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Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 9, Summer, 1989
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[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Until the Morning After represents a large share of the poetry and the life of Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor. The poems are grouped by sections, titles of earlier volumes arranged sequentially. Much of Awoonor's rather stormy life, including his political protest, strategic self-exile, and incarceration is reflected in this collection. But there are central themes: a love of land, an ethnic pride, a desire to perpetuate local expressions and natural beauties. Despite his years abroad and extensive travels, Awoonor's poetry is very African. In fact, it is a celebration of Africanness. Characteristically, although he signed his earlier work as George …
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
According to Bell, his book is "a comprehensive sociopsychological, sociocultural interpretive history of the Afro-American novel. It seeks to unearth, identify, describe, and analyze some of the major thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the Afro-American novel from its beginning in 1853 to 1983." This quotation about the book's scope and intention, as well as its title, are indicative of the strengths and weaknesses (mainly the latter) of the entire study. For one thing, it is an understood fact that just as there are African-American experiences, there are also literary traditions. Whereas one study of one tradition (such as Barbara …
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
It is risky for an editor to compose a book of twenty-one interviews , each being centered in the same type of questions: What started you writing? Who were your models? What role does your tradition play in your work? How do you relate to mainstream poetry? The amazing result of reading this book is the recognition that it is neither repetitious nor dull, but highly informative and a pleasure to read. The reason for this outcome lies not only in the poetic sensibility, literary knowledge, and psychological skill of the interviewer, but in the quality of the poets selected …
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Politically-oriented poetry is difficult to do well. Many politically oriented writers resist displaying a certain type of passion, the type of intense commitment that helps a writer convey ideas without being didactic, because displaying such intensity may make the writer feel vulnerable or weak in public. Conversely, many poets and artists use their art to grasp and convey what they see as profound dichotomy need not hold firm, however. Art, including poetry, has shown itself to be an effective way to convey important ideas, and the political struggles that surround issues of racial violence, oppression, war, famine, and the destruction …
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982 is a landmark publication. It is a comprehensive record and holdings list of extant issues of 1,164 historical and current periodicals published for the past 150 years . The scope of this volume is broad, covering literary, political, and historical journals as well as general newspapers and feature magazines.
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
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Like so many accounts of immigration, this has both a dark side and a light side. The latter is primarily a story of courage and determination and final success. The former is one of persecution and of propaganda, both pro- and anti-Mormon.
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this work Deriada portrays through a series of seven plays an accurate portrayal of life in the Philippine Islands. The images presented could only be developed by someone who has lived and experienced the culture first hand.
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Following David J. Garrow's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Bearing the Cross, Adam Fairclough makes extensive use of information gleaned from FBI wiretaps as well as other sources in an effort to peruse the soul of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Fairclough's subtitle is no accident, for he focuses at least as much on the SCLC as he does on King. Significantly, this emphasis causes him to add a chapter about the SCLC after King's death, a postscript not available in other books about King.
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Gikandi, has added an excellent critical work to his earlier volumes on new African writers. Employing the techniques of modern criticism, he analyzes significant works of eleven African writers including, among others, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ferdinand Oyono, and Ayi Kwei Armah. He is concerned with the form-content relationship in the novels examined, as well as the part played by centers of consciousness of main characters. As he states, he set out to "show how ... life and consciousness" move from external reality of the novel to "interiority."
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Howard Harrod's work provides an interpretation of the religious and moral world of the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne and Blackfeet tribes of the Northwestern Plains. Well aware that the material he is utilizing represents interpretations by early ethnographers, he transcends this hermeneutical problem to provide an idealized reconstruction of this world guided by the theories of Schutz and Geertz and the work of Joseph Brown.
[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck
[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In the last ten years a number of critical studies on the Harlem Renaissance have been published, and these in turn have sparked a revival of interest in the cultural, political, and social activities that took place during the ten-year period in Afroamerican history between 1919 and 1929. There is a renewed interest in the life and writings of Renaissance figures such as Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. Hence many of their autobiographies, first published in the 1930s and 1940s, are being reissued in response to the demand for more information …
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
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Covering the period from the beginning of slavery in America and up to the present, this important and powerful book demonstrates the necessity for a black theology. Major Jones provides an incisive analysis of each entity of the Godhead-God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and relates it to the oppressed African-American. Drawing on his own impressions and the findings of many other theologians, Major Jones has provided an informed up-to-date basis for black Christianity. This book is an excellent synthesis of the paucity of research on African-American theology. However, the book does not appear to meet one of its …
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This latest study of immigrant entrepreneurs to come out of the collaborative efforts of sociologists Light and Bonacich is another significant contribution to Asian American Studies specifically, but also to ethnic studies, immigrant studies, urban studies , and business-economic studies in general. It contributes to our understanding of the history of Los Angeles, and it constitutes an important companion piece to existing studies of Korean Americans, such as Illsoo Kim's work on Koreans in New York City. As a case study, it also elaborates on the related theoretical models of "middlemen minorities" and "immigrant entrepreneurs," and how, in this case, …
[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
How does one get home when being home is not safe? Or how does one get home alive when the spirit can be killed in the journey there? Getting home alive means searching for the sacred place from which all life emanates. This search is an all consuming passion for both Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales.
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In little over a decade this short novel has become a classic, developing a dedicated following, not only in Asian American communities and literature programs, but also in traditional literature programs alongside books such as Huckleberry Finn where the strategies are the same: the view of the world through the clear eye of youth, the puncturing of both pretense and pretension by the view from the bottom up.
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Felix M. Padilla's Puerto Rican Chicago is a noteworthy contribution to the ever burgeoning literature on the Puerto Rican community in the United States. While it is clearly a detailed sociological history of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago, it is also a study which positions this community in a broader network of racial, ethnic and class interactions. As more literature documents and analyzes the histories of diverse Puerto Rican settlements (from New York to Hawaii), scholars will begin to form a more complete picture of the impact of migration, race, labor and industry, and culture on the development of …
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Felix M. Padilla's contribution to the growing body of literature on Latino/Hispanic identity in the United States represents a significant departure from the way most social scientists have approached their analysis of ethnic identity and consciousness. On his way to putting together a conceptual framework for supporting his thesis of an emerging Latino ethnic identity and consciousness, Padilla provides a substantial in-depth analysis of the Mexican American and Puerto Rican community-based organization in Chicago during the early 1970s.
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This volume continues in the same vein as Small Faces, but here the poetic voice is more mature, more reflective. There are forty autobiographical essays treating many of the subjects of Faces: Soto’s wife and daughter, his pets (both present and past), friendships, recollections of his childhood and teen years, sex, and the details of his everyday life. There are also two movie reviews and an account of the writing of a review of a bad novel. The essays are grouped in fours, but they are not presented chronologically, and thus can be read in any order. Each of the …
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts is a collection of previously published material on related issues, different genres and varied circumstances written over many years. If a good book is one that can evoke interest and response in the reader while at the same time relaying some sort of message, this book ranks in that category.
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This book does exactly what it says it will, namely to study how language is used by the some two hundred and fifty citizens of Pella who still make use of it. As such it should be useful to those interested in nineteeth [nineteenth] century emigrants from Europe whose descendants are still clinging to part of their ethnic roots.
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
At the turn of the century, playwrights wrestled with realism and wrought a new theater capable of great poetic and symbolic force. It was an exciting time because artists turned their talents to subjects which had never been deemed fit for the stage. The classic requirements of rank and verse were swept aside as audiences learned that even illiterates could make music with their tongues, and that eloquent, serious exploration of the human condition extended well beyond the provinces of kings and queens.
Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic?, Howard Adelman
Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic?, Howard Adelman
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The history of Jewish studies has not yet been written. Scholars engaged in this field, however, are beginning to subject it to searching analysis. Pertinent articles have appeared that offer two extreme positions on the development of Jewish studies: one sees the increase in Jewish studies as the result of heightened Jewish self-awareness during the late 1960s because of the Six Day War, growing interest in the Holocaust, and the influence of rising black and ethnic consciousnesses that resulted in the establishment of academic programs. The other, usually a reaction to the first view, argues that the study of Hebraica …
Critique [Of Pica: Consideration Of A Historical And Current Problem With Racial Ethnic/ Cultural Overtones By Ella P. Lacey], Phyllis Gray-Ray
Critique [Of Pica: Consideration Of A Historical And Current Problem With Racial Ethnic/ Cultural Overtones By Ella P. Lacey], Phyllis Gray-Ray
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Pica, an eating disorder that is very prevalent among blacks, particularly southern, rural, pregnant women, is a serious problem that has received inadequate attention among researchers. Lacey's analysis of the importance of this disorder is made clear in her article.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1989
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
A volume of the policy and concept of multiculturalism is particularly welcome at a moment when the issue of minority vs. majority rights is once again flaring up in academics and politics. Canada is at the center of this discussion; but comparisons with the US (and Israel) are frequently made, and the US-American situation is explored at length in two essays by Rose. Also, the editor's introduction, though dealing explicitly only with Canada, raises basic issues of the ambivalent view of ethnic difference in liberal thought that transcend national boundaries.
[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold
[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Since the passage of the immigration acts of 1965, a large number of skilled Asians have migrated to the United States. Scholars have noticed this trend, labelling these, along with other skilled third world sojourners, "the new immigration."
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The authors' stated purpose for creation of this book was that no work could be found which was appropriate for undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course which related legal issues in case law to cultural pluralism. The authors stated that they desired to create "a book of readings drawing primarily on case law, but also including a wide variety of social science and humanitarian materials ... [with added] text which described and analyzed the content of these cases." The authors were very successful in this endeavor, in that they have put together an excellent compilation of cases which give a …
Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons
Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Adelman's historical account of the rise and development of Jewish studies in European and American universities has implications not only for the current debate regarding the appropriateness and place of Jewish studies programs in the academy but also for the place of ethnic studies in university curricula in general. I believe the most compelling argument against ethnic studies programs in higher education charges them with institutionalizing specific ideologies and thus undermining the self-critical investigation of divergent positions within a traditional discipline. But this charge raises an equally troublesome presupposition : that courses of study can and should be compartmentalized into …