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[Review Of] John Wrench And John Solomos, Eds. Racism And Migration In Western Europe, Liliane M. Vassberg
[Review Of] John Wrench And John Solomos, Eds. Racism And Migration In Western Europe, Liliane M. Vassberg
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This collection of fifteen essays edited by Wrench and Solomos is derived from the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "Racism and Migration in Europe in the 1990s,” held in England and organized by the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick and the Public Policy Centre of the Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. The purpose of this international meeting was to bring together scholars working on these topics and to examine the European situation today. The proceedings analyze the social and political debates surrounding immigration in European countries, where the …
[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
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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.
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 14, Summer, 1994
[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
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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] Monroe Lee Billington. New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, George H. Junne Jr
[Review Of] Monroe Lee Billington. New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, George H. Junne Jr
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Buffalo Soldiers guarded the western frontier, winning eighteen Medals of Honor. Formed in 1866, they also served in the Spanish-American War (1898), the War in the Philippines (1899-1901), World War II (1941-1946), and the Korean War (1950-1953) . It might appear that some of those events transpired a long time ago. However, Jones Morgan, the last Buffalo Soldier who served in both the West and the Spanish American War, died at age 110 in August, 1993.
[Review Of] Howard Brotz, Ed. African-American Social And Political Thought, Jennifer L. Dobson
[Review Of] Howard Brotz, Ed. African-American Social And Political Thought, Jennifer L. Dobson
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African-American Sociol ond Political Thought, originally published in 1966, is back in print-testimony to the durability of the writings it collects. The editor provides a selection of primary works by great African-American thinkers whom he categorizes into four mainstreams: emigrationists, assimilationists, cultural nationalists, and revived political nationalists. The works of such men as Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, W. E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey, stand alone for their brilliance, but brought together, they provide a panoramic view of the diversity of African-American philosophies for Black advancement.
[Review Of] Douglas Henry Daniels. A Social And Cultural History Of Black San Francisco, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] Douglas Henry Daniels. A Social And Cultural History Of Black San Francisco, Michael Patrick
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Pioneer Urbanites focuses on the quality of life and urban identity of Black residents of the San Francisco Bay area from 1850 to World War II. The author has organized the book topically, rather than chronologically. Because Daniels has chosen this organization, the reader has to keep historical chronology constantly in mind while reading in order to avoid confusion.
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Heroes And Great Chieftains, Terry E. Huffman
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Heroes And Great Chieftains, Terry E. Huffman
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Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains was first published in 1918 and contains short biographical narratives on fifteen American Indian leaders. Included in the vignettes are such well-known individuals as Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, and lesser recognized persons such as Tamahay and Two Strike. Most of the individuals are Lakota/Dakota but Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Dull Knife and Little Wolf of the Northern Cheyenne, Roman Nose of the Southern Cheyenne, and Hole-in-the-Day of the Ojibwa are also included in the volume.
[Review Of] Roger Goodman. Japan's International Youth: The Emergence Of A New Class Of Schoolchildren, Kumiko Takahara
[Review Of] Roger Goodman. Japan's International Youth: The Emergence Of A New Class Of Schoolchildren, Kumiko Takahara
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Japan's rapid expansion in the world of commerce since the 1960's has not only brought economic prosperity to the country but new social phenomena to its isolated monolithic culture. Roger Goodman's book focuses on just one such problem concerning "kikokusijo", or secondary schoolchildren returnees who resided abroad more than one year due to overseas assignments of their parents. The increase of returnee school children from 1,543 (1971) to 10,498 (1986) began to raise concerns in the mid-1970's with the Ministry of Education, mass media, and various public and business communities. The creation of remedial schools and special classes was hastened …
[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] Doris Davenport. Voodoo Chile -Slight Return: Poems, Opal Palmer Adisa
[Review Of] Doris Davenport. Voodoo Chile -Slight Return: Poems, Opal Palmer Adisa
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doris davenport's poetry collection, Voodoo Chile - Slight Return, firmly connects her to the southern African roots that she embraces. The poems speak from the perspective of a world-traveled feminist as well as a concerned humanist. davenport's poetry moves between being so caustic they singe, to an almost light-hearted, humorous tone. In both extremes, davenport's underlining motive seems to be to expose ills and ridicule contradictions inherent in the society.
[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
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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
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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] Charles F. Lummis. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories, Silvester J. Brito
[Review Of] Charles F. Lummis. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories, Silvester J. Brito
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Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories is composed of forty-two stories (tales) that range from the teachings (and/or) exploits of Coyote to the adventures of the Wise Bear. These folk tales were collected and translated from Spanish to English, as well as interpreted by the late Charles F. Lummis. The original title of this book was Tile Mall Who Married the Moon, published in 1894 by Century Company New York. This Bison edition is a reprint of another version published in 1910 by Century Company New York; being expanded and retitled. It also has an informative, new introduction by Robert F. Gish. In …
[Review Of] James B. Mckee. Sociology And The Race Problem: The Failure Of A Perspective, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] James B. Mckee. Sociology And The Race Problem: The Failure Of A Perspective, Vernon J. Williams Jr
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In his sweeping study of the treatment of African Americans in American sociology from the 1920s until the 1960s, James B. McKee, a professor emeritus of sociology at Michigan State University, concludes that sociologists "need to revive an older democratic commitment to speak to a larger public that includes and cuts across the conflicting racial identities whose fates are inexorably bound together in the same historical struggles" (366-7).
[Review Of] C. Hart Merriam. The Dawn Of The World: Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California, Susan L. Rockwell
[Review Of] C. Hart Merriam. The Dawn Of The World: Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California, Susan L. Rockwell
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Naturalist C. Hart Merriam devoted the last years of his life to research on Indians of California, meticulously recording and documenting his observations and the knowledge he gained from the various tribes. In 1910, he published a collection of myths and tales told to him by the elders of the California Mewan Indians under the title, The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. Eighty-three years later the University of Nebraska Press has published a Bison Book Edition of Merriam’s collection. Except for the change in title, the Bison Book Edition is …
[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
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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] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
[Review Of] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
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Susan Olzak’s work, The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict, is informative and contributes to an understanding of ethnic violence from an historical perspective. The central finding is that ethnic/racial conflict arises from an increase in intergroup competition for social resources. Exploring economic and political competition in the United States from 1877 to 1914, Olzak concludes that violence is most apt to occur when members of a disadvantaged ethnic/racial group experience greater equality of opportunity. This new environment creates a situation whereby members of a formerly segregated group become rivals for social awards. An environment which contains several disadvantaged groups …
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
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Genaro Padilla and University of Wisconsin Press should be commended for the publication of a much needed addition to the study of American autobiography, in general, and ethnic autobiography, in particular. Early Mexican American autobiographies remain largely ignored and forgotten. The importance of these autobiographies should not be ignored, however, especially with regard to the study of the West and Southwest. With this book, Padilla opens the door to the retrieval and study of these important historical documents.
[Review Of] Suzanne M. Sinke And Rudolph J. Vecoli, Eds. A Century Of European Migrations, 1830-1930, Liliane M. Vassberg
[Review Of] Suzanne M. Sinke And Rudolph J. Vecoli, Eds. A Century Of European Migrations, 1830-1930, Liliane M. Vassberg
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This collection of sixteen essays stems from the proceedings of a 1986 symposium commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Based on work by American and European scholars, this volume owes its strength to transnational and comparative perspectives and to theoretical approaches strongly inspired by Frank Thistlethwaite’s influential 1960 essay “Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Reprinted in the present volume, Thistlethwaite’s paper advocated studying European migration -- and return migration -- as a means of social mobility in the context of industrialization and capitalism, within Europe and …
[Review Of] Paul M. Sniderman And Thomas Piazza. The Scar Of Race, David Goldstein-Shirley
[Review Of] Paul M. Sniderman And Thomas Piazza. The Scar Of Race, David Goldstein-Shirley
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Into the murky, politically-charged waters of contemporary racial politics shines this welcome ray of light. Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, using clever research design and innovative techniques, clarify the changing meaning of race in today’s political landscape and conclusively dismiss many strongly-held, but nonetheless inaccurate, assumptions about whites’ attitudes toward African Americans.
[Review Of] Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Race And The City: Work, Community, And Protest In Cincinnati, 1820-1970, Cedric D. Page
[Review Of] Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Race And The City: Work, Community, And Protest In Cincinnati, 1820-1970, Cedric D. Page
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This collection of essays offers diverse perspectives on the social, political, and economic currents that shaped racial and ethnic geography of Cincinnati from the antebellum period through the post-World War II era. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. offers a unique and instructive collection of works that contribute to a clear understanding of the impact of city-building, economic transition and social-political transformation on the residents of Cincinnati between 1820 and 1970. Throughout the book, the spatial character of the city is the focus while the influence of site and situation of the ”Queen City” proscribe its economic fortunes and quality of urban …
[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] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
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Patricia A. Turner, associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis, published Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture earlier in 1994. Now she has made another valuable contribution to the study of African American culture with I Heard It Through the Grapevine; and in addition, has added to the understanding of how urban legends start and continue to persist. Just as Jan Harold Brunvand's Vanishing Hitchhiker made the general public aware of these legends, Turner's study makes both Black and White readers aware of the significance of …
[Review Of] H. Henrietta Stockel. Women Of The Apache Nation: Voices Of Truth, Sally Mcbeth
[Review Of] H. Henrietta Stockel. Women Of The Apache Nation: Voices Of Truth, Sally Mcbeth
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At a time when books about Native American women need to provide the reader with unromanticized images of strong women in their own right, Stockel’s book, Women of the Apache Nation, succeeds only partially. The sixty-two page historical introduction and the two shorter introductions to the Mescalero (New Mexico) and Fort Sill (Oklahoma) Apache, while important to situating the women’s narratives that follow, are flawed by inaccuracies, overly dependent on secondary sources, and replete with unnecessary references to historical male figures and male relatives. Stockel, for example, incorrectly uses the term ”Western pache” which does not include Mescalero or Fort …
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters. Talking Indian: Reflections On Survival And Writing, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters. Talking Indian: Reflections On Survival And Writing, Elizabeth Mcneil
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Anna Lee Walters creates an interesting chronicle that is both personal and historical. As she writes of self and family, she also writes about a multitribal web of cultural beliefs and historical interactions with whites that have come to define tribal people today.