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Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan Volume Iv, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance

WKU Administration Documents

This volume contains the workforce analyses, availability rates, goals and timetables for the 1983-84 academic year by departmental units. The ultimate goals are scheduled for 1987.

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Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Abbott's presentation should be of critical concern for educators and practitioners who prepare others to deliver psychological services to ethnic minority clients. A strong point of the article is the description of a serious problem in many educational programs which fail to adequately prepare psychologists to work among a variety of ethnic groups. Equally significant, the author provides pragmatic recommendations and strategies for addressing the concerns which emerge from a theoretical framework.

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Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The author of "Change in American Indian World Views ..." is not only a teacher and student of poetry, but is also a poet who writes about his heritage. It is appropriate that he chose to compare traditional songs and the contemporary pleas of American Indians. A poet can be and is described as "one who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical." Poetry is the art or work of a poet. If we follow these views of poet and poetry, then we would have to place both of the categories of which the …

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[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Poet, actress, and author ( Women: Body and Culture), Signe Hammer here attempts an exploration of the complex bonds and strains between women, their daughters, and their mothers. While it is written for a popular audience, the book's credibility is strengthened by the inclusion of scholarly chapter notes following the final chapter.

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[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

John E. Farley, who is on the faculty of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville), says that he has written this book because he is concerned about the deteriorating status of minorities and intergroup relations in the United States. His main objective is to increase awareness of these issues among college students in race relations classes by not only describing but also analyzing and attempting to explain the problems which our society faces.

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[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

For most Americans, Morocco calls to mind nomadic Berber horsemen, sinister spies in dimly-lit Casbah cafes, the armed intervention of marines in 1801 to subdue marauding pirates. Certainly, except for exotic stereotypical cabaret singers, Moroccan women have played no role in the Hollywood versions of what village life is like in this small, mountainous North African country whose history was shaped by such diverse groups as Arabs, Moors, Frenchmen and Spaniards. Anthropologist Susan Schaefer Davis at Trenton State University has described women's lives in a specific Moroccan village in her skillfully constructed exploration of lifestyle experiences in a collection of …

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[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

One tragedy of war is a people uprooted-tom from their land, history, and culture to seek a haven in a foreign country. Culture Clash is such a story. Ellen Matthews describes a Vietnamese family's struggle to adapt to American culture and yet retain their autonomy and self-respect. As a freelance writer and sponsor of Quang and his family, the author is well qualified to write this unpretentious account of their mutual experience. Composed from a diary the author kept between 1975-1979, the text is a detailed subjective study of the day-to-day events and conflicts between herself and the Quang family.

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White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In a tiny Iowa rural community, stuck like a mud dauber's nest on the banks of the Little Sioux River, a WASP was born and brought up thinking everyone in the world was just like her. As she went on to be educated, she was told she was the product of a culturally deprived childhood. Everyone was not like her. Didn't she know people were different? Didn't she know there were minorities in the world?

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Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Brito's article draws a necessary contrast between the purpose and function of American Indian chants, and the American Indian's descent into modern poetry. The latter is an idiom that can only voice anger and frustration: it symbolizes a spirit imprisoned, forced to protest through a borrowed medium because it seems to be the only one that the western mind can understand.

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Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristin Herzog's journey into the past is a necessary journey for serious students of ethnic and American studies; she establishes the relevance and validity of oral literature which has been relegated to an inferior status by scholars in the western world. The attempt to impose an inferior status on oral literature is rather sinister when one considers the absence of a written literature has been taken to mean an absence of intellectual activity on the part of such people. Not only American Indians but also Africans have suffered a great deal because of the tendency to regard such people as …

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Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1984

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The Use Of The Terms "Negro" And "Black" To Include Persons Of Native American Ancestry In "Anglo" North America, Jack D. Forbes

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In 1854 the California State Supreme Court sought to bar all non-Caucasians from equal citizenship and civil rights. The court stated: The word "Black" may include all Negroes, but the term "Negro" does not include all Black persons . . . . We are of the opinion that the words "White," "Negro," "Mulatto" and "Black person," whenever they occur in our constitution . . . must be taken in their generic sense . . . that the words "Black person," in the 14th section must be taken as contra distinguished from White, and necessarily includes all races other than the …

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Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Richard Herrnstadt

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Linda Buck Myers's "Perception and Power Through Naming" is an especially interesting and perceptive analysis of some of the unique ways in which Toni Morrison uses language to develop meaning through characterization; and the article deals with issues that are at the thematic core of Morrison's four published novels. Indeed, the subtitle of the article, "Characters in Search of a Self in the Fiction of Toni Morrison," is perhaps a more accurate description of what the author properly finds to be basic to an understanding of Morrison's fiction. The need for people to achieve self-identity within a societal framework is, …

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Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Linda Jean Carpenter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Herzog's article is organized around three threads which she proposes as useful for strengthening the fabric of contemporary U.S. society. The three threads, teased from an exploration of a portion of the Dekanawida-Hayonwatha stories (narrative and ritual of the Haudenosaunee) are: 1. the high status of women in Haudenosaunee society 2. the understanding of statecraft as a sacred responsibility toward all creation 3. peace as justice and wholeness in the social order. The threads found in stories dating back to about the 15th century provide a view of beliefs denominated by the Haudenosaunee society as being praiseworthy and of good …

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Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison, Linda Buck Myers

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Humpty Dumpty was correct to see the important connection between language and power; and if Lewis Carroll had developed this discussion further, he might have had his characters comment as well on the interrelationship between language and thought, language and culture, and language and social change. While linguists and anthropologists continue the difficult debate about whether language is culture or is merely "related" to culture, and while sociolinguists and psychologists question the effects of language on society and on the psyche, American blacks and women understand all too well that "He is master who can define,"[1] and that the process …

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Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Alice Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

After a lengthy description of the various facets of Haudosaunee ritual, Kristin Herzog makes some interesting statements on the parallels between our modem day social arguments and those which plagued them centuries ago. The unique feature of Haudosaunec social organization is its systematic balance of power between the sexes. Although it is doubtful that American women who are currently engaged in a struggle for political and social power will achieve quite the same degree of equity, just studying a society in which such a balance was achieved is helpful for those in the process of defining women's goals and objectives.

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Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Anthony J. Cortese

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The United States has a poor record in meeting the mental health needs of its minority populations. By focusing on individual pathology and relying on the white male as norm, practitioners have provided an ethnocentric and ineffective means of treating their culturally diverse clients. No longer can mental health problems be regarded only in terms of disabling mental illnesses and identified psychiatric disorders. They must also embody harm to mental health linked with perpetual poverty and unemployment and the institutionalized discrimination that happens on the basis of race or ethnicity, age, sex, social class, and mental or physical handicap. In …

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[Review Of] Mazisi Kunene. The Ancestors And The Sacred Mountain, Charlotte H. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Mazisi Kunene is admirably qualified to transmit both the traditional and his original Zulu poetry to an anglophone audience. He is a scholar and a performer of Zulu oral folk poetry. As leader for his own people, for ten years Chief Representative for the African National Congress in Europe and in the United States, he can interpret the heroic epics of ancestral worth. He has translated into English the great epic poem of the Zulu hero Shaka. Long an exile from South Africa, Kunene was a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain. He has been Lecturer of African …

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[Review Of] Roger Mais. Black Lightening, Anne E. Freitas

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Upon first opening Black Lightning, the reader is surprised to find a fifteen-page introduction to a 136-page novel. Suspicions arise that here is a story that does not speak for itself! Careful examination reveals the introduction to be a scholarly, thorough (if a bit repetitious) review of the novel by Jean D'Costa of Hamilton College in New York. First published in 1955 (the same year Mais died at the age of fifty), Black Lightning was published again in 1983 as part of the Caribbean Writers Series with the introduction by D'Costa included. After reading the novel, one suspects that the …

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[Review Of] Carol Munday Lawrence, Producer. Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (Film), Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the "Were You There" series produced by Carol Lawrence (the others include The Black West, The Cotton Club, The Facts of Life, Portrait of Two Artists, Sports Profile, and When the Animals Talked). This film's story revolves around Bee Freeman's (the Sepia Mae West) and Lorenzo Tucker's (the black Valentino) recollections of their relationships with Micheaux and their perceptions of his character. Danny Glover plays the role of Oscar Micheaux, Richard Harder is shown as the young Lorenzo Tucker, and Janice Morgan portrays the vamp that was Bee Freeman in …

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[Review Of] William Oandasan. A Branch Of California Redwood, Kenneth M. Roemer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

One of the best ways to introduce readers to the diversity of Indian literatures (and, by implication, Indian experiences) is to expose them to poetry written in English by Indians. One-dimensional stereotypes about Nobel Savages simply cannot withstand the rich variety of a literature that extends at least back to the 19th-century attempts of a few Indian poets-such as William Wilson (Anishinabe), Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk), and Alexander Posey (Creek)-to imitate and modify English language poetic models up through the recent poems of hundreds of Indian writers whose backgrounds and poetic inclinations reflect numerous tribal, reservation, and urban experiences, as …

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[Review Of] Ronald Takaki. Pau Hana, Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Pau Hana is a refreshing change from the usual genre of ethnic materials expressing the dynamics of culture set within an historical context; it is an exciting sequential analysis of the various ethnic peoples who provided plantation labor for the Hawaiian cane fields from the 1860s to the 1920s. Using primary resources, songs, historical tracts, and census data, Takaki brings together the various ethnic perspectives into a cogent account of the history, culture, and economy of sugar cane plantation existence.

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[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Phillips G. Davies, part Welsh himself, has taught in the English Department at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, since 1 954. He has recently published translations of accounts of Welsh settlements, mostly in the Middle West.

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[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Arthur Ashe, tennis professional who in 304 tournaments won fifty-one and reached the finals in forty-two others, had a heart attack at thirty-six and then quadruple bypass surgery. A sensitive, well-read and intelligent black athlete, Ashe is instinctively conservative and projects a concerned curiosity in his quest for understanding not only his own problems as man and athlete but also today's serious racial and political issues. This book, his third, is clearly written (with Neil Amdur, New York Times sportswriter) and reflects Ashe's respect for, and admiration of the English language: "I like the English language and its nuances ... …

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[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Dread is an exploration of the thought world of the Rastafarian Brethren of Jamaica as synthesized by the author. Father Owens, a white American-born Jesuit priest, did several years of intensive visiting with and listening to Rasta thinkers in the slums of western Kingston, Jamaica; most contact was from 1970 to 1972. He originally met the Rastas while he was doing teaching and social work in the area, and he seems to have been accepted by many of them as a sympathetic listener. Through Owens, Rasta thought comes across as a form of revitalization movement based on a unique interpretation …

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[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

"The time has come to be both joyous and lyrical about the particular exhilaration in the experience of the American immigrants and their descendents," writes Rose Basile Green in the introduction of this volume of poetry. "In lifting harmonized voices, the people of this nation sing in a symphony of one theme-we are all Americans" (4).

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[Review Of] J. Fred Macdonald. Blacks And White Tv/ Afro-Americans In Television Since 1948, Barbara F. Luebke

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Perhaps the most insightful statement MacDonald makes has not so much to do with blacks and television as it does with television itself: "TV . .. was subject to program decisions wherein commercial realities outweighed social ideas." To understand how black Americans have fared on television, one must understand the economic realities that underlie the medium. If a program cannot be sold to advertisers, it is not likely to be on television. Although one can deplore that state of affairs, it is difficult to argue that it is not the case.

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[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

James Ngugi without question is Kenya's most prominent and most highly regarded novelist to date. Of the same generation of writers as Achebe, Armah, Soyinka, and Owoonor of West Africa, Ngugi, like them, after a local university education, went abroad for advanced work. In 1964 at Leeds, Ngugi published his novel Weep Not, Child, written when he was a student at Makerere. Shortly thereafter, in 1965, he published The River Between which he had composed even earlier. With A Grain of Wheat the writer completed in 1967 a kind of trilogy, depicting for a western readership a literary explanation and …

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[Review Of] Ken Harrison, Producer. The Last Of The Caddoes (Film), David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Several staff members and students in anthropology and Indian Studies programs at Iowa State University had the opportunity to view the film, The Last of the Caddoes, during the spring of 1984. The University's Media Resource Center had obtained the film on approval and sought our advice as to whether it should be purchased for on campus classroom use and for rental to interest groups off campus. The film came with a respectable-looking pedigree: it was based on a short story by William Humphrey, an author of considerable repute in Texas; it was produced by Ken Harrison with funding from …

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[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gathering What the Great Nature Provided is a book about the Gitskan Indian tribe in North Central British Columbia living on the banks of the Skenna River. The book resulted from a project by ninety members of the tribe whose purpose was to document their past for themselves and future generations. This collective authorship shows the commitment and dedication of the people to the goal. Elders were questioned and memories strained to remember the distant past. Their culture is conveyed in a rich oral tradition. The writing was difficult and tedious, accomplished by long hours of interviewing and transcription of …

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Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan Volume Iv, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance

WKU Administration Documents

Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Use Of The Terms "Negro" And "Black" To Include Persons Of Native American Ancestry In "Anglo" North America, Jack D. Forbes

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Richard Herrnstadt

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Linda Jean Carpenter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison, Linda Buck Myers

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Alice Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Anthony J. Cortese

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

[Review Of] Mazisi Kunene. The Ancestors And The Sacred Mountain, Charlotte H. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Roger Mais. Black Lightening, Anne E. Freitas

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Carol Munday Lawrence, Producer. Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (Film), Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] William Oandasan. A Branch Of California Redwood, Kenneth M. Roemer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ronald Takaki. Pau Hana, Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] J. Fred Macdonald. Blacks And White Tv/ Afro-Americans In Television Since 1948, Barbara F. Luebke

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ken Harrison, Producer. The Last Of The Caddoes (Film), David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart

Explorations in Sights and Sounds