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Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Kristine Martin demonstrates the need for the serious scholar to address the topic of African and Pacific literature in the form of comparative analysis. She has provided a good example for others to emulate. for her study is concerned with self-identity in the formation of ethnicity.
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], Mary Sisney
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], Mary Sisney
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Kristine Martin states that “the literature which has developed over the past thirty years in Africa and over the past ten in the Pacific mirrors their shared experiences and outlook." Black Americans have also lived in a society controlled by whites. They have also been portrayed as uncivilized, culturally deprived, less-than-second—class citizens. And black Americans have also felt “bitterness, frustration, and longing.“ It is not surprising, therefore, that black American literature has many of the characteristics Martin found in African and South Pacific literature.
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Olivia Mercado
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Olivia Mercado
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Educational institutions are representative microcosms of the society. If the society segregates, exploits, and excludes racial groups, then it can be expected that educational institutions will follow suit. The intelligence testing of the 1920s and 1930s was an academic response to eugenics theories and to contemporary political-economic policies related to immigration, miscegenation, and segregation. As Gonzalez concludes, the creation of intelligence tests and their application were not only an apologia but also a means to maintain the status quo in the society.
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Gilbert Gonzalez’s “Racial Intelligence Testing and the Mexican People" is a major contribution in analyzing the educational factors which result in social inequality among the Mexican population in the US. For decades, the power elite has espoused the myth that educational achievement for minorities is the key to social upward mobility. Instead, Gonzalez views education as a system which perpetuates and maintains racial and class divisions in our society.
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Kristine Martin’s study makes available the relatively little-known literature of the southern Pacific basin islands. Her article has merit because it is compared with the more widely-read African literature, and she makes a significant contribution with the comparisions [comparison]. Both the Pacific selections, a recent phenomena, and the older African works are transitional literatures — striving to connect the colonized past with a post-colonial synthesis which is relevant to the author of the intended audience. As Martin shows. the audience is composed of compatriots.
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Unraveling the tangle of theses that shape the Skovira essay, “Some Symbols of Identity of Byzantine Catholics," exposes not only the intersecting dimensions of ethnicity but also the complex nature of semiotics. Before we can accept the author’s concluding remarks on symbols, we need to consider the ramifications of these various theses. It so happens that the two major theses clash: one suggests ethnic assimilation; the other implies a strengthening of national identity. Perhaps some clarity can be achieved if we consider these themes separately.
Critique [Of Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics], Michele Zak
Critique [Of Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics], Michele Zak
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Two primary assumptions appear to inform this descriptive article about Byzantine Catholic communities in the United States: (1) old traditions are maintained in new environments through “syncretism”; and (2) the symbols that emerge in those syncretisms are reflective of the world view of the ethnic group that created them.
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Historically, scientific racism has provided reinforcement for maintaining the status quo. Researchers who sought to discover and explain racial difference in intelligence generally operated from a functionalist or social facts paradigm. Gilbert Gonzalez shows that “Racism was essentially an ideological explanation for the social structure, and did not affect the distribution of property, but rationalized that distribution.“ In sum, scientific racism indicated that the social structure was based on the genetic make-up of racial categories.