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[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman Jan 1981

[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1981

[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1981

[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Jay P. Dolan. The Immigrant Church, New York's Irish And German Catholics, 1815-1865, George R. Gilkey Jan 1980

[Review Of] Jay P. Dolan. The Immigrant Church, New York's Irish And German Catholics, 1815-1865, George R. Gilkey

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] George Henderson (Ed.). Understanding And Counceling [Counseling] Ethnic Minorities, Robert T. Sato Jan 1980

[Review Of] George Henderson (Ed.). Understanding And Counceling [Counseling] Ethnic Minorities, Robert T. Sato

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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. Jan 1980

[Review Of] Research Centre For Canadian Ethnic Studies (Pub.). Canadian Ethnic Studies -- Special Issue: Ethnic Radicals, John W. Larner Jr.

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Francesco Cordasco And George Bernstein. Bilingual Education In American Schools: A Guide To Information Sources, Rosa Fernandez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] John Dylong. Living History 1925-1950: Family Experiences Of Times Remembered, Barbara R. Luebke

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Bernth Lindfors. Black African Literature In English: A Guide To Information Sources, Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Thomas A. Clark. Blacks In Suburbs: A National Perspective, James Sherohman Jan 1980

[Review Of] Thomas A. Clark. Blacks In Suburbs: A National Perspective, James Sherohman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Khalil Nakhleh And Elia Zureik (Eds.). The Sociology Of The Palestinians, Manindra Kumar Mohapatra Jan 1980

[Review Of] Khalil Nakhleh And Elia Zureik (Eds.). The Sociology Of The Palestinians, Manindra Kumar Mohapatra

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Myrtle S. Langley. The Nandi Of Kenya: Life Crisis Rituals In A Period Of Change, Jean Bright

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Andrew Strathern. Ongka: A Self Account By A New Guinea Big Man, Virginia Stamper

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[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

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman; Problems, Protests, Lifestyle, Elvira Craig De Silva

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 Jan 1980

[Review Of] Film Review: Gretchen Bataille. Inside The Cigar Store: Images Of The American Indian, Janice Beaudin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Buchi Emecheta . The Joys Of Motherhood, Janet Cheatham Bell Jan 1980

[Review Of] Buchi Emecheta . The Joys Of Motherhood, Janet Cheatham Bell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Whether this novel is touting motherhood or not, the author certainly makes it clear that being a mother is not a simple or an easy task. The setting is Nigeria prior to, during and after World War II, but there is much here with which any woman can identify, particularly if she is, or has mated.


[Review Of] Samuel J. Brakel. American Indian Tribal Courts: The Cost Of Separate Justice, Laurence French Jan 1980

[Review Of] Samuel J. Brakel. American Indian Tribal Courts: The Cost Of Separate Justice, Laurence French

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Barbara Myerhoff. Number Our Days, Michele Zak Jan 1980

[Review Of] Barbara Myerhoff. Number Our Days, Michele Zak

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Raymond L. Hall (Ed.). Ethnic Autonomy -- Comparative Dynamics: The Americas, Europe And The Developing World, Gary Y. Okihiro Jan 1980

[Review Of] Raymond L. Hall (Ed.). Ethnic Autonomy -- Comparative Dynamics: The Americas, Europe And The Developing World, Gary Y. Okihiro

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Hall has done us a service in putting together this wide-ranging collection of essays on ethnic separatist movements. The volume is particularly timely because of the twentieth century paradoxes of the drive for global unity and nationalism, and nationalism and a blossoming of ethnic separatist movements. (The book is not unique. See, 6.9. Chester L. Hunt and Lewis Walker, Ethnic Dynamics: Patterns of Intergroup Relations in Various Societies, Learning Publications, Inc., 1979.)


[Review Of] John Cooke (Ed.). Perspectives On Ethnicity In New Orleans., Frank J. Cavaioli Jan 1980

[Review Of] John Cooke (Ed.). Perspectives On Ethnicity In New Orleans., Frank J. Cavaioli

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In Perspectives on Ethnicity in New Orleans, editor John Cooke has organized nine essays that respond to the meaning of and the durability of ethnicity. A practical and analytical work, the collection focuses on the community, the people and the culture of New Orleans.


[Review Of] Anna Lee Stensland. Literature By And About The American Indian, Dona Hoilman Jan 1980

[Review Of] Anna Lee Stensland. Literature By And About The American Indian, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Linda Pegman Doezema (Ed.). Dutch Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Lois J. Kalloway Jan 1980

[Review Of] Linda Pegman Doezema (Ed.). Dutch Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Lois J. Kalloway

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic-immigration history was once primarily the domain of ethnic-immigration historians. Over the past fifteen years, however, the development of the new social history has shown that studies of ethnicity, class, cities, families, and workers are interdependent. Josef Barton's study of urban mobility, John Cumbler's analysis of workers' militancy, and Laurence Glasco’s examination of life cycles all demonstrate this point. This expanding interest by social analysts increases the need for comprehensive bibliographic studies in ethnicity. Linda Doezema’s recent monograph helps fill the void for one frequently neglected group -- the Dutch.


[Review Of] Paul Wrobel. Our Way: Family, Parish And Neighborhood In A Polish-American Community, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli Jan 1980

[Review Of] Paul Wrobel. Our Way: Family, Parish And Neighborhood In A Polish-American Community, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Roberta Peterson. A Cross-Cultural Study Of Minority Elders In San Diego: The Elder Philipino. E. Percil Stanford. The Elder Black. Wesley H. Ishikawa. The Elder Samoan. Karen C. Ishizuka. The Elder Japanese. Wesley H. Ishikawa. The Elder Guamanian. Ramon Valle & Lydia Mendoza. The Elder Latino. Eva Cheng. The Elder Chinese, Michael Illovsky Jan 1980

[Review Of] Roberta Peterson. A Cross-Cultural Study Of Minority Elders In San Diego: The Elder Philipino. E. Percil Stanford. The Elder Black. Wesley H. Ishikawa. The Elder Samoan. Karen C. Ishizuka. The Elder Japanese. Wesley H. Ishikawa. The Elder Guamanian. Ramon Valle & Lydia Mendoza. The Elder Latino. Eva Cheng. The Elder Chinese, Michael Illovsky

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

These are seven monographs published by the Center on Aging at San Diego University (The Campanile Press, 1978). Each monograph is the result of a team of researchers investigating an ethnic group. These cross-cultural studies of minority elders in San Diego investigate samples of Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Latinos, Philipinos, Samoans, and Guamanians aged 50 and over.


[Review Of] Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, And David M. Reimers Natives And Strangers: Ethnic Groups And The Building Of America, TöNu Parming Jan 1980

[Review Of] Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, And David M. Reimers Natives And Strangers: Ethnic Groups And The Building Of America, TöNu Parming

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 …


[Review Of] Judy H. Katz. White Awareness: Handbook For Anti-Racism Training, Helen G. Chapin Jan 1980

[Review Of] Judy H. Katz. White Awareness: Handbook For Anti-Racism Training, Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

White Awareness has been created out of a personal and professional struggle and is designed to help whites understand and come to grips with personal, cultural, and institutional racism. The author was the child of refugees from Hitler’s Germany. She was further influenced by the social movements in the United States during the 1960’s. She has a vision of equality and a commitment to combatting the pathology of racism. Her practical orientation makes her concerned with action rather than self-indulgent or energy-wasting guilt.


[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Song Of Solomon: The Flight Of Afro-American Life, Curtiss E. Porter Jan 1980

[Review Of] Toni Morrison. Song Of Solomon: The Flight Of Afro-American Life, Curtiss E. Porter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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] Tato Laviera. La Carreta Made A U-Turn, Wolfgang Binder Jan 1980

[Review Of] Tato Laviera. La Carreta Made A U-Turn, Wolfgang Binder

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The title of this new book of poetry from New York's Latino Lower East Side refers to a drama, La Carreta, by one of Puerto Rico’s most prestigious authors, René Marqués (1919-1979). It is generally considered one of the supreme artistic expressions of the collective Puerto Rican experience. At the end of the play the emigrants decide to leave New York City in an attempt to maintain their integrity and identity, to till the earth in the hills of Puerto Rico.


[Review Of] Russell W. Fridley. Historic Resources In Minnesota: A Report On Their Extent, Location, And Need For Preservation, Christian K. Skjervold Jan 1980

[Review Of] Russell W. Fridley. Historic Resources In Minnesota: A Report On Their Extent, Location, And Need For Preservation, Christian K. Skjervold

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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 …