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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
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Janet Spector has written a book which is enjoyable, enlightening, and though-provoking reading. Those involved in anthropology, history, gender studies, and ethnic studies would do well to read this small volume carefully and ponder its issues. As she promises in the book’s subtitle, Spector presents archaeological evidence pertaining to the Wahpeton Dakota (Eastern Sioux) within a framework which lacks the Eurocentric and androcentric perspectives which too often characterize the study of American Indian pasts.
Ethnic Studies In Academe: Challenges And Prospects For The 21st Century. Naes Plenary Session , Kansas City,1995 Missouri, March 19, 1994, Jesse M. Vazquez, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Rhett Jones, Robert Perry, Miguel Carranza
Ethnic Studies In Academe: Challenges And Prospects For The 21st Century. Naes Plenary Session , Kansas City,1995 Missouri, March 19, 1994, Jesse M. Vazquez, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Rhett Jones, Robert Perry, Miguel Carranza
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The primary intent of organizing the plenary that follows was to engage a number of dedicated and experienced ethnic studies scholar-activists in a focused conversation on the current state of ethnic studies in the academy. At this point many of us have been involved in ethnic studies for more than twenty years. The perspectives and observations offered in this monograph are transcribed from the recordings of the plenary. It offers the reader a far-ranging discussion of the field, its history, its struggles, its pedagogy, and some of its underlying principles.
[Review Of] Adela De La Torre And Beatriz M. Pesquera, Eds. Building With Our Hands, C. Alejandra Elenes
[Review Of] Adela De La Torre And Beatriz M. Pesquera, Eds. Building With Our Hands, C. Alejandra Elenes
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Building With Our Hands is a milestone in the development of Chicana Studies and its possibilities. This multidisciplinary anthology critiques the cultural, political and economic conditions of Chicanas in the US. by voicing their struggles against race, class, gender, and sexual oppression.
[Review Of] Clovis E. Semmes. Cultural Hegemony And African American Development, Carol Ward
[Review Of] Clovis E. Semmes. Cultural Hegemony And African American Development, Carol Ward
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The purpose of this book is to examine cultural aspects of hegemonic relations between White Americans and African Americans, a neglected topic which the author believes should provide the basis for African American Studies programs. Although Semmes establishes culture as the focus of his analysis, political and economic forces are clearly important for understanding the position of Black Americans in the changing social organization of the United States. Defined as regularity in subjective states, culture is theorized as interacting with social organization, as institutional settings frame cultural expressions and vice versa.
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
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[Review Of] Chalmers Archer, Jr. Growing Up Black In Rural Mississippi, Aloma Mendoza
[Review Of] Chalmers Archer, Jr. Growing Up Black In Rural Mississippi, Aloma Mendoza
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Archer's book is a non-fictional account of the pain and anguish of one extended family's struggle and fight during the 1930s and 1940s to survive the racist south.
[Review Of] Anny Bakalian. Armenian-Americans: From Being To Feeling Armenian, Arlene Avakian
[Review Of] Anny Bakalian. Armenian-Americans: From Being To Feeling Armenian, Arlene Avakian
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Aside from work on the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey and some work on ancient Armenia, there is precious little published work on the Armenian people. Even the Armenian genocide in which 1.5 million of the 2 million Armenians in Turkey were killed has been largely ignored by the world community and was named by one scholar, "the forgotten genocide (Dickran H. Boyajian, Armenia: The Case for a Forgotten Genocide, Westwood, NJ: Educational Book Crafters, 1972). Particularly missing from the scholarship is work about contemporary Armenians in diaspora. Anny Bakalian's book begins to fill that void.
[Review Of] Diane Glancy. Claiming Breath, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] Diane Glancy. Claiming Breath, Laurie Lisa
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In her seventh book of poetry, Diane Glancy presents a moving account of the portrait of the artist as Native, woman, and poet. Of German, English, and Cherokee descent, Glancy's prose poetry, as she states in her "Preface," is often "about being in the middle ground between two cultures, not fully a part of either. I write with a split voice, often experimenting with language until the parts equal some sort of a whole." The Sixty-three poems in this volume (with the last composed of eight parts) are a non-linear journey, a physical and psychological traveling through the senses and …
[Review Of] David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Dubois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Dubois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In a stunning exhibition of biographical craftsmanship, David Levering Lewis narrates, for the years between 1868 and 1919, both the spectacular achievements -- and their import for intellectual life in our own times -- and the equally significant failings of one of the most important American intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lewis's erudite tome supercedes all of the previous biographical treatments of DuBois and will doubtlessly require an equally Herculean effort to match this phenomenal work. Indeed, the awesome task of concluding the latter part of DuBois's long, controversial, and complex life will be exhaustively challenging. Since any exhaustive review …
[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
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Bette Woody’s latest book is an incisive attempt to particularize the economic effects of structural changes in American society. As the title suggests, the book explores changes in the work content, job opportunities, and wages of Black women as a result of the trend towards a service economy in America.
[Review Of] Crawford Young, Ed. The Rising Tide Of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State At Bay. And, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. The State Of The World's Refugees: The Challenge Of Protection, Sudha Ratan
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Interest in ethnic conflict and identity politics has led to an increase in the number of works attempting to understand this phenomena. The two works examined here follow in the same tradition.
[Review Of] Leonore Loeb Adler And Uwe P. Gielen. Cross-Cultural Topics On Psychology, Yueh-Ting Lee
[Review Of] Leonore Loeb Adler And Uwe P. Gielen. Cross-Cultural Topics On Psychology, Yueh-Ting Lee
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It has been over forty years since Gordon Allport published The Nature of Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1954). To Allport, sociocultural factors play an important role in our prejudice, especially when we do not understand cultural differences. However, Allport's book dealt little with cross-cultural research. Fortunately, Leonore Loeb Adler and Uwe P. Gielen, two experts in cross-cultural research, have presented us with their recent study on how cultural understanding helps us to be more open-minded.
[Review Of] Robert Elliot Barkan. Asian And Pacific Islander Migration To The United States: A Model Of New Global Patterns, William L. Winfrey
[Review Of] Robert Elliot Barkan. Asian And Pacific Islander Migration To The United States: A Model Of New Global Patterns, William L. Winfrey
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Migration in the late 20th century has become increasingly complex. The nature of migration has changed considerably from 1885, when E.G. Ravenstein first enumerated his laws of migration. In contrast to Ravenstein's simple "configurations of internal migration," Dr. Barkan likens modern migration to a jungle gym: If one were to picture an elaborate children's outdoor jungle gym, constructed so that it can be made to undulate gently and gyrate, the analogy would come close to the reality of global migration. As the children decide to climb, several choices confront them in terms of direction and destination, although not all may …
[Review Of] Juan Flores. Divided Borders: Essays All Puerto Rican Identity, Migdalia Reyes
[Review Of] Juan Flores. Divided Borders: Essays All Puerto Rican Identity, Migdalia Reyes
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Juan Flores makes an important contribution to the literature on the Puerto Rican experience with his new book, Divided Borders: Essays all Puerto Rican Identity. The essays are exemplary of a serious exploration of the Puerto Rican identity as it has been defined and portrayed by a variety of writers, popular movements, and social movements.
[Review Of] Magdalena Garcia Pinto. Women Writers Of Latin America: Intimate Histories, Kristina Brooks
[Review Of] Magdalena Garcia Pinto. Women Writers Of Latin America: Intimate Histories, Kristina Brooks
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Talking with Mexican writer and critic Margo Glantz, Magdalena Garcia Pinto describes the interview process as "a dialogue with your mirror" (117). The exchanges she has with ten Latin American women are less transparent reflections of these writers, however, than they are guided conversations about their development as writers and their views about the distinctiveness of female literature. As a general introduction to Latin American women writers, Garcia Pinto's interviews do not provide the reader with a coherent or thorough view of how these women fit into (or break free from) Latin American literary movements or feminine/feminist traditions; rather, the …
[Review Of] Herbert Hill And James E. Jones. Race In America: The Struggle For Equality, Otis L. Scott
[Review Of] Herbert Hill And James E. Jones. Race In America: The Struggle For Equality, Otis L. Scott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The predicament of race shapes the social and cultural landscape of this society. That this has been long true prompted Dr. W.E.B. DuBois to insightfully remark that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races ... in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea" (W. E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk. New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1953, 13 ). DuBois was not offering a critique of race as an abstract sociological or cultural idea; he was critically commenting on how …
[Review Of] Bill Ong Hing. Making And Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, Jun Xing
[Review Of] Bill Ong Hing. Making And Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, Jun Xing
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Bill Ong Hing's book has fulfilled a long-felt need in Asian American studies. Since the publication of Milton R. Konvitz's The Alien and Asiatic in American Law (1946), no comprehensive overview of how American immigration policy influenced Asian immigration has been published. The subject, however, represents one of the most important aspects of Asian American experience. Historically, the anti-Asiatic Exclusion Laws played a defining role in the evolution of Asian America. Today, the legacy of racist immigration policies continue to limit Asian Americans, and the current debate over immigration remains an issue of great importance for the communities.
[Review Of] K. Tslanina Lomawalma. They Called It Prairie Light, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] K. Tslanina Lomawalma. They Called It Prairie Light, Raymond A. Bucko
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This work adeptly weaves the documentary history of the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School of Oklahoma (1884-1980) with the oral histories of sixty-one Indian students spanning the years between 1920 and 1940. While there are many works on Indian education, this one is unique because the core of the history is presented through the voices of former students.
[Review Of] Rebecca R. Martin. Libraries And The Changing Face Of Academia: Responses To Growing Multicultural Populations, Deborah Hollis
[Review Of] Rebecca R. Martin. Libraries And The Changing Face Of Academia: Responses To Growing Multicultural Populations, Deborah Hollis
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With great anticipation I sat down to read Rebecca R. Martin's work about academic libraries services to multicultural populations in the United States. I had hoped to read about reasoned and responsible approaches to this current hot topic. What I found instead was an anthology of the politically correct chatter pulled from the last ten years of library literature. Martin's book raises no new issues for the academic library administrator. Libraries And The Changing Face of Academia is a tame discussion of a serious issue that has kept academic librarians wringing their hands over the past decade. Rebecca Martin does …
[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim
[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Marchetti poignantly mirrors Orientalism as conceived in the eyes of typical Hollywood filmmakers of their Eurocentric discourse, flavored with their own notions of romance, race and sexuality, and the "Yellow Peril," the way they want to entertain the American viewers. The book introduces fifteen major classical films which span over a seventy-year period (1915-1985) with sharp literary as well as cinematographic criticism on Protestant ethics, gender supremacy, and conjugal family structure.
[Review Of] Velma Wallis. Two Old Women, Vanessa Holford
[Review Of] Velma Wallis. Two Old Women, Vanessa Holford
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Velma Wallis says of Two Old Women, it is “a story about my people and my past -- something about me that I could grasp and call mine.” She introduces her written story as an attempt to continue that which is rapidly being silenced by television and modern ”conveniences” -- the children who now seem uninterested in traditional tales to one day be able to call the legend theirs. In setting this tale to paper, she succeeds not only in her goal to interest future generations among her own people, but also in offering outside readers of all ages a …
[Review Of] Lynn Brodie Welch, Ed. Perspectives On Minority Women In Higher Education, Judith E. O'Dell
[Review Of] Lynn Brodie Welch, Ed. Perspectives On Minority Women In Higher Education, Judith E. O'Dell
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This book is a compilation of papers presented at various International Conferences for Women in Higher Education sponsored by the University of Texas at El Paso. The chapters focus on the educational experience from very different views including classroom experiences, relations with co-workers, historical aspects, and minority women as leaders. In addition, there are chapters focusing on the experiences of specific ethnic groups, with the content at times being only marginally related to the higher educational experience. Collectively, the chapters provide the reader with a broad perspective on the situations minority women are likely to encounter while working in colleges …
Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez
Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In April of 1990, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., published an essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "When Ethnic Studies are Un-American."[1] The publication of that article followed, by about eight months, the release of New York State's Department of Education's now controversial report -- "A Curriculum of Inclusion."[2] Interestingly, the publication of The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society also follows, by about seven months, the release of New York State's second and most current Education Department report calling for the development of a new multicultural social studies curriculum -- One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of …
Cumulative Index By Title, Nos. 7-13 (1987-1993)
Cumulative Index By Title, Nos. 7-13 (1987-1993)
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Cumulative index by title for numbers 7-13, 1987-1993 for Explorations in Sights and Sounds.
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
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