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Explorations In Sights And Sounds
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Explorations in Sights and Sounds
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[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this superb reconstruction of the life of Rayford W. Logan, Kenneth Robert Janken, an assistant professor of African American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, draws on his protagonist's somewhat tormented life to document the veracity of John Hope Franklin's thesis that, "it was the American Negro scholar's dilemma to be obligated constantly to challenge the notion of black inferiority”. Put another way, despite Logan's credentials -- he held a Ph.D. from Harvard University in history; wrote twelve books, including the classic, The Betrayal of the Negro; edited several others, among them, What the Negro …
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Opening the volume is a brief introduction by Elizabeth Ammons in which she discusses the major premise around which this book is organized -- namely, that “tricksterism” is a phenomenon in turn-of-the-century literature that, through tricks in authorship and narrative intention, disrupts the “master narrative” of the dominant racist Anglo culture. The articles concern works from a range of cultural backgrounds: Chinese American, Mexican American, Native American, European American, and African American. Each article includes endnotes and a list of works cited. The volume also offers contributors’ notes and an index.
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
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Catch Colt describes Gros Ventre writer Sidner J. Larson's experience as a mixed-blood Native American looking for his heritage, identity, and personal direction. Although minority fiction writers (such as Rudolfo A. Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko) have addressed this theme, non-fiction discussions of mixed-blood Native American lives are lacking. Larson's autobiography, however, is only moderately successful because he fails to make readers identify with his struggle as a member of “two different worlds at the same time...with a degree of non-acceptance by both."
[Review Of] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Janet Spector has written a book which is enjoyable, enlightening, and though-provoking reading. Those involved in anthropology, history, gender studies, and ethnic studies would do well to read this small volume carefully and ponder its issues. As she promises in the book’s subtitle, Spector presents archaeological evidence pertaining to the Wahpeton Dakota (Eastern Sioux) within a framework which lacks the Eurocentric and androcentric perspectives which too often characterize the study of American Indian pasts.
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Melissa Roanhorse is having a tough day. Her mother has a drinking problem, her fish keep dying, and she has to contend with the everyday pressures of being a high school sophomore which, by themselves, are enough to keep most of us from remembering those teenage years too nostalgically. So when Falke, an ancient vampire who's been sleeping off a coma for the last hundred-odd years, shows up offering immortality and a ticket out of Albuquerque, there‘s no wonder that Melissa takes the offer and runs. What's a little blood-sucking compared to algebra?
[Review Of] Laura Uba. Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, And Mental Health, Linda Gonzalves
[Review Of] Laura Uba. Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, And Mental Health, Linda Gonzalves
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
When looking at issues of ethnicity and mental health we are constantly reminded that there is, at present, no unified paradigm to guide either the practitioner or the research scholar. What we do know is that the human organism is a socially constructed being. We also know that there are species-specific human needs that play out in the formation of mental well being; there does exist a common denominator, if you will, of optimum conditions and relational situations that underly all human development. Mental health is an arena where the universality of human needs meets the specificity or relativity of …
[Review Of] Tu Wei-Ming,Ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning Of Being Chinese Today, Jim Schnell
[Review Of] Tu Wei-Ming,Ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning Of Being Chinese Today, Jim Schnell
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This book evolved from the spring, 1991 special issue of “Daedalus, the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Tu Wei-ming presents a collection of perspectives of the Chinese identity. These essays stand alone well, some are more relevant and better written than others (as will be addressed in this review), but they collectively fail to provide a coherent unified interpretation. The chapter topics are somewhat related but the continuity among them is weak (which should not be interpreted as a shortcoming of the individual chapter authors).
[Review Of] Jewell Parker Rhodes. Voodoo Dreams, Opal Palmer Adisa
[Review Of] Jewell Parker Rhodes. Voodoo Dreams, Opal Palmer Adisa
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Until I read Jewell Parker Rhodes very finely crafted novel, Voodoo Dreams, Marie Laveau, the New Orleans voodoo queen loomed invincible, beyond the reaches of anyone: man, woman, Black, or white. But in this novel Rhodes skillfully humanizes Laveau by presenting the majority of characters, including our heroine, as soared people motivated by their insecurities and fears. Those who are bold enough to seize the opportunities presented to them, such as John, Marie Laveau’s vicious lover, exploit their power and manipulate others for their own glory. The Marie Laveau that we meet in this novel is the third in a …
[Review Of] Rita Dove, Foreword. Multicultural Voices, Michael Elliott
[Review Of] Rita Dove, Foreword. Multicultural Voices, Michael Elliott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Multicultural Voices gathers together an impressive array of writers and writings in a textbook aimed at secondary school readers. The book not only includes several of the more obvious and well-known authors -- Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Amy Tan, to name a few -- but also anthologizes a number of younger and less widely known writers whose contributions are equally provocative. While the bulk of the selections are either short stories or excerpts from novels (Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima are among those excerpted), the editors have also selected poetry, …
[Review Of] Leonore Loeb Adler, Ed. Women In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Sudha Ratan
[Review Of] Leonore Loeb Adler, Ed. Women In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Sudha Ratan
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This is a collection of essays by women writers from several countries including the United States, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, India, China, Nigeria, and Thailand. These writers examine the interaction of biology, social role, and culture in shaping women's roles in different societies. They attempt to provide a broad overview of the conditions and the problems faced by women in their respective societies.
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations In Sights And Sounds
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
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[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. African Women's Writing, Larene Despain
[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. African Women's Writing, Larene Despain
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
African Women's Writing is a companion volume to Bruner's Unwinding Threads, first published by Heinemann ten years ago. In her "Preface" to this volume, Bruner says that this book came about because "new writers, or hitherto unpublished ones, were not only writing fiction but were recording the New Africa." Thus, only two writers reappear in this volume: Bessie Head of South Africa and Assia Djebar of Algeria, and a good many of the authors were born after 1945.
[Review Of] William L. Burton. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] William L. Burton. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments, Michael Patrick
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The title is somewhat misleading if the reader is expecting the author, William L. Burton, to include all ethnic groups in this book. The book is about foreign born ethnic soldiers in the Union Army and excludes Native Americans and Black troops. In fact, the book's major emphasis is on German and Irish soldiers of the Civil War, and largely about the steps taken to organize military units rather than about the battles these groups participated in.
[Review Of] Rafael Castillo. Distant Journeys, Julie Schrader Villegas
[Review Of] Rafael Castillo. Distant Journeys, Julie Schrader Villegas
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Rafael Castillo's collection of short stories takes us to the borders, whether they be geographic or psychic, where ironic humor laced with existential angst always looms. His characters range from academic Chicanos negotiating identities, to gorilla freedom fighters in EI Salvador. Their commonality lies in their struggles to find self-agency and identity within a rearranged world.
[Review Of] Stewart Culin. Games Of North America Indians, Harald E. L. Prins
[Review Of] Stewart Culin. Games Of North America Indians, Harald E. L. Prins
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
About a dozen years ago, I had the opportunity to buy Stewart Culin's classic work, Garnes of tile North American Indians, published in the 1902-1903 annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), Smithsonian Institution. The original edition numbered 9,682 copies, of which almost half went to the United States Congress. Beautifully illustrated with more than one thousand figures (mainly drawings of recreative artifacts, plus 21 photographic plates), the heavy and gold-embossed volume was offered for $175 by an antique dealer in Maine. Because I knew the fellow, he was willing to shave $50 from the price. Although this …
[Review Of] Constance Wall Holt. Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography Of Women In Wales And Women Of Welch Descent In America, Martha A. Davies
[Review Of] Constance Wall Holt. Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography Of Women In Wales And Women Of Welch Descent In America, Martha A. Davies
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
To be a Welsh woman, it seems, was to be doubly doomed to obscurity. Not only were women a less-public sector of society, but there was "Welshness" to contend with. It has been a case of Bibliographic Ethnic Discrimination. Too often entries have read: "Women, Welsh, See Women, English." And this occurs in spite of the fact that Welsh, being Celts, are a distinct group with their own language and culture, though they have long been subject to English rule.
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Jennifer L. Dobson
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Jennifer L. Dobson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Rayford W. Logan has been little more than an obscure shadow in African-American historicity leaving, as his biographer notes, "a rich intellectual legacy without, it appears, having left a visible imprint on historic events" (198). Earning a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1932, Logan proceeded to become a trailblazer in the field of African-American history, seeking to use his intellect in the fight against racism.
[Review Of] Vicki Kopf And Dennis Szacks, Eds. Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Andy Bartlett
[Review Of] Vicki Kopf And Dennis Szacks, Eds. Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Andy Bartlett
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This catalogue, named for the 1990 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) exhibition in Winston-Salem, features not only many reproductions from the exhibition but also essays by artist/philosopher Adrian Piper and curator Lowery S. Sims, a panel featuring Richard Powell and Judith Wilson, and two group artist interviews. Also excerpted is a brief segment from a 1990 panel at SCCA which features Piper, Kinshasha Conwill, Coco Fusco, and Leslie King-Hammond. Both panel segments are of value, especially as they broadly contextualize the eighty-one pages of reproductions. Unfortunately, each of the written segments is quite brief, with Powell and Wilson's discussion …
[Review Of] David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Dubois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] David Levering Lewis. W.E.B. Dubois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In a stunning exhibition of biographical craftsmanship, David Levering Lewis narrates, for the years between 1868 and 1919, both the spectacular achievements -- and their import for intellectual life in our own times -- and the equally significant failings of one of the most important American intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lewis's erudite tome supercedes all of the previous biographical treatments of DuBois and will doubtlessly require an equally Herculean effort to match this phenomenal work. Indeed, the awesome task of concluding the latter part of DuBois's long, controversial, and complex life will be exhaustively challenging. Since any exhaustive review …
[Review Of] Stanley David Lyman. Wounded Knee, 1973: A Personal Account, Linda Pertusati
[Review Of] Stanley David Lyman. Wounded Knee, 1973: A Personal Account, Linda Pertusati
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Wounded Knee, 1973: A Personal Account, by Stanley David Lyman, must be taken for what it is. Written in diary form, Lyman's narrative of the seventy-one day armed siege on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota offers an "insider's" view of the events known as Wounded Knee II; albeit an inaccurate account of the facts.
[Review Of] Seymour Menton. Latin America 'S New Historical Novel, Faye Vowell
[Review Of] Seymour Menton. Latin America 'S New Historical Novel, Faye Vowell
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Seymour Menton's eight chapter description and analysis of the new historical novel in Latin America is a comprehensive and well written discussion of the topic. However, treatment of ethnic issues is not a dominant concern.
[Review Of] Allen G. Noble, Ed. To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In North America, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Allen G. Noble, Ed. To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In North America, Phillips G. Davies
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Like so many works with sections on various subdivisions of a general topic overseen by a general editor, this volume has its ups and downs. The thesis -- that various ethnic groups have provided America with various sorts of architectural styles and modifications of native structures -- is new and fascinating.
[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Alex Stepick. City On The Edge: The Transformation Of Miami, Manuel Avalos
[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Alex Stepick. City On The Edge: The Transformation Of Miami, Manuel Avalos
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This book should appeal to a wide audience. It should be useful to researchers interested in the politics of race, culture, and class as well as researchers interested in the ”new” urban sociology. Portes and Stepick develop a political economy analysis of the recent transformation of Miami into a Cuban American dominated city, using a variety of research methodologies which emphasize the unique historical development of Miami in an ethnic multicultural context.
[Review Of] E. San Juan, Jr. Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations Of Power In Ethnic And Racial Studies In The United States, Jonathan A. Majak
[Review Of] E. San Juan, Jr. Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations Of Power In Ethnic And Racial Studies In The United States, Jonathan A. Majak
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Those who have read Racial Formation in the United States (1986) by Michael Omi and Howard Winant will find in E. San Juan, Jr.’s book an interesting, if not provocative, complement. Both books assert the centrality of race and racism in the social formation of the United States; however, Omi and Winant’s book is grounded in social science whereas San Juan, Jr.’s project is from a literary perspective.
[Review Of] Clovis E. Semmes. Cultural Hegemony And African American Development, Carol Ward
[Review Of] Clovis E. Semmes. Cultural Hegemony And African American Development, Carol Ward
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The purpose of this book is to examine cultural aspects of hegemonic relations between White Americans and African Americans, a neglected topic which the author believes should provide the basis for African American Studies programs. Although Semmes establishes culture as the focus of his analysis, political and economic forces are clearly important for understanding the position of Black Americans in the changing social organization of the U.S. Defined as regularly in subjective states, culture is theorized as interacting with social organization, as institutional settings frame cultural expressions and vice versa.
[Review Of] Luci Tapahonso. Saanii Dahataal, The Women Are Singing: Poems And Stories, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Luci Tapahonso. Saanii Dahataal, The Women Are Singing: Poems And Stories, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Wrapped around the cover of this volume is a painting by Emmi Whitehorse entitled, "White Shell Woman Story 111." This is an implication of Tapahonso’s Navajo origins -- mythical, historical, and persona -- which are evident throughout the book. In this work, Tapahonso seems to be aiming at a mainly non-Navajo audience to teach them about Navajo experience -- historical and present-day, collective and personal.
[Review Of] Carol Trosset. Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts Of Person And Society, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Carol Trosset. Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts Of Person And Society, Phillips G. Davies
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Wales, ruled by native princes until the thirteenth-century and subsequently governed from London, contains a population of about three million, twenty percent of which speak an indigenous language.
[Review Of] Usha Welaratna. Beyond The Killing Fields: Voices Of Nine Cambodian Survivors In America, Steven J. Gold
[Review Of] Usha Welaratna. Beyond The Killing Fields: Voices Of Nine Cambodian Survivors In America, Steven J. Gold
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Although approximately 150,000 Cambodians now reside in the United States, very little information has been published on this group. When available at all, descriptive and statistical data about Cambodians is generally lumped together with that of Laotians and Vietnamese in the category “Southeast Asian Refugees.” This is a grave shortcoming: first, because the Cambodians’ culture is quite different from that of other Southeast Asians -- making aggregate accounts of their experience inaccurate; and second, and perhaps even more important, is the fact that the Cambodian people have experienced one of the most horrible holocausts in modern history, making their ordeal …
[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Bette Woody’s latest book is an incisive attempt to particularize the economic effects of structural changes in American society. As the title suggests, the book explores changes in the work content, job opportunities, and wages of Black women as a result of the trend towards a service economy in America.