indochina Curriculum Group (ICG), The Feminist Press, McCarthyism, HealthRight, Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), Bridge, Asian American, 9to5

  • Volume 10, Issue 5. 1979

    Themes:

    Sesame Street; Children's Television Workshop; sexism; feminism; racism; Black vernacular; multiculturalism; stereotypes; whitewashing

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Ruth Charnes, Kay E. Hoffman, Lyla Hoffman, Ruth S. Meyers, Carole E. Gregory, Laurence Yep, Ronice Branding, Jane Pennington, Maxine Fisher, Beryle Banfield, Eloise Skeen Scott, Eugene S. Rave, Beryl C. Gillespie, Child Care Resource Center, Lyla Hoffman, Vicki Breitbart,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Cimaroons by Robert Leeson
    The Undertaker's Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel
    Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography by Shirley Graham Du Bois
    Crossing the Line by William H. Hooks
    The Loner: A Story of the Wolverine by Paige Dixon
    Everett Anderson's Nine Month Long by Lucille Clifton
    Great-Grandfather, the Ba by and Me
    Ask Me What My Mother Does by Katherine Leiner
    Conquista! by Clyde Robert Bulla
    Learning for Little Kids: A Parent's Sourcebook for the Years 3 to 8 by Sandy Jones
    The Griot Sings: Songs from the Black World by Edna Smith Edet

    Keywords:

    Sesame Street, The Sesame Street Library, Random House, Children's Television Workshop, Bill Most, Funk and Wagnalls, Eleanor Ehrhard, Jeannette Neff, sexism, numerical analysis, fairy tales, Dulcy Singer, feminism, Roosevelt Franklin, racism, Black vernacular, multiculturalism, stereotypes, depictions, bilingual, William F. Whaley, Lenore H. Ringler, Little Black Sambo, Afro American, Black, Puerto Rican, Asian American, parents, surveys, Chinese American, science fiction, Harper and Row, Fong Joe Guey, amusement parks, Action Against Apathy (AAA), Six Flags, Native Americans, American Indians, Pow Wow Committee, David L. Paltzik, self-esteem, American Library Association (ALA), Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Sexism Awareness Training Workshop, Sexism and Racism Training Committee, Jenelyn Block Associates, ageism, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Task Force on Tools for Consciousness-Raising, Fredrick Woodard, Carol Jacobs, Women on Words and Images (WOWI), Lydia Bragger, Gray Panthers, Mary C. Lewis, Richard L. Darling, Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT), Benjamin Spock, Nestle, boycott, women's studies, Women's Educational Equity Communications Network (WEECN), TABS, Kenneth B. Clark, segregation, A New day Film, strike, Pheonix Films, Educational Development Center, Interculture Associates, Sex Discrimination News, Carlos E. Cortes, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Equal Rigths Amendment (ERA), Helaine Victoria Press, Institute for Responsive Education (IRE), The National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (CRESS), South End Press, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), whitewashing

  • Volume 10, Issue 6. 1979

    Themes:

    censorship; racism; sexism; Civil Rights; self-esteem; disability; stereotypes; discrimination; representation; whitewashing; Black writers

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Arlene Hirschfelder, Jane Califf, Walter Myers, Lenore Gordon, Child Care Resource Center, Eugene S. Rave, Beryl C. Gillespie, Lyla Hoffman, Maxine Fisher, Donna Lovell, Karen Wald,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Happy Endings Are All Alike by Sandra Scoppettone
    Hey, Dollface by Deborah Hautzig
    My Daddy Don't Go to Work by Madeena Spray Nolan
    Eskimos by Jill Hughes
    Plains Indians by Christopher Davis
    The Human Rights Book by Milton Meltzer
    Overkill: Weapons of the Nuclear Age by John Cox
    War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians by Nancy Wood
    The Murderer by Felice Holman
    Response Guides for Teaching Children's Books by Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington
    Black Literature for High School Students by Barbara Dodds Stanford and Karima Amin

    Keywords:

    textbooks, censorship, racism, sexism, Civil Rights, Fourteenth Amendment, Publishers Weekly, self-esteem, disability, First Amendment, Carol Amyx, stereotypes, discrimination, publishing, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), E. J. Gaines, neutrality, multicultural, KKK, conservative, National Education Association (NEA), Gablers of Texas, Kanawha County, pluralistic, inclusive, Howard N. Meyer, Thanksgiving, lesson plans, Native Americans, American Indians, colonialism, Wampanoags, critical education, Akwesasne Notes, Patuxet, Wabonake, Tisquantum, Samoset, George Wymouth, slavery, Edward Winslow, Massasoit, Metacomet, terminology, Frank James, Black, representation, whitewashing, Black writers, Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Sheppard, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Margaret Musgrove, Mildred Taylor, Great Society, publishing - racism, REHABFILM, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, People Acting for Change Together (PACT), EDC/WEEAP, Institute for Responsive Education, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Center for Independent Living,

  • Volume 10, Issue 7. 1979

    Themes:

    anti-nuclear struggle; ageism; classism; handicapism; sexism; racism; Native American; self-esteem; sex equity; Title IX; historical omission and misrepresentation; stereotypes; Black writers; whiteness in publishing

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Myra Sadker, David Sadker, Tom Hicks, Barbara Stanford, Jean Procope-Martin, Patricia Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Child Care Resource Center, Eugene S. Rave, Beryle C. Gillespie, Liz Gong, Sonia Nieto, Paula Wolff, Kipp Watson, Vicki Breitbart

    Materials Reviewed:

    Chloris and the Weirdos by Kin Platt
    An Album of the Great Depression by William Loren Katz
    Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian and White Relations by Peter Nabokov
    China: Geography, Customs, Festivals, and Food by Jean Butterfield
    A Secret Friend by Marilyn Sachs
    Puerto Rico, Island Between Two Worlds by Lila Perl
    Women in Congress by Essie E. Lee
    White Racism: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training by Judy H. Katz
    Ourselves and Our Children: A Book by and for Parents by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
    Response Guides for Teaching Children's Books by Albert B. Somers and Janet Evans Worthington

    Keywords:

    anti-nuclear struggle, ageism, classism, handicapism, Disabled in Action (DIA), sexism, racism, Native American, Richard Lercari, Lisha Papert, Friends Nuclear Hazards Resource Center, bibliographies, book lists, self-esteem, textbooks, teacher training, evaluation, sex equity, content analysis, Title IX, historical omission and misrepresentation, stereotypes, terminology, numerical analysis, Non-Sexist Teacher Education Project (NSTEP), Black, Black literature, Black studies, Black writers, publishing - whiteness, Kristin Hunter, Rosa Guy, Sharon Bell Mathis, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Native Son, Maya Angelou, censorship, quotas, nursery rhymes, "Ten Little N*****s", "Ten Little Indians", Kids Can Press, Films Inc., deaf, Perennial Education, Tricontinental Films, Educational Development Center, Dennis Hicks, desegregation, multicultural, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

  • Volume 10, Issue 8. 1979

    Themes:

    social injustice; institutional racism; institutional sexism; labor history; civil disobedience; stereotypes; Chinese Exclusion Act; Japanese Internment; Indian Removal Act; cultural racism; cultural sexism; historical omission and misrepresentation

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Lucy Picco Simpson, Patricia Campbell, Sonia Nieto, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lorraine Dong, Lyla Hoffman, Lydia Bragger, Jane Pennington

    Materials Reviewed:

    Queen of Hearts by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
    Alicia Alonso: The Story of a Ballerina by Beatrice Siegel
    Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
    Land of the Iron Dragon by Alida E. Young
    John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat by Jenny Wagner
    The Rocking Chair Rebellion by Eth Clifford
    Old Cat and the Kitten by Mary E. Little
    Contemporary Women Scientists of America by Iris Noble

    Keywords:

    social injustice, institutional racism, institutional sexism, lesson plans, labor history, civil disobedience, stereotypes, Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Internment, Indian Removal Act, evaluation, Beryle Banfield, cultural racism, cultural sexism, Black, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Native American, Asian American, Civil War, slavery, historical omission and misrepresentation, terminology, racism, sexism, Harriet Tubman, Robert Smalls, Fredrick Douglass, President Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Emancipation Proclamation, Ernest Kaiser, Amy Swerdlow, feminism, numerical analysis, content analysis, TABS, dictionaries, index

  • Volume 11, Issue 1/2. 1980

    Themes:

    stereotypes; deafness; sexism; ageism; handicapism; activism; whitewashing; consciousness-raising

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Janet Acevedo, Glenn Anderson, Pedro Acevedo, Mary Beth Miller, Trenton Batson, Albert V. Schwartz, Alan R. Barwiolek, Joe Guss, J. Charlie McKinney, Dominick Morrero, Martin Sternberg, Guy Wonder, Anne G. Toensmeier, Sonia Nieto, Lyla Hoffman, Beryle Banfield, Eugene Rave, Beryl C. Gillespie, Leonore Gordon, The Multicultural Project

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Lilith Summer by Hadley Irwin
    A Different Ball Game by Osmond Molarsky
    Girls Are Girls, and Boys Are Boys: So What's the Difference? by Sol Gordon
    Black Foremothers: Three Lives by Dorothy Sterling
    Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Tales by Rosebud Yellow Robe
    When Megan Went Away by Jane Severance
    I Am the Running Girl by Arnold Adoff
    El Circo Magico Modelo / Finding the Magic Circus by Macduff Everton
    The Best Time of Day by Valerie Flournoy
    The Lucky Stone by Lucille Clifton

    Keywords:

    stereotypes, American Sign Language (ASL), deaf, deafness, terminology, numerical analysis, evaluation, LaGuardia Community College, racism, sexism, ageism, handicapism, Abbe de l'Epee, French Sign Language, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Eurocentrism, gay, Cuba, Spanish, discrimination, personal accounts, Gallaudet College, Athletic Association of the Deaf (AAAD), Helen Keller, English, protest, telecommunications (TTY) machine, Oralism, activism, reviews, Jim Bourg, book lists, bibliographies, Daniel Nascimento, New Your Public Library, evaluation criteria, Gallaudet College Press, whitewashing, consciousness-raising, New Directions for Women, Public Affairs Committee, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Media Action Research Center, Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), Charlemae Hill Rollins Colloquium, Project PUSH/RAP, Tallahassee Science for the People, Celebrating Women Productions, National Association for the Education of Young Children

  • Volume 11, Issue 3/4. 1980

    Themes:

    race; anti-racism; stereotypes; child development; racial identity; color-blindness; institutional racism; whiteness; national identity; cultural context and identity; overt and subtle racism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Louise Derman-Sparks, Carol Tanaka Higa, Bill Sparks, Roni Branding, Kathy McGinnes, Kathy McGinnis, Jim McGinnis, Geraldine L. Wilson, Paula Phillips, Louise Derman-Sparks, Patricia Simmons, Sonia Nieto, Lyla Hoffman, Anne G. Toensmeier, Asian American Studies Center, The Multicultural Project, Doris Seale, Paula Wolff, Betty Bacon, Vicki Breitbart,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Maria Teresa by Mary Atkinson
    Freedom Road by James D. Forman
    The 79 Squares by Malcolm J. Bosse
    An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
    I Wish Laura's Mommy Was My Mommy by Barbara Power
    Bright Fawn and Me by Jay Leech and Zane Spencer
    Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice by John W. Ivimey
    How Does It Feel to be Old? by Norma Farber
    The Day Care Book: A Guide for Working Parents to Help Them Find the Best Possible Day Care for Their Children by Grace Mitchell
    The New Extended Family: Day Care That Works by Ellen Galinsky and William H. Hooks

    Keywords:

    racism, self-esteem, anti-racism, stereotypes, child development, parents, racial identity, day-care, color-blind, institutional racism, ethnocentrism, whiteness, Piaget, cognitive development, analysis, children's statements, national identity, Black, Latino, bilingual, Spanish, Asian American, cultural context, social color, representation, children's statements, cultural identity, prejudice, activism, Native American, textbooks, mass media, white supremacy, multicultural, Susan B. Anthony, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Charles Sumner, toys, adult influence, overt racism, subtle racism, critical thinking, anti-Black, amusement parks, sexism, oppression, modeling, bicultural, colonialism, terminology, n****r, racial slurs, Richard Pryor, cultural repression, Barbara Richardson, exceptionalism, child-care, guidance, The Coalition for a Diversified Faculty, Title VI, Title IX, Nestle, boycott, IN-FACT, Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Book Award, American Library Association (ALA), Office if Intellectual Freedom (OIF), Racism and Sexism Awareness resolution, Roy Moore, Judith Krug, Steven Shiffrin, Sesame Street, Arthur Mokin Productions, Kay Hill,

  • Volume 11, Issue 5. 1980

    Themes:

    whitewashing; racism; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); white supremacy; historical misrepresentation and omission; affirmative action; discrimination

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lyla Hoffman, Mary Lou Byler, Child Care Resource Center, Jan M. Goodman, Anne G. Toensmeier, Irma Garcia, Katie Hoffman,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little
    Mother, Aunt Susan, and Me by William Jay Jacobs
    Sacajawea: Wilderness Guide by Kate Jassem
    Noelle's Brown Book by Noelle Lamperti and family and friends
    Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea? by Gloria D. Miklowitz
    There's a Rainbow in My Closet by Patti Stren
    Period by JoAnn Gardner-Loulan, Bonnie Lopez, and Marcia Quackenbush
    Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas
    Children's Books for Learning: A Bibliography of Multi-Ethnic Resources for Classroom Use by Naomi Wall
    Social Stratification in the United States: An Analytic Guidebook by Social Graphics Company

    Keywords:

    whitewashing, racism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Junior Scholastic, white supremacy, recruitment, historical misrepresentation and omission, sympathizers, Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson, KKK Youth Corps, affirmative action, colonialism, liberation struggles, discrimination, Anti-Defamation League, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Anti-Klan Network, Mary Joy Carlson, Holly Knox, National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund, Irwin Suall, Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT), critical literacy, journalism, Merle Froschl, Non-Sexist Child Development Project, Action Against Apathy of St. Louis, Samuel B. Ethridge, National Education Association (NEA), John Henrik Clarke, fascism, Nazis, Adolph Hitler, Joy Brothers, institutional racism, Aaron Morrison, textbooks, sexism, patriarchy, women's history, Black history, consciousness-raising, women's movement, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, Matina Horner, Jane McGoldrick, Phyllis McNally, socialization, Gerda Lerner, Married Women's Property Act, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Margaret Sanger, National Organization for Women (NOW), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida Wells Barnett, Shirley Chisholm, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jade Snow Wong, interlinked oppressions, Mississippi, censorship, Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, Robert B. Moore, Black Code, coded racism, South Bay Mayors' Committee for Employment of the Handicapped, Media Resource Center, Native American, handicapism, book lists, bibliographies, reviews, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Judy Yung, Asian American Community Library, Judith Schiek Braunagel, Lorraine Hansberry, classism, People's Translation Service, Japanese American Curriculum Project (JACP), Women's Medical Association, ageism, Public Affairs Committee, National Women's Health Network, Math/Science Resource Center, Child Care Resource Center, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Documentary Photo Aids,

  • Volume 11, Issue 6. 1980

    Themes:

    racism; sexism; multiculturalism; whitewashing; Black history; Native American; stereotypes; educational testing; educational disabilities; institutional classism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Patricia B. Campbell, Jeana Wirtenberg, Eloise Scott, Irma Garcia, Howard N. Meyer, Mary Lou Byler, Pat Campbell, Donald Kao, Jane Pennington, Emily Strauss Watson, Jan M. Goodman, Doris Seale, Anne G. Toensmeier, Lyla Hoffman, Charles W. Lee,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Sequoyah, Cherokee Hero by Joanne Oppenheim
    Women in Sports: Records, Stars, Feats and Facts by Louos Phillips and Karen Markoe
    Sea Glass by Laurence Yep
    Hi, Mrs. Mallory! by Ianthe Thomas
    Like It Is : Facts and Feelings About Handicaps From Kids who Know by Barbara Adams
    Daughters of Eve by Lous Duncan
    The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Benai
    Special Friends by Terry Berger
    Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change by Ellen Cantarow with Susan Gushee O'Malley and Sharon Hartman Strom
    Me and Einstein: Breaking Through the Reading Barrier by Rose Blue
    Journey to the Bright Kingdom by Elizabeth Winthrop
    The Adventures of Wutz Fair and B. Justice by Sylvia Spring
    Wutz Fair and B. Justice in Operation Myrine by Sylvia Spring

    Keywords:

    racism, sexism, textbooks, Commission on Civil Rights, National Education Association (NEA), multicultural, whitewashing, self-esteem, terminology, Black history, research, Black studies, Inuit, Native American, American Indian, stereotypes, non-sexist, anti-racist, mass media, representation, self-concept, testing, Gloria Milton, Thomas Donlon, Educational Testing Service, numerical analysis, Carol Dwyer, California Achievement Test, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Stanford Achievement Test, IQ Testing, educational disabilities, Eurocentrism, institutional classism, English, Carol Tittle, evaluation criteria, Latin America, interlocking oppressions, World Council on Churches, colonization, Gerard Pierre-Charles, Caribbean, liberation struggles, Bertha Vargas, Quince Duncan, Costa Rica, Eufrosina Rodriguez, William Shockley, Spanish, bilingual, tourism, consciousness-raising, Costa Rica Consultation, imperialism, bias, American Library Association (ALA), Fourteenth Amendment, Racism and Sexism Awareness Resolution, Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT), First Amendment, Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Howard N. Meyer, librarians, neutrality, Nancy Larrick, publishing, censorship, Walter B. Rodney, Working People's Alliance (WPA), Guyana, socialism, Pan-Africanism, Liberation Bookstore, disability, Human Policy Press, Red Ball Films, Chicana Rights Project, child care, day care, Women's History Research Center, GMG Publications, Children's Defense Fund, EDC/WEEAP, The Feminist Press, The Great Women Card Co., Tricontinental Films, Unifilm, Klu Klux Klan (KKK), Akwesasne Notes, Thanksgiving,

  • Volume 11, Issue 7. 1980

    Themes:

    censorship; book banning; colonialism; freedom of speech; racism; feminism; historical misrepresentation and omission; Black experience; non-violence

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Geraldine L. Wilson, Rudine Sims, Fay Wilson-Beach, Glyger G. Beach, Kathy Baxter, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Betty Bacon, The Multicultural Project, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Women Working: An Anthology of Stories and Poems by Nancy Hoffman
    The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks
    Aging by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Glen Silverstein
    I'm Busy, Too by Norma Simon
    Teepee Tales of the American Indian: Retold for Our Times by Dee Brown
    Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book by Betty Miles

    Keywords:

    censorship, Mary Poppins, book banning, librarians, colonialism, Joan Dillon, San Francisco Public Library, American Library Association (ALA), Judith Krug, Office for Intellectual Freedom, freedom of speech, racism, Fourteenth Amendment, feminism, National Organization for Women (NOW), McCarthyism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Black editors, Asian American, Publisher's Weekly, toys, Black, Puerto Rican, Asian American, F. A. O. Schwartz, sexism, racism, colonialism, war, humanist, anti-racism, anti-sexism, classism, Eurocentrism, whitewashing, (cultural appropriation), depictions, Gabriel Company, Pressman Company, sports, Willie May Aiken, Manny Trillo, Effanbee, Gerber, Amore, Sasha, Shindana, Calvin Klein, anti-war movement, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), O. J. Simpson, Lego, Sprocketeers, Tupperware, Metropolitan Art Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, Museum of Natural History, Studio Museum of Harlem, El Museo de Barrio, Sandy Berman, Public Assistance, Carl Snowden, NAACP, Children's Book Award, American Book Award, Words by Heart, International Reading Association, The Cay, Sounder, The Slave Dancer, reviewers, Best Books for Young Adults, Kristin Hunter, Zora Neale Hurston, Civil War, historical misrepresentation and omission, Black experience, non-violence, Roots, Harlem Writers Guild, Emily V. Gibbes, June Jordan, Tom Feelings, Sharon Bell Mathis, Eloise Greenfield, George Ford, Wilber T. Washington, John Oliver Killens, Lorenz Graham, Pamela Douglas, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., prison, Third World Children's Book and Film Festival, Candelaria Silva, Judy Richardson, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), Jamila Gaston, Montana Council for Indian Education,

  • Volume 11, Issue 8. 1980

    Themes:

    Eurocentrism; historical misrepresentation and omission; indigenous people; Native Americans; racism; sexism; feminism; color blindness

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Nadema Agard, Robin Gordon, Twiss Butler, Horace Seldon, Lyla Hoffman, Melanie N. Lee, Patricia B. Campbell, Paula Wolff, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Betty Bacon, Beryle Banfield, Donald Kao, Liz Gong,

    Materials Reviewed:

    I Hate to Talk About Your Mother by Hettie Jones
    Wilhelmina Jones, Future Star by Dindga McCannon
    It's Just Too Much by Jean Davies Okimoto
    Giant Steps for Steven by Carol J. Bennett
    On Site: The Construction of a High-Rise by Richard Younker
    A Way of Love, A Way of Life: A Young Person's Introduction to What It Means to be Gay by Frances Hanckel and John Cunningham
    Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art by Jamake Highwater
    Mean Maxine by Barbara Bottner
    Grandpa - A Young Man Grown Old by Harriet Langsam Sobol
    Grandmama's Joy by Eloise Greenfield
    Talk about a Family by Eloise Greenfield
    What's That? by Virginia Allen Jensen
    Maybe You Should Fly a Jet, Maybe You Should Be a Vet by Theo. LeSieg
    Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools by Sheila Harty
    Asian American Study Prints by Asian American Bilingual Center
    Growing Up Equal by Jeanne Kohl Jenkins and Pam Macdonald

    Keywords:

    art, Eurocentrism, historical misrepresentation and omission, Navajo, Maasai, Samoan, Inuit, Asahanti, Taino, Huichol, Tlinglit, Pueblo, R. C. Gorman, Diego Rivera, Helen Cordero, Romare Bearden, Black, indigenous people, Native American, Sioux, Lakota, Ojibway, Dakotas, Choctaw, censorship, textbooks, National Organization for Women (NOW), guidelines, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), PEER, Fourteenth Amendment, Texas, Education Task Force of Texas NOW, Texas Education Agency, phonics, Judeo-Christian, conservative, racism, sexism, feminism American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, color-blind, Boston Covenant Committee, Black is Beautiful, ant-racist, multicultural, institutional racism, National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN); Akinshiju Ola, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Social Responsibilities round Table (SRRT); boycott; Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC); Campbell's; Libby's; Nestle; Karen Wald; Cuba; Latin American Children's Project; Long Sleeve records; disability, Asian American, Phoenix Films, National Black Child Development Institute, White Deer of Autumn, Winged Crescent Woman, women's history, Women in Libraries, Kay Cassell, The Film Fund, KNOW Inc., Women's Health Network, Title IX, Lutheran Church in America, ARTS Inc., Women Library Workers, Civil Rights, index

  • Volume 12, Issue 1. 1981

    Themes:

    Native Americans; indigenous people; prejudice; racism; racial slurs; stereotypes; critical literacy; scientific racism; colonization; assimilation; immigration; segregation

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Hartmut Lutz, Arlene B. Hirschfelder, David Milner, Robert Lipsyte, Patricia B. Campbell, Robert Moore, Doris Seale, Ashley Jane Pennington, Kipp Watson, Jan M. Goodman, John Tchen, Donna Lovell, Melanie M. Lee, Janet Acevedo, Ruth S. Meyers, Lyla Hoffman, Vicki Breitbart, Ron Finney

    Materials Reviewed:

    People by Peter Spier
    Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women by Carolyn Niethammer
    The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
    See Me More Clearly: Career and Life Planning for Teens with Physical Disabilities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
    Women Pioneers of Science by Louis Haber
    The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer
    The Ballad of Penelope Lou ... And Me by Drew Stevenson
    The Star Husband by Jane Mobley
    The Twins Strike Back by Valerie Flournoy
    Words in Our Hands by Ada B. Litchfield
    Once I Was a Plum Tree by Johanna Hurwitz
    Rinehart Lifts by R. R. Knudson
    A Treasure Hunt by Christopher Wilson
    Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

    Keywords:

    Native Americans, indigenous people, American Indians, Germany, West Germany, prejudice, racism, lesson plans, research, evaluation, Sinti, Roma, Karl May, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, racial slurs, terminology, cross-national comparison, stereotypes, critical literacy, scientific racism, colonization, assimilation, depictions, nationalism, American Indian Movement (AIM), Britain, multicultural, immigration, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, selection criteria, Asian, sports, sexism, integration, segregation, John R. Tunis, Alex Karas, Hilda G. Finney Center, mass media, Song of the South, slavery, Clarence Muse, Barrio Bilingual Communications, bibliographies, Barbara Gittings, Gay Task Force, Community Media Project, OHOYO, Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE), educational disabilities, Callaloo, Consumers Union, women's liberation, Asian American Bilingual Center, Edith King, Langston Hughes Study Conference, Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

  • Volume 12, Issue 2. 1981

    Themes:

    literacy; critical pedagogy; illiteracy; conscientization; consciousness-raising; feminism, women's studies; oppression; reflection

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Barbara Schram, Geraldine L. Wilson, Jay Meryl, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Patricia B. Campbell, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Judy Yung, Emily Strauss Watson, Beryle Banfield, Jan M. Goodman

    Materials Reviewed:

    Ludell's New York Time by Brenda Wilkinson
    Like, Love, Lust: a View of Sex and Sexuality by John Langone
    If It Weren't for Benjamin (I'd Always Get to Lick the Icing Spoon) by Barbara Shook Hazen
    She's Not My Real Mother by Judith Vigna
    My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton
    At Grandmother's House by John Lim
    Only Love by Susan Sallis
    First Grade Takes a Test by Miriam Cohen
    Darlene by Eloise Greenfield
    Girls Can Be Anything They Want by Patricia Foote

    Keywords:

    Paolo Freire, Nicaragua, critical pedagogy, Nicaraguan Revolution, Somoza, illiteracy, literacy, liberation, Literacy Crusade, Popular Literacy Army (EPA), Popular Literacy Teachers, Sandinista's, John McFadden, Felix Vijil, Isabel C. Quintana, National Union of Teachers, Sandinista Defense Committee, Association of Rural Workers, Sandinista Trade Union Federation, Organization of Nicaraguan Women, popular alphabetizers, conscientization, Maria Suarez, Juan Jose Guerra, David L. Schwartz, Beverly Treuman, Philip Zwerling, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Black, Moskito, Rama, Suma, Spanish, bilingual, colonization, June Beer, Bilingual and Bicultural Act, MISURA-SATA, sostenimiento, workbooks, lesson plans, consciousness-raising, self-esteem, Peter L. Berger, Cynthia Brown, Alternate Schools Network, feminism, women's studies, oppression, reflection, Sandinista Popular Liberation Front (FSLN), librarians, Association of Nicaraguan Women (AMNLAE), Luisa Amanda Espinosa, National Network for Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua (NNSPN), Casa Nicaragua,

  • Volume 12, Issue 3. 1981

    Themes:

    sexism; stereotypes; critical education; apartheid; race bias; sex bias; racism; Native Americans

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Elaine Wagner, Patricia B. Campbell, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Lyla Hoffman, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Judy Yung, Beryle Banfield, Sonia Nieto, Geraldine L. Wilson, Jay Meryl, Paul Smith, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Day the Loving Stopped: A Daughter's View of Her Parents' Divorce by Julie Autumn List
    Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prisons by Phyllis Elperin Clark
    Window Wishing by Jeanette Caines
    The Dragon's Village: An Autobiography of Revolutionary China by Yuan-Tsung Chen
    A Young Genius in Old Egypt by Beatrice Lumpkin
    The Story of a Young Gymnast: Tracee Talavera by Karen Folger Jacobs
    The Wentletrap Trap by Jean Craighead George
    John Brown: A Cry for Freedom by Lorenz Graham
    Breaking Up by Norma Klein
    My Mother Lost Her Job Today by Judy Delton
    The Throwing Season by Michael French
    Young, Gay and Proud! by Sasha Alyson ed.
    Three Cheers for Mother Jones by Jean Bethell
    Tar Beach by Arthur Getz

    Keywords:

    sexism, Scholastic, Wildfire, Richard Robinson, New York City board of Education, National Education Association, National Organization for Women (NOW), Lorraine Shepard, stereotypes, critical education, Carol Poll, Judith Mosson, Sharon Robinson, Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), Ku Klux Klan (KKK), apartheid, research, race bias, sex bias, racism, objectivity, IQ testing, Samuel Morton, George Romanes, Carl Vogt, Louis Terman, "intellectual inferiority", Cyril Burt, Arthur Jensen, Gordon Allport, A. B. Evarts, Arnold Gesell, G. L. Austin, W. W. Bliss, Edward H. Clark, biological determinism, G. Stanley Hall, John Bowlby, status quo, bibliographies, book lists, Native American, Eurocentrism, Simon J. Ortiz, Craig Strete, reviewers, depictions, Akwesasne Notes, American Indian Quarterly, Indian Historian, Wassaja, Anne Fadum, Women Against Nuclear Development (WAND), Africa, Gale Research, Education Exploration Center, Educomics, Asian Canadian, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Nurturing News, Emergency Librarian,

  • Volume 12, Issue 4/5. 1981

    Themes:

    romance series; patriarchy; women's rights; abortion; male privilege; sexism; historical misrepresentation and omission; racism; stereotypes; preteens and teenagers; problem novels; censorship

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Selma Lanes, Brett Harvey, Emily Strauss Watson, Sharon Wigutoff, Ruth S. Meyers, Barbara Ann Porte, Donnarae MacCann, Lyla Hoffman, Patricia B. Campbell, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Doris Seale, Jan Meryl, Joan Kelly, Jamila Gaston, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman

    Materials Reviewed:

    Where the Elf King Sings by Judie Wolkoff
    Margaret Mead: A Portrait by Edward Rice
    She Never Looked Back: Margaret Mead in Samoa by Sam Epstein and Beryl Epstein
    Two Places to Sleep by Joan Schuchman
    Pagans in Our Midst by Andre Lopez
    Bouquets for Brimbal by J. P. Reading
    Waiting for Johnny Miracle by Alice Bach
    Idalia's Project ABC: An Urban Alphabet Book in English and Spanish by Idalia Rosario
    The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf
    The Secret in the Garden by Winifred Barnum Newman
    Cry Softly! The Story of Child Abuse by Margaret O. Hyde
    The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky

    Keywords:

    romance, romance series, patriarchy, women's rights, abortion, day care, male privilege, sexism, conservatives, Right to Life, textbooks, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Adolph Hitler, nationalism, series, historical misrepresentation and omission, racism, stereotypes, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), preteen, teenage, National Education Association (NEA), bias, Scholastic, Xerox Education Publications, Wildfire, Wishing Star, Sweet Dreams, First Love, The Feminist Press, censorship, David Darland, mass market, publishing, problem novels, Judy Blume, Norma Klein, Ann Reit, Bantam Books, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Fred Kenner, George Nicholson, Dell, Yearling, Laurel Leaf, Mona Altman, Caprice, Grosset & Dunlap, Franklin Watts, Jean Vestal, Mary Verdic, Marjorie Jones, Junior Literary Guild, book clubs, stretch books, William Mays Jr., Mary L. Spencer, National Organization for Women (NOW), Jan Peterson, National Congress of Neighborhood Women, Donnarae MacCann, Ruth Bond, Dimples Armstrong, Elizabeth H. Giese, Moral Majority, Brett Harvey, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, True Story, Ashley Pennington, disabilities, Disability in Action (DIA), lesbian, Leonore Gordon, gay, reluctant readers, classism, Frieda Zames, handicapism, Jackie Ball, Black, censorship by omission, publishing- whiteness, hi-lo, librarians, Reading is Fundamental, Eloise Greenfield, Sharon Bell Mathis, Beverly Cleary, Mildred Taylor, Marilyn Sachs, William Steig, Lucille Clifton, reading is eating, lesson plans, mass media, formula series, Mariam Frenier, Ms. Magazine, Elaine Wagner, Claudia Cole, Klan Youth Corps, desegregation, Connecticut Education Association, National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN), NAKN Education Committee, propaganda, critical education, John Leeke, Words by Heart, textbooks, Framingham Teachers' Association (FTA), Integrate Education,

  • Volume 12, Issue 6. 1981

    Themes:

    toys; racism; sexism; whitewashing; consciousness-raising; critical education

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Geraldine L. Wilson, Leonore Gordon, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Paul Smith, Sonia Nieto, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Jan M. Goodman,

    Materials Reviewed:

    I'm Still Me by Betty Jean Lifton
    Nick Joins In by Joe Lasker
    Talking Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds by William O. Steele
    Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield
    Stories from el Barrio by Piri Thomas
    Get Out of Here, Philip Hall by Bette Green
    An Eye on the World by Beatrice Siegel
    Stepchild by Terry Berger
    Portrait of Inequality: Black and White Children in America by Marian Wright Edelman
    Man Made Language by Dale Spender

    Keywords:

    toys, racism, sexism, whitewashing, Asian, Latino, Native American, Black, Warren Mann, F. W. Woolworth, ERTL, NY-LINT, Tonka, Toy Center International, Bimbambole, war, Confederate flag, Milton Bradley, Coleco, Emtex, Parker Brothers, Texas Instruments, Shindana Toys, Marcus Garvey, Fisher-Price, Barbie, narcissism, consumerism, Child Guidance Toys, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), day care, Tupperware, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Chanukah, Las Navidades, Chinese New Year, Folkways Records and Service Co., Smithsonian Institute, National Wildlife Association, Audubon Society, American Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Museum, Brooklyn Children's Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of African Art, The Museum of the American Indian, The Smithsonian Institution, consciousness-raising, civil rights, animal rights, critical education, classism, Toys-R-Us, Skillcraft, Creative Products, lesson plans, bibliographies, book lists, research, publishing, National Institute of Education, Department of Education, equity, numerical analysis, journals, Integrate Education, Journal of Black Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, SIGNS, homemaking, Gloria Steinem, sex equity, funding, Carol Gilligan,

  • Volume 12, Issue 7/8. 1981

    Themes:

    American Revolution; Native American; racism; classism; stereotypes; racial slurs; slavery; abolition; censorship by omission; historical misrepresentation and omission; cultural awareness; romance series

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Joel Taxel, Patricia B. Campbell, Sheli Wortis, Val Hinderlie, Patricia Simmons, Paula Kassell, Leonore Gordon, Emily Strauss Watson, Sonia Nieto, Lyla Hoffman, Geraldine L. Wilson, Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Jan M. Goodman, Paulette Fairbanks Molin, Diane M. Burns, Glenn Anderson, Paul Smith, Paulette Molin, Joseph K. Adjaye, Jay Meryl, Frieda Zames

    Materials Reviewed:

    Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, the Dump Queen by Norma Fox Mazer
    Accident by Hila Coleman
    Home for a Stranger by Joan Talmage Weiss
    Nobody's Perfect, Not Even My Mother by Norma Simon
    Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis DeVeaux
    The People Therein by Mildred Lee
    Head Over Wheels by Lee Kingman
    Daddy is a Monster... Sometimes by John Steptoe
    Fairytales of Gold by Alan Garner
    Finding Your First Job by Sue Alexander
    First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence Meiman White
    The Kissimmee Kid by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
    We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin
    Everybody Knows That! by Susan Pearson
    Tortillitas para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes in Spanish and English by Margot C. Griego, Betsy L. Bucks, Sharon S. Gilbert, Laurel H. Kimball, translators
    Let's Be Friends: A Picture Song by Jackie Weissman
    All About Me: A Picture Song by Jackie Weissman
    Button Eye's Orange by Jan Wahl
    Sesame Street Sign Language Fun with Linda Bove by Tom Cooke
    Jemmy by Hassler, Jon
    Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
    Buffalo Bill, Wild West Showman by Mary R. Davidson
    The Song Remembers: Self Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts by Jane B. Katz
    Growing Up Maasai by Tom Schachtman
    A Friend of China by Joyce Milton
    Breakfast with My Father by Ron Roy
    Come Out Smiling by Elizabeth Levy
    What's the Matter, Sylvie, Can't You Ride? by Karen Born Anderson

    Keywords:

    American Revolution, numerical analysis, Black, Native American, librarians, racism, classism, stereotypes, racial slurs, slavery, depictions, Patrick Henry, abolition, Thomas Jefferson, censorship by omission, historical misrepresentation and omission, classism, Jesse Lemisch, research, bias, publishing, socio-economic status, R. C. Wylie, observation effects, Black experience, Hispanic, Asian American, U. S. Census, Gallup Poll, normative, sexism, testing, IQ testing, child care, day care, multicultural, Multicultural Project for Communication and Education (MPCE), Asian, discrimination, diversity, self-esteem, liberation, consciousness-raising, bibliographies, evaluation criteria, Child Care Resource Center, cultural awareness, cultural awareness workshops, Portuguese, Haitian, African American, Geraldine L. Wilson, equal pay, inequity, quiz, journals, National Audiovisual Center, disabilities, NARMIC, nuclear arms, The Learning Seed Company, crime, National Association of Women Deans, The Women's Center, National Institute of Education, ARTWORKS, National Committee for Citizens in Education, Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP), Indian County Press, Plus Publications, New Women's Times, The Testing Digest, women's history, Wider Opportunities for Women, Agency for International Development, South Africa, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), romance series, financial support request, index

  • Volume 13, Issue 2/3. 1982

    Themes:

    Central America; censorship by omission; stereotypes; racism, Indigenous people; economic exploitation; poverty; sexism; critical education; genocide

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Victoria Ortiz, Paul Wasserman, Dolores Schaeffer, A. Faulkner Watts, Elmo Doig, Sally Smith, Jan M. Goodman, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Sonia Nieto, Doris Seale, Emily Moore, Sally Smith

    Materials Reviewed:

    Amy Goes Fishing by Joan Marzollo
    Politics: How to Get Involved by Dorothy Levenson
    Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
    The Ten-Woman Bicycle by Tricia Vita
    Like Everybody else by Barbara Girion
    A Shadow Like a Leopard by Myron Levoy
    Moonsong Lullaby by Jamake Highwater
    Oh, Boy! Babies by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali
    Morning Glory Afternoon by Irene Bennett Brown
    Marty McGee's Space Lab, No Girls Allowed by Martha Alexander

    Keywords:

    Central America, censorship by omission, stereotypes, Nancy Anderson, Rochelle Beck, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, content analysis, numerical analysis, racism, Indigenous, Black, economic exploitation, poverty, United Fruit Company, Guatemala, International Railways of Central America, Central Alliance, "La Matanza" ("The Slaughter"), Monroe Doctrine, Panama Canal, Arbez, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Alliance for Progress, depictions, sexism, machismo, Aztec, Maya, Eurocentrism, publishing, textbooks, critical education, Pablo Neruda, terminology, mestizo, Ladino, imperialism, Good Neighbor Policy; American Indian, Toltec, genocide, Panama, Belize, Chiapas, Spanish, cash crop, military, Somoza, Sandinistas, teaching supplements, sexism, women's rights, feminism, illiteracy, Fraternidad de Mujeres, Asociación de Mujeres de El Salvador (AMES), People's Revolutionary Army, Asociación de la Mujer Nicaragüense ante la Problematica Nacional (AMPRONAC), Dora Maria Tellez, Asociación de la Mujer Nicaragüense Luisa Amanda Espinosa (AMNLAE), tourism, Quiche, Cakchiquels, Kakchi, Mam, Pedro de Alvarado, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Judy Butler, Miskitu, maroons, Felipillo Mozambique, Anton Mandinga Mozambique, "limpieza de sangre", immigration, Elroy Blanco, Third Congress of Blacks in the Americas, The Black Congress, Alberto Smith, Melvia Lowe de Goodin, Antillean Blacks, Reina Torres de Arauz, migration, Spanish, West Indian, slavery, Jim Crow, lesson plans, Teachers' Committee on Central America, Amnesty International, Data center, Ecumenical Project for Inter-American Communication and Action (EPICA), H. A. N. D., Latin American Working Group (LAWG), Maryknoll Sisters, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), OXFAM-America, Religious Task Force on Central America, Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE), Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Committee in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, National Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), Casa Nicaragua, National Network in Solidarity with the Nicaraguan People (NNSNP), National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Barbara Stein, Title IX, sports, Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), Orin Hatch, Project EMBERS, Jack Kleinman, National Education Association,

  • Volume 13, Issue 4/5. 1982

    Themes:

    handicapism; disability; civil rights; stereotypes; sexism; ageism; Title IX; interlocking oppressions; poverty

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Emily Strauss Watson, Janet W. Acevedo, Nancy Wernikoff, Paula Wolff, Robert Feinstein, Sara L. Heskins, Caryl-Robin Dresher, Lois Wolff, Carolynne Bethka, Nancy Gropper, Mary Ellen Tosi, Judith J. Trotta, Rosemary Kasper, Kipp Watson, Jack Reed, Rosemary Kasper, Carolynne Bethka, Glenn Anderson, Betsy Gimbal, Frieda Zames, Donna Barkman, Sally Smith, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Jamila Gaston-Colon, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lauri Johnson, Gloria Kumagai, Beryle Banfield,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Hey, Remember Fat Glenda? by Lila Perl
    Indian Legacy: Native American Influence on World Life and Culture by Hermina Paotgieter
    Working Kids on Working by Sheila Cole
    Revolutionary Cuba by Terence Cannon
    Willie Blows a Mean Horn by Ianthe Thomas
    I Love You. Stupid! by Harry Mazer
    A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
    What Do You Do When Your Mouth Won't Open? by Susan Beth Pfeffer
    The Dark Side of Nowhere by Genevieve Gray
    Picture Me in a Poem by Jeannette Adams
    Black Child by Joyce Carol Thomas
    Images of Ourselves: Women with Disabilities Talking by Jo Campling ed.
    Mainstreaming the Hearing Impaired Child by Janie Satzman Orlansky
    The Handicapped Speak by William Roth
    Handicapping America: Barriers to Disabled People by Frank Bowe
    The Hidden Minority: America's Handicapped by Sonny Kleinfield
    Rehabilitating America: Toward Independence for Disabled and Elderly People by Frank Bowe
    The Unexpected Minority by John Gliedman and William Roth
    Voices: Interviews with Handicapped People by Michael D. Orlansky and William L. Heward

  • Volume 13, Issue 6/7. 1982

    Themes:

    militarism; nuclear disarmament; nuclear weapons; war; bias; poverty; national security; arms race; peace; critical education; anti-war; interlocking oppressions; bias; patriarchy; violence; poverty; handicapism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Peggy Schirmer, Lyla Hoffman, Kipp Watson, Emily Strauss Watson, Greg Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., C. T. Vivian, Sharon Wigutoff, Sergiu Herscovici, Donnarae MacCann, Bill Christofferson, Patrice Wagner, Beryle Banfield, Robert Sperber, Adeline Naiman, Patricia Mische, Kenneth S. Goodman, Irving Lerner, Ward L. Kaiser, Kathleen McGinnis, Bess Polin, Evelyn Weiss, Faye Lander, Patricia B. Campbell, Gerard Richard, Sheli Wortis, Jamila Gaston Colon, Lyla Hoffman, Jan M. Goodman, Laurie Johnson, Gloria L. Kumagai, Laurie Johnson, Ruth S. Meyers, Katie Hoffman, Grant Burns, Sonia Nieto,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Breakthrough: Women in Writing by Diana Gleasner
    The Banza: A Hatian Story by Diane Wolkstein
    Where the Deer and the Cantaloupe Play by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
    The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch
    Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki
    The Wave by Morton Rhue
    Cat Man's Daughter by Barbara Abercrombie
    Perfect Crane by Anne Laurin
    In Christina's Toolbox by Dianne Homan
    I Can Use Tools by Judie R. Kesselman and Franklynn Peterson
    Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Lives by Lynn Gilbert and Gaylen Moore
    Wonder Women of Sports by Betty Millsaps Jones
    My Mom Travels a Lot by Caroline Faller Bauer
    Why Am I Going to the Hospital? by Claire Ciliotta and Carole Livingston
    The Hospital Book by James Howe
    A Day in the Life of an Emergency room Nurse by Margot Witty
    The Joys of Cataloging: Essays, Letters, Reviews, and Other Explosions by Sanford Berman
    The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women by Project on the Status and Education of Women
    Women in American History: A Series by Beverly Sanders and the American Federation of Teachers
    Hey, Miss! You Got a Book for Me?: A Model Multicultural Resource Collection/Annotated Bibliography by Joanna Fountain Chambers
    Changing Words in a Changing World by Alleen Pace Nilsen
    Sex Education Books for Young Adults 1892-1979 by Patricia J. Campbell

    Keywords:

    racism, sexism, nuclear disarmament, militarism, nuclear weapons, draft registration, ROTC, war, bias, poverty, illiteracy, national security, Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), World Disarmament Week, Citizens Against Nuclear War (CAN), arms race, peace, critical education, Japan, Hibakusha, Peace Walkers, anti-war, lesson plans, Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education of Japan, Brenda Engel, Nuclear Education Project, feminism, interlocking oppressions, anti-humanism, bias, patriarchy, violence, poverty, handicapism, Disability in Action (DIA), slavery, colonialism, Korea, Vietnam, racial slurs, Frederick Douglass, Asian American, Marion Anderson, unemployment, H. Jack Geiger, paramilitary police, National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice, activism, repression, Native American, Martin Luther King Jr., USSR, Black, people of color, Reaganomics, Michael Parenti, "Beyond Vietnam", National Anti-Klan Network, textbooks, numerical analysis, content analysis, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Children for Peace, Bob Peterson, Geneva Summit, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, SALT I, SALT II, nationalism, imperialism, white supremacy, Newbery Award, George Orwell, Nicholas Johnson, G. D. Killan, Ann Dummett, Pentagon, academia, college, research, Department of Defense, Nukewatch Project on Campus Militarism, armed services, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD), Fellowship of reconciliation (FOR), National Interreligious Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBO), War Resisters League (WRL), video games, arcades, American Multiple Industries, Thomas W. Malone, government budget, social services, Center for Defense Information (CDI), Center for Peace Studies, Children's Creative Response to Conflict (CCRC), Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development (COPRED), Peace Education Network (PEN), Federation of American Scientists, Global Education Associates, The Institute for Peace and Justice, Institute for World Order, Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace, National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex (NARMIC), Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Parents and Friends for Children's Survival, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), SANE (Citizens' Organization for a Sane World), Student/Teacher Organization to Prevent Nuclear War, United Nations Children's Fund, Wilmington College Peace resource Center, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), The Jane Addams Peace Association, World Without War Council, films, AV, Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment (CEASE), bibliographies, National Council of Churches, Young Women's Christian Association, Human and Civil Rights Award, National Education Association (NEA), subscription fee increase, Action for Children's Television (ACT), F. Earle Barcus, mass media, Women's Educational Act Publishing Center,

  • Volume 13, Issue 8. 1982

    Themes:

    Index for volumes 7-13

  • Volume 14, Issue 1/2. 1983

    Themes:

    children's books on Puerto Rican themes; extremism; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Nazis; communism; affirmative action; civil rights; moral majority; critical consciousness; critical education; institutional oppression; socialism; anti-racism; white savior; classism; historical misrepresentation and omission

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Byron Williams, Sonia Nieto, Sharon Wigutoff, Iris Santos-Rivera, Samuel Betances, Virginia Copeland, Anaida Colon-Muniz, Geraldine Wilson, Beryle Banfield, Lyla Hoffman, Mary Ellen Tosi, Leonore Gordon, Kate Shackford, Jan M. Goodman, Patricia B. Campbell, Kipp Watson, Ruth S. Meyers

    Materials Reviewed:

    Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
    Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margot Zemach
    Shadow by Marcia Brown
    When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
    Friends Till the End by Todd Strasser
    Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
    All the Colors of the Race: Poems by Arnold Adoff
    Sometimes it Happens by Elinor Lander Horwitz
    She Was There: Stories of Pioneering Women Journalists by Jean E. Collins
    Full-Time Active: Sara Plotkin, An Oral History by Community Documentation Workshop
    Jock and Jill by Robert Lipsyte
    Time for a Change: A Woman's Guide to Nontraditional Occupations by Constance Drake Cowley
    Taking on the World: Empowering Strategies for Parents of Children with Disabilities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
    The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
    Thinking About Aging by Prime Time School Television

    Keywords:

    Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican, American federation of Teachers (AFT), Albert Shanker, extremism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Nazis, communism, David Asman, Heritage Foundation, Joseph Coors, affirmative action, civil rights, Moral Majority, critical consciousness, critical education, institutional oppression, socialism, anti-racism, feminism, Cuba, basal reader, EMBERS, Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP), The Feminist Press, New Right, National Education Association (NEA), Martin Luther King Jr., institutionalized racism, stereotypes, bilingual, Spanish, reviewers, publishing, Puerto Rican Educators Association (PREA), Lau v. Nichols, ASPIRA, United Nations, colonialism, assimilation, multiracial, multicultural, bias, ethnocentrism, numerical analysis, content analysis, white savior, classism, historical misrepresentation and omission, machismo, Chinese, Native American, Japanese, Asian American, folktales, poetry, internalized oppression, Roberto Clemente, Luis Munoz Marin, Felisa Rincon de Gautier, sovereignty, tourism, Puerto Rico News Service, Operation Bootstrap, Taino Indians, Hispanic, sexism, racism, terminology, Luis Munoz Rivera, Luis Munoz Marin, Luis Ferre, Pedro Albizu Campos, National Party, migration, Pura Belpre, New York Public Library, Gary Keller, Chicano, textbooks, Jones Act, Caribbean, indigenous people, slavery, African, Foraker Act, Ruben Dario, Hispanidad, Decolonization Committee, Juana Colon, Juan S. Marcano, Socialist Party, Commission for the Improvement of Women's Rights, Luisa Capetillo, liberation struggles, women's suffrage, anti-colonialism, Las Ordenanzas de Valladolid, Black Legend (of Spain), cimarrones, Guillermo Baralt, slave revolts, Toussaint L'Ouverture, El Grito de Lares, Ramon Emeterio Betances, emancipation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Centro/The Puerto Rican Research Center, Frank Bonilla, Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, color prejudice, Isabelo Zenon-Cruz, Carmen M. Felix, Puertorriqueño Contra El Racismo (The Puerto Rican Council Against Racism), AV, self-esteem, Lola Rodriguez de Tito, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Jose Celso Barbosa, films, Ismael Rodriguez Bou, Pedro Angel Cebollero, Martin G. Brumbaugh, English, asimilistas, separatistas, National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN); Nancy Larrick, Ron Buehl, Bantam Books, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, mass media, Children's Defense Fund, Project on the Status and Education of Women, Title IX, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, Non-Sexist Child Development Project, Women's Action Alliance, women's studies, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA); Southwest Research and Information Center, New Glide Press,

  • Volume 14, Issue 3/4. 1983

    Themes:

    homophobia; homosexual; oppression; gay; lesbian; discrimination; heterosexism; gender; women's movement; sexuality; minorities; patriarchy; poverty; institutional discrimination; interlocking oppressions; institutional homophobia; collective homophobia; internalized homophobia; white flight; equity; segregation; slurs; activism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    James S. Tinney, Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Jan Goodman, C. A. Jenkins, Julie L. Morris, Katherine Whitlock and Elena M. DiLapi, Dale C. Burke, Leonore Gordon, Sanford Berman, Carol Bloom, Doris Seale, Geraldine Wilson, Lyla Hoffman, Elly Bulkin, Mary K. Chelton, Michael Collins, Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Cunningham, Frances Doughty, Frances Hanckel, Redvers Jean-Marie, Polly Kellogg, Gayle Keresey, Robert R. Moore, Marc Rubin, Stuart Schear, Rebecca Taylor, Phyllis Yuill

    Materials Reviewed:

    Johnny Stands by Harry W. Paige
    The Girl on the Outside by Mildred Pitts Walker
    The Summerboy by Robert Lipsyte
    Summer Switch by Mary Rodgers
    What Happened to Mr. Forster? by Gary W. Bargar

    Keywords:

    homophobia, homosexual, oppression, gay, lesbian, discrimination, heterosexism, Audre Lorde, gender, women's movement, sexuality, Norma Gabler, textbooks, slavery, degradation, minorities, straight, patriarchy, poverty, institutional discrimination, interlocking oppressions, institutional homophobia, Black, Frederick Douglass, police, crime, collective homophobia, National Council of Black Studies, women's studies, internalized homophobia, white flight, equity, segregation, terminology, stereotypes, Hispanic, consciousness-raising, politicization, conscientization, liberation struggles, Combahee River Collective, Black feminism, classism, police brutality, Blues, disability, slurs, activism, Family Protection Act, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), sex roles, right wing, Wainright Churchill, content analysis, bibliographies, book lists, hormone theory, conditioned-response theory, psychoanalytic theory, Robert Stoller, evaluation criteria, encyclopedias, Gay Task Force, American Library Association (ALA), Barbara Gittings, critical education, racial slurs, Holly Near, lesson plans, definitions, Kinsey, Judd Marmor, The Hite Report, cataloging, subject headings, libraries, Asian American Lesbian and Gay Men's Coalition, Black and White Men Together, Gay American Indians, Gay Rights National Lobby, Latin American Lesbian and Gay Men's Coalition, National Coalition of Black Gays, National Gay Student Center, National Gay Task Force, Salsa Soul Sisters, Affirmation: United Methodists for Gay Concerns, Dignity Inc., Integrity Inc., Universal Fellowship of the Metropolis Community Churches, Gay Parents Legal and Research Group, National Federation of Parents and Friends of Gays, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Lawyers Guild, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Institute for the Protection of Gay and Lesbian Youth, Gay Teachers Association, National Gay Archive, Lesbian Archives, AV, Guidance Associates, Audio Visual Narrative Arts, Carousel Film and Video, Direct Cinema Ltd., New Yorker Films, People for the American Way, New Right, Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, Texas Textbook Project, National Black Child Development Institute, Noma Prize, Africa

  • Volume 14, Issue 5. 1983

    Themes:

    censorship; intellectual freedom; diversity; critical education; Black Experience; societal racism; civil rights; institutional racism; historical misrepresentation and omission; cultural appropriation; cultural authenticity

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sanford Berman, Beryle Banfield, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lucille Clifton, Nancy L. Arnez, Eloise Greenfield, Tom Feelings, Julius Lester, Sharon Bell Mathis, Ossie Davis, Paule Marshall, Lerone Bennett, Mari Evans, George Ford, Virginia Hamilton, Kristin Hunter, Sonia Sanchez, Marcia V. Roebuck-Hoard, Walter Dean Myers, Leo Carty, Lorenz Graham, Brenda Wilkinson, John Oliver Killens, Camille Yarborough, Nikki Giovanni, Patricia B. Campbell, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Susie Rogers, Green Family, Elizabeth Martinez, Jane Califf, Sonia Nieto, Jan M. Goodman, Doris Seale,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Big Sixteen by Mary Calhoun
    Circle of Fire by William H. Hooks
    The Man Who Dropped from the Sky by Kevin Shyne
    Families by Meredith Tax
    The Bomb by Sidney Lens
    My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter
    Tic Tac Toe and Other Three-in-a-Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer by Claudia Zaslavsky
    Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky
    Sonya's Mommy Works by Arlene Alda
    Pinatas and Paper Flowers/Pinatas y Flores de Papel by Lila Perl
    Ten Miles High by Felice Buckvar
    Starting School by Muriel Stanek
    Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Promote Race, Sex, Class and Age Equity by Nancy Schneidewind and Ellen Davidson
    American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A Reader and Bibliography by Arlene B. Hirschfelder
    Equal Their Chances: Children's Activities for Non-Sexist Learning by June Shapiro, Sylvia Kramer, and Cathering Hunerberg

    Keywords:

    Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven, censorship, selection, libraries, John C. Frantz, Judy Krug, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Intellectual Freedom Office, American Library Association (ALA), Ethnic Materials Information Exchange (EMIE), diversity, Black, Native American, Asian American, Spencer Shaw, Lotsee Smith, Suzine Har Nicolescu, American Association of School Librarians, Heritage Foundation, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Al Shanker, critical education, T. H. Bell, Black Experience, racism, sexism, African American, Rayford Logan, Reconstruction, Fourteenth Amendment, Jim Crow, terminology, stereotypes, societal racism, slavery, Sterling Brown, U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, civil rights, institutional racism, Center for Social Policy, Dorothy Sterling, colonialism, self-esteem, historical misrepresentation and omission, Little Black Sambo, Eloise Greenfield, anti-Black, depictions, cultural appropriation, Farrar Strass, cultural authenticity, First Amendment, publishing, Henry McNeal Turner, textbooks, Texas Textbook Project, People for the American Way, Freedom to Learn Project, Far Right, Barbara Parker, Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, Texas Civil Liberties Union, Texas Coalition for Excellence in Science Education, National Education Association (NEA), bias, militarism, classism, nuclear war, feminism, gay rights, New Right, Cold War, communist, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Operation Textbook, America's Future, E. Merrill Root, John Birch Society, McCarthyism, Texans for America, fundamentalism, Ralph Bunche, Langston Hughes, J. Frank Dobie, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS), Association for American Publishers, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Organization for Women (NOW), reviewers, evaluation criteria, Women's Education; Equity Act (WEEA); Title IX, Leslie Wolfe, Educational Equity Concepts, Teachers' Committee on Central America, Interracial Family Studies Project (IFSP); lesson plans, TABS, Arts Resources for Children and Students Inc (ARTS), American Indian, sexual abuse, Lambda Rising, Radical Teacher, Straight Talk, The Data Center, Oxfam America, Organization of Pan Asian American Women, Caribbean, Jewish, Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment (CEASE),

  • Volume 14, Issue 6. 1983

    Themes:

    censorship; racism; sexism; stereotypes; people of color; disabilities; one-parent families; comic books; patriarchy; white supremacy; gender; sex-roles; Korean War; Vietnam War

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sanford Berman, Gwyneth Britton, Margaret Lumpkin, Leonard Rifas, Jim McGinnis and Kathy McGinnis, Lyla Hoffman, Caryl Drescher, Ruth Charnes, Elizabeth Martinez, Gloria Kumagai, Nina E. Yahr, Albert V. Schwartz, Leonore Gordon, Geraldine L. Wilson, Doris Seale, Kipp Watson,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Do-Something Day by Joe Lasker
    Angie and Me by Rebecca C. Jones
    The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1650-1950 by Milton Meltzer
    So What? by Miriam Cohen
    Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis
    What If They Knew? by Patricia Hermes
    The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
    A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
    Something Special for Me by Vera B. Williams
    The Best Way Out by K. Follis Cheatham
    My Friend Has Four Parents by Margaret O. Hyde
    Tomahawks and Trombones by Barbara Mitchell
    Last One Chosen by Dorothy Hamilton

    Keywords:

    Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven, First Amendment, American Library Association (ALA), censorship, racism, sexism, Fourteenth Amendment, stereotypes, self-esteem, South Africa, dialogue, people of color, women, disabilities, content analysis, bias, German, Mexican, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, numerical analysis, basal readers, Hartley and Watson, depictions, militarism, one-parent families, comic books, patriarchy, white supremacy, gender, sex-roles, Black, Korean War, Vietnam War, Charlton Comics, D. C. Comics, Geneva Convention, Nazis, Sandinistas, nuclear war, Fidel Castro, Native American, historical misrepresentation and omission, Institute for Peace and Justice in St. Louis, Phil Donahue Show, Martin Luther King Jr., Kent State, Jackson State, Cambodia, ROTC, Parenting for Peace and Justice (PPJ); solidarity; direct service; social change; Ronice Branding; Nestle, boycott, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, Latin American Interfaith Coalition, Clergy and Laity Concerned, United Farm Workers, Center for Concern, Cornerstone, Eighth Day Center for Justice, Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace, Mennonite Central Committee, Peacemaking Project of United Presbyterian Church, Riverside Church Disarmament Program, United Church of Christ, Dorothy Solomon, Hispanic, multicultural, Joanne Koziatek, Bill Pierce, Susan Leet, affirmative action, Parenting for Peace and Justice Network (PPJN), El Salvador, Central America, National Labor Committee in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in El Salvador, National Education Association (NEA), Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Association Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos (ANDES), unions, assassinations, Honduras, Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade, Richard Gaugert, TABS, Women's Information Exchange, SEICUS, Third World, mass media, Action for Children's Television (ACT), Progressive Education, M. Gentle Men for Gender Justice, Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT) Feminist Task Force, Women in Libraries, Public Affairs Committee, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), Women Library Workers, Pediatrics for Parents,

  • Volume 14, Issue 7/8. 1983

    Themes:

    stereotypes; sexism; racism; teenage pregnancy; critical education; sexual violence; consciousness-raising; Civil Rights; beauty; skin tone; "rightness of whiteness"; racial identity; societal racism; color blindness; storytelling

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sheila D. Collins, Geraldine L. Wilson, Multicultural Project for Communication in Education, Suzanne Caruthers, Joyce King, Bj Richards, Sheli Wortis, Jack L. Daniel, Itty Chan, Soledad Arenas, Barbetta L. Lockart, Beryle Banfield, Rachel Theilheimer, Thomas L. Goodhue, Merle Froschl, Barbara Sprung, Ruth Beaglehole, Margaret Lumpkin, Lyla Hoffman, Doris Seale, Elizabeth Martinez, Jan M. Goodman, Emily Strauss Watson, Susan L. Wizowaty, Ruth S. Meyers, Elizabeth Martinez, Carolynne Bethka, W. Keith McCoy, Betsy Gimbel,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Boy Who Wanted a Baby by Wendy Lichtman
    The Last Algonquin by Theodore L. Kazimiroff
    Bananas: From Manolo to Margie by George Ancona
    Underneath, I'm Difference by Ellen Rabinowich
    My Friend Leslie: The Story of a Handicapped Child by Maxine B. Rosenberg
    Hazel Rye by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
    Lillian Wald of Henry Street by Beatrice Siegel
    I Would if I Could by Betty Miles
    The Boll Weevil Express by P. J. Peterson
    Triumph! Conquering Your Physical Disability by LeRoy Hayman
    The Piano Makers by David Anderson
    Pacific Coast Indians of North America by Grant Lyons
    Columbus: His Enterprise by Hans Koning
    One Teenager in 10: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth by Ann Heron
    A Matter of Principle by Susan Beth Pfeffer
    Where's Buddy by Ron Roy
    Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
    Who Will Take Care of Me? by Patricia Hermes
    Independence Day by B. A. Ecker
    All-American Boys by Frank Mosca
    Wings and Roots by Susan Terris
    El libro de las estaciones/A Book of Seasons by Alice Provenson and Martin Provenson
    El bebe de los osos Berenstain/The Berenstain Bears' New Baby by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
    500 palabras nuevas para ti/500 Words to Grow On by Harry McNaught
    Combatting Racism in the Workplace: A Course for Workers by Barb Thomas and Charles Novogrodsky
    In Search of Our Past: Units in Women's History by Berkeley Unified School District
    Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence by New Society Publishers ed.
    Women's America: Refocusing the Past by Linda K. Kerber and Jane De Hart Mathews
    Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age by Joanna Rogers Macy
    Surviving Sexual Assault by Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women

    Keywords:

    stereotypes, sexism, racism, teenage pregnancy, critical education, sexual violence, films, Leona Cameron, gender, Bill Sparks, multiracial, consciousness-raising, Latina, equal pay, Hispanic, Civil Rights, Black Power, beauty, Black, skin tone, research, African American, Asian American, Native American, Latino, white supremacy, "rightness of whiteness", Mary Ellen Goodman, cultural traditions, anti-racism, Judy Katz, Alice Miel, self-esteem, prejudice, Bernard Kutner, Abraham F. Citron, racial identity, societal racism, color blind, cultural awareness, bilingual, multilingual, storytelling, multicultural, Chinese American, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Las Navidad, Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King, Sitting Bull, Fannie Lou Hamer, Thanksgiving, Halloween, anti-human, ageism, day care, anti-sexist, gender-neutral, activism, Benjamin Bannecker, TABS, handicapism, disability, Mary Ann Lang, Patricia Gillespie-Silver, Lous Heshusius, TRANSBUS, learning disability, inclusivity, Women's Action Alliance Inc., depictions, Disabled in Action (DIA), Sign Language Shoppe, Educational Equity Concepts Inc., gay, lesbian, homophobia, Briggs Initiative, heterosexism, interlocking oppressions, Book lists, bibliographies, Afro-Am Educational Materials, Akwesasne Notes, ARTS Inc., Center for Teaching About China, Children's Book and Music Center, Educational Activities Inc., Evaluation Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Feminist Press, Folkways Records, Gryphon House, Instructor Corp, Instructor Publications, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Lakeshore Curriculum Materials, Lollipop Power, Mid-Atlantic Center for Sex Equity, Native American Education Program, Non-Sexist Child Development Project, Women's Educational Equity Act Publishing Center, Penk et al. v. The Oregon State Board of Higher Education, Title VII,

  • Volume 15, Issue 3. 1984

    Themes:

    computers and technology; access; classism; socio-economic status (SES); inequity; video games; Native Americans; discrimination; boarding school; assimilation; white savior; interracial marriage

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Patricia B. Campbell, Doris Seale, Emily Strauss Watson, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lyla Hoffman, Jan M. Goodman, Susan L. Wizowaty, Stephanie Michel, Teacher Resource and Support Group of the Multicultural Project, Suzanne C. Carothers, Jack L. Daniel, Marney Saaz, Betsy Gimbel,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Everett Anderson's Goodby by Lucille Clifton
    The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
    Just Vernon by Nancy J. Hopper
    Not Just Any Ring by Danita Ross Haller
    The Revolution of Mary Leary by Susan Shreve
    What About Grandma? by Hadley Irwin
    I Wish I Had My Father by Norma Simon
    Babylon by Jill Paton Walsh
    Herbert Rowbarge by Natalie Babbitt
    Women Who Changed Things by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
    But She's Still My Grandma! by Doreen Rappaport
    When Can Daddy Come Home? by Martha Whitmore Hickman
    Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walker
    Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Happiness and Tears by William Jay Jacobs
    Black Children: Their Roots, Culture and Learning Styles by Janice E. Hale
    The Way Out Must Lead In: Life Histories in the Civil Rights Movement by William R. Beardslee
    Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich
    A Handbook for the Disabled: Ideas and Inventions for Easier Living by Suzanne Lunt
    Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization by Jack Zipes
    Guide to Non-Sexist Teaching Activities (K-12) by Northwest Regional Education Laboratory
    Images of Life on Children's Television: Sex Roles, Minorities and Families by F. Earle Barcus
    Green Paradise Lost by Elizabeth Dodson Gray
    Patriarchy as a Conceptual Trap by Elizabeth Dodson Gray

    Keywords:

    computers, technology, access, classism, racism, socio-economic status (SES), English, inequity, Frank Lautenberg, New Federalism, gender, hackers, stereotypes, software, militarism, sports, terminology, bias, mass media, video games, sexism, discrimination, Navajo, Native American, Hatter Fox, Thanksgiving, Bureau of Indian Affairs, prison, boarding school, assimilation, stereotypes, Hispanic, Mexican, white savior, American Indian, disabilities, Little Theatre of the Deaf, Mary A. Hubbard School, Lynn Mintz, Disability Awareness Day Program, activism, book lists, bibliographies, consciousness-raising, Carole Prendergast, librarians, The 52 Association, films, Seeing Eye Foundation, National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, National Organization on Disability, Disabled in Action (DIA), accessibility, James Byrne, Council on Exceptional Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, John Dragona, Tulia Dragona, Sandra Pinkerton, Greg Murphy, Myra Castro, Genie Munro, National Theatre of the Deaf, Children of Interracial Families, self-esteem, interracial marriage, New York Council for the Humanities, Huck Finn, peace, Minnesota Writers for Peace, Leola Johnson, Ruben Medina, nuclear war, War Resisters League,

  • Volume 15, Issue 6. 1984

    Themes:

    Conference on Children of Interracial Families; Children of Interracial Families; interlocking oppressions; self-esteem; interracial families; racism; societal racism; transracial adoption; white pride; prejudice; racial slurs; discrimination; cultural heritage; white supremacy; activism; Black militancy

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Kate Shackford, Joyce Ladner, Francis Wardle, Alvin S. Poussaint, Philip Spivey, Clarence L. Chen, Irma Garcia Rose, Helen Brody, Helen Brody, Margo Alexandre Long, Jacquelyn M. Dean, Emily Strauss Watson, Geraldine L. Wilson, Jamila Gaston-Colon, Leonore Gordon, Albert V. Schwartz, Christine Jenkins, Barbara Pritchard, Jacquelyn M. Dean, Nina Goss,

    Materials Reviewed:

    First Came the Indians by M. J. Wheeler
    Secret Places of the Stairs by Susan Sallis
    Apples on a Stick: The Folklore of Black Children by Barbara Michels and Bettye White
    The Great Computer Dating Caper by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
    The Hot and Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz
    A Handful of Stars by Barbara Girion
    There's No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein by Susan Sussman
    Just Another Love by R. R. Knudson
    A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair by Nicholas Fisk
    The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George

    Keywords:

    Children of Interracial Families, Bradford Chambers, interlocking oppressions, financial support request, self-esteem, interracial families, Mary Giudice, terminology, racism, Black, biracial, societal racism, Mary Guidice, Helen Brody, Eve Troutt, Philip Spivey, Alvin Poussaint, transracial adoption, white pride, prejudice, racial slurs, discrimination, cultural heritage, multiracial, multicultural, Paula Phillips, Biracial Families Resource Center, research, pathologize, Asian, West Indian, Harvard, white supremacy, activism, Black militancy, bias, personal accounts, Jewish, Asian American, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, Spanish, segregation, American Indian, Biracial Family Network, Biracial Family Resource Center, INTERace, Interracial Club of Buffalo, Interracial Family Circle, Interracial Family Alliance (IFA), Interracial Families Inc., I-Pride, Multi-Racial Families of Colorado, Parents of Interracial Children (PIC), POLY, Rainbow Circle, Amanda Houston-Hamilton, AmerAsian Tamashii, mass media, Prince, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), First Run Features, Maryknoll Films, Churchill Color Films, Mobius International Film Library, Purple Rain

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

    Keywords:

    Children of Interracial Families, Bradford Chambers, interlocking oppressions, financial support request, self-esteem, interracial families, Mary Guiduce, terminology, racism, Black, biracial, societal racism, Mary Guidice, Helen Brody, Eve Troutt, Philip Spivey, Alvin Poussaint, transracial adoption, white pride, prejudice, racial slurs, discrimination, cultural heritage, multiracial, multicultural, Paula Phillips, Bi-Racial Families Resource Center, research, pathologize, Asian, West Indian, Harvard, white supremacy, activism, Black militancy, bias, personal accounts, Jewish, Asian American, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, Spanish, segregation, American Indian, Biracial Family Network, Biracial Family Resource Center, INTERace, Interracial Club of Buffalo, Interracial Family Circle, Interracial Family Alliance (IFA), Interracial Families Inc., I-Pride, Multi-Racial Families of Colorado, Parents of Interracial Children (PIC), POLY, Rainbow Circle, Amanda Houston-Hamilton, AmerAsian Tamashii, mass media, Prince, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), First Run Features, Maryknoll Films, Churchill Color Films, Mobius International Film Library, Purple Rain

  • 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
    I Can/Can You? by Peggy Parish
    Circle of Giving by Ellen Howard
    Prank by Kathryn Lasky
    Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty
    Buffalo Woman by Paul Goble
    My Mommy Makes Money by Joyce Mitchell
    Nobody's Baby Now by Carol Lee Benjamin
    Grace by Liesel Moak Skorpen

    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

  • Volume 16, Issue 2/3. 1985

    Themes:

    equity; equal education rights; capitalism; poverty; classism; censorship by omission; sexism; racism; interlocking oppressions; ageism; handicapism; institutional racism; institutional sexism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Joan Lester, M. William Howard, Leslie R. Wolfe, Jan Goodman, Gail Draper, Lyla Hoffman, Jan M. Goodman, Leonore Gordon, Doris Seale, Carolynne Bethka, W. Keith McCoy, Albert V. Schwartz, Jessie Wenning, Ellen Rubin, Kathleen Gibbons, Sheli Wortis, the Multicultural Project, Anne Meisenzahl, Jackie Eubanks, Emily Strauss Watson,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Our Future at Stake: A Teenager's Guide to Stopping the Nuclear Arms Race by Melinda Moore, Laurie Olsen, and nine teenagers
    Mattie's Money Tree by Don German
    Henry's Tower by David Roger
    The Tipi: A Center of Native American Life by Charlotte Yue and David Yue
    Love in a Different Key by Marjorie Franco
    The Boys on the Rock by John Fox
    Toba by Michael Mark
    New Road! by Gail Gibbons
    My Favorite Place by Susan Sargent and Donna Aron Wirt
    How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina Friedman
    The Peach Tree by Norman Pike
    Isabelle Shows Her Stuff by Constance Greene
    The Half-Birthday Party by Charlotte Pomerantz
    Alternative Library Literature 1982-83: A Biennial Anthology by Sanford Berman and James P. Danky
    Barrier to Excellence: Our Children at Risk by National Coalition of Advocates for Students
    Special Needs Bibliography: Current Books For/About Children and Young Adults Regarding Social Concerns, Emotional Concerns, the Exceptional Child by Barbara K. Griffiths
    Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua by James McGinnis
    We're Not Just Talking Sex: A Leader's Guide for Teen Sex Education by Katherine Whitlock, Elena M. DiLapi, Gloria M. Gay, Deborah Johnson and Judith Kahn
    Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner by Vivian Gussin Paley

    Keywords:

    Equity Institute, Reformed Church in America, Project on Equal Education Rights, capitalism, poverty, classism, content analysis, censorship by omission, sexism, racism, interlocking oppressions, unemployment, ageism, handicapism, strike, librarians, Black, depictions, socialism, environmentalism, communism, Russia, China, income inequality, institutional racism, institutional sexism, lesson plans, critical education, taxes, Congress, laws, research, interviews, wealth distribution, status, salaries, stereotypes, prejudice, children's perspectives, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, work, Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE), Josie Anderson McMillan, Mary Gale, Bernadine Oliver, Bradford Chambers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, biracial, Biracial Family Resource Center, Children of Interracial Families, Douglas Wirt, Marge Green, Biracial Conference Committee, National Educational Film festival, human rights, A Place for Us Ministry to Interracial Couples, Project on the Status and Education of Women, Bernice Sandler, Roberta Hall, technology, computers, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "Aryan Nation Liberty Net", films, World Wise, Black Experience, Japanese American, people of color, Reality Jigsaw Puzzles, Consortium for Educational Equity, Maryellen Lo Bosco, ACT, Central America, American Friends Service committee, Shameless Hussy Press, Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, Marnee Kennedy, peace, Third World Resources, Dennis Banks Defense Committee, American Indian Movement (AIM); Frog in the Well,

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

    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),

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

    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

  • Volume 16, Issue 7. 1985

    Themes:

    Women's History; Civil Rights; Black Experience; folktales; self-esteem; racism; Eurocentrism; colonialism

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Molly Murphy MacGregor, Terry L. Baker, Frances Hesselbein, Beryle Banfield, Walter Dean Myers, Tom Feelings, Mildred T. Taylor, Angela R. Simpson, Lyla Hoffman, Sylvia Stalker, Geraldine L. Wilson, Leonore Gordon, Emily Leinster, Christine Jenkins, Tracy Dalton, Alice N. Nash, Tracy Dalton, Susan Wizowaty, Janice C. Warner, Richard O. Ulin, Emily Strauss Watson, Doris Seale,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Strikemakers and Strikebreakers by Sidney Lens
    I Know How You Feel Because this Happened to Me: A Handbook for Kids with a Parent in Prison by Louise Rosenkrantz
    Revolution in Central America by Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brown Spices ABC Book: A Great Coloring Book for Boys and Girls!! by Annie and Julee
    The Secret Worry by Elissa P. Benedek
    Town & Country by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen
    Zan Hagen's Marathon by R. R. Knudson
    Women Astronauts Aboard the Space Shuttle by Mary Virginia Fox
    The Serpent's Children by Laurence Yep
    Sally Ride, America's First Woman in Space by Carolyn Blacknall
    In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921 - 1944 by Linda Atkinson
    American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
    Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe
    The South African Churches in a Revolutionary Situation by Marjorie Hope and James Young
    The Use and Abuse of History or How the Past is Taught by Marc Ferro
    Disability in Modern Children's Literature by John Quicke
    Love Medicine by Louise Erdich

    Keywords:

    National Women's History Project, Hofstra University, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., African American, Book lists, bibliographies, Civil Rights, publishing, Black, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Shirley Graham, Rudine Sims, conservative, Benign Neglect, Black Experience, selection criteria, Lerone Bennett Jr., John Henrik Clark, John Hope Franklin, Benjamin Quarles, Paula Giddings, Inez Reidy, Joyce Ladner, Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, Barbara Smith, stereotypes, Sterling Brown, folktales, self-esteem, racism, research, multicultural, false superiority - white, textbooks, Zimbabwe, Azania, Nigeria, Mali, Eurocentrism, Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolution, Dumas, Pushkin, colonialism, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, pathologize, North Carolina, slavery, mass media, UnderCover Book Source, Baker and Taylor, Ingram, Black nationalism, Islam, Hebrew-Israelites, Rastafarians, Alvin Poussaint, Liberation Bookstore, Una Mulzac, Harlem, sexism, Guyana, self-esteem, Black studies, African Caribbean Bookstore, Afro in Books and Things, All African People's Books, Marcus Books, Pyramid Bookstore, Savana Books, Shrine of the Black Madonna, Afro Am Publishing Inc., Ashley Books Inc., Associated Publishers, E. W. Blyden Press, Detroit Black Writers' guild, DuSable Museum of African American History Press, Howard University Press, Third World Press, Zamani Productions, self-publishing,

  • Volume 16, Issue 8. 1985

    Themes:

    African Americans; literacy; slavery; Emancipation Proclamation; Civil War; Brown v. Board of Education; abolition; slaveocracy; segregation; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); stereotypes; plantation stories; Black writers; Black Experience; elitism; myth of Black inferiority

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Beryle Banfield, M. William Howard Jr., Judy Rogers, Kathleen E. Goodin, Alice Nash, Doris Seale, Susan Witzowaty, Emily Leinster, Doris Seale, Laura D. Brown, Christine Jenkins, Tracy Dalton, Betty Bacon,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Paris, Pee Wee, and Big Dog by Rosa Guy
    The Runner by Cynthia Voight
    Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance by Ian Wallace
    In the Shadow of the Wind by Luke Wallin
    Smile Like a Plastic Daisy by Sonia Levitin
    It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World by Paula Danziger
    Legend Days by Jamake Highwater
    Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
    Life.Is.Not.Fair. by Gary W. Bargar
    Voices from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities Speak Out by Gwyneth Ferguson Matthews
    The Fragile Flag by Jane Langton
    Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
    Grandparents: A Special Kind of Love by Eda LeShan
    Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie by Jan Greenberg

    Keywords:

    African American, literacy, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, Brown v. Board of Education, abolition, Susie King Taylor, Linda Brent, Carrie Davis, Lydia Maria Child, slavocracy, segregation, Federal Writers' Project, Works Project Administration, research, William Adams, Jennie Bowen, Esther Casey, repression, Septima Clark, Freedman's Schools, G. W. Offley, Bible, Frederick Douglass, Methodist Sabbath School, Nat Turner, Quakers, Prudence Crandall, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), dialect, Black English, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Charlemae Hill Rollins Colloquium, stereotypes, depictions, plantation stories, Black writers, Carter G. Woodson, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Associated Publishers, We Build Together - A Reader's Guide to Negro Life and Literature for Elementary and High School Use, book lists, bibliographies, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Charlemae Rollins, librarians, evaluation criteria, publishing, Walter Dean Myers, Kristin Hunter, Newberry Award, Margaret Musgrove, Leo Dillon, Dianne Dillon, Black Experience, racism, white supremacy, elitism, materialism, conformities, myth of Black inferiority, sexism, reluctant readers, Vietnamese, American Library Association (ALA), sports, romance, Spanish, Asian, cultural difference, subscription fee increase

  • Volume 17, Issue 1. 1986

    Themes:

    women's history; multiculturalism; tokenism; women's suffrage; Title IX

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Doris Seale, Emily Leinster, Betty Bacon, Valerie Ooka Pang, Christine Jenkins, Emily Strauss Watson, Howard N. Meyer, Albert V. Schwartz,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Ceremony of Innocence by Jamake Highwater
    Don't Be My Valentine: A Classroom Mystery by Joan M. Lexau
    Crazy Quilt by Jocelyn Riley
    The Happiest Ending by Yoshiko Uchida
    Julie's Daughter by Colby Rodowsky
    Jimmy Lee Did It by Pat Cummings
    Gleanings by Lou Willett Stanek
    Home in the Sky by Jeannie Baker
    The Mythology of North America by John Bierhorst
    Song of the Seven Herbs by Walking Night Bear
    Stay Away from Simon by Carol Carrick
    American Reformers by Alden Whitman
    Myths of Coeducation: Selected Essays, 1964-1983 by Florence Howe
    Toad is the Uncle of Heaven by Jeanne M. Lee

    Keywords:

    National Women's History Project, National Women's History Week, Maria Cuevas, Molly MacGregor, Better Morgan, Mary Ruthsdotter, Bonnie Eisenberg, Dave Crawford, Ardy Tibby, Lorna Noyes, multicultural, publishing, tokenism, Pocahontas, Native American, women's suffrage, Vilma Martinez, Emma Lazarus, Eleanor Roosevelt, "A Woman's Place is in ... the Curriculum", Title IX, The Women's History Network, women's studies, "We the Women", Chicago Women's Liberation Union Conference, International Women's Conference, Women's History Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Ms. Magazine, Bradford Chambers, Barbara Mikulski, Olympia Snowe, Barbara Boxer, Orrin Hatch, Women's Educational Equity Action Program (WEEA), mass media, Rocky, nationalism, The Institute for Peace and Justice, index,

  • Volume 17, Issue 2. 1986

    Themes:

    Bulletin's 20th anniversary celebration; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; racism; white supremacy; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); racist symbols; Black churches; affirmative action; Civil Rights

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Anne Braden, Eloise Greenfield, Sonia Nieto, Donnarae MacCann, Jan M. Goodman, Karen Mantlo, Geraldine L. Wilson, Albert V. Schwartz, Kate Shackford, Carole M. Martin, Patricia B. Campbell, Emily Strauss Watson, Ashley Pennington, Michael E. Grafton, Emily Leinster, Betty Bacon, Dinah Eppel,

    Materials Reviewed:

    Issues in American History: The Worker in America by Jane Claypool
    Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Caron Lee Cohen
    African Images: A Look at Animals in Africa by Dorcas MacClintock
    Rose Blanche by Christopher Gallaz
    All But the Right Folks by Joan Kane Nichols
    Margaret Thatcher: Britain's "Iron Lady" by Doris Faber
    Why Me? by Ellen Conford
    Dyslexia: Understanding Reading Problems by John Savage
    The Oval Amulet by Lucy Cullyforth Babbitt
    The Good Thoughts Series by Jane Hoober Peifer and Marilyn Peifer Nolt
    What if They Saw Me Now? by Jean Ure
    Vol 1: The Black Achievers Coloring Book by Mary Russell and Charles Russell
    Vol 2: The Black Achievers Activity Book by Mary Russell and Charles Russell
    First Your Penny by Donna Hill
    Journey to Almost There by JoAnn Bren Guernsey
    Anti-Semitism: A Modern Perspective by Caroline Arnold and Herma Silverstein
    Betty Friedan: A Voice for Women's Rights by Milton Meltzer
    Shadows on the Pond by Alison Cragin Herzig

    Keywords:

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Bradford Chambers, Christine Choy, racism, Louisville, Black, white supremacy, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), racist symbols, Black church, affirmative action, Civil Rights, oppression, National Education Association (NEA), National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN), militarism, sexism, economic injustice, homophobia, South Africa, publishing, authors of color, people of color, Beryle Banfield, publishing - whiteness, New York Public Library, book lists, censorship, First Amendment, Sterling Brown, Ruth Rausen, Latino, African American, red-baiting, communism, handicapism, elitism, Bilingual School, Puerto Rican, assimilation, stereotypes, diversity, solidarity, income inequality, poverty, bilingual, Lau v. Nichols, research, nationalism, William Bennett, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Commission, National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, Haki Madhubuti, Don L. Lee, Third World Press, Institute of Positive Education, acculturation, Richard Wright, Hawthorne, Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Native American, Hispanic, integration, segregation, mass media, anti-intellectualism, computers, technology, critical education, critical thinking, socialism, capitalism, literacy, Black publishers, funding, Nguzo Saba, Seven Principles of Blackness, New Concept Development Center, African-American Book Center, Nation Studies, Nation Studies Music Series, African-American Art Gallery, African-American Film Project, Title IX, discrimination, sexism, gender, The Civil Rights Restoration Act, Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEA), Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), Jennifer Tucker, Theresa Cusick, peace, Eden Theological Seminary, Institute for Peace and Justice of St. Louis, Joe Holland, Center of Concern, Allen O. Miller, Margaret Collins, Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), Janice Yee, The Color Purple, mass media, Quincy Jones, Japanese, Gung Ho, Women of Power, International Association of Black and White Men Together, Gerald L. Mallon, Martin Luther King Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned, National Central America Health Rights Network, Celebrate Women, Institute for Responsive Education, Everyone's Books, Riverside Church Disarmament Program, Cinema Guild, films, Black Rose Books, Bread and Roses, Oryx Press,

  • Volume 17, Issue 3/4. 1986

    Themes:

    bilingual education; segregation; World War I; English as a Second Language (ESL); assimilation; diversity; equity; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); model minority

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Sonia Nieto, Luis Reyes, Jim Cummins, Teodora Tastaman, Mai Nguyen-Huynh, Carole Berotte Joseph, Joseph Allen McCachren, Diane Caballero, Deborah Wei, Arnoldo Torres, Luis Fuentes, Tony Baez, Alan Jay Rom, Peggy Shen, Valerie Ooka Pang, Emily Strauss Watson, Emily Leinster, Sasha Leinster, Lillian Yeh, Daphne Muse, Rudine Sims, Judy Rogers, Suzi Wizowaty, Doris Seale, Patricia B. Campbell, Michael E. Grafton, Tracy Dalton

    Materials Reviewed:

    The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz
    The Elephant Man by Frederick Drimmer
    Living in Two Worlds by Maxine Rosenberg
    Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women of Los Angeles by Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
    Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
    On Fire by Ouida Sebestyen
    Jamaica's Find by Juanita Havill
    In the Attic by Hiawyn Oram
    Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky
    Who Speaks for Wolf: A Native American Learning Story by Paula Spencer
    What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning by William J. Bennett
    Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability by Merle Froschl, Linda Colon, Ellen Rubin, and Barbara Sprung
    Are You Still My Mother? Are You Still My Family? by Gloria Guss Back
    Heart Politics by Fran Peavey

    Keywords:

    Geraldine L. Wilson, bilingual, Native American, Latino, Spanish, Mexico, Japanese, Asian, segregation, Chinese, World War I, nationalism, German, English as a Second Language (ESL), Puerto Rican, African American, Haitian Creole, assimilation, Kenji Hakuta, Jim Cummins, transitional, immersion, Mexican American, French, Canada, G. Richard Tucker, Caribbean, discrimination, Latino, Cuban, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, research, S. R. A. Technologies Inc., National Association for Bilingual Education, diversity, equity, Puerto Rican, Black English, African American Vernacular English (AAVE); Martin Luther King v. Ann Arbor Schools, Charles W. Joiner, Creole, Haiti, Cape Verde, literacy, adult education, self-esteem, Portuguese, imperialism, Americanization, racism, ASPIRA, Asian American, conservative, activism, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Puerto Rican Coalition, ASPIRA Consent Decree, model minority, Southeast Asian, mental illness, bicultural, English-only, immigration, English Language Amendment (ELA), S. I. Hayakawa, Stanley Diamond, World War I, Cold War, McCarthyism, boycott, Phil Donahue show, racial slurs, Title I, Title VII, Civil Rights, National Assessment of Educational Progress, cultural diversity, Recruitment Leadership and Training Institute, Parent Advisory Councils (PACs), Ocean-Hill Brownsville, District I, Crystal City, Palo Alto, national origin minority (NOM), desegregation, equity, United States v. Texas Education Agency, identifiable ethnic language minority, vocational schools, technical schools, Lau v. Nichols, Supreme Court, Lao, Castaneda v. Pickard, Keyes v. School District No. 1, evaluation criteria, cultural sensitivity, Bilingual Education Law, Chicano, Center for Applied Linguistics, ASPIRA of America, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR), Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Evaluation Dissemination and Assessment Center (DAC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), National Association for Vietnamese American Education (NAVAE), National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE), National Council of La Raza, National Indian Bilingual Center, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA); The Puerto Rican/Latino Education Roundtable, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Refugee Materials Center, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Title VII Network,

  • Volume 18, Issue 1. 1987

    Themes:

    no issue located; it is thought that this issue never appeared in print.

  • Volume 19, Issue 3/4. 1989

    Themes:

    African Americans; Emancipation Proclamation; Civil War; Brown v. Board of Education; abolition; slaveocracy; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); Black Experience; racism; white supremacy; elitism; materialism; conformatism; myth of Black inferiority

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Cecelia McCall, Jean St. Clair, Babette Brown, Walter Dean Myers, Barbara Sommers, Patricia B. Campbell, Gerald Horne, Christine Jenkins, Albert V. Schwartz, Fadhilika Atiba-Weza,

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Train to Lulu's by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
    The Latchkey Kids by Susan Terris
    Up With Hope: A Biography of Jesse Jackson by Dorothy Chaplik
    The Saddest Time by Norma Simon
    Eat Up, Gemma by Sarah Hayes
    Children and Books by Zena Sutherland and Mary Hill Arbuthnot
    Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen
    Africa in Crisis: The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy by Lloyd Timberlake

    Keywords:

    African American, literacy, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, Brown v. Board of Education, abolition, Susie King Taylor, Linda Brent, Carrie Davis, Lydia Maria Child, slavocracy, segregation, Federal Writers' Project, Works Project Administration, research, William Adams, Jennie Bowen, Esther Casey, repression, Septima Clark, Freedman's Schools, G. W. Offley, Bible, Frederick Douglass, Methodist Sabbath School, Nat Turner, Quakers, Prudence Crandall, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), dialect, Black English, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Charlemae Hill Rollins Colloquium, stereotypes, depictions, plantation stories, Black writers, Carter G. Woodson, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Associated Publishers, We Build Together - A Reader's Guide to Negro Life and Literature for Elementary and High School Use, book lists, bibliographies, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Charlemae Rollins, librarians, evaluation criteria, publishing, Walter Dean Myers, Kristin Hunter, Newberry Award, Margaret Musgrove, Leo Dillon, Dianne Dillon, Black Experience, racism, white supremacy, elitism, materialism, conformatism, myth of Black inferiority, sexism, reluctant readers, Vietnamese, American Library Association (ALA), sports, romance, Spanish, Asian, cultural difference, Vermont Migrant Education Program, immigration, hi-lo, Writers Voices, Literacy Volunteers of New York City, Views and Reviews,

  • Volume 19, Issue 5/6. 1989

    Themes:

    literacy; inequity; intergenerational reading; prison; crime; adult education; stereotypes; sexism; Native American; Asian American studies; interlocking oppressions

    Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

    Ellen Goldsmith, Ruth D. Handel, Jane Califf, Philip Tajitsu Nash, Beryle Banfield, Jean St.-Clair, Paula R. Bower, Claudine Michel, Ruth C. Curtis, Gerald Horne, Philemon Wakashe, Gloria House, Louise Derman-Sparks, Walteen Grady Truely); Edward Dladla;

    Materials Reviewed:

    The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
    The Green Lion of Zion Street by Julia Fields
    John Brown at Harper's Ferry by John Anthony Scott and Robert Alan Scott
    Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: A Biographical Dictionary by Barbara Rollock
    Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack
    Hats, Hats, Hats by Ann Morris
    We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo by Linda W. Conrad
    The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History by William Loren Katz and Marc Crawford
    Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Tony Gentry
    Shaka: The King of the Zulus by Dianne Stanley and Peter Vennema
    Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
    Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828-1988 by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
    Anti Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children by Louise Derman-Sparks and the A. B. C. Taskforce
    Mosaic: Knowing the Light Will Come : Stories and Photographs by Students at South Boston High by Katie Singer ed.

    Keywords:

    literacy, inequity, New York City Technical College, Parent Readers Program, intergenerational reading, research, Year of the Young Reader, Brooklyn House of Detention, Susan B. Anthony, personal accounts, Black, Hispanic, prison, crime, adult education, textbooks, stereotypes, sexism, Grey Panthers, Chinese, Native American, Indian Removal Act, Japanese Relocation Act, Asian, Japanese, discrimination, Mexican, slavery, African American, Rosa Parks, Asian American studies, Rita Tenorio, La Escuela Fratney, critical education, critical pedagogy, bilingual, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese American Curriculum Project, Asian American Studies Center, Yoshiko Uchida, Ruthann Lum McCunn, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, Edison Uno, Japanese American, Asian American, Asia, Bradford Chambers, Mary Poppins, Lyla Hoffman, Robert B. Moore, Geraldine Wilson, interlocking oppressions, Educators Against Apartheid, subscription fee increase