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Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 12, Summer, 1992
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of White America, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of White America, Phillips G. Davies
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Believing that a relatively small amount of research has been done with the ethnic identity of white Americans, Alba surveyed 524 whites in the Albany, New York, area. The majority were English, French, German, and Scottish whose forebears had been in this country for several generations. There were also numerous Irish, and among later immigrants, fairly large numbers of Italian and Polish descent.
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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide To Research, Cynthia R. Kasee
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide To Research, Cynthia R. Kasee
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This much needed resource is an annotated bibliography of nearly sixteen hundred works in print and on film or video. As the authors note in the "Introduction," the common fallacy is that there is little available research -- either of historic or contemporary focus -- on the topic of Native American women. This is clearly not true, as evidenced by the wealth of materials detailed in this guide.
[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent
[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent
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We need to know more about why people become racists and what their motivations are for joining racial supremacist groups. Scholarly works dealing with the Ku Klux Klan's meteroic [meteoric] 1920s rise usually emphasize how rapid post-World War urbanization, agricultural depression, and fears of immigrants and cultural changes unsettled traditional-minded citizens in small-town and rural American landscapes and made the Klan attractive. By choosing to concentrate specifically upon women in the Klan, and "the complex ways in which race, religion and gender interact," Kathleen Blee, a sociology professor at the University of Kentucky, has opened up new dimensions here.
[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle, Ann Rayson
[Review Of] Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle, Ann Rayson
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The original edition of The Ethnic American Woman was published in 1978 with 381 pages. For the 1989 edition, the author has added two new sections with a total of ninety-three new pages. "Unit Thirteen: Daring To Be Different" contains sixty-three pages of fiction, poetry, and memoirs from contemporary women writers of German, Russian, Jewish, Anglo, African American, Mennonite, Italian, Chicana, Rumanian, Polish and Irish backgrounds. "Unit Fourteen: Scholarly Essays" is a particularly welcome addition of thirty pages containing essays by Evelyn Avery on blacks and Jews in the fiction of ethnic women, Caroline Dillman on the Southern woman as …
[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
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This is probably the first monographic study to examine in-depth the present criminal subculture of New York Chinatown, focusing on the youth gangs that have plagued the community during the past thirty years. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the fledgling field of Asian American studies, whose scholars have yet to tackle this complex and sensitive topic, as well as to the disciplines of sociology and criminology. It will also help puncture the recently created stereotype of a monolithic, "model minority" Asian population singlemindedly pursuing success in schooling and business.
[Review Of] Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories, Cortland P. Auser
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This collection reveals Cisneros as a refreshing writer of a variety of fictional forms. Her work at times may remind readers of Chicana short fiction by Estella Portillo. Cisneros has the distinct ability of writing vividly and imaginatively in her pictorialization of Mexican American life. She creates sketches, short stories, vignettes, and descriptive "essays."
[Review Of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood, Angelo Costanzo
[Review Of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood, Angelo Costanzo
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This is a rather loose collection of cuentos, or stories, by a person of two very different worlds. In the years of her youth, Judith Ortiz was shuttled between Paterson, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico. Her parents were immersed in the Spanish culture of the Caribbean tropics; but like so many other Puerto Ricans, her father left the island in the 1950s to secure a better life for his family. He joined the US Navy and spent six months of every year at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the rest of the time at sea. When he was stationed in …
[Review Of] Raymond 1. Demallie And Douglas R. Parks. Eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition And Innovation, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Raymond 1. Demallie And Douglas R. Parks. Eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition And Innovation, David M. Gradwohl
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Most of the papers included in this anthology were presented in Bismarck in 1982 at a conference entitled "American Indian Religion in the Dakotas: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives." The conference was funded by the North Dakota Humanities Council and brought together a wide array of academicians and lay people representing different and sometimes conflicting experiential and philosophical points of view.
[Review Of] St. Clair Drake. Black Folk Here And There , Vol. I, Bamidele J. Bracy, Jean E. Daniels
[Review Of] St. Clair Drake. Black Folk Here And There , Vol. I, Bamidele J. Bracy, Jean E. Daniels
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St. Clair Drake, the recently deceased anthropologist, has written an elaborate "summary essay" on the black experience as it relates to the continent of Africa. In his latter years at Stanford University, Drake was head of the University's Black Studies program. It appears obvious that Drake's consciousness was raised during this particular time span. The research and writing of this book is far different from his seminal work with Clayton (Black Metropolis, 1945). In his "emeritus" years, Drake decided to seek the high ground of an historical anthropological-philosopher and address certain issues that W.E.B. DuBois considered paramount to the study …
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Boyhood, Steven R. Price
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Boyhood, Steven R. Price
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Following his mother's death shortly after his birth, Charles A. Eastman acquired the name Hakadah -- the pitiful last. Not until age four, when his band of the Santee Sioux defeated their friendly rivals in lacrosse, would he he honored with his second name, Ohiyesa -- winner. This name bears importance, for Eastman retains it as the signature to his autobiography, Indian Boyhood. First published in 1902, the work represents one of the earliest examples of Native American biography as it details the life of Eastman from his native birth to his entrance into the white world at the age …
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen
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This book -- a major literary work by one of the more widely read early Native American authors, and an ethnographic "source" of some interest -- is now again available thanks to the University of Nebraska Press's efforts to reprint Native American classics. It comes with a very useful introduction by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, which establishes both historical and aesthetic contexts for Ohiyesa's stories. Ruoff provides information on the family backgrounds, the education, and the lives of both Mr. and Mrs. Eastman, gives an independent (and corrective) sketch of the 1862 Sioux uprising that forms the historical background of …
[Review Of] Jewelle Taylor Gibbs. Young, Black And Male In America: An Endangered Species, Calvin E. Harris
[Review Of] Jewelle Taylor Gibbs. Young, Black And Male In America: An Endangered Species, Calvin E. Harris
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This is a collection of summaries of studies conducted over the past decade or more focusing on such problems or problem areas as: Education and Achievement of Young Black Males, Employment and Unemployment of Young Black Males, Delinquency Among Black Male Youth, and Teenage Fathers -- Issues Confronting Young Black Males. In fact, the central focus of the studies cited in this anthology are on young black males ranging from their mid-teens to mid-twenties. Besides Gibbs, the other contributors are Ann Brunswick of Columbia University; Michael Connors of Cal State University, Long Beach; Richard Dembo of the University of South …
[Review Of] Susan A. Glenn. Daughters Of The Shtetl: Life And Labor In The Immigrant Generation, Noel J. Kent
[Review Of] Susan A. Glenn. Daughters Of The Shtetl: Life And Labor In The Immigrant Generation, Noel J. Kent
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In this meticulously researched and highly readable work, Susan A. Glenn "examines the experiences of a particular group of Jewish immigrants, European-born daughters who, early in this century, went to work in the American garment industry." The author is attempting here no less than to make sense of the intersecting linkages between eastern European Jewish culture, the immigration experience, working class life, the labor movement, and gender identity.
[Review Of] Joseph Hobbs. Bedouin Life In The Egyptian Wilderness, Torrance Stephens
[Review Of] Joseph Hobbs. Bedouin Life In The Egyptian Wilderness, Torrance Stephens
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It is not often that a person can pick up a book and read it with clarity and understanding, especially ethnographic materials that attempt to describe peoples of various cultural orientations. Joseph Hobbs has managed to accomplish this task in an enlightening manner.
[Review Of] Cecil J. Houston And William J. Smyth. Irish Emigration And Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, And Letters, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Cecil J. Houston And William J. Smyth. Irish Emigration And Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, And Letters, Phillips G. Davies
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This book should be more useful in Canada, where I have some reason to believe that there are more general ethnic studies programs than there are in this country. In this country, the major interest would be perhaps with less academic people who would be intrigued by the differences between the Irish in Canada and the Irish in this country.
[Review Of] Peter Hyun. Man Sei! The Making Of A Korean American, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] Peter Hyun. Man Sei! The Making Of A Korean American, Donald L. Guimary
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This book offers a history of Korea from the tum of the century through the end of World War II. But it is more than that: It is an autobiographical account of Peter Hyun, who with his family, witnessed and participated in the making of modern Korean history. Hyun, born in 1907, was one of eight children who lived and went to school under Japanese rule. In 1919 he witnessed a massive demonstration in which thousands of Koreans shouted "MAN SEI!"-- Long Live Korea -- and watched as Japanese police and military killed countless demonstrators, hence the title of this …
[Review Of] Richard Jensen, Et. Al. Eyewitness At Wounded Knee, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Richard Jensen, Et. Al. Eyewitness At Wounded Knee, Cortland P. Auser
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Any student of the relations between Native Americans and the US government and anyone who has read with deep interest Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee should add this work to his or her library or reading list. James A. Handson, Director of the Nebraska State Historical Society, provides an excellent foreword. He indicates that it has been the main intention of the work to interpret the photographs taken by men, many of whom were from Nebraska, in the light of the centennial of the massacre in 1990; also, the work is published in commemoration of the sesquicentennial …
[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai., Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai., Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Laurie Lisa
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In the notes to the reader in this two-volume Heath Anthology, Lauter emphasizes that a major principle of selection for authors and works included is to represent as fully as possible the varied cultures of the United States. The process of compilation -- the solicitation from thousands of faculty members teaching American literature to suggest what authors and works should be considered for a "reconstructed" American literature text -- reflects this commitment. With the inclusion of works by 109 women of all races, twenty-five Native Americans (including seventeen texts from tribal origins), fifty-three African Americans, thirteen Hispanics (as well as …
[Review Of] Richard P. Mccormick. The Black Student Protest Movement At Rutgers, Otis L. Scott
[Review Of] Richard P. Mccormick. The Black Student Protest Movement At Rutgers, Otis L. Scott
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The decade of the 1960s was pitched and rolled by the winds of social change. American society was being brought slowly, painfully, but severely face-to-face with its dark side. Both individual and systemic racism were being exposed and challenged.
[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko
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The search for an "untouched" Native voice in American Indian autobiography, both experientially and stylistically, has proven as elusive as the search for the "untouched" Native. In the case of A Yaqui Life, it is precisely the of the native author's interaction-personal, literary, military, economic, religious, and familial-that makes the work both fascinating and significant. So, too, the text as a product of the interactions between the various authors enhances its ethnographic and historic significance. In 1954, at the suggestion of the anthropologist W. C. Holden, the core of the work was penned by Rosalio Moises, a Yaqui who lived …
[Review Of] Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making Of Mexican Culture In Frontier California, Carlos F. Ortega
[Review Of] Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making Of Mexican Culture In Frontier California, Carlos F. Ortega
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As one drives through the state of California, the legacy of Indian, Spanish, and Mexican cultures is obvious everywhere. In school, children learn how this land fell into the hands of the Spanish Crown with its mission system starting to bring Christianity to the Indians, how California became Mexican via the independence movement, and finally in the nineteenth century, how the United States came to control California. Yet little is known or understood about what the transfer of power meant or how it occurred.
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle And Success, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle And Success, Phillips G. Davies
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This book should be of primary interest to people at the some thirty colleges and universities which offer courses in Greek American literature and culture. First published in 1980, the major strong point of this book is that the two added chapters and appendix deal with very recent developments on the Greek American scene, particularly the candidacy of Michael Dukakis for president.
[Review Of] Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, Phillipa Kafka
[Review Of] Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, Phillipa Kafka
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In a supposed "interview" with Rolling Stone, Muñoz's major character, lead singer-composer Julian Toledo of Julian and the L.A. Scene, sums up Paul Simon's song "Crazy Love" as "about the love of music, about relationships ... about family." Indeed, this book takes the form of a song in which the author is simultaneously the composer and conductor orchestrating the three elements of music, relationship, and family harmonically into the text through the deployment of a dazzling grab bag of modem and postmodern authorial techniques. These include mock-ups of interviews (written) and in video format; songs seemingly printed as appendices to …
[Review Of] Susheila Nasta, Ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing From Africa, The Caribbean And South Asia, Opal Palmer Adisa
[Review Of] Susheila Nasta, Ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing From Africa, The Caribbean And South Asia, Opal Palmer Adisa
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In recent years writings by black women outside of the US have gained acceptance, and many such works have been included in syllabi. Motherlands provides critical, comparative analyses of several important black women (Asian women are included in this category) writing throughout the world, and as such, sets a precedent as it is probably the first such collection. Divided into three sections, Mothers/Daughters/Mother(land), the essays examine writers who have become icons, Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Nawal el Sa' adawi, Michelle Cliff, Joan Riley, Lorna Goodison, and Nayantara Sahgal. Some of the essays, however, explore use of …
[Review Of] Elsie Clews Parsons. American Indian Life, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] Elsie Clews Parsons. American Indian Life, Laurie Lisa
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In Joan Mark's introduction to the Bison edition of this classic work, she offers a good analysis of the impact of these twenty-seven fictional stories written by anthropologists and first published in 1922. Anthropology's radical change in methodology at the turn of the century -- of which Parsons and Franz Boas (twenty of these stories can be identified with Boasian anthropology) were noticeable figures in the transformation -- led Parsons to attempt to tackle the problem of the relation of the individual to the culture. Consequently, she asked her fellow anthropologists to write fictions about Native Americans in which they …
[Review Of] Roy Harvey Pearce. Savagism And Civilization: A Study Of The Indian And The American Mind. Rev. Ed. Of The Savages Of America, D. C. Cole
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This classic volume on the image of the Indian in the American mind first appeared in 1953. Although both limited and incomplete, Pearce's work compelled a virtual revolution in literary and historical approaches to analysis of public view concerning the role of Indians in the American past.
[Review Of] Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes Of The Wild West, George H. Junne Jr
[Review Of] Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes Of The Wild West, George H. Junne Jr
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Ruth Pelz's book, illustrated by Leandro DelIa Piana, is written for elementary school children. Among the nine black heroes and heroines profiled are three women. They include the rough and tough "Stagecoach Mary Fields, the brave Biddy Mason, and the hard working Clara Brown." The men are the early explorer, Estevan; Chicago founder Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable; one of Washington State's founders, George Washington Bush; and mountain man James Beckwourth. Businessman and government leader Mifflin Gibbs and rodeo star Bill Pickett round out those featured. Some are more well-known than others, but all were important figures in the West.
[Review Of] Craig Storti. Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Richard R. E. Kania
[Review Of] Craig Storti. Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Richard R. E. Kania
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In September 1885 a petty dispute among Euro-American and Chinese Union Pacific miners in Wyoming exploded into a homicidal spree which left twenty-five confirmed dead Chinese miners, and another twenty-six missing and presumed dead. In the weeks and months which followed, other Chinese miners and laborers were robbed, killed, or hounded out of the United States. Some of the parties responsible for these atrocities were arrested and brought to trial, but juries found no one guilty of these genocidal crimes. Many local, state, territorial, military, and federal government officials made good-faith efforts to protect the Chinese, but their efforts primarily …