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Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1979
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Guest Editorial, Louis Sarabia
Guest Editorial, Louis Sarabia
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Ethnic studies is a rather strange field. In the first place, it is not a "field" in the traditional sense of other academic disciplines, but rather it seeks to include any and all disciplines. Second, it deals with people, and as our colleagues in the so-called "behavioral sciences" have discovered, people are perhaps the most unpredictable of all living things to study, thus the problems are many. Third, many of the subjects which we in ethnic studies have chosen to research, by the very nature of the fact that we deal with ethnic minorities, have tended to strike others not …
Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden
Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The year is 1930, the film is Little Caesar, and Hollywood begins its long and often irresponsible tradition of portraying the Italian-American male as gangster, thug, sociopath. The gangster genre has traditionally focused on male activities--men in groups, their rites of passage into underworld manhood, and their perverted American dreams of success achieved through community extortion, syndicated corruption, and blood murder. But hidden in the story of Caesar Enrico Bandello, who has justifiably been called our "archetypal" film gangster, we also discover fragmentary, but important, early portrayals of the Italian woman in America.
Asian Americans In Psychiatric Systems, Niel Tashima
Asian Americans In Psychiatric Systems, Niel Tashima
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Prior to the l960's, very little interest had been shown in researching patterns of American utilization of mental health facilities. The notion of culturally different patterns of psychological “normalcy” for Asian Americans as a distinct population had not been adequately explored. Although a few case studies of Asian-American patients did appear in the literature from time to time, no extensive or systematic research into the demographic and psychological characteristics of Asian-American patient populations had been presented.
New Skin: Ellison, Jung, And The Unconscious, Dona Hoilman
New Skin: Ellison, Jung, And The Unconscious, Dona Hoilman
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Marshall McLuhan contends that the electric media, television in particular, have given Americans the means of instant, total awareness both of themselves, especially of their unconscious or subliminal states, and of others, who may differ in skin color or points of view but with whom total social involvement is now not only desirable, but absolutely necessary in the ontological sense of the word. However, though television may have made us more conscious of our unconscious and more aware of the dynamic relationship between other individuals’ well-being and our own, the mutual feeding and forming and mutilating of one another’s psyches …
[Review Of] Kay Graber (Ed.), Sister To The Sioux: The Memoirs Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-91, Gretchen Bataille
[Review Of] Kay Graber (Ed.), Sister To The Sioux: The Memoirs Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-91, Gretchen Bataille
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Elaine Goodale Eastman was a white woman from the East who decided early in her life that her “mission” was to educate the Sioux Indians of the Dakotas. The memoirs, published in 1978, were written in the thirties from notes and diaries kept by the writer from 1885-1891. Thus, there are three distinct periods of time the contemporary reader must consider.
[Review Of] William E. Sims, Black Studies: Pitfalls And Potential, Adlean Harris
[Review Of] William E. Sims, Black Studies: Pitfalls And Potential, Adlean Harris
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
According to the author of this important study, the students who instigated the demand for Black Studies were a “new breed” of Black students. They were different from the White Majority in their manners, speech, style of dressing, and walking. They were also different from their Black predecessors in these same areas. In addition, they were veterans of the Civil Rights Movement; their heroes were Black activists--Ralph Brown, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver; they had no intention of “escaping the ghetto.”
[Review Of] John Higham (Ed.), Ethnic Leadership In America, Edith Blicksilver
[Review Of] John Higham (Ed.), Ethnic Leadership In America, Edith Blicksilver
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The growing awareness of America's ethnic pluralism has become one of the factors shaping modern American history. Ethnic writers, as well as ethnic leaders, began the task of illuminating the meaning of their own historic and cultural traditions within the larger contexts of the nation and of the world. They have served as interpreters of their people.
Editor's Corner: Ethnic Studies Leadership?, George E. Carter
Editor's Corner: Ethnic Studies Leadership?, George E. Carter
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
NAIES and its journal, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, from their inception have tried to address the question of leadership within Ethnic Studies. A quick survey from a national perspective leaves one with a fear that no one is providing much in the way of leadership. The same situation seems to prevail at the state and local levels. Yet, more and more prominence is given to the multiethnic makeup and experience of American society. There is an obvious inconsistency involved in this situation. Why is there no national policy on ethnic studies or on the crucial issues facing American society generated …
Notes On Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1979
Racial Minorities In U.S. History Textbooks: A Case For A More Systematic Approach To Textbook Evaluation, Jesus Garcia
Racial Minorities In U.S. History Textbooks: A Case For A More Systematic Approach To Textbook Evaluation, Jesus Garcia
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
A few decades ago, textbook adoption proceedings were relatively dull affairs. Present at these meetings were political, business, and labor interest group representatives who were primarily concerned with the treatment their constituencies received in textbooks, especially social studies texts. Expressing common concerns, board members and traditional interest group representatives only occasionally debated what ought to be included in social studies texts. The dealings rarely bordered on the sensational and, in most cases, resulted in minimal discussion and acceptance of texts recommended for adoption by a board's textbook committee.
[Review Of] Jesse E. Gloster. Minority Economic, Political And Social Development, Kwang Chung Kim
[Review Of] Jesse E. Gloster. Minority Economic, Political And Social Development, Kwang Chung Kim
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Minority Economic, Political and Social Development is a comprehensive document on the experience of discriminated minority groups in the United States, covering a wide range of minority issues which include poverty, aging, unemployment, housing, health, financial institutions, politics, and minority experiences in professional athletics, the military, and mass media. Few other books could surpass the scope of this ambitious work.
[Review Of] Melvin G. Holli And Peter D'A. Jones (Eds.). The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival In Chicago And The Midwest, Maxine Schwartz Seller
[Review Of] Melvin G. Holli And Peter D'A. Jones (Eds.). The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival In Chicago And The Midwest, Maxine Schwartz Seller
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The reader seeking fresh and intellectually stimulating material on American ethnic history will find The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest a rewarding book. Editors Melvin G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones have assembled a collection of first-rate original scholarly articles that provide new insights into issues of group survival, assimilation, and conflict in the United States.
[Review Of] John Anthony Scott. Hard Trials On My Way: Slavery And The Struggle Against It, 1800-1860, John C. Walter
[Review Of] John Anthony Scott. Hard Trials On My Way: Slavery And The Struggle Against It, 1800-1860, John C. Walter
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In the beginning the history of slavery was written in political and institutional terms, and very little attention was paid to what the day-to-day participants in this odious adventure had to say. With time, historians realized they had to take into account personal views, feelings, and reminiscences of the participants, but this realization brought about predominantly the recollections and opinions of white people. This was so because it was generally accepted that most black people were illiterate and had little to say for themselves. It was understood also that when they said anything, it would be exaggerated and self-serving and, …
[Review Of] Raymond L. Hall. Black Separatism In The United States, Lillie Alexis
[Review Of] Raymond L. Hall. Black Separatism In The United States, Lillie Alexis
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
A startling look at black separatist movements of the past reveals interesting facts that parallel the rise and fall of the contemporary organizations with separatist ideologies. The author focuses on the period from 1960 to 1972, analyzing five black social movement organizations: The Nation of Islam/Black Muslims, The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Non-Violent (later National) Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and the Republic of New Africa (RNA).
[Review Of] Bettylou Valentine. Hustling And Other Hard Work: Life Styles In The Ghetto, Carl Mack Jr.
[Review Of] Bettylou Valentine. Hustling And Other Hard Work: Life Styles In The Ghetto, Carl Mack Jr.
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Prior to receiving Ms. Valentine's book, Hustling and Other Hard Work, this reviewer felt a sense of pessimism. That is, here is another book trying to clarify black folk's problems. This pessimistic sense is especially acute during this time when the label “minority” is still being used to lump millions of people together when their cultural-racial diversity defies such grouping. (This minority grouping oftentimes serves as a comment label or package for old racist attitudes and stereotypes.)
[Review Of] Charles V. Willie And Ronald R. Edmonds (Eds.). Black Colleges In America: Challenge, Development, Survival, Lafayette W. Lipscomb
[Review Of] Charles V. Willie And Ronald R. Edmonds (Eds.). Black Colleges In America: Challenge, Development, Survival, Lafayette W. Lipscomb
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This book is a collection of articles from the Black College Conference held at Harvard University in March and April of 1976. The authors are experienced administrators, teachers, and students of our nation's black colleges and universities. This book attempts, through firsthand recording, through documentation of historical fact, and through analysis of governance, financing, and institutional role, to eradicate the negative images of our nation's black colleges and universities.
[Review Of] Barbara Dodds Stanford And Karima Amin. Black Literature For High School Students, James L. Lafky
[Review Of] Barbara Dodds Stanford And Karima Amin. Black Literature For High School Students, James L. Lafky
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Of all the annotated bibliographies of black literature that have crossed this writer's desk during the past thirteen years, Black Literature for High School Students is certainly the most complete. By virtue of its being twelve years later than Abraham Chapman's The Negro in American Literature (Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English), the Stanford-Amin effort is newer; it has recency. Their book also has a few other virtues.
[Review Of] H. Craig Miner And William E. Unrau. The End Of Indian Kansas: A Study Of Cultural Revolution 1854-1871, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] H. Craig Miner And William E. Unrau. The End Of Indian Kansas: A Study Of Cultural Revolution 1854-1871, George W. Sieber
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The forced removal of thousands of Indians from eastern Kansas between 1854 and 1871 adversely affected even more Native Americans and occupied even more government time than did the struggle between the army and the tribesmen of the western plains, who forcibly resisted subjugation.
[Review Of] James A. Clifton. The Prairie People: Continuity And Change In Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965, Kenneth M. Morrison
[Review Of] James A. Clifton. The Prairie People: Continuity And Change In Potawatomi Indian Culture, 1665-1965, Kenneth M. Morrison
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Until very recently, Indian history existed in the doldrums of guilt and ethnocentric misunderstanding. Since Indians were preeminently the great American obstacle to the inexorable process of United States expansion and progress, they have been relegated to the quiet, but nasty, fringes of Euroamerican history. Indians were destroyed or degraded in national chronicles. Sorry remnants of once proud peoples, reservation Indians, the story line goes, remained obstinately and hopelessly beyond the winds of change.
[Review Of] Roberto V. Vallangca. Pinoy: The First Wave, Masayuki Sato
[Review Of] Roberto V. Vallangca. Pinoy: The First Wave, Masayuki Sato
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The importance of documenting “oral histories” in print has to be emphasized among all Pacific Asian American groups. Dr. Roberto Vallangca has done a superb job and should be rewarded greatly as an encouragement to others to document the personal histories of the “old timers” who immigrated to Hawaii and mainland United States before the war.
[Review Of] Patricia A. Vardin And Ilene N. Brody (Eds.). Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, Linda Fystrom
[Review Of] Patricia A. Vardin And Ilene N. Brody (Eds.). Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, Linda Fystrom
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In 1979, the International Year of the Child, this volume presents a telling indictment of our record in the area of children‘s rights. Authors from international and interdisciplinary perspectives indicate the tremendous gulf between the ideal and the real.
[Review Of] Leo Hamalian And John D. Yohannan (Eds.). New Writing From The Middle East, Elaine King Miller
[Review Of] Leo Hamalian And John D. Yohannan (Eds.). New Writing From The Middle East, Elaine King Miller
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In this rich collection of poetry, stories, and dramas, the editors attempt to illuminate the literary tradition of five Middle Eastern cultural groups. This anthology includes Arab, Armenian, Israeli, Persian, and Turkish literature, created primarily after the second world war. The authors of writings contained in the anthology range from Nobel Prize candidates to emerging talents whose works have been translated into English for the first time.
[Review Of] Georgina Ashworth (Ed.). World Minorities, Asad Husain
[Review Of] Georgina Ashworth (Ed.). World Minorities, Asad Husain
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
At the present time, World Minorities is a very appropriate title for a book, since it coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and President Jimmy Carter's strong, favorable stand for them. The publication of the second volume of World Minorities by the Minority Rights Group based in London, England, is a welcome addition to the many voices recently raised to safeguard and in defense of the rights of minorities around the world.
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille, David M. Gradwohl, And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives On American Indians In Iowa, William Bedford Clark
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille, David M. Gradwohl, And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives On American Indians In Iowa, William Bedford Clark
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The presentation of symposia papers in book form poses several editorial problems, the chief of which is maintaining a unity of focus between the various offerings. With one or two notable exceptions, the papers in this collection treat aspects of the Native-American experience within the boundaries of the present state of Iowa, but, unfortunately, that rubric is too broad to provide an organizing principle definite enough to hold the book together. The result is something of a mixed bag. Although each of the papers is presented as a “chapter” and some attempt at cross-reference between individual papers is made, it …
[Review Of] David R. Weber (Ed.), Civil Disobedience In America, A Documentary History, George E. Carter
[Review Of] David R. Weber (Ed.), Civil Disobedience In America, A Documentary History, George E. Carter
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Here is an important book which should be on the required reading list of all Americans. It is imperative reading for ethnic and minority group members. In this anthology, Mr. Weber gets to one of the fundamental issues in American society, liberty of conscience, and what the individual should do if civil authority clashes with conscience. The dualistic nature of justice in American society--one code for the whites, one for minorities; one for the rich, and one for the poor--makes this book as relevant to individual Americans today as it might have been at any point in American history.
[Review Of] Francesco Cordasco (Ed.), Italian Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Frank J. Cavaioli
[Review Of] Francesco Cordasco (Ed.), Italian Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Frank J. Cavaioli
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The great proliferation of knowledge that has caused a problem of control and retrieval of that knowledge has caught up with the expanding field of research in ethnic-immigration history. Francesco Cordasco’s newly edited work, Italian Americans: A Guide to Information Sources, therefore is a major contribution in the field. The student of ethnic-immigration history and the related social sciences will find it a useful tool because it is the most comprehensive up-to-date bibliographical register on the Italian Americans. The book is Volume 2 in Gale's Ethnic Studies Information Guide Series dealing with ethnic groups in the United States.
[Review Of] Barbara A. Curran, The Legal Needs Of The Public: The Final Report Of A National Survey, Laurence A. French
[Review Of] Barbara A. Curran, The Legal Needs Of The Public: The Final Report Of A National Survey, Laurence A. French
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This is a substantial report sponsored by a number of legal associations (American Bar Association and American Bar Endowment) and foundations (Edna McConnel Clark Foundation and International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. By its own assertion: “This study is the first, and to date only, such survey based on a national sample representing the adult population of the United States. Moreover, it provides a more comprehensive examination of the legal experiences and perceptions of the public than has been undertaken by any earlier survey.”
[Review Of] Ernest R. Myers, The Community Psychology Concept: Integrating Theory, Education, And Practice In Psychology, Social Work, And Public Administration, George E. Clarke
[Review Of] Ernest R. Myers, The Community Psychology Concept: Integrating Theory, Education, And Practice In Psychology, Social Work, And Public Administration, George E. Clarke
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Psychologists and other social scientists are critically analyzing the “state of the art” of community psychology. Their question is how this developing discipline can be best organized for pursuit of knowledge needed to bring about positive community change.