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Review Of Residencies Revisited: Reflections On Library Residency Programs From The Past And Present, K. Adolpho
Review Of Residencies Revisited: Reflections On Library Residency Programs From The Past And Present, K. Adolpho
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
In Residencies Revisited, editors Preethi Gorecki and Arielle Petrovich compile essays and narratives from current and former diversity resident librarians, residency scholars, and other residency stakeholders to discuss challenges, opportunities, success, and the future of residency programs. The opportunities that diversity residency programs provide for recent graduates have been discussed for decades. This collection, which centers the experiences of diversity residents, will help academic librarians and administrators better understand the harm of these programs, if they are not carefully planned, well-structured, supported, and resident-centered. Residencies Revisited is long-awaited and essential reading for those involved in planning, implementing, and proposing …
Book Review Of Hip Hop In Africa: Prophets Of The City And Dustyfoot Philosophers, Camea Davis
Book Review Of Hip Hop In Africa: Prophets Of The City And Dustyfoot Philosophers, Camea Davis
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Dr. Davis provides an analysis of Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers (2018). Dr. Camea Davis is a poet, educator and educational researcher with a heart for urban youth and communities. She earned her doctorate in educational policy studies with minors in curriculum and instruction and educational technology from Ball State University. She currently works as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate as Georgia State University in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education.
Book Review: The Happiness Track, Laura Ferber
Book Review: The Happiness Track, Laura Ferber
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppala, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Leadership And Decision-Making, Vijay Saxena
Book Review: Leadership And Decision-Making, Vijay Saxena
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Leadership and Decision-making by Victor Vroom and Philip Yetton, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Creativity, Inc., Marah R. Archer
Book Review: Creativity, Inc., Marah R. Archer
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Built To Last, Melanie A. Kulesz
Book Review: Built To Last, Melanie A. Kulesz
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Discover Your True North, Haley Swindler
Book Review: Discover Your True North, Haley Swindler
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Discover Your True North, by Bill George, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Give And Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, Patricia Sobczak
Book Review: Give And Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, Patricia Sobczak
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Give and take: Why helping others drives our success, by Adam Grant, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rohan Mathur
Book Review: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rohan Mathur
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: Outliers, Howard Newell
Book Review: Outliers, Howard Newell
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: The Empress Has No Clothes, Natalie Sympson
Book Review: The Empress Has No Clothes, Natalie Sympson
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success by Joyce M. Roche with the help of Alexander Kopelman, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
Book Review: The Tipping Point, Meghan Wright
Book Review: The Tipping Point, Meghan Wright
MGMT 641 Leadership Book Reviews
Book review of The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell, written for the Spring 2016 Semester MGMT 641: Organizational Leadership and Project Team Management class.
[Review Of] Nancy Ablemann And John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans And The Los Angeles Riot, Eugene C. Kim
[Review Of] Nancy Ablemann And John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans And The Los Angeles Riot, Eugene C. Kim
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Beginning with a poetic title, Blue Dreams, the authors recount in depth as to how the Blue Dreams of the Korean American merchants in the East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of 1992 riot that turned out to be “elusive dreams” in America (Blue symbolizes color of heaven, sky, and hope for Koreans).
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
A member of the Spokane tribe, Alexie writes the heart of a community that is joined through hardship, hope, land, and story. On and off the reservation, from the storytelling of Thomas Builds-the-Fire to Norma's fancydancing, a drumbeat of home follows everyone.
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Opening the volume is a brief introduction by Elizabeth Ammons in which she discusses the major premise around which this book is organized -- namely, that “tricksterism” is a phenomenon in turn-of-the-century literature that, through tricks in authorship and narrative intention, disrupts the “master narrative” of the dominant racist Anglo culture. The articles concern works from a range of cultural backgrounds: Chinese American, Mexican American, Native American, European American, and African American. Each article includes endnotes and a list of works cited. The volume also offers contributors’ notes and an index.
[Review Of] Alfred Arteaga, Ed. An Other Tongue, Kumiko Takahara
[Review Of] Alfred Arteaga, Ed. An Other Tongue, Kumiko Takahara
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
People who are regarded as minorities by their dominant peers are pressured to establish their identity as citizens of a nation and as individuals of a distinct culture. Their identity may be articulated differently governed by such factors as language, race, gender, political and economical status, and so on. All of the fifteen essays collected in this book are purported to address various material conditions of discourse revolving around nation and ethnicity with special focus on linguistic conditions in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. These essays roughly fall into two categories according to their focus either on …
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
An anthropological linguist specializing in the language and texts of the Karuk people of northwestern California, and editor of the bilingual collection Coyote Stories (1978), William Bright has made his latest volume of "Coyoteana" and "Coyoterotica" accessible to anyone interested in the Coyote Trickster. Bright has lived a long time with Coyote stories and in A Coyote Reader approaches his subject with care and respect . The volume includes references and an index.
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this superb work which is the first full-scale biography of a man who played a major role in the drama that is African American history, Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. emerges as both a master of archival detective work and story-telling. This professor of history at the University of California at Irvine depicts lucidly why Grimké, though not of the stature of Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois, ”was a major figure of his time" and that "his thought and actions were considered of great significance by his contemporaries." "His life,” Bruce sums up quite aptly, ”was a testimony to …
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Melissa Roanhorse is having a tough day. Her mother has a drinking problem, her fish keep dying, and she has to contend with the everyday pressures of being a high school sophomore which, by themselves, are enough to keep most of us from remembering those teenage years too nostalgically. So when Falke, an ancient vampire who's been sleeping off a coma for the last hundred-odd years, shows up offering immortality and a ticket out of Albuquerque, there‘s no wonder that Melissa takes the offer and runs. What's a little blood-sucking compared to algebra?
[Review Of] Peter Eichstaedt. If You Poison Us: Uranium And Native Americans, Dorie S. Goldman
[Review Of] Peter Eichstaedt. If You Poison Us: Uranium And Native Americans, Dorie S. Goldman
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
"The history of our nation's relations with American Indians is one of ignorance, indifference, exploitation and broken promises." This statement opens journalist Peter Eichstaedt's book, If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans, an examination of this abusive history supplemented with personal interviews, government documents, and a detailed bibliography. Eichstaedt's account of how America's quest for uranium led to mining on reservation lands, consequently poisoning both the land and the miners, is a useful study for someone working in Native American or justice studies while still remaining accessible to a general audience.
[Review Of] Maria, Espinosa. Dark Plums; Maria, Espinosa. Longing, Maythee Rojas
[Review Of] Maria, Espinosa. Dark Plums; Maria, Espinosa. Longing, Maythee Rojas
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Published within the same year, Dark Plums and Longing both delve into the darker side of the human psyche. Similar in topic, the novels explore the complex relationship between love, sexuality, and power. While Dark Plums gives its readers a voyeuristic look into the life of Adrianne, a young, insecure Chilean-American woman who seeks to find herself through various sexual encounters with men and women, Longing leads them through the painful psychological recovery of American Jew Rosa and the simultaneous mental breakdown of her Chilean husband, Antonio. in addition, each novel focuses around the female protagonists' struggle for inner strength …
[Review Of] Carl Gutierrez-Jones. Rethinking The Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture And Legal Discourse, David Goldstein-Shirley
[Review Of] Carl Gutierrez-Jones. Rethinking The Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture And Legal Discourse, David Goldstein-Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this ambitious book, Carl Gutierrez-Jones musters ideas from Critical Race Studies, Critical Legal Studies, and literary scholarship to explicate the relationship between Chicanos and the law. Contrary to the notion that American jurisprudence is a neutral, value-free institution, the author argues that, as Chicano and especially Chicana artists have depicted, the legal system's emphasis on individual responsibility ignores the economic and social milieu entangling Chicanos. The broad scholarship, incisive analysis, and careful reasoning make this book a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Chicano experience.
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this superb reconstruction of the life of Rayford W. Logan, Kenneth Robert Janken, an assistant professor of African American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, draws on his protagonist's somewhat tormented life to document the veracity of John Hope Franklin's thesis that, "it was the American Negro scholar's dilemma to be obligated constantly to challenge the notion of black inferiority”. Put another way, despite Logan's credentials -- he held a Ph.D. from Harvard University in history; wrote twelve books, including the classic, The Betrayal of the Negro; edited several others, among them, What the Negro …
[Review Of] Basil Johnston. Ojibway Tales, Vanessa Holford Diana
[Review Of] Basil Johnston. Ojibway Tales, Vanessa Holford Diana
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve is the home of about seven hundred Ojibway in Canada. Intended as "an amusing account of Indian-white man relationships," Basil Johnston's Ojibway Tales presents twenty-two true stories of mishaps and confusion resulting from Ojibway and white people's inexperience with or misunderstanding of each other's culture. Indeed many of the tales are quite amusing, poking gentle fun at Ojibway and white man alike, but often the humor is that of slapstick comedy -- the foolishness of the characters is the reason we laugh at rather than with them. On the back cover, it is suggested that …
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Catch Colt describes Gros Ventre writer Sidner J. Larson's experience as a mixed-blood Native American looking for his heritage, identity, and personal direction. Although minority fiction writers (such as Rudolfo A. Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko) have addressed this theme, non-fiction discussions of mixed-blood Native American lives are lacking. Larson's autobiography, however, is only moderately successful because he fails to make readers identify with his struggle as a member of “two different worlds at the same time...with a degree of non-acceptance by both."
[Review Of] Melissa L. Meyer. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Melissa L. Meyer. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920, Raymond A. Bucko
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Employing a broad multi-disciplinary approach which includes history, anthropology, economics, demography, ecology, and political science, Meyer, a U.C.L.A. historian, has created a sensitive and sweeping analysis of the creation and metamorphosis of the Anishinaabeg ("Chippewa" or "Ojibwe”) who eventually located in contemporary Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation. Eschewing stereotypes of Indians as mere victims of Euro-American history, Meyer shows how the Anishinaabeg -- themselves internally heterogeneous -- transform, adapt, innovate and respond according to their own interests and to changes around them.
[Review Of] Marcyliena Morgan , Ed. Language And The Social Construction Of Identity In Creole Situations, Anita Herzfeld
[Review Of] Marcyliena Morgan , Ed. Language And The Social Construction Of Identity In Creole Situations, Anita Herzfeld
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The result of a 1990 conference on "The Social Significance of Creole Language Studies" sponsored by Pomona and Pitzer of the Claremont Colleges and the University of California, Los Angeles, this stimulating collection of six papers enriches the field of pidgin and creole studies by "exploring the manner in which language and language choice reflect and mediate the social landscape.”
[Review Of] Don L. F. N I Lsen. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Bibliographies And Indexes In Popular Culture, Number 1, Barbara A. Bennett
[Review Of] Don L. F. N I Lsen. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Bibliographies And Indexes In Popular Culture, Number 1, Barbara A. Bennett
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Too often, the study of humor lacks the very thing it analyzes. That is one of the reasons Don Nilsen's humor bibliography is such a pleasant surprise. In the cataloguing and describing of the seemingly endless number of humor books and articles, Nilsen has managed to capture the tone of the subject while still doing this tedious job impressively.
[Review Of] W. S. Penn. All My Sins Are Relatives, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] W. S. Penn. All My Sins Are Relatives, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
W.S. Penn writes with wit and cleverness, but also with passion and love, about himself, his blood relatives, and his spiritual relatives. If the sins of the father are visited upon the son, Penn is doubly doomed by his need to understand his grandfather’s generation as well as his father’s. It is his grandfather and his father, as well as numerous others, to whom the book is dedicated, and it is this line of family members who have created the writer and critic who explores his own life as a mixed blood by simultaneously exploring the lives of his relatives …
[Review Of] Beatriz Rivera. African Passions And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Beatriz Rivera. African Passions And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In recent years there have been many novels, collections of short stories, and editions of poetry published by Mexican-Americans, but the works by Cuban-Americans have not been as plentiful. African Passions, the first published collection by Beatriz Rivera, is a promising but not altogether satisfying contribution to the corpus of Cuban-American writing. It is sometimes brilliant and imaginative, sometimes not very inspiring, with eight stories (several of which are interrelated) ranging from the humorous and well-conceived to the rather tedious.