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Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1993
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 16, Issue 2, 1993
Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza
Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This issue of the journal contains a variety of articles which are related yet diverse in their focus on topics concerning ethnic studies. In the first article, David Hood and Ruey-Lin Lin extend previous research on sentencing disparities in the state of Washington for Hispanics, Native Americans and Whites. Even after the creation of the Sentencing Reform Act, a decade later, sentencing disparities exist. In her research on the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Theresa Martinez analyzes the role of rap music as being a reflection and/or cause of inner city despair, hopelessness and anger.
Sentencing Disparities In Yakima County: The Washington Sentencing Reform Act Revisited, David L. Hood, Ruey-Lin Lin
Sentencing Disparities In Yakima County: The Washington Sentencing Reform Act Revisited, David L. Hood, Ruey-Lin Lin
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This study expands upon an earlier exploration of sentencing disparity in the Yakima County, Washington judicial system. The Sentencing Reform Act was adopted in 1981, becoming effective in 1984, to end inequitable sentences imposed on individuals who are convicted of similar offenses. This work adds to the original study by including an investigation of "exceptional" sentences and "offense type" crime. Independent variables are defendants' ethnicity (Hispanic, Native American, and White), age, and gender. The period of investigation includes fiscal years 1986 through 1991. Data was provided to the researchers by the Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission and was processed using a …
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Recognizing The Enemy: Rap Music In The Wake Of The Los Angeles Riots, Theresa A. Martinez
Recognizing The Enemy: Rap Music In The Wake Of The Los Angeles Riots, Theresa A. Martinez
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The May 1992 riots in Los Angeles demonstrated more than anything in recent history that the inner cities are filled with despair, hopelessness, and anger. Some feel that rap music is responsible for both gangs and the lawlessness unleashed by the riots. This paper will seek to address this notion by looking at the rap lyrics of artists who have been considered the most radical and the most angry. By examining rap lyrics we can detect anger and frustration in the ghetto. Rap music did not cause rioting in Los Angeles but it effectively heralded measures taken by inner-city residents …
Language Policy And Language Repression: The Case Of Spanish Basques And Mexican Americans, Deborah Faltis
Language Policy And Language Repression: The Case Of Spanish Basques And Mexican Americans, Deborah Faltis
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper presents the argument that there are many similarities between the linguistic and cultural repression experienced by Basques in Spain and Mexican Americans in the United States. Linguistic and cultural repression, both historically and currently, is analyzed in terms of various language policies, especially those policies related to language use in school. The struggle for and importance of bilingual education for language and cultural maintenance is discussed. The paper concludes with the caution that the rise of conservative political groups such as The English Only Movement demonstrates that concern about linguistic and cultural repression is as imperative currently as …
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 13, Summer, 1993
[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer
[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The comparative nature of this book is its most outstanding feature. The editors and authors have all worked to make their approaches to the question of acculturation and ethnicity as comparable as possible across chapters -- and across ethnic groups. The overall framework stresses the differing stresses that individuals in each ethnic group have had to struggle with in their quest to "become American.” It also emphasizes the importance of recognizing that no group is monolithic in its responses to acculturative pressures, that there is always a range of individual paths which might be chosen.
[Review Of] Hsiang-Shui Chen. Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants In Contemporary New York, Janet E. Benson
[Review Of] Hsiang-Shui Chen. Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants In Contemporary New York, Janet E. Benson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This book is a recent addition to the Anthropology of Contemporary Issues series edited by Roger Sanjek. The author, now an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, worked as a research assistant on Sanjek's New Immigrants and Old Americans Project in Elmhurst-Corona during the mid-1980s. This was the pilot study for what later became the Ford Foundation's Changing Relations Project, a national study of the impact of post-1965 immigration on American society. Chen, a graduate student from Taiwan himself, noticed a sudden increase in Chinese immigration to New York City after 1982. He chose …
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[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson
[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This fascinating and insightful book is a comparative ethnographic study of Vietnamese and Soviet Jewish refugees. While a voluminous refugee and immigrant literature exists, much research follows a narrow, policy-driven focus rather than an independent academic tradition. Authors also tend to concentrate on specific ethnic groups rather than examining parallels or contrasts between groups. Gold, however, asks the broader question of how refugees create ethnic communities which facilitate "accomodation [accommodation] without assimilation" (Gibson 1988). In the process of comparison, he produces novel conclusions as well as hypotheses for further testing.
[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara
[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Nisei, meaning American-born second-generation Japanese, is an epic scale undertaking of the recording of a brief but eventful history of the Japanese immigration to America by a Japanese American journalist. The book consists of twenty-seven chapters which are divided into three parts. The initial focus is on the settlement of the first generation Japanese immigrants in the 1870s, mainly in California and the Pacific states. Then the topic shifts to the emergence of a substantial Nisei population during the 1930-40 period, followed by their maturation through prewar segregation and the wartime internment experience. The third part accounts for the post-internment …
[Review Of] Donald W. Jackson. Even The Children Of Strangers: Equality Under The U.S. Constitution, Jennifer L. Dobson
[Review Of] Donald W. Jackson. Even The Children Of Strangers: Equality Under The U.S. Constitution, Jennifer L. Dobson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Can "separate but equal" really be equal? How do we achieve equality through remedial preferential treatment? Does America's "meritocracy" dictate inequality? These compelling questions are addressed in Donald Jackson's Even Children of Strangers: Equality Under the U.S. Constitution.
[Review Of] James Mooney. The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] James Mooney. The Ghost-Dance Religion And The Sioux Outbreak Of 1890, David M. Gradwohl
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
On December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, there occurred one of the most bloody and tragic events in American history -- the massacre of hundreds of American Indians by the US Seventh Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek. A principal factor precipitating this atrocity was the American government's misperception of the so-called Ghost Dance which had spread from the Great Basin and Plateau into the Great Plains. Just a week before the massacre, James Mooney (then a young employee of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology) had headed west to study the Ghost Dance phenomenon. …
[Review Of] May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, And Dagmar Schultz, Eds. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, George H. Junne Jr.
[Review Of] May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, And Dagmar Schultz, Eds. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, George H. Junne Jr.
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
African people have been a presence in Europe for thousands of years. As the author notes, "Julius Caesar brought Black legions to Germany, and many never returned." A significant percentage lived in Germany until the sixteenth century. In more recent decades, French African troops and African American troops were in Germany during World War l. Some left children there and a handful even stayed to live. In World War II African American soldiers fought there again. Some remained for the occupation and some retired there. Again, some came home leaving their children, who, according to various articles, were believed to …
[Review Of] James Robert Payne. Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] James Robert Payne. Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, Laurie Lisa
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In the introduction to this excellent collection of critical essays on multicultural autobiography Payne states that what sets this work apart from most other works on autobiography, is "the attempt in this volume to bring together different critical voices, each speaking from an area of expertise on a particular American cultural tradition." Drawing on concepts developed at the 1982 Reconstructing American Literature Institute at Yale, Payne did not impose any theoretical orientation on the eleven contributors. Consequently, while the contributors have relied upon the current criticism and commentary on the blossoming field of autobiography, each is a recognized scholar in …
[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Women, Race, and Ethnicity had its origin in a series of reading lists prepared by the office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian in the mid-1980s; this newest edition supersedes an earlier June 1988 release. Containing almost 2500 sources, this volume provides a selective, annotated list of college-level print (including special journal issues and chapters in anthologies) and audiovisual resources, emphasizing recent materials on ethnic women in the United States (only a few Canadian materials are included). References are classified under twenty-eight disciplines and topics -- such as Anthropology, Education, Literature, Poetry, and Psychology -- and further …
Cumulative Index By Author, Nos. 7- 13 (1987-1993)
Cumulative Index By Author, Nos. 7- 13 (1987-1993)
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Cumulative index by author for numbers 7-13, 1987-1993 for Explorations in Sights and Sounds.
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 16, Issue 1, 1993
Local Control Of Nineteenth Century Public Policy And The Ethnic Working Class In New England's Mill Towns, Paul R. Dauphinais
Local Control Of Nineteenth Century Public Policy And The Ethnic Working Class In New England's Mill Towns, Paul R. Dauphinais
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This essay, using census material, newspaper reports, and other primary sources, examines the impact of local control of public policy on ethnic working class in nineteenth century New England. Research on New England's ethnic groups often focuses on large textile centers dominated by outside interests such as Fall River, Massachusetts or Manchester, New Hampshire. Corporate interests in these cities displayed a disproportionate influence of public policy often serving corporate, not public, interests. The focus of this study, Fitchburg and Worcester, Massachusetts, exhibited well diversified economies controlled by local interests. Local control led public policy in a direction more beneficial to …
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A New Look At The Old "Race" Language: Rethinking "Race" And Exclusion In Social Policy, Chorswang Ngin
A New Look At The Old "Race" Language: Rethinking "Race" And Exclusion In Social Policy, Chorswang Ngin
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race" current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race" are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race" requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race" and “race relations" to a new language that rejects “race" as a descriptive and an analytical category. It examines the processes through which “racist" social policies are enacted against Asian immigrants in contemporary Southern California.
Age And Ethnic Variations In Attitudes Towards Older Persons, Family And Filial Obligations, Suzanne T. Ortega, John Shafer
Age And Ethnic Variations In Attitudes Towards Older Persons, Family And Filial Obligations, Suzanne T. Ortega, John Shafer
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Two major interpretations have been advanced to explain the frequent finding that ethnic elders have more extensive kin support networks than Anglo elders. Structural interpretations argue that the exigencies of poverty and ill health cause minorities to rely more heavily on family members for help than Anglos, whereas cultural explanations rest upon presumed differences in family values and attitudes. Despite the prominence of these two explanations, direct tests of the cultural model are rare. In this study, we use data from a study of 100 African, Mexican, Vietnamese, European, and Native American adults to test the hypothesis that there are …
Intermarriage And Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, And Filipino Americans, Karen B. Leonard
Intermarriage And Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, And Filipino Americans, Karen B. Leonard
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The problem is intermarriage, specifically intermarriages patterned by gender (all the men are from one ethnic background and almost all of the women from another) which produce significant biethnic communities. The author's original research on Punjabi Mexican Americans, people whose fathers came from India's Punjab province and whose mothers were of predominantly Mexican or Mexican American heritage, combined field work and interviews with California county records and local historical materials to show the flexibility of ethnic identity. She compares the Punjabi Mexican Americans to Filipino European Americans and Mexican japanese, using studies done by Barbara Posadas and Chizuko Watanabe. She …
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, 1993
Cumulative Index By Author, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993)
Cumulative Index By Author, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993)
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Cumulative Index by Author, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993) for Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Cumulative Index By Title, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993)
Cumulative Index By Title, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993)
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Cumulative Index by Title, Volumes 10-16 (1987-1993) for Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Abstracts From The Twenty-First Annual Conference - " Race, Class, And Gender"
Abstracts From The Twenty-First Annual Conference - " Race, Class, And Gender"
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Abstracts From the Twenty-First Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies "Race, Class, and Gender" March 3-6, 1993 Red Lion Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah