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[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman
[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman
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A unique experience awaits readers of Miracle Hill, the autobiography of Blackhorse Mitchell, nicknamed “Barney” a young Navaho boy who began his own story as an assignment in his twelfth grade English class in the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Arts under the tutelage of Terry D. Allen. Unlike the other students in the class, who finished their life stories in half an hour or so, Barney found that he had a whole book stored up inside him, just waiting to be put on paper But Barney was still in the process of learning English as a second language, …
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
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In The Immigrants Speak, Italian Americans Tell Their Story LaGumina has fashioned fourteen personal life histories that include miners, shoemakers, a poet, an artist, theater people, a social worker, a soldier, a lawyer and an entrepreneur. Through their recollections they have increased our understanding of the Italian American experience. Their stories. told in the first person, both dramatize and illuminate the role of ethnicity in the twentieth century. As LaGumina states, “These stories detail the lives of a people bridging two cultures in modern history.”
[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry
[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry
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Rebels and Victims is a useful contribution to the comparative analysis of ethnic literature. This balanced, thorough presentation on the fiction of Wright and Malamud examines their ethnic literary works. Avery touches on many interdisciplinary factors which make the book of some interest to those discussing Afro-American and Jewish-American ethnic groups functioning in society.
[Review Of] Russell W. Fridley. Historic Resources In Minnesota: A Report On Their Extent, Location, And Need For Preservation, Christian K. Skjervold
[Review Of] Russell W. Fridley. Historic Resources In Minnesota: A Report On Their Extent, Location, And Need For Preservation, Christian K. Skjervold
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It is extremely difficult to review in any kind of a literary way a book which makes no pretense at being a literary work. Historic Resources is a report and a resource listing of what does exist. In addition to “what is” there are well thought out recommendations for what should be. The report deals with five broad areas of concern--Historical Organization and Museum Artifacts, Newspapers, Manuscripts, Historic Structures, and Archaeological Sites--which are and have been influenced by the work of the Minnesota Historical Society. In each of the sections there is a broad outline rationale for the existence of …
[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Song Of Solomon: The Flight Of Afro-American Life, Curtiss E. Porter
[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Song Of Solomon: The Flight Of Afro-American Life, Curtiss E. Porter
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Song of Solomon can only be viewed as a tribute to the artistic and cultural genius of Ms. Toni Morrison. I, as reviewer and want-to-be-rich writer, am studious and intent throughout my reading of her novel. I am amazed, gratified and satisfied. I am fully amazed that she pulls it through; this wealth of characterization and plot. This is a novel of growing into manhood. It is at once the tale of man-to-man relationships and man-to-woman relationships in the Afro-American community where there is an essential struggle simply to be: There is in Song of Solomon mystery, romance and intrigue. …
[Review Of] John U. Ogbu. Minority Education And Caste: The American System In Cross-Cultural Perspective, V. Thomas Samuel
[Review Of] John U. Ogbu. Minority Education And Caste: The American System In Cross-Cultural Perspective, V. Thomas Samuel
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In this comprehensive and well documented study on the minority education in America, Ogbu approaches the question of poor minority performance in school from a different but a powerful crosscultural perspective. His major hypothesis is that lower school performance on the part of blacks is an adaptation to their social and occupational positions in adult life, which do not require high educational qualifications (p. 213). The dominant white caste maintains the adaptation by providing blacks with inferior jobs. The adaptation is also maintained by certain structural and cultural features of the black environment which have evolved under the caste system. …
[Review Of] William P. French, Michel J. Febre, Amritjit Singh, And GenevièVe E. Fabre (Eds). Afro-American Poetry And Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide To Information Sources, James L. Gray
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This bibliographic guide is actually two guides in one volume, both of them quite useful to the student of Afro-American writing. Black writers have often published their work themselves or in limited editions through small and relatively unknown presses.
[Review Of] Samuel J. Brakel. American Indian Tribal Courts: The Cost Of Separate Justice, Laurence French
[Review Of] Samuel J. Brakel. American Indian Tribal Courts: The Cost Of Separate Justice, Laurence French
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This monograph (111 pages of text) is part of a larger research endeavor being conducted by the American Bar Foundation and sanctioned by the American Bar Association and the American Bar Endowment, among others. According to the American Bar Foun- dation: “Its mission is to conduct research that will enlarge the understanding and improve the functioning of law and legal institutions (pp iv).” This particular project was initiated to investigate the cost of separate tribal justice.
[Review Of] Gerald Vizenor. Wordarrows: Indians And Whites In The New Fur Trade, Marcia J. Galii
[Review Of] Gerald Vizenor. Wordarrows: Indians And Whites In The New Fur Trade, Marcia J. Galii
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It was George Orwell who saw, more clearly than most, that “newspeak” was often used by government and public institutions in communicating with their public. He warned that such jargon would separate government from the governed.
[Review Of] Jesse Green, Ed. ZuñI: Selected Writings Of Frank Hamilton Cushing, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] Jesse Green, Ed. ZuñI: Selected Writings Of Frank Hamilton Cushing, Elmer R. Rusco
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Jesse Green, a professor of English at Chicago State University, has brought together in this volume, with appropriate explanatory materials, selections from the published and unpublished writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing. The collection deals with several things: autobiographical materials (about 120 pages); description of Zuñi life and beliefs (about 220 pages); and materials about the relation between Zuñi and White America (much of the autobiographical section, a brief description of visits to the East by several Zuñi, most of the brief foreword by anthropologist Fred Eggan, and much of Green’s more than 60 pages of introductions.) The volume is handsomely …
[Review Of] Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, Albert PeñA. Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment Of The Texas Rangers, Louis Sarabia
[Review Of] Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, Albert PeñA. Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment Of The Texas Rangers, Louis Sarabia
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Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment of the Texas Rangers is an undertaking which has long been overdue. However, in this volume by Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, and Albert Peña, the expectations outweigh the realities.
[Review Of] Barbara Myerhoff. Number Our Days, Michele Zak
[Review Of] Barbara Myerhoff. Number Our Days, Michele Zak
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Number Our Days had its genesis in a research project on ethnicity and again at the University of Southern California where author Barbara Myerhoff is chairman of the department of anthropology. Her study of a group of elderly Jews living on and around the beach in Venice, California and who were members of the Aliyah Senior Citizens' Center, was undertaken reluctantly after Professor Myerhoff encountered resistance among the elderly Chicanos she had intended to study. The study absorbed four years of her life and ended in this record of surpassing warmth and intelligence of the past and present of a …
[Review Of] Jay P. Dolan. The Immigrant Church, New York's Irish And German Catholics, 1815-1865, George R. Gilkey
[Review Of] Jay P. Dolan. The Immigrant Church, New York's Irish And German Catholics, 1815-1865, George R. Gilkey
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Jay Dolan confines this study on immigrant Catholicism in New York City largely to the half-century between 1815 and 1865. He does, however, briefly note significant ties among events occurring in the secular world of Europe and America which influenced the nature of the migrations and the attitudes of the immigrants. (For example, the Germans of ‘48 brought with them political leanings that their predecessors had had). It is important to keep in mind that it was the era following the American Civil War when the great waves of immigrants, including large numbers of Catholics from southern and eastern Europe, …
[Review Of] Paul Wrobel. Our Way: Family, Parish And Neighborhood In A Polish-American Community, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
[Review Of] Paul Wrobel. Our Way: Family, Parish And Neighborhood In A Polish-American Community, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
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Paul Wrobel’s study of a Polish-American community provides valuable insight into one of America’s largest white ethnic groups. Recent studies of Polish-Americans, such as Neil Sandberg’s Ethnic Identity and Assimilation: the Polish American Community in Los Angeles (New York: Praeger, 1974), have been few and often lacking in insight, even if providing some information. Wrobel provides a window for outsiders to look at St. Thaddeus parish on the northeast side of Detroit, a neighborhood reflecting “the cultural attitudes and values of its residents, especially their need for order and cleanliness.” (p. 46.) He takes care to emphasize that his study …
[Review Of] Louis Chu. Eat A Bowl Of Tea, C. L. Chua
[Review Of] Louis Chu. Eat A Bowl Of Tea, C. L. Chua
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Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea is the most recent addition (and a most welcome one) to the series of Asian-American classics that the University of Washington Press is reprinting in paperback format. Other titles in this series that come to mind are the uncompromisingly naturalistic memoirs of the Filipino-American Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart, and the gripping novel about a Japanese-American who resists the World War II draft, John Okada’s No-No Boy. Louis Chu’s novel, which had first appeared in 1961 to unappreciative and uncomprehending notices, is every bit as essential to the canon of Asian …
[Review Of] George Henderson (Ed.). Understanding And Counceling [Counseling] Ethnic Minorities, Robert T. Sato
[Review Of] George Henderson (Ed.). Understanding And Counceling [Counseling] Ethnic Minorities, Robert T. Sato
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In this collection of articles drawn from several disciplines - history, sociology, psychology, education and social work - George Henderson has contributed a welcomed addition to the growing field of literature that focuses on the various issues of working with individuals from diverse cultural or ethnic backgrounds.
[Review Of] Research Centre For Canadian Ethnic Studies (Pub.). Canadian Ethnic Studies -- Special Issue: Ethnic Radicals, John W. Larner Jr.
[Review Of] Research Centre For Canadian Ethnic Studies (Pub.). Canadian Ethnic Studies -- Special Issue: Ethnic Radicals, John W. Larner Jr.
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This familiar and useful journal for those interested in cross-national comparative ethnic studies between Canada and the United States provides in this special issue six essays on seven important but hitherto overlooked ethnic minority leaders. Predictably, two of the figures are British (Arthur Putee and Sam Scarlett) and none are native, Métis, French or female; the other five being Finn (Matti Kurikka and A. B. Makela), Norwegian (Ole Hjelt), Ukranian (Ukrainian) (Pavlo Krat) and Croatian (Tomo Cacié). Each essay is in English with convenient bilingual headnote synopses. The essays are well researched, amply footnoted and tolerably readable for specialist literature. …
[Review Of] Francesco Cordasco And George Bernstein. Bilingual Education In American Schools: A Guide To Information Sources, Rosa Fernandez
[Review Of] Francesco Cordasco And George Bernstein. Bilingual Education In American Schools: A Guide To Information Sources, Rosa Fernandez
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This resource book is as valuable for non-specialists as it is For “old hands” in the area of bilingualism who want to have in one volume a guide to resources on Bilingual Education and related areas as they pertain to America.
[Review Of] John Dylong. Living History 1925-1950: Family Experiences Of Times Remembered, Barbara R. Luebke
[Review Of] John Dylong. Living History 1925-1950: Family Experiences Of Times Remembered, Barbara R. Luebke
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Beginning with the premise that “the family is our richest historical resource” because “they have been through it all” and “their memories are not dry, dusty facts” John Dylong sets out to document one family’s (his) growth. He does this with snapshots from family albums, brief narratives and newSpaper and magazine clippings on facing pages.
[Review Of] Bernth Lindfors. Black African Literature In English: A Guide To Information Sources, Helen Maclam
[Review Of] Bernth Lindfors. Black African Literature In English: A Guide To Information Sources, Helen Maclam
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Although there is no single Black or African world view, Black African creative writing offers us alternative perspectives to the Western European/American value system characterizing the literature most familiar to us.
[Review Of] Anna Lee Stensland. Literature By And About The American Indian, Dona Hoilman
[Review Of] Anna Lee Stensland. Literature By And About The American Indian, Dona Hoilman
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This annotated bibliography, an expanded version of Stensland’s 1973 publication of the same title, broadens the scope of works included considerably. The earlier edition was intended as a guide for teachers of secondary students; the present edition also includes annotations by Aune Fadum of some 200 books for pupils in the elementary grades. Some of the 1973 annotations of important secondary level books have been retained, but the emphasis is on books published since that date. Books about Indians from Mexico and Canada are included. All together nearly 800 titles are mentioned.
[Review Of] Thomas A. Clark. Blacks In Suburbs: A National Perspective, James Sherohman
[Review Of] Thomas A. Clark. Blacks In Suburbs: A National Perspective, James Sherohman
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Blacks in suburbs examines the process of black suburbanization on a national level. Although a book this short (111 pp., plus bibliography and index) necessarily provides a superficial treatment, it does explore some of the complexities of the suburbanization process among blacks. It not only looks at migration patterns of blacks to and from suburbs, but also at how factors such as region, income, education, and occupational and housing markets affect the process of suburbanization.
[Review Of] Ronald H. Bayor. Neighbors In Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews And Italians Of New York City, 1929-1941, Carol Schoen
[Review Of] Ronald H. Bayor. Neighbors In Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews And Italians Of New York City, 1929-1941, Carol Schoen
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In this study of a seldom-considered period of ethnic interaction, Bayor has provided a well-written and solidly researched appraisal of group conflict in New York City from 1929 to 1941. He has attempted to discover the reasons why conflict erupted between certain groups while others remained quiescent or were resolved.
[Review Of] Khalil Nakhleh And Elia Zureik (Eds.). The Sociology Of The Palestinians, Manindra Kumar Mohapatra
[Review Of] Khalil Nakhleh And Elia Zureik (Eds.). The Sociology Of The Palestinians, Manindra Kumar Mohapatra
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This book is a collection of seven different studies on the social aspects of Palestinian people. The editors are North American academicians of Palestinian origin. Other contributors to the volume include a lone UN official, and college professors from the USA, Canada and Blr Zeit University in Palestine.
[Review Of] Myrtle S. Langley. The Nandi Of Kenya: Life Crisis Rituals In A Period Of Change, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Myrtle S. Langley. The Nandi Of Kenya: Life Crisis Rituals In A Period Of Change, Jean Bright
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Dr. Langley. who states that this book is an abridgement of her doctoral dissertation, lectures in “missiology” at Trinity College, Bristol. This is a serious, sober, astonishing, and disappointing work.
[Review Of] Andrew Strathern. Ongka: A Self Account By A New Guinea Big Man, Virginia Stamper
[Review Of] Andrew Strathern. Ongka: A Self Account By A New Guinea Big Man, Virginia Stamper
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Ongka, A Self Account by a New Guinea Big Man is an oral narrative of the history and culture of a New Guinea big man named Ongka. A big man is a political leader within the Melpan culture of New Guinea. Ongka has served as a local government counsellor and is an outstanding political figure in his homeland. He presented his narrative to Andrew Strathern in the Melpan language via cassette recorder and Strathern translated his words into English.
[Review Of] Nell Irvin Painter. Exodusters; Black Migration To Kansas After Reconstruction. And Robert G. Athearn. In Search Of Canaan: Black Migration To Kansas, 1879-80, Wilson J. Moses
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In 1909 Walter L. Fleming published an article on “‘Pap’ Singleton, the Moses of the Colored Exodus,” in the American Journal of Sociology. Some forty years later, Herbert Aptheker in his Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, responded to it somewhat disparagingly. The Black Exodus was not a “spontaneous movement inspired by a Moses in the guise of the aged Benjamin Singleton.” it was “the culmination of a steady process of migration and came in response to years of preparation.” In this process “the somewhat eccent?c Singleton” was only of secondary significance. It was Henry Adams, …
[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman; Problems, Protests, Lifestyle, Elvira Craig De Silva
[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman; Problems, Protests, Lifestyle, Elvira Craig De Silva
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Edith Blicksilver has compiled an extensive and varied series of articles, poems and narratives of personal experiences of the different female authors, covering the life spectrum of the Ethnic American Woman. They are presented in a logical and organized fashion, which provides structure but allows for flexibility in the themes. This adds to the enjoyment of the book and facilitates its reading.
[Review Of] Film Review: Gretchen Bataille. Inside The Cigar Store: Images Of The American Indian, Janice Beaudin
[Review Of] Film Review: Gretchen Bataille. Inside The Cigar Store: Images Of The American Indian, Janice Beaudin
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Today the American Indian is still envisioned as a befeathered curiosity. Both children and adults have continued to perpetuated stereotypes and harbor misconceptions about the American Indian cultures. This has been detrimental to the advancement of India people today.
[Review Of] Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, And David M. Reimers Natives And Strangers: Ethnic Groups And The Building Of America, TöNu Parming
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Although the past decade has witnessed a surge in the number of publications focusing on ethnic groups and ethnic issues, the genre of study which may be called “ethnic history of America”‘ is still weakly represented. As a relatively pioneering effort, the Dinnerstein, Nichols and Reimers book makes a valuable contribution, and it could be justifiably recommended for American history courses, American Society courses, and courses on ethnicity. The general periodization of history is good, and the important ethnic developments within each period are related effectively to the emergence and growth of the United States politically and economically as well …