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[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Although it may be true that the equal rights movement for women will result in freeing both women and men from social and legal restrictions (and, in fact, it may be a rather convincing practical political argument), as a feminist, I find a book that supports these rights for women on the basis of reciprocally increased rights for men suspect. It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson arguing, in Notes on Virginia, against the continuation of slavery because of its debilitating moral effects on owners and their families. Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of …

[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the …

[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Americans live in a pluralistic society populated by persons of different ethnic backgrounds, languages, socio-economic levels, and religious beliefs. Within our society other personal characteristics are also evident, e.g., age, sex, physical and mental abilities. Too often value-laden, distorted messages and images are conveyed about those who are not viewed as being members of mainstream America. Prejudice becomes manifest and stereotypic misinformation is used to formulate major decisions affecting the lives of human beings.

[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The twenty-five selections, mostly short stories, reprinted here make painful reading for anyone sympathetic to the black African who must live under the daily indignities of apartheid. Considering the number of writers in exile, one may at first find those still living in South Africa suspect but, although the murderous violence familiar to newspaper readers is absent, there is still pain enough. For those unfamiliar with past or current events, fiction here is history as well as art.

[Review Of] Elsa V. Goveia, A Study On The Historiography Of The British West Indies, To The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Roland L. Guyotte

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is an extremely learned work. Published originally by the Pan American Institute of History and Geography in 1956 and recently reprinted in paperback by Howard Press, A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies discusses almost seventy-five, often multi-volume works published between 1530 and 1898. This material includes works published in English, French, Spanish and Dutch. As the author points out, many of these volumes were originally composed by gifted amateurs who wrote with polemical purposes. The historiography of the British West Indies is a minefield of controversies about fundamental human questions which are exemplified in a …

[Review Of] Francis Paul Prucha, Indian-White Relations In The United States: A Bibliography Of Works Published, 1975-1980, Michael D. Green

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume is the long-awaited supplement to Francis Paul Prucha's Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1977. That work, which contained 9705 items, was complete to 1975. The supplement, with 3400 titles, covers the historical literature made available between 1975 and 1980. Organized into fifteen subject divisions and excellently cross-referenced with a thirty-six page index, the supplement continues the same high quality of Prucha's previous efforts to bring some useable order to the bewildering complexity of American Indian historiography.

[Review Of] Multicultural Education And The American Indian, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Multicultural Education and the American Indian provides an excellent treatment of selected issues related to the education of American Indians. This volume, by scholars in Indian studies, is divided into six sections and includes an overview and background information, discusses American Indian policy at the national and local level, examines cross-cultural education and the performance of Indian students, and suggests ways to provide more effective teacher training and curriculum development. These concerns are important for both the American Indian and non-Indian communities to understand and address.

Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Perhaps the most valuable contribution that Professors Bataille's and Silet’s treatise makes is to connect the images of the American Indian in movies with antecedent images. The scope of their investigation predates Columbus, includes critical American historical imagery production, takes the reader to the very beginnings of the movie industry, and brings us up-to-date on the effects of the "Great Society" outfalls for both image. and employment of American Indians in the screen entertainment establishment.

Explorations In Ethnic Studies Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982

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Explorations in Ethnic Studies Title Index Volumes 1-5, 1978-1982

Reflections, William Oandasan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by William Oandasan: Reflections.

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Professor Payne, in his two selections of seminal writings from the pre-World War I period, has performed a remarkable service for Explorations readers in presenting significant work tersely argued, well-written, and comprehensively considered. Griggs's and Corrothers's fiction contains all of the possibilities for political change that were considered during the 1960s and 1970s.

A Response To "Our Own Dogs", Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In contemporary American Indian songs and stories the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Lakota all voice a rueful hindsight over the hereditary "Great Mistake," or the friendship and kindness which their naive, trusting ancestors extended to the pilgrims on the Mayflower.

Notes, William Oandasan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"first there is the word, the word is the song," Includes poem by William Oandasan: Notes.

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Shirla R. Mcclain

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Leita Kaldi has introduced the readers to little known data on one of America's most interesting and lesser-known ethnic groups. This critique focuses on further development of the material in the article and the implications of such research for the field of ethnic studies.

Books Received

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Titles appearing in this list may be reviewed in future issues of Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

[Review Of] Martha Montero, Ed., Bilingual Education Research Handbook: Strategies For The Design Of Multicultural Curriculum And Language Issues In Multicultural Settings, Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bilingual Education Teacher Handbook is a two volume collection of articles developed by bilingual staff at the Boston University Training and Resource Center of the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. The goal of this project is to "develop teacher awareness of those areas that underlie bilingual education, namely, (a) the role of the systems-context approach; (b) the role in curriculum design of goals and objectives; (c) the development of pedagogical skills in bilingual education." (p. 3) The articles were not intended to be neatly packaged curriculum kits, but rather to provide the fundamental basis for developing and evaluating …

Understanding Needs And Concerns Of Black Students In Pursuit Of Higher Education, Thomas M. Caulfield

Masters Theses

The problem of this study was to increase the general publics' awareness of the difficulties Black Americans faced in pursuit of higher education.

The procedure was a twofold process. First, the writer reviewed some of the pre-college variables that affected the Black student. Second, the needs and concerns of the Black student at a predominantly White University were studied by the use of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to three groups on the Eastern Illinois University Campus. The first group was comprised of twenty-five Black students that were currently enrolled in the University. The second group was twenty Black …

[Review Of] Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy Of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal, Bernard E. Segal

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It's not unusual for partisans of opposing viewpoints about Cuba to spark each other to flaming argument, while those who prefer less heat and more light can easily find adventure enough just in following the course of the Western Hemisphere's most important social experiment since the Mexican Revolution. Shouldn't a book about twenty years of post-revolutionary Cuba be exciting, especially when it comes to us from Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Cuban native, an early supporter of the revolution and also an early emigre to the United States, and now, as Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, one of only a …

[Review Of] S. Husin Ali, The Malays: Their Problems And Future, Kirk Endicott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

On December 3, 1974, 2000 Malaysian university students staged demonstrations on the playing field of the Selangor Club in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. They were demonstrating their sympathy for the peasant rubber growers of Kedah, who had been brought to a state of desperate poverty by inflation and the low price of rubber, and protesting government policies which were ostensibly designed to improve the economic condition of all Malays, but had apparently succeeded only in enriching a small group of Malay politicians and businessmen. They demanded a fundamental reorganization of the political and economic system to ensure that the …

[Review Of] Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race And Class, Edith Blicksilver

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

You won't find her listed in Notable American Women beside Frances Elliott Davis who won Eleanor Roosevelt's admiration by challenging racial barriers to become the first black nurse enrolled by the American Red Cross. Nor is this Black Power activist found before theatrical educator Hollie Mae Ferguson Flanagan, encouraged by her artistic German mother and dynamic Scot pioneer father to "set a stout heart to a steep hillside." But Angela Y. Davis deserves recognition when this Harvard Press publication goes into a second printing, because seldom in the history of American justice has a criminal court heard a civil libertarian …

[Review Of] Joy Hendry, Marriage In Changing Japan: Community And Society, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Joy Hendry uses a social anthropological examination of one community, the village of Kurotsuchi on southerly Kyushu Island, to illuminate the pivotal role of marriage in Japanese society. Marriage from pre-Meiji times to the present, she points out, has been crucial to the continuation of the ie, that union of the genealogical family and household/property. Marriage establishes the house head as an integral member of the village associations for governance, tax collection, care of the shrines, road building, and mutual aid. Moreover, it brings together Shintoism and Buddhism in a harmonious blending of rituals concerning birth and death.

[Review Of] Virginia Huffer, The Sweetness Of The Fig: Aboriginal Women In Transition, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During 1970 and 1973, University of Maryland professor of psychiatry Virginia Huffer spent some time with the women of the Lardil and Kaiadilt tribes who live on Mornington Island in northern Australia's Gulf of Carpenteria [Carpentaria]. Forced to accommodate increasingly to Western ways, these women struggle to maintain traditional linkages while they undergo modern change. This conflict between the past and the future, as well as the everyday realities of their existence, are presented through Huffer's psychobiographical lens, primarily through the intervention and words of her chief informant, Elsie Roughsey, a "cooperative, friendly, generous, and intelligent" Lardil woman who is, …

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Hua-Yuan Li Mowry

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

"There is no history, only fictions of varying degree of plausibility." Although historians may disagree with Voltaire's provocative statement, Ruthanne Lum McCunn's choice of this phrase as an opening for her biographical novel, Thousand Pieces of Gold, is probably in keeping with the general agreement that any fiction which claims literary merits must contain some truth. McCunn, an Amerasian born in San Francisco's Chinatown, grew up in Hong Kong. At the age of sixteen, she returned to San Francisco to attend college and subsequently worked as a librarian, teacher, and bilingual/bicultural specialist. She is the author of An Illustrated History …

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Linda M.C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Increased retention of minority undergraduates is a goal that can be supported for a variety of reasons, from the avoidance of human waste, to concern for balanced institutional budgets, to the desirability of turning out larger numbers of minority graduates who will become professional role models for the next generation. The authors have presented a state·of·the·art review of some promising retention programs, together with recommendations for strengthening such programs.

Table Of Contents

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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Jenkins' and Terrell's assessment of factors contributing to the attrition of undergraduate minority students is written in such general terms that it does not make a clear statement of the problem. Further, while their use of Kathleen Burlew's study may have provided some specific insights, to say out of context that "since students may lose interest in educational goals, an occupational end is needed to sustain their motivation to continue" comes perilously close to a rationale for consigning minority students to vocational programs.

Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education, Verdia Jenkins, Melvin Terrell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This article is concerned with the retention of minority undergraduate students, offering recommendations which contribute to a higher rate of student retention in postsecondary institutions. The first section provides a brief introduction to the state-of-the-art concerning attrition and retention. The development of a retention program for minority students comprises the second, more comprehensive section. It provides a listing of resources concerned with the problem. Concluding recommendations are presented which can contribute to the successful retention of minority students.

Abstracts From The Eleventh Annual Conference On Ethnic Minority Studies, 1983, Ontario, California

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

We asked discussants for the 1983 Conference to summarize their responses to the papers in their sessions, and Stewart Rodnon of Rider College provided a statement which comments specifically on the session for which he was discussant and summarizes the significance of many of the papers delivered at the 1983 Conference. His comments serve as a meaningful preface to these abstracts.