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[Review Of] Paul R. Spickard. Mixed Blood-Intermarriage And Ethnic Identity In Twentieth-Century America, Terry E. Huffman
[Review Of] Paul R. Spickard. Mixed Blood-Intermarriage And Ethnic Identity In Twentieth-Century America, Terry E. Huffman
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Just as the mixing of peoples has been a dominant theme in American social history, it has also been a compelling, if not controversial, theme in American social science. Sociologists have long recognized that intermarriage is an important social phenomenon in American society. Thus, early American social observers were drawn to study this area of social life. From Frederick Hoffman's earliest studies of black/white couples in the late nineteenth century to W. E. B. Du Bois's observations on intermarriage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the systematic study of inter-marriage stands as one of the initial starting points for …
[Review Of] Russell Thornton, With C. Matthew Snipp And Nancy Breen. The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia R. Kasee
[Review Of] Russell Thornton, With C. Matthew Snipp And Nancy Breen. The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia R. Kasee
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A first glance at the title might wrongly suggest that Thornton's volume is best relegated to demography. This is, however, a wonderful reference for historians, ethnicists, and anthropologists, as well as an engaging work well suited for the general reader in Native American topics.
[Review Of] K. S. Tom. Echoes From Old China: Life, Legends, And Lore Of The Middle Kingdom, Jim Schnell
[Review Of] K. S. Tom. Echoes From Old China: Life, Legends, And Lore Of The Middle Kingdom, Jim Schnell
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K. S. Tom provides insightful glimpses into a variety of aspects of Chinese culture. In the preface, the author states "this book provides a general introduction to Chinese customs, traditions and culture. It is by no means an exhaustive or definitive account of the topics that have been selected for discussion." This reviewer was initially distracted because of the wide range of topics covered and the lack of conclusiveness and interrelatedness among these topics. However, acknowledgement by the author that this book is an introduction to a variety of aspects of Chinese culture, rather than a conclusive analysis, encouraged this …
[Review Of] Thomas Vennum, Jr. Wild Rice And The Ojibway People, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Thomas Vennum, Jr. Wild Rice And The Ojibway People, David M. Gradwohl
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Everything you wanted to know and lots more you never thought to ask about North American wild rice are included in this extensive tome. The plant is labelled Zizania aquatica in the Linnaean nomenclature; the Ojibway called it manoomin. The author discusses the scientific classification of wild rice, its germination, growth cycle, habitat, and enemies. He also takes up the varied uses of wild rice as food: its nutritional value, methods of preparing and cooking the grain, and the reactions of Euro-Americans to this native plant which is exceedingly rich in carbohydrates and converts efficiently to energy in the body. …
[Review Of] Alma Luz Villanueva. The Ultraviolet Sky, Julie Schrader Villegas
[Review Of] Alma Luz Villanueva. The Ultraviolet Sky, Julie Schrader Villegas
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Villanueva's first novel portrays the difficulties of self-affirmation and the struggle to understand and come to terms with a multi-faceted identity despite the single-minded conventions of society. Rosa, an artist of Mexican and German heritage, struggles to create herself and find a home where all her fragmented selves can rest. Through dreams, her relationship with her husband Julio, and her struggle to paint an obscure ultraviolet sky, she begins to explore her identities and to trust where they will lead her. She chooses to follow her "wolf' who whines and claws at her consciousness and only awakens fully in her …
[Review Of] Jade Snow Wong. Fifth Chinese Daughter, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
[Review Of] Jade Snow Wong. Fifth Chinese Daughter, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
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I am personally delighted to see the re-issue of Jade Snow Wong's autobiographical novel, Fifth Chinese Daughter. Shortly after I arrived in the U.S. in 1959 as a rather bewildered young girl immigrant of twelve, it was my good fortune to have stumbled onto -- in the local public library -- Jade Snow Wong's wonderful story of growing up Chinese and female in America, in both the ethnic enclave of Chinatown and the San Francisco Bay Area's white college and working worlds. It helped me better understand the experience of being an "American-Chinese," the term used in those days. The …
[Review Of] Mitsuye Yamada And Sarie Sachie Hylkema, Eds. Sowing Ti Leaves: Writings By Multi-Cultural Women, Kate Motoyama
[Review Of] Mitsuye Yamada And Sarie Sachie Hylkema, Eds. Sowing Ti Leaves: Writings By Multi-Cultural Women, Kate Motoyama
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Sowing Ti Leaves gathers together personal narratives, poems, essays, and a scholarly study which were produced during the Multi-Cultural Women Writers (MCWW) of Orange County's nine-year existence. Coeditor Mitsuye Yamada states in her introduction that the writing group was formed to provide a common reference point and a forum for expression. While MCWW's ancestral ties are diverse (Argentinian, Chinese, East Indian, Hawaiian, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Lebanese, Okinawan), its members share experiences as women living within the "majority" culture. The writing process is used to enable "minority" women to understand their culture(s) and to proclaim their identities. MCWW provides a space …
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Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 14, Issue 1, 1991
Introduction: Ethnicity And Justice, Johnny Washington
Introduction: Ethnicity And Justice, Johnny Washington
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The ideal of social justice in the United States has its roots in both the Judeo-Christian and ancient Greek traditions. From the latter our notion of democracy as a just institution is derived. At the theoretical level, Plato attempted to define ideal justice in his Republic, but here we are not concerned with ideal justice. At the practical level, the Hebrew prophet Amos urged public officials to practice justice as enjoined by Moses and his predecessors. Some 2700 years later Martin Luther King, Jr., sought to combine these two senses of justice when he insisted that America can satisfy its …
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Obasan: The Politics Of The Japanese-Canadian Internment, Ann Rayson
Obasan: The Politics Of The Japanese-Canadian Internment, Ann Rayson
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Joy Kogawa is a well known Japanese-Canadian poet and novelist. Her award-winning autobiographical novel, Obasan (1981),[1] examines the personal wartime internment experience of the author through the fictionalized persona of Naomi Nakane and her Aunt Emily Kato. Obasan, the title character, is Naomi's other aunt, the one who raises her when World War II destroys the family. Emily is a political activist, the voice of protest and conscience in the novel, while the narrator, Naomi, has to work through her own silence and that of all Japanese-Canadians. As a novel with a dual voice, Obasan is able to probe the …
Contributors
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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1991
Table Of Contents
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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 14, Issue 2, 1991
Ethnic Education: A Clash Of Cultures In Progressive Chicago, Gerald R. Gems
Ethnic Education: A Clash Of Cultures In Progressive Chicago, Gerald R. Gems
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The City of Chicago recently embarked upon a pioneering effort to transform the quality of its public school system. The concept of decentralization that allows for neighborhood councils, greater decision-making at the local level, and increased parental involvement in the schools is not a new one. Similar governance structures of a century ago fell victim to class and ethnic factionalism. The progressive vision of a homogenous society assumed a passive clientele and a consensus culture. Particular educational programs brought diverse groups closer to the mainstream, but the resultant mass culture accommodated pluralistic values rather than the sought-after homogeneity.
Critique [Of Ethnic Education: A Clash Of Cultures In Progressive Chicago By Gerald R. Gems], Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Critique [Of Ethnic Education: A Clash Of Cultures In Progressive Chicago By Gerald R. Gems], Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
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Gerald R. Gems has successfully put into historical context the significant issues of educational reform in the United States. In 1900, and in 1991, educational issues should be at the center of a national discussion of the kind of country we want to be.
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Informal Education. Sociocultural Expression. And Symbolic Meaning In Popular Immigration Music Text, Jose Macias
Informal Education. Sociocultural Expression. And Symbolic Meaning In Popular Immigration Music Text, Jose Macias
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One February morning as I noted the events of the primary school talent show, a sixth-grade boy belted out this song made popular in two countries by the Mexican rock group, Los Bukis. It was 1987, and I was doing fieldwork in a rural Mexican immigrant-sending community I call San Felipe, for an ethnography of families and their children who emigrated from Mexico to the United States[2]
Critique [Of Oral Traditions Under Threat: The Australian Aboriginal Experience By Christine Morris], Paivi H. Hoikkala
Critique [Of Oral Traditions Under Threat: The Australian Aboriginal Experience By Christine Morris], Paivi H. Hoikkala
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In her essay, Christine Morris addresses an important topic in the study of ethnic relations: the relationship between the written word and the oral tradition. She points out that studies often concentrate on the economic and social effects that the written tradition has on oral cultures; however, the ethics of this process has been ignored in research. Morris examines this aspect of the relationship and argues that the replacement of the oral tradition with the written word is a continuation of western chauvinism that has been the basis of the European conquest of aboriginal cultures in the world. The replacement …
Critique [Of Oral Traditions Under Threat: The Australian Aboriginal Experience By Christine Morris], Alan Spector
Critique [Of Oral Traditions Under Threat: The Australian Aboriginal Experience By Christine Morris], Alan Spector
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Christine Morris stimulates, provokes, and challenges some fundamental axioms about culture and literature in her intriguing essay. The absolutism of her position forces readers to critically examine their own ideas about the transmission and preservation of culture. Ultimately, I have some skepticism about the absolutism of her position, but her paper moved me several steps towards her position and caused me to evaluate my ideas on other issues as well.
Contributors
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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2, 1991
Abstracts From The Nineteenth Annual Conference National Association For Ethnic Studies. Inc. "Ethnic Studies For The Twenty-First Century"
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With the leadership of James H. Williams, Tengemana Thumbutu, and the staff of the College of Arts at California State Polytechnic University, NAES had one of its best-attended conferences ever. Participants enjoyed the sunny and smog-free skies of spring in California and the amenities of the Kellogg West Conference Center while renewing their commitment to the need to study and implement current research in ethnic studies.
[Review Of] Stephen R. Applewhite, Ed. Hispanic Elderly In Transition: Theory, Research, Policy And Practice, Allene Jones
[Review Of] Stephen R. Applewhite, Ed. Hispanic Elderly In Transition: Theory, Research, Policy And Practice, Allene Jones
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The main focus of this book is aging as it relates to the Hispanic elderly. The author states that "the primary goal of this book is to offer a contextual overview of Hispanic aging-ranging from complex issues to tentative answers."
[Review Of] Therese Daniels And Jane Gerson, Eds. The Colour Black: Black Images In British Television, Angela M. S. Nelson
[Review Of] Therese Daniels And Jane Gerson, Eds. The Colour Black: Black Images In British Television, Angela M. S. Nelson
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The Colour Black is a concise reference source for scholars interested in research about ethnic images portrayed in television programs produced in other countries. This volume is largely a collection of television review articles for three prime-time television formats in Great Britain: (1) situation comedies, (2) drama series and serials, and (3) soap operas.
[Review Of] Ellen Carol Dubois And Vicki L. Ruiz, Eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader In U. S. Women's History, Guadalupe Friaz
[Review Of] Ellen Carol Dubois And Vicki L. Ruiz, Eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader In U. S. Women's History, Guadalupe Friaz
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Edited by Ellen C. DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz, two respected historians, Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History is a welcome response to the call for a more complex approach to women's history. Central to this approach are the integration of women of color into women's history and a definition of community that reflects both conflict and concord.
[Review Of] Philip Durham And Everett L. Jones. The Negro Cowboy, George H. Junne Jr.
[Review Of] Philip Durham And Everett L. Jones. The Negro Cowboy, George H. Junne Jr.
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Except for books such as The Negro Cowboys, the African American West remains an enigma to most Americans. Popular media continue to perpetuate the stereotype of a white West, in spite of the fact that some of the earliest explorers accompanying the European invasion were of African descent. Beginning in 1501 with the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Africans were there. They were with Balboa when he "discovered" the Pacific, with Cortes in Mexico, with Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, and others. Estevanico (Little Stephen) first explored New Mexico and Arizona.
[Review Of] Anne Wette Garland. Women Activists: Challenging The Abuse Of Power, Allene Jones
[Review Of] Anne Wette Garland. Women Activists: Challenging The Abuse Of Power, Allene Jones
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Women Activists is a long overdue book of stories written by women who have been involved in community political activities. The author, Anne Wette Garland, is to be commended for her ability to organize the stories told by fourteen women in an organized and interesting manner.
[Review Of] Farida Karodia. Coming Home And Other Stories, Phillipa Kafka
[Review Of] Farida Karodia. Coming Home And Other Stories, Phillipa Kafka
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In Coming Home and Other Stories, Farida Karodia, South African born author now residing in Canada, has written a classic text which I recommend for use in African, contemporary, world literature, and women's studies courses.
[Review Of] Shirley Goek-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa And Margarita Donnelly, Eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Shirley Goek-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa And Margarita Donnelly, Eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology, Cortland P. Auser
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The Forbidden Stitch appears to be one of the better anthologies of the work of Asian American women writers. The editors have worked assiduously to make it comprehensive. It is an exceptionally fine selection of prose, poetry, essays, and reviews. In an introduction it is stressed that the collection underlines the differences among the writers, correcting the error of too many critics who homogenize the term "Asian American women." The writers lack a common history. "The thread they form is 'multi-colored' and 'many layered.''' "The voices are plural."
[Review Of] Miriam Makeba And James Hall. Makeba: My Story, Nancy Hellner
[Review Of] Miriam Makeba And James Hall. Makeba: My Story, Nancy Hellner
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Like much of her music, Miriam Makeba's autobiography is both personal and political. As it details the story of a young girl's coming of age and search for identity, it simultaneously records the history of a country struggling for independence. In the prologue, Makeba compares herself to a South African bird soaring above the horror of apartheid (aparthood) which was instituted in 1947. As she recounts the details of war and injustice in direct, understated, idiom-filled prose, and as she intertwines details of ancient customs with the realities of modern technology, Makeba suggests that music best expresses the tragic subject …
[Review Of] Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality And Feminism, Patricia Grimshaw
[Review Of] Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality And Feminism, Patricia Grimshaw
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In Woman, Native, Other, Trinh T. Minh-ha has taken on an ambitious task, which is to explain something of the problems confronting non-Western women writers who publish and are subjected to critiques within the established paradigms of Western scholarly discourses. Must she and her fellows position themselves as "writer of color," "woman writer," or "woman of color," she asks, as she proceeds to display the boundaries others place upon their freedom to create their own realities and establish their distinctive voices. Whereas other women theorists of postcolonialism and feminism have challenged Western-conventions largely within the linguistic and stylistic conventions of …