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[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Jo Miles Schuman's text is designed to help students develop an appreciation for one another's cultural heritage and to expand their knowledge of art. Both objectives are accomplished with considerable grace in this beautifully executed and illustrated celebration of craftsmanship. The author clearly values the creativity of a wide variety of peoples and the potential of art as a language of intercultural understanding.
[Review Of] Mongane Serote. To Every Birth Its Blood, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Mongane Serote. To Every Birth Its Blood, David K. Bruner
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Mongane Serote is a poet of considerable merit; this I should have discovered from reading his novel, To Every Birth Its Blood, even had I not heard and seen him read his poetry to an African Literature Association Conference in 1975. The novel, however, is not obtrusively poetic; rather, its physical and psychological insights are apt and genuine parts of an integral whole, not ends in and of themselves. Yet a careful reader will respond most positively to such expression.
[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford
[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford
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Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The conferences brought together historians, sociologists and anthropologists who were charged with infusing " sophisticated social theory" into research on the family in Latin America.
[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster
[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster
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This annotated bibliography on black Americans in various media formats came at a time when I was searching for bibliographic information on black women. As a result, I was able to locate several titles of articles from the Bibliography that were appropriate and timely. The entries reflect variety in source content, and the use of media fields helps to catalog the publication materials.
[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts
[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts
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This volume consists of twelve essays that address the history of black newspapers in the states that constituted the Confederacy. The intent of this collection, explains its editor, is to examine the southern black press "not only as an instrument of social change but as black enterprise, black crusade, and black artistic expression" (vii).
[Review Of] Tarharka. Black Manhood: The Building Of Civilization By The Black Man Of The Nile, Delo Washington
[Review Of] Tarharka. Black Manhood: The Building Of Civilization By The Black Man Of The Nile, Delo Washington
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In an ambitious effort to document the positive role that the black man has played throughout history, Tarharka has proposed a nontraditional interpretation of that role on the basis of extensive library research. As a result, he calls the credibility of most western scholars into question. Support of his thesis is offered by first reminding the reader that the earth's original man was of Africa and how that man was responsible for initiating human culture and civilization.
[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco
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Described by historians William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner as "a case study of manipulation and fraud," this book tells the story of the loss of an entire reservation belonging to the Ottawa Indians by a series of events which led eventually to the dissolution of the tribe itself in the 1950s. Several bands of Ottawa Indians living in what is now Michigan and Ohio were deprived of their lands there by a series of treaties forcing land cessions and by allotment of their lands. Three bands of Ottawa Indians were relocated to a reservation in northeastern Kansas in …
[Review Of] Gina Webster, Producer. The Black Aged: A Diverse Population, Barbara Hiura
[Review Of] Gina Webster, Producer. The Black Aged: A Diverse Population, Barbara Hiura
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The Black Aged: A Diverse Population is an engaging eleven minute videotape documenting various lifestyles of the black elderly in Southern California. Gina Webster skillfully dispells [dispels] the " all black aged are alike" myth as she highlights the current visions and lives of five octogenarians. From immigrant, laborer, writer, missionary, to social worker, each life is as varied as human experiences can be. Each individual carries a vivid past, an enriching present, and an optimistic future.
[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Fighters and Singers is a collection of fifteen essays written about Aboriginal women of Australia. The authors, mostly anthropologists and all women, wrote of their "sisters," "mothers," and "aunts." The pieces are all informative about tribal life, but they are also warm reminiscences of relationships across cultural boundaries. Among the contributors is Pearl Duncan, the first Aborigine to become a trained teacher in Australia and a former member of the National Aboriginal Education Committee.
[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate
[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate
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Transforming the Past is a major contribution to our understanding of Japanese American experience specifically and to our sense of ethnic experience generally. Yanagisako's study transcends its anthropological base to offer crucial insights previously precluded by both facile “understanding" and methological [methodological] limitations.
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 6, Summer, 1986
[Review Of] James E. Blackwell And Philip Hart. Cities, Suburbs And Blacks, James H. Williams
[Review Of] James E. Blackwell And Philip Hart. Cities, Suburbs And Blacks, James H. Williams
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Because blacks who reside in cities and suburbs are a popular subject among urban specialists, critics must constantly ask the question, to what extent does a recent publication break new ground in terms of creativity and scholarship? Inhabitants have known for many decades that cities and suburbs are not only physical environments in which smoke, dust, heat, noise, filth, and darkness threaten the human organism, they are also social systems in which the circulation of goods and people is a central function. Cities and suburbs can grow and change only if the circulatory system also changes.
[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck
[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck
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The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900, volumes I and II, is the first publication of the Morgan State University Series in Afroamerican Studies. The series is intended to provide a basis for examining the cultural, religious and social experiences of Afroamericans. Each title in the series is intended to serve as a guide, outline, or syllabus for college courses in Afroamerican studies, American ethnic studies, history and culture, American literature, and American studies. In keeping with these aims, Philip Butcher has compiled two anthologies of major and minor American writings that can be used as readers and course guides. …
[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia
[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia
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The editors of this book, associate professors at the University of Chicago, state that their work seeks to promote understanding of and raise questions about Hispanic social issues in the hope that a "collective social agenda" can result.
[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton
[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton
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Bertha P. Dutton has updated her 1975 publication titled Indians of the American Southwest and states in the preface her objective to make this book generally readable for students, teachers, and travelers who desire knowledge, understanding, and authoritative information regarding the Southwestern Indians. She admits changes are occurring at such a rapid pace that the information with which she has updated her publication may well be out of date by the time we read it.
[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon
[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon
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Love Medicine brings together the stories of the Kashpaws and Lamartines, two Chippewa families of North Dakota. Two major themes, love and death, produce both the continuity of the novel and of family traditions that are the foundation of each character's life. As different individuals tell their stories, the reader is given a multifaceted perspective of the events that influence the families over a fifty-year period.
[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray
[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray
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Ani Dike Egwuonwu is a social scientist and this book is the outcome of several years of observations and interviews about marriage problems in Africa. Egwuonwu intended to show a vivid picture of the problems that have had a deleterious effect on traditional African marriages. The subtlety of his use of the institution of marriage to capture the underlying prejudices and stereotypes that exist among African tribes was certainly a creative venture.
[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo
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While the experiences of most ethnic groups are frequently overlooked, this is especially the fate of relatively small groups. Many small groups merit greater attention, for example the Okinawans who migrated to Hawaii from 1900-1924, worked on sugar and pineapple plantations, developed small businesses and community organizations, and achieved a measure of economic and social success. What makes their story of special interest is their ethnic status. At the time of their migration, the homeland of the Okinawans, the Ryukyu archipelago (which includes the island of Okinawa), was part of Japan as it is today. However, the Ryukyus have always …
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Herzog examines literary works of the mid-nineteenth century which reverse values, transcend stereotypes, and demand a reevaluation of the roles of "women, ethnics, and exotics" in fiction as well as reality. The ethnics are blacks and Indians; the exotics Herzog defines as " strikingly out of the orindary [ordinary]" or " excitingly strange" characters. Images of women are similar to the images of the "Noble Savages" and other non-white people in that all are considered "natural," more innocent or more demonic, more devine [divine] and more terrifying than white males . So too are they viewed as more passive, less …
[Review Of] A. William Hoglund. Immigrants And Their Children In The United States: A Bibliography Of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
[Review Of] A. William Hoglund. Immigrants And Their Children In The United States: A Bibliography Of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
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All disciplines dealing with immigrants and their children in the continental United States since 1789 are represented in this compilation of titles of doctoral dissertations. This bibliography will prove invaluable for most scholars in ethnic studies. The title, unfortunately, may be misleading. It refers to the subject matter of dissertations, and, as such, the volume attests to and illustrates in a concrete way, the historical development of research in ethnic studies. A simple reference to ethnic studies in the title would have been less ambiguous.
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso
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A Chickasaw of mixed blood who grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Minnesota, Linda Hogan writes spare poems pulled skin tight over the bones and blood and flesh they contain. She does not exploit her Native American experience to make poems; she does not need to. Her references to "the old sky woman," "black corn dolls," and "evicted grandmothers," who walk " wrapped in trade cloth," are integrated into the sense of life which fills her poems; yet the tensions which come from having inherited two distinct traditions are not ignored: In my left pocket a Chickasaw hand …
[Review Of] Michael P. Johnson And James P. Roark, Eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People Of Color On The Eve Of The Civil War, Orville W. Taylor
[Review Of] Michael P. Johnson And James P. Roark, Eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People Of Color On The Eve Of The Civil War, Orville W. Taylor
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In an overgrown cemetery in the old village of Stateburg, South Carolina, a hundred miles north of Charleston lies the body of William Ellison (1790-1860), patriarch of a remarkable clan of free blacks whose achievements belie the myth of the Old South as a society of wealthy white masters and poor black slaves. Born a slave and perhaps the son of his master, Ellison early learned to make cotton gins and at age twentysix purchased his freedom and went into business in Stateburg. Riding the crest of the cotton boom, in 1835 he bought the handsome home of former governor …
[Review Of] Arnold Krupat. For Those Who Come After: A Study Of Native American Autobiography, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Arnold Krupat. For Those Who Come After: A Study Of Native American Autobiography, Helen Jaskoski
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This is the second monograph on Native American autobiography, and together with Bataille and Sands' American Indian Women Telling Their Lives will be the necessary starting point for future studies in this neglected area of American literature. An introduction and four chapters on individual works, with index and selected bibliography, comprise the text; the introduction and first chapter are most valuable. In the introduction Krupat articulates two requisites for critical reading of American Indian texts: consideration of means of production (focus on the intercultural relationship between author and transcriber-mediators), and critical theory to define artistic values (here, Northrop Frye's categories …
[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
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In recent years, educators concerned with issues of access and equity have supported a variety of bilingual educational delivery systems. Similarly, feminists seeking representation and recognition have advocated inclusive language and nonsexist job titles. From these and other arenas, the relationship of language and power has surfaced as an issue of national importance. In this timely collection of essays, Kamarae and her associates have legitimated and extended the discussion.
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
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Lydon's history of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay region is a monument to the Chinese who immigrated to North America everywhere. The title Chinese Gold refers to a metaphor Lydon uses throughout his account of how "through their particular form of alchemy (insight plus ingenuity plus energy), the Chinese turned what they found into gold" (p. 504). The Chinese were able to see the resources of the Monterey Bay region where others could not and developed them "to the lasting benefit of the Monterey Bay region." But there are very few Chinese Americans in the region today and there …
[Review Of] Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., And James W. Parins. American Indian And Alaska Native Newspapers And Periodicals, 1826-1924, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., And James W. Parins. American Indian And Alaska Native Newspapers And Periodicals, 1826-1924, Donald L. Guimary
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American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 is a timely and useful book, particularly with growing interest in ethnicity. The work is a directory listing more than 200 titles of American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals . The names of the newspapers and journals are listed alphabetically as well as cross-referenced by tribal affiliation, location, and chronology. Following each title is a brief description listing the publications owner(s) and dates of publication. An index is included. The book describes the earliest newspapers up to 1924, when the Pueblo Lands Board Act was passed, giving citizenship to …
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
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Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow is an account of maturation or, put another way, of a black woman's willingness to confront her emergent self. Tastefully groomed, sixty-four year old Avatarra " Avey" Johnson leaves her suburban New York home to vacation with two friends on a West Indies cruise. Her decision to interrupt her plans, shortly after arriving at one of the destinations, is a surprise to everyone. Avey is compelled to discount the material investment she has made in the trip in order to follow a mind that has been haunted by dreams of her great aunt Cuney.
[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck
[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck
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Tales from Cameroon is Richard Bjornson's translation of two collections of allegories, anecdotes, and short stories by the Cameroonian writer Rene Philombe. Originally composed in French over a twenty year period between the late 1950s and the late 1970s, these fifteen works reveal the human greed, jealousy, and blindness to its own destructive behavior which Philombe believes divides Cameroonians among themselves.
[Review Of] Antonio J.A. Pido. The Pilipinos In America: Macro/Micro Dimensions Of Immigration And Integration, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Antonio J.A. Pido. The Pilipinos In America: Macro/Micro Dimensions Of Immigration And Integration, Russell Endo
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Pilipinos are currently the second largest American ethnic group of Asian descent and are projected to be the largest by 1990. Yet, despite their size and their seventy-five year history in the U.S., there is relatively little material on Pilipinos, and that which exists is fragmented in its coverage and often in sources which are not readily available.
[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez
[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez
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At a time when social psychology as a field of study has reached a new high and journals and textbooks have proliferated to meet the new demands of social psychologists and students alike, the publication of the fifth edition of a basic social psychology text says something not only about the book's endurance but also about its basic soundness. Over the years, this volume has been used by thousands of students and in many ways has set the standard for other social psychology texts which attempt to give an introduction to the field. With this edition the high standard set …