From: Jean Mendoza <jamendoz>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:30:21 -0500

Maia et al, maia wrote:




I fully agree with the need for editors and publishers to put effort into making good choices, and with your encompassing definition of
"good." Based on my students' professional reading experiences this semester, I would also like to see teachers and librarians checking Multicultural Review and Multicultural Education regularly for their reviews. Their perspectives on quality are invaluable in selecting books.

Yup. Just this week I found The Education of Little Tree, one of the more significant literary hoaxes of the past 20 years, shelved with Biographies in our local library. First I was shocked; now I'm angry. It never was autobiography; it never was biography; it's a joke played by a white supremacist AND it's taking up space that might be occupied by Bowman's Store or Francis LaFlesche's moving The Middle Five, to name only two.

                                                        Jean M.






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