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Book Review: Readings In Rehabilitation Counseling ReSearch. Brian Bolton And Paul Cooper (Eds.)., Marita Danek
Book Review: Readings In Rehabilitation Counseling ReSearch. Brian Bolton And Paul Cooper (Eds.)., Marita Danek
JADARA
1981 V 14 Issue 4
[Review Of] Evelyn Gross Avery, Rebels And Victims: The Fiction Of Richard Wright And Bernard Malamud, Edith Blicksilver
[Review Of] Evelyn Gross Avery, Rebels And Victims: The Fiction Of Richard Wright And Bernard Malamud, Edith Blicksilver
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Evelyn Gross Avery's comparison of Richard Wright's works and themes with those of Bernard Malamud asserts that a clear pattern of behavior is discernible in both Afro-American and Jewish-American fiction. Both black and Jew, facing a hostile Anglo-power society, psychologically and sometimes even physically abused, emerged as rebels striking out at exploitation and injustice or as victims, internalizing their frustrated anguish.
[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor
[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor
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This collection of plays is significant because it is the first Native American drama written by a Native American. Hanay Geiogamah, a Kiowa Indian, has been actively involved as a playwright (producing these plays in the 19705), has taught drama at the University of Washington, and has directed Native American theater in recent years (directing his own work, as well as other drama, at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York and directing the Native American Theater Ensemble). This thin volume, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, was readied for publication only after each drama had been performed and …
[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman
[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman
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The author, Shul-ya, a Mohave of the Beaver Clan, originally wrote the tales in this book for his children, later expanding them for the enjoyment of all ages. Born on the Arizona Fort Mohave Reservation, Shul-ya learned these tales from an uncle who had dreamed the character of Swift Lance, the mythological hero of the tales.
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok
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We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin is the simply and sensitively told tale of a Mesquakie Indian girl who comes of age during a turbulent period in the history of her nation. In 1845, after fifteen years of treaties, the Mesquakie (sometimes also called the Fox) Indians were expelled from their lands along the Iowa River and forcibly marched to Kansas, where they were relocated on reservation lands far inferior to their own. The Mesquakies managed to avoid being acculturated into white ways, and over a period of years saved the money they got from the U.S. …
[Review Of] Kevin Marjoribanks, Ethnic Families And Children's Achievement, Shirley Vining-Brown
[Review Of] Kevin Marjoribanks, Ethnic Families And Children's Achievement, Shirley Vining-Brown
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In this book Marjoribanks clearly stands with the environmentalists in the ”nature vs. nurture” controversy over inequalities in children's academic achievement. He examines the relation between various dimensions of family environments, attitudes toward school, and the academic performance of eleven year old children from different Australian ethclasses, i.e., groups that are horizontally stratified according to social status, while at the same time vertically stratified into ethnic groups. By examining data from six Australian ethclasses (Anglo-Australian middle social-status families; and Anglo-Australian, English, Greek, Southern Italian, and Yugoslavian lower social-status families), Marjoribanks finds that differences in family learning environments are related to …
[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte
[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte
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During the past fifteen years a legion of scholars have turned their attention to the history of slavery and race relations in America. Mentioning such names as David Brion Davis, Eugene Genovese, Winthrop Jordan, Sterling Stuckey, Leon Litwack, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, or Willie Lee Rose simply reminds us of how far scholarhsip [scholarship] has advanced since the early 1960s. A characteristic of this work has been to shift attention back from the mid-nineteenth century to earlier times and to view American slavery in its international setting. One conclusion has been to underscore the depth of North American racism …
[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro
[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro
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Schneider’s The Africans offers a provocative interpretation of African society. Unlike other introductory texts, Schneider is not concerned with an exhaustive or even representative survey of African life; rather, his concern is to put forth a non-Marxist social-cultural-economic theory of African society which would provide a broad analytical framework. He succeeds in sketching, in this comparatively slim volume, a sweeping new view of African society. (Cf., G. P. Murdock, Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History, New York, 1959; James L. Gibbs, Jr., ed., Peoples of Africa, New York, 1965; Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Garden City, …
[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson
[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson
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This book is intended as a footnote to the larger history of the last years of the slave trade in the Atlantic and to the efforts of the British West Indian planters to find labor substitutes for the emancipated slaves. During this period, the Royal Navy recaptured in the Atlantic some of the people exported from Africa as slaves by other colonial powers, and took them to Sierra Leone or to St. Helena. Officials from several West Indian islands tried to induce some of these recaptives to immigrate to the West Indies as indentured laborers. This book is a social …
[Review Of] Ellease Sutherland, Let The Lion Eat Straw, Janet Cheatham Bell
[Review Of] Ellease Sutherland, Let The Lion Eat Straw, Janet Cheatham Bell
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This novella covers the life of Abeba Williams Torch from her childhood in North Carolina to her death at a fairly young age in Harlem. The potential for a fully realized novel is everywhere in this book, but because the author chose not to include the detail which would make it so, the effect is unsatisfying.
[Review Of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal And American Indian Tribalism: The Administration Of The Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal And American Indian Tribalism: The Administration Of The Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45, George W. Sieber
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John Collier became Indian Commissioner during the New Deal Administration of Franklin Roosevelt. For more than a decade Collier had been a severe critic of the Indian Bureau; his appointment marked a significant break with past governmental attitudes which had been implemented under the General Allotment Act of 1887, and had resulted in immense land transfers to non-Indian ownership.
[Review Of] Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians In America And Canada: A Guide To Information Sources, Ernestine Paniagua
[Review Of] Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians In America And Canada: A Guide To Information Sources, Ernestine Paniagua
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This book is intended as a convenient guide to research on Romanians in both America and Canada. As the subtitle indicates, it is a guide book, one of a multi-volume ethnic studies information guide series that Gale Information Company is currently completing. The volume has two major components: one provides the non-specialist with a broad perspective on major themes in the research literature, and the other provides annotated bibliographies of selected books, pamphlets, and periodicals of special significance.
[Review Of] George Woodcock, The Canadians, John W. Larner Jr.
[Review Of] George Woodcock, The Canadians, John W. Larner Jr.
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The Canadians offers nothing new to advanced students of North American ethnicity. It is a richly illustrated, pleasant, inoffensive, pseudo-comprehensive pictorial account of Canada's history. Every library should have it for the general reader, for it is a facile introduction to a complex North American alternative nation. Canadians would probably be tempted to serialize portions of it -- in Anglo newspapers!
[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco
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Thomas Wildcat Alford was born a Shawnee and died a white man. While an oversimplification, this is not an unfair summary of his memoir, ”told to” Florence Drake. A reprint of the 1936 edition, the book has a brief preface by author Angie Debo (which, however, has little information).
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Pretend Indians: Images Of Native Americans In The Movies, Barbara F. Luebke
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Pretend Indians: Images Of Native Americans In The Movies, Barbara F. Luebke
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Those of us concerned with mass media stereotyping are especially grateful for this well-edited reader, but all persons interested in Native Americans and their ”popular“ images will find it enjoyable and useful.
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
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Charles Moskos is a Greek American sociologist involved in teaching one of the few courses dealing with the subject of his book, Greek Americans. His book is a broad overview of this ethnic group, with both an historical and sociological perspective. The topic is interesting, for the Greeks are one of the few ”New Immigrant” groups to achieve rapid upward mobility without vanishing into the melting pot. Since the success of most southern and eastern European groups has been marked by a slow and uneven upward climb, the Greeks offer an instructive contrast.
[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits Of Native Americans In The Arts, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits Of Native Americans In The Arts, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Through literature, music, and the visual arts people remember who they were and who they are. Jane B. Katz has effectively brought together the ”rememberings" of twenty-one Native American artists who tell briefly of their lives, their work, and the influence of their Native American heritage on all that they create
[Review Of] Robert L. Schuyler (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives On Ethnicity In America: Afro-American And Asian American Culture History, Lyle Koehler
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Robert Schuyler, Associate Curator in charge of the American Historical Archaeology Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, believes that archaeologists have too often avoided working with Afro-American and Asian American sites and have not effectively used interdisciplinary sources to interpret patterns in the archaeological record. The fourteen articles in Archaeological Perspectives attempt to remedy such concerns but, perhaps in part because of the newness of this interest, the selections are of uneven quality.
[Review Of] Paul Berliner With Kudu, The Sun Rises Late Here, Ricardo Valdes
[Review Of] Paul Berliner With Kudu, The Sun Rises Late Here, Ricardo Valdes
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In a search for means of communication to open new doors of understanding between our neighbors and ourselves on this planet earth, we occasionally encounter a person or a method which seems to fling those doors open. It is with great enthusiasm that I share one such experience with my colleagues in the NAIES. Last fall I attended a concert by Paul Berliner and Kudu. Paul, a musicologist at the School of Music and Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, revealed in a two-hour program of lecture and performance the heart and suffering, hopes and spirit of Zimbabwe in …
[Review Of] David W. Baird, The Quapaw Indians: A History Of The Downstream People, David R. Mcdonald
[Review Of] David W. Baird, The Quapaw Indians: A History Of The Downstream People, David R. Mcdonald
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Baird, in a highly engaging book, examines the history of a little known Indian tribe. Originally inhabitants of the Ohio Valley, the Quapaws, by 1973, had migrated to the area around the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers where they were first encountered by the French. Considered important allies by the French and later the Spanish, the Quapaws served as a buffer against the British and British-allied Indians. The results of contacts with Europeans, however, were soon felt by the Quapaws; by 1763 their population had dropped to seven hundred from an estimated six to fifteen thousand in 1682.
[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White
[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White
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La Partera is the story of Jesusita Aragén, one of the last traditional midwives of northeastern New Mexico, as written from recorded interviews between the author and Jesusita. Before telling Jesusita's account of her own life, the author introduces the reader geographically, historically, and culturally to the area of San Miguel County and its main city of Las Vegas. Buss clearly shows her love and understanding of this region where she and her husband served as United Church of Christ ministers in 1975. She writes, ”the weather is dominated by striking turquoise skies and a brilliant, penetrating sun” (p. 2) …
[Review Of] Michael Keresztesi And Gary R. Cocozzoli, German-American History And Life: A Guide To Information Services, Rachel A. Bonney
[Review Of] Michael Keresztesi And Gary R. Cocozzoli, German-American History And Life: A Guide To Information Services, Rachel A. Bonney
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This work consists of over 1,200 entries on German-Americans, compiled and evaluated by librarians Michael Keresztesi and Gary R. Cocozzoli. The major objective is “to stimulate interest and facilitate research in German-Americana” (p. xvi) by presenting ”penetrator works, basic treatises, landmark writings, and documents which constitute the best available sources of information on their respective topic areas. . . .” ( p. xv) Only English-language books have been described and assessed in terms of their ”research value and information-yielding capacity.“ (p. xv) Periodical and journal articles were omitted for reasons of space and because of their accessibility through standard abstracts …
[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright
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This brief collection of eleven scholarly and well-documented critical essays, written largely by African university professors of language and literature who hold degrees from European and American universities, is even more restricted than the title suggests. With a half dozen or so notable exceptions, only the poetry, drama, and novels published since 1965 are discussed here. And not all West African countries are represented.