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[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
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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] Judy H. Katz. White Awareness: Handbook For Anti-Racism Training, Helen G. Chapin
[Review Of] Judy H. Katz. White Awareness: Handbook For Anti-Racism Training, Helen G. Chapin
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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] Buchi Emecheta . The Joys Of Motherhood, Janet Cheatham Bell
[Review Of] Buchi Emecheta . The Joys Of Motherhood, Janet Cheatham Bell
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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] Raymond L. Hall (Ed.). Ethnic Autonomy -- Comparative Dynamics: The Americas, Europe And The Developing World, Gary Y. Okihiro
[Review Of] Raymond L. Hall (Ed.). Ethnic Autonomy -- Comparative Dynamics: The Americas, Europe And The Developing World, Gary Y. Okihiro
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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
[Review Of] John Cooke (Ed.). Perspectives On Ethnicity In New Orleans., Frank J. Cavaioli
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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] Tato Laviera. La Carreta Made A U-Turn, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Tato Laviera. La Carreta Made A U-Turn, Wolfgang Binder
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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] Linda Pegman Doezema (Ed.). Dutch Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Lois J. Kalloway
[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] 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
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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
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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
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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.
[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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
[Review Of] John L. Hodge, Donald K. Struckmann, And Lynn Dorland Trost, Cultural Bases Of Racism And Group Oppression: An Examination Of Traditional "Western" Concepts, Values, And Institutional Structures Which Support Racism, Sexism And Elitism, Lillie Alexis
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Dualism, a concept that simply tends to view the world in terms of “either-or” categories rather than “both . . . and,” has been examined and analyzed as the primary contributor to and cause of Western domination. The dangers of dualistic thinking are, according to Hodge et al., habit forming and unconscious. The Western practitioners of such thinking trace their ideology to the ancient Greek philosophers whose ideas support and reinforce existing oppressive patterns.
[Review Of] Barry D. Adam. The Survival Of Domination, Georgina Ashworth
[Review Of] Barry D. Adam. The Survival Of Domination, Georgina Ashworth
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The project area of The Survival of Domination is of great importance; the title is splendid; the Elsevier presentation is excellent. Yet it disappoints. The author sets out to examine the invisible mechanisms that keep social groups in their place when the overt legal discrimination against them may have been tinkered with sufficiently to remove its worst effects. Barry Adam is very specific about his intentions to focus on the every- day strategies oppressed communities evolve and use, individually and as members of that community, to survive.