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[Review Of] Chinua Achebe And C.L. Innes, Eds. African Short Stories, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Chinua Achebe And C.L. Innes, Eds. African Short Stories, David K. Bruner
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From time to time, collections of modern African short stories like the collection here noted should be published in order to keep an increasingly aware readership abreast of articulate literary production. When such collections are prepared, their editors would do well to be led by the general principles expressed by Chinua Achebe in a short, but very cogent, introduction: The indebtedness of modern African writing to its wealth of oral traditions is taken for granted by the editors and they see no necessity to demonstrate the link further by including traditional tales in this collection.
[Review Of] Margaret B. Blackman. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Margaret B. Blackman. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille
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This book is a recorded autobiography, but it is also much more. In the preface Blackman traces her connections with the Haida people of the Northwest Coast since 1970 and explains her special relationship with Florence Edenshaw Davidson whom she promised in 1973 that she would someday publish the record of her life. Davidson had accepted Margaret Blackman as a grandchild and the special kinship relationship enabled the two of them in 1977 to record the life story of the eighty-one year old Haida woman. Nani, the Haida equivalent for "grandmother," traces through six chapters the significant events of her …
[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig
[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig
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North American social scientists can benefit from comparing immigration in their own countries to immigration in Australia, another former English colony bordering on the Pacific Ocean. Bottomley and de Lepervanche have assembled a very useful set of theoretical discussions and data-based studies which provide a starting point for such comparisons. The collection focuses on the relationship of immigrants to the institutions and ideologies of the dominant culture in Australia. The underlying perspective is Marxist, although this is not made explicit by every contributor. In addition to a historical review of immigration policies, the authors present critiques of policies and the …
[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick
[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick
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Twenty two poems shimmer with irridescence [iridescence] in Looking Through a Squared Off Circle. The interaction of shifting colors and tones in Silvester Brito's poems flood the reader's mind with the bittersweet pain and beauty of the American Indian experience.
[Review Of] Lloyd W. Brown. West Indian Poetry, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Lloyd W. Brown. West Indian Poetry, Laverne GonzáLez
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From the outset, the reader must be aware of encountering a rarity indeed: a first class scholar who can write objectively and at the same time maintain his involvement with the literature under scrutiny. One would seem to negate the other. But Brown successfully manages each; as a Jamaican, he holds Caribbean literature dear to his literary heart. Yet his claim to scholarship may not be denied, as a perusal of this book will confirm. Brown knows his subject thoroughly, and in scholarly fashion has been able to distance himself sufficiently from the material to present a firm and fair …
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers
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In recent years, poetry anthologists have strayed from the literary field into the terrain of sociology, where they have collected an odd assortment of scriblings [scribblings]: poems focusing on female athletes, the children of alcoholics, Vietnam War veterans, gays and lesbians, scuba divers, and numerous other ethnic, social, and occupational groups. In fact, the proliferation of such anthologies has been so great that absurdity long ago set in and one expects shortly to see collections devoted to hangnail sufferers and carpet layers.
[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen
[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen
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Looking at the map of Africa locating contributors to this collection of women writers, one is struck by the seeming over-representation from some countries -- Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Republic of South Africa -- and the vast stretch of lands that have, apparently, produced no female with a story to tell. In her Preface, Charlotte Bruner details some of the obstacles confronting women who defy the traditions of formerly nonliterate societies, where the rigidity and permanence of the written word itself confounds a view of art as something fluid and circumstantial, where community takes precedence over the individual, where the act …
[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber
[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber
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American literary scholarship in the mid-1980s generally seems to be insufficiently sophisticated to give more than perfunctory attention to ethnicity's significant role in American writing from the colonial period to the present. When intellectual maturation finally is achieved, as there is reason to believe it will be even though progress proceeds at a disappointing snail's pace, credit for the event will be due in part to Philip Butcher's unique and impressive The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature: 1900-1950, as well as to his earlier two-volume anthology, The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900 (1977). These are essential books for …
[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies
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This book is primarily a discussion of foreign ethnic groups who have come to the United States. Perhaps the most striking thing about it is that it is a revision of The Ethnic Dimension in American Society (Holbrook Press, Boston, 1974) with the authors' names reversed.
[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe
[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe
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Jayne Cortez in Coagulations just comes right out and says all the things that need to be said, things that might only be thought about momentarily if at all. Not only does she say them, but Jayne Cortez speaks with such force and clarity that the reader is right there on the scene with her. And the scene is not pretty; there are no beautiful flowers growing in the country in the picture Cortez paints.
[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon
[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon
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Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications provides an excellent overview of developmental thinking throughout history and across several theoretical disciplines from Rousseau, the father of the developmental tradition, and Locke, the father of environmentalism, to the behaviorists and psycholinguists, Skinner and Chomsky. Crain then extends his coverage to the humanistic movement of Maslow and others. As Crain traces developmental theory, he draws parallels between early developmentalists and the modern humanists, suggesting that learning theorists and other environmentalists, by placing their focus on controlling and shaping behavior, provide an orientation that is too one sided. Modern humanists, suggests Crain, seek environments …
[Review Of] Marie M. De Lepervanche. Indians In A White Australia: An Account Of Race, Class And Indian Immigration To Eastern Australia, Patricia Grimshaw
[Review Of] Marie M. De Lepervanche. Indians In A White Australia: An Account Of Race, Class And Indian Immigration To Eastern Australia, Patricia Grimshaw
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Within recent years the migrant experience in Australia, particularly of non-European peoples, has attracted increasing attention from historians and social scientists, under the strong influence of the American scholarly tradition. The Chinese, among Asian groups, have received the most attention. In Indians in White Australia, the Sydney anthropologist Marie de Lepervanche contributes substantially to our understanding of the experience of another Asian group, Indians, whose fortunes over a century or more have been previously neglected. First the writer establishes, briefly but lucidly, an historical context for understanding the situation in which Indians find themselves in contemporary Australia; she examines the …
[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl
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Viewers of this film can anticipate a pleasing aesthetic experience as well as an instructive lesson in American Indian cultural continuity and change. The production is holistic in its conception and execution. From that base there are almost endless interdisciplinary uses for the film in the classroom and for lay audiences beyond academe.
[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner-Champions Of Antebellum Black Education, Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner-Champions Of Antebellum Black Education, Margaret A. Laughlin
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Foner and Pacheco have written biographical sketches of three women who endured personal hardship and suffered persecution because they decided to teach non-slave black children in antebellum America. While the three teachers, Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner, lived and taught in different parts of the country, Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., respectively, they shared similar experiences and provided antislavery proponents with evidence of the many personal hardships and indignities blacks experienced and suffered. In general, most members of the antislavery movement agreed on the importance of education for blacks and worked to establish educational institutions through fundraising efforts …
[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson
[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson
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Like marine life washed up on a beach, most Caribbean peoples have been brought where they are by powerful forces outside their control. These forces include colonialism, slavery, and revolution, processes in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that convulsed Europe and whose effects spread to much of the rest of the world. Just as tidepools a few feet apart can have completely different sets of animal and plant life, Caribbean islands just a few miles apart can have completely different histories and mixtures of peoples. Mirroring the complexity of the life in these tidepools, there are myriad interpretations of the …
[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Created to respond to an issue before art educators in this country since the early 1970s, this well-referenced work, complete with index and illustrations, accomplishes that task with reasonable success. Teachers of art have struggled for decades with curriculum materials that restrict the discussion of art history to the European tradition, labeling art of any other origin as "folk art" unworthy of academic attention.
[Review Of] Trudier Harris. Exorcising Blackness: Historical And Literary Lynching And Burning Rituals, John Lowe
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Trudier Harris begins her impressive new study of lynching and burning rituals in black literature with a horrifying, albeit fictional, account of the three-hour torture, dismemberment, and murder (yes, in that order) of a black man and his wife. Alice Walker opens The Color Purple in a similarly shocking manner, with Celie's rape by the man we believe to be her father. The novel Harris quotes, however, was taken, detail by detail, from a real event, which she proceeds to document. The rest of her book is no less relentless in demonstrating that lynching and burning rituals were not simply …
[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo
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Oral history is unquestionably an important method for recovering the history of ethnic groups, particularly of ethnic working people who leave few written accounts of their own and whose lives are often ignored or else inadequately described by outsiders because of their apparent routineness and unimportance. Unfortunately, many oral history materials remain unknown and unused except by occasional researchers. In 1976, the Hawaii State Legislature established the Oral History Project (OHP, formerly the Ethnic Studies Oral History Project) at the University of Hawaii to record the recollections of ethnic working men and women. Since then, OHP has interviewed over 250 …
[Review Of] Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The Mind Of Frederick Douglass, Kent L. Koppelman
[Review Of] Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The Mind Of Frederick Douglass, Kent L. Koppelman
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He was one of the foremost orators and abolitionists of the 19th century. He was also a feminist who actively worked for woman's suffrage. He was a Christian who opposed the use of the King James Bible in public schools as a violation of the separation of church and state. He was a former slave and designated spokesman for black people whose second marriage was to a white woman. Frederick Douglass was highly praised and soundly criticized by blacks and whites alike, but through it all he maintained a consistent and powerful moral voice calling upon this nation to measure …
[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl
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In this volume, insights into American Indian ethnicity are presented through synopses of the lives of eight individuals. Analyses of these lives exhibit dimensions of family and kinship ties, cultural traditions, acculturation vis-a-vis the dominant society, and personal choices. The eight lives selected provide some balance in terms of geography, tribal affiliation, and gender (five men and three women). Five of the individuals were born in the 1850s and 1860s and died between 1915 and 1947; one person lived from 1811 to 1875; another from 1880 to 1949; the eighth, still living, was born in 1937.
[Review Of] Janet Moursund. The Process Of Counseling And Therapy, Wesley T. Forbes
[Review Of] Janet Moursund. The Process Of Counseling And Therapy, Wesley T. Forbes
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In The Process of Counseling and Therapy Moursund encapsulates the principles and concepts of counseling and therapy that transcend sexism and ethnic barriers. The book can be identified as a therapeutic dictionary, guide, or much needed tool for the counselor and therapist, a basic guide that is tantamount to a carpenter's tool box or a chef’s cook-book. It provides guidelines and helpful hints which aid in finding resolutions to roadblocks and confusion that often occur in the process of counseling and therapy.
[Review Of] Keith A. Murray. The Modocs And Their War, Lyle Koehler
[Review Of] Keith A. Murray. The Modocs And Their War, Lyle Koehler
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In late 1872 and early 1873 the lava beds along northern California's Tule Lake became an arena of conflict between 160-odd Modoc Indians and a thousand U.S. soldiers, civilians, and their Warm Springs Apache scouts. Thread-bare clothing, a lack of water, internecine friction, and a general demoralization ultimately forced those Modocs to surrender, but not before they had inflicted great damage on the pursuing military. Keith Murray's account of the Modoc War is a quick-moving, dynamic, highly detailed narrative which reads like an action-novel. It is an intricately researched chronicle of events and includes actual conversation from participants on both …
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
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The sub-title of this enigmatic book is "A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing." The first of the two parts of the books deals primarily with definitions of Marxist aesthetics. For a serious work, not only are the cliches and terminology tiresome but the choice of quotations is unfortunate. Ngara quotes Marx's and Engel's opinion that Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte and Gaskell wrote novels "whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together." Ngara adds a pronouncement …
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
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Beverley Ormerod displays real expertise in An Introduction to the French Caribbean Novel. She is a West Indian herself, and she knows the background and culture of the Caribbean: its African slave origins and the present quest for pan-Caribbean identity. After post-graduate research at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris , she earned her doctorate in French at Cambridge University. When necessary, she translates the French originals into English. She also knows various creoles of the islands and appreciates the linguistic variety there. She has taught Caribbean literature for twenty years.
[Review Of] Jean Price-Mars. So Spoke The Uncle (Ainsi Parla L'Oncle), Adlean Harris
[Review Of] Jean Price-Mars. So Spoke The Uncle (Ainsi Parla L'Oncle), Adlean Harris
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Jean Price-Mars was a Haitian-born diplomat, intellectual, educator, novelist, biographer, critic, editor. He was the author and founder of Philosophy of Haitianism and the Spiritual Father of Negritude. During his lifetime he served as Education Director-General of Haiti and Ambassador to the Republic of San Domingo, the United Nations and France. He was also distinguished as the Secretary of the Haitian U.S. delegation to the Berlin Embassy and Commissioner of the Missouri Exhibition.
[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner
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A New Book of African Verse, edited by John Reed and Clive Wake, is actually a new edition of A Book of African Verse, which appeared in 1964 just as black literature of Africa and of the United States was gaining recognition, particularly in academic circles. The authors' intention has been consistently modest. From the first, the authors chose works from contemporary poets of French or English expression from Africa south of the Sahara. Certainly in 1964 their first volume brought attention to almost unknown poetry and was useful as " an introduction to new readers of African poetry."
[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen
[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen
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An unconventional reference work, the planned International Conceptual Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences should prove useful to persons conducting research in the social sciences or information science. Ethnicity specialists will have an opportunity to make first use of the results of the effort to produce such an encyclopedia because of the early publication of this pilot edition of the ethnicity volume.
[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe
[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe
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homegirls & handgrenades is a book of poetry and prose pieced together with a multitude of colors and a variety of shapes that form a large blanket that covers many aspects of life in this country, of people in general, and of black people specifically.
[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Political scientist Virginia Sapiro's introductory-level women's studies text is unusual in the ease with which it integrates the data bases which form the foundation for its multidisciplinary approach. Although it assumes no background in the social sciences, the book is nevertheless demanding in the rigor and complexity of its analysis. Striking a balance between societal and individual concerns, the work moves easily from one framework to another, drawing content and methodology from fields as diverse as biology and religion.
[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Two significant historical events have created a receptive climate for this scholarly look at the American city. In the global context, the advent of multinational capitalism has transformed the city, along with other segments of the American economy. On the domestic front, increasing numbers of American cities have faced fiscal crisis, and in some cases, insolvency, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.