Comments on the Macmillan Publishing Company's guidelines for avoiding sex and racial stereotyping in educational materials. (IRT)

Machines introduce into classrooms influences teachers cannot measure, comprehend, or control, for they create patterns of interaction that exclude the student. (JH)

A review of previous studies suggests that question format influences relationships between educational background and the stereotyping of minority groups. (JC)

The characteristics of 69 award-winning television commercials from 1948 through 1958 were compared to those of 58 award-winning commercials from 1976 and 1977. The examined characteristics were type of storyline used, selling strategies, use of humor, live action versus animation, production techniques, and the depiction of blacks, women,…

There is evidence that attitudes toward speakers of nonstandard English are determined more by the speaker's race than by linguistic considerations. Many people who do not speak standard English have done well in American society because stigma was not attached to their particular language variety. More emphasis should be placed on appreciating…

Articles, fiction, and poetry that form a picture of Chicano life today are presented in this anthology of writings about Mexican Americans. Included are reminiscences of Mexican American childhood, accounts of Chicanos in the American school system, reports on strikes by Chicano workers, and poems and stories that reflect the hard realities of…

The Committee on Children's Television (CCT) supports Action for Children's Television (ACT) in its demands for no commercials on children's television and an improvement in programing for children. A survey of children's television in the San Francisco Bay Area determined that from 1961 to 1971, children's programing had declined in quality and…

Resources are suggested to help teachers develop more effective and less stereotypic instruction about Native Americans. (DF)

Discusses the virtual absence of Asian Pacific Americans in American television. Also mentions similar problems confronted by Hispanic actors and actresses. (GC)

Criticizes a novel by Marilyn Harris as presenting a stereotypic and negative picture of American Indians, and a teacher's guide to the book as reinforcing the novel's distorted images. Also provides a reading list on native Americans. (GC)

Study results showed that (1) aboriginal and anglo-Australian adolescents have relatively positive autostereotypes (an autostereotype refers to the attributes that individuals assign to their own group), (2) aboriginal-Australian adolescents express quite favorable heterostereotypes toward anglo-Australians, and (3) anglo-Australian adolescents…

Research supported, in part, by grants from the Canada Council and Defense Research Board to W.E. Lambert and G.R. Tucker. (VM)

Discusses the interaction of art, ethnicity, culture, and career options and the responsibility of the art career counselor. Examines the responsibilities of the artist, the importance of career exploration in developing a positive self-image in children, the importance of avoiding ethnic stereotypes, and art career opportunities in the community.…