Readers Respond
Who Rules? I wanted especially to tell you that the issue on the "Reagan Policy" is one of the best beginnings to try to really define in a scientific manner just what the animal is that...
...and (3) anecdotes that will dramatize the situation We will galdly send a copy of the special issue to readers kind enough to answer this request...
...First, to show North Americans how they have been brainwashed by the textbooks they were brought up on and, second, to encourage school teachers to counteract these stereotypes...
...I wanted especially to tell you that the issue on the "Reagan Policy" is one of the best beginnings to try to really define in a scientific manner just what the animal is that they call the Reagan coalition-its social base, economic interests it represents, who each sector is accountable to, how they achieved power and how they plan to maintain it...
...bourgeoisie-is it true that there has been a significant shift in power within the bourgeoisie, and that the rightist trend reflects a certain sector's consolidation of power...
...1841 Broadway New York, NY 10023...
...For the special Bulletin issue, we ask NACLA readers to send us (1) recollestions of information about central America they received in school...
...2) misinformation given to school children to= day...
...Perhaps the most important issue of our Bulletin grew out of the NACLA-sponsored tour of Nicaragua a year ago...
...Of course this project involves questions that many forces would like answered, and which many of us must investigate in the coming period...
...Like your readers, we believe that Reagan and Haig are free to operate as they do, in part because we adults grew up with outlandish misconceptions about Central American nations as "banana republics...
...Two members of the Council staff had the marvelous good fortune to be a part of that tour, and out of their 45update * update . update * update experiences emerged a special Bulletin issue on the accomplishments of the Nicaragua Literacy Crusade...
...Otherwise we are left with a very thin veneer on our theoretical basis for our organizing work, and little ability to predict social, economic and political developments...
...How is this expressed concretely in interest groups, the international economic crisis, the balance of forces here and abroad...
...school textbooks and children's books...
...Their options...
...We wish to find out what children in North America are learning about Central American nations, that is, how these countries are portrayed in U.S...
...We wish to lay bare the stereotypes for two reasons...
...New York, NY Children's Stereotypes The Council on Interracial Books for Children was born the same year as NACLA and because we share so many goals, we have always felt a warm sympathy and affinity toward you...
...How can we define the different sectors of the bourgeoisie at this historical moment...
...J.N...
...Brad Chambers Council on Interracial Books for Children, Inc...
...Probably they are not very different from what we learned in school...
...The Council has been working to raise public awareness to racism, sexism and class bias in children's books and school texts...
...What are the stereotypes, distortions and omissions about these nations that our children are learning today...
...Your article ends by saying there is now a crisis of legitimacy which, if not resolved, could lead to a crisis of domination...
...We need more of an analysis of the U.S...
...This has resulted in a related project for which we are requesting input from your readers...
Vol. 15 • November 1981 • No. 6
