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Contributors Jan 1988

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1988

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Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott Jan 1988

Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic Studies as a curriculum at predominantly white colleges and universities remains a relatively new phenomenon in academe. The recent history of these formations can be traced back to the several social change movements of the 1960s. These changes, spearheaded by the civil rights movement and the black student protests in the South in early 1960s, provided the impetus for the social change spillover which many college and university campuses were to experience in earnest beginning with the mid-1960s.[1]

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[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez Jan 1988

[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Chicano Ethnicity is a valuable contribution to ethnic scholarship and the question of why people of Mexican descent in the U.S. choose different names. Chicano, Mexican-American, American of Mexican descent, and Mexicano are distinct. Since this population is heterogeneous, Keefe and Padilla study how three primary factors, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Loyalty, and Assimilation/Acculturation account for such diversity. These three primary factors shape unique expressions of group identity and an extended sense of the self.

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[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo

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In this book, Minrose Gwin explores the interrelationships between women as a model of Southern racial experiences. In order to understand "this volatile, often violent connection between black and white women of the Old South," she examines a wide variety of books including proslavery and abolitionist fiction of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives, diaries, and modern fictional versions of the Southern slave experience by Faulkner, Cather and Margaret Walker.

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[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

While American history is replete with outrageous and tragic examples of racism, two of the most prominent in recent memory are the government's World War II removal and internment of Japanese Americans and its postwar attack on the tribal rights and consequently the services, reservations, and cultural integrity of Native Americans through a policy known as "termination." Ironically, these two episodes intersect in the person of Dillon Meyer. Meyer ran the vast archipelago of Japanese American concentration camps as the Director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) from 1942-46 and then administered a larger system of lndian reservations as the …

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[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada Jan 1988

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

A result of the collaboration of several dozen specialists, this new reference work provides a wealth of information about the largest groups of immigrants who went east to settle in the United States: the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and Southeast Asians. It includes brief historical sketches of each of these groups and essays on a number of topics such as Asian-American literature, immigration law, and educational issues that affect Asian Americans. It also includes alphabetically arranged entries on hundreds of topics, a chronology of Asian-American history, and a bibliography.

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[Review Of] Donald M. Taylor And Fathali M. Moghaddam. Theories Of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, Linda Gonzalves Jan 1988

[Review Of] Donald M. Taylor And Fathali M. Moghaddam. Theories Of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, Linda Gonzalves

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This ambitious book comes at a time when the resurgence of intergroup conflict sounds a despairing note to those of us who have spent more years than we care to count struggling for a united front against an oppressive ruling class. To keep heart we need to periodically focus on the progress that has been made and, in Mao's words, review our accomplishments and transgressions in order to "make the past serve the present." For those of us working in the academic enterprise, this means that the tools of our trade, our theories and our methods, must be criticized and …

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[Review Of] Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Editor; Miklos Pinther, Cartographer. Atlas Of Great Lakes Indian History, Elizabeth Whalley Jan 1988

[Review Of] Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Editor; Miklos Pinther, Cartographer. Atlas Of Great Lakes Indian History, Elizabeth Whalley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Surprising as it may be, this is the first atlas of Great Lakes Indian history. Originally, Helen Hornbeck Tanner was involved in a research assignment which caused her to collect information on Great Lakes Indians at the time of the Revolution. After finding that maps of the Great Lakes Region were erroneous or deceptive, and that Ohio maps were marked with "little known area" or "insufficient information," she carefully developed this atlas. A bibliographic essay at the end of the atlas describes the enormous research that went into mapping these ethnic groups' histories. A noteworthy variety of sources were analyzed: …

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[Review Of] Carlos Bulosan. America Is In The Heart: A Personal History, S. E. Solberg Jan 1988

[Review Of] Carlos Bulosan. America Is In The Heart: A Personal History, S. E. Solberg

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

First published in 1946, America Is in the Heart has reached a seventh printing (1986). Carlos Bulosan's "personal history" has evidenced remarkable staying power, and that mainly in the Asian American ethnic communities and the academic programs which describe and support them. This is all the more remarkable in a book that has been damned by Philippine critics for giving a distorted view of the Philippines, and by American critics for distorting the history of the Filipino in America. Despite all this, the popularity, and the sense of "rightness" that surrounds the book can be explained rather easily once certain …

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[Review Of] D. H. Melhem. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry And The Heroic Voice, William H. Hansell Jan 1988

[Review Of] D. H. Melhem. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry And The Heroic Voice, William H. Hansell

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book might have worked out as an article, but it was a gross mistake in book form. That is to say, on the development of what Melhem calls the "heroic voice" there might have been an intelligent and informative study of about article length. I can't be certain, however, that Melhem had a definite sense of her subject, because "voice" sometimes means "prosody," sometimes "form," sometimes "subject" (or "theme"), most often (possibly!), "style."

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[Review Of] Alexandru Moscu (Director/Co-Producer) And Joel Geyer (Writer/Co-Producer). In Search Of Freedom: Nebraskans From Latvia, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1988

[Review Of] Alexandru Moscu (Director/Co-Producer) And Joel Geyer (Writer/Co-Producer). In Search Of Freedom: Nebraskans From Latvia, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Alexandru Moscu and Joel Geyer have produced a program which provides many penetrating insights into the dimensions of ethnicity in the United States. Furthermore they packaged the program in a manner which is not only instructive but also emotionally moving and aesthetically pleasing. The result is a scholarly and artistic gem.

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1988

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] William K. Powers. Beyond The Vision: Essays On American Indian Culture, Richard F. Fleck Jan 1988

[Review Of] William K. Powers. Beyond The Vision: Essays On American Indian Culture, Richard F. Fleck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Powers' collection of seven essays (mostly about Lakota culture) is of great value to students of Native American Studies. They vary in approach and topic from ethnomusicology to art, religion, and psychology. In his preface Powers pays tribute to Levi-Strauss' structuralist theory and its usefulness to American Indian cultural studies. But Powers qualifies his tribute by suggesting that because structuralism has its limitations, eclecticism is more appropriate for his purposes.

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[Review Of] James North. Freedom Rising, Judith E. O'Dell Jan 1988

[Review Of] James North. Freedom Rising, Judith E. O'Dell

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Freedom Rising seeks to personalize for the reader the dehumanizing effects of apartheid, the political and economic system in South Africa which is based on race. This is accomplished by providing the reader with an understanding of the nature of apartheid, by showing how it affects the lives of the people who live within its reach, and by providing a history of the resistance to apartheid. The book itself is a chronicle of the people North encountered and the places he visited during his four and one half years of traveling in South Africa and its neighboring countries. For the …

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[Review Of] John J. Bukowczyk. And My Children Do Not Know Me: A History Of The Polish Americans, Joseph T. Makarewicz Jan 1988

[Review Of] John J. Bukowczyk. And My Children Do Not Know Me: A History Of The Polish Americans, Joseph T. Makarewicz

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bukowczyk provides us with an easily readable and brief general history of Polish Americans. Unfortunately, there is nothing new in it. The works of Helena Z. Lopata, Victor Greene, Ewa Morawaka, and John Bodnar give a more intimate understanding of Polonia.

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[Review Of] Beryl Gilroy. Frangipani House, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1988

[Review Of] Beryl Gilroy. Frangipani House, Charlotte H. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Frangipani House is basically a portrait of Mama King, a patient in a Caribbean nursing home. She reveals much of her past in her reveries as she watches out her window from her hospital room. "Matron think I do nothing ... but thinking is hard work .... And everybody think my mind empty, my head empty, and my heart empty. I see people, dead and gone, walking and talking and young. And out of my old worn out body, a young woman walk out and life is like roll of new cloth waiting to roll out." She interacts intermittently with …

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[Review Of] Frank W. Porter Iii, Ed. Strategies For Survival: American Indians In The Eastern United States, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1988

[Review Of] Frank W. Porter Iii, Ed. Strategies For Survival: American Indians In The Eastern United States, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The subject of this book is several groups of Native Americans in the Eastern United States and their reactions to Euro-American intrusion. There are good introductory and concluding chapters which discuss the general situation of many of these groups, along with five case studies by various authors.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1988

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 11, Issue 2, 1988

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Ethnic And Women's Studies: An Attempt At Educating The Academy, Lillian H. Jones Jan 1988

Ethnic And Women's Studies: An Attempt At Educating The Academy, Lillian H. Jones

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

As I have written before in other places, the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is a unique academic department in its history, structure, and ultimately in its agenda. The fact that Ethnic and Women's Studies are combined in a setting where the two disciplines are more frequently suspicious if not hostile to each other is unusual and owes its partnership to the history of the university where it exists and to particular individuals who conceived it. This combination, while certainly subject to both political and philosophical criticism from a variety of voices and interests, …

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[Review Of] Gary Clayton Anderson. Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Kathleen Danker Jan 1988

[Review Of] Gary Clayton Anderson. Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Kathleen Danker

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

As Gary Anderson notes in the introduction to his recent history of the life of the Dakota Sioux leader Little Crow, writing Native American biography is a difficult undertaking. Because of the scarcity of direct source material about major portions of the life and thought of their subjects, historians have generally attempted full-scale biographies of only a few such widely-known men as Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Yet, the value of individual biography in humanizing history, dispelling mass cultural stereotypes, and elucidating interethnic relations is so great that Anderson's solid, well-researched, and readable life of Little Crow is indeed welcome.

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[Review Of] Katherine Spencer Halpern, Mary E. Holt, And Susan Brown Mcgreevy.Guide To The Microfilm Edition Of The Washington Matthews Papers, Paul G. Zolbrod Jan 1988

[Review Of] Katherine Spencer Halpern, Mary E. Holt, And Susan Brown Mcgreevy.Guide To The Microfilm Edition Of The Washington Matthews Papers, Paul G. Zolbrod

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Today it is being argued that ethnology and literature intersect in some useful ways. Yet Washington Matthews demonstrated as much a century ago, before either of those disciplines had been developed within the American academic system. And although it has been overlooked, his achievement in having done so is considerable, as this potentially useful volume suggests.

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[Review Of] Jenna Weissman Joselit. Our Gang: Jewish Crime And The New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940, Victoria Aarons Jan 1988

[Review Of] Jenna Weissman Joselit. Our Gang: Jewish Crime And The New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940, Victoria Aarons

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A book-length study of Jewish crime in the United States ventures into uncharted territory, because rarely have Jews been associated with crime; in fact, Jewish life and criminal activity have been considered antithetical categories. This historical injunction against violence and illegal acts is the very myth with which Joselit opens her well-documented study of criminal involvement among New York Jews, beginning with its immigrant origins and concluding with the rise of the Jewish middle class in the interwar years. The dominant socio-cultural imperatives against malfeasance among the Jewish population provides the structural frame in which Joselit describes, with detailed bibliographic …

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[Review Of] Clifford I. Uyeda, Ed. Americans Of Japanese Ancestry And The United States Constitution: 1787-1987, Victor N. Okada Jan 1988

[Review Of] Clifford I. Uyeda, Ed. Americans Of Japanese Ancestry And The United States Constitution: 1787-1987, Victor N. Okada

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In 1987, the Smithsonian Institution, as part of its observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution, held an exhibit that traced the history of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. This book, which commemorates the exhibit, consists chiefly of black-and-white photographs, brief notes, and a detailed chronology of the Japanese in this country from 1806, when eight shipwrecked sailors arrived in Hawaii, to 1987, when Senator Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii) presided over the joint House and Senate hearings into the Iran-Contra affair.

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Minorities And Hiv Infection, Veneita Porter Jan 1988

Minorities And Hiv Infection, Veneita Porter

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article discusses a preliminary comparison of responses to AIDS in ethnic communities and their basis in previously established support systems. The importance of public policy and its connection to racism and cultural insensitivities are discussed as they relate to communities of color at risk. Particular attention is paid to problems of communication and to the ethics involving confidentiality.

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[Review Of] Trudier Harris. Black Women In The Fiction Of James Baldwin, Kathleen Hickok Jan 1988

[Review Of] Trudier Harris. Black Women In The Fiction Of James Baldwin, Kathleen Hickok

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Trudier Harris walks a narrow line between a feminist critique of James Baldwin's shortcomings as a masculinist writer and a critical appreciation of the complexity and progression in Baldwin's fictional portrayals of black women. It is not an easy maneuver, but her balance is sure and steady.

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[Review Of] Gerald Sorin. The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920, Gloria Eive Jan 1988

[Review Of] Gerald Sorin. The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920, Gloria Eive

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Citing the large numbers of Jewish immigrants who were active in the labor movement and in "radical" political parties around the turn of the century, Sorin posits a correlation between these activities and the immigrants' religious background. Specifically, he credits the "messianic" teachings of the Old Testament prophets-notably Isaiah as motivating force and source of inspiration for the immigrants' political and social activities.

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Inter-Ethnic Issues In Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window By Steven R. Carter, Steven R. Carter Jan 1988

Inter-Ethnic Issues In Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window By Steven R. Carter, Steven R. Carter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

When Lorraine Hansberry's second produced play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, opened on Broadway in 1964, some white critics expressed surprise that her protagonist was Jewish rather than black and some blacks were disappointed or even outraged by this, feeling that she was deserting the "cause" and trying too hard to win acclaim as a "universal" writer.[1] Others from both groups, of course, warmly defended her.

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Critique [Of The Effects Of Reading Ethnic Literature On The Attitudes Of Adolescents By Joan Wynne Sullivan], Angelo A. Giugliano Jan 1988

Critique [Of The Effects Of Reading Ethnic Literature On The Attitudes Of Adolescents By Joan Wynne Sullivan], Angelo A. Giugliano

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The intent of Joan Sullivan's project as described in this article is one that can only be applauded -- working toward minimizing ethnocentrism and xenophobia must be seen as a sine quo non for a nation or a school community which aspires to realize a democratic ideology. Furthermore, there is no more important an age group on which to focus this project than that of the adolescent who is on the threshhold [threshold] of adult freedom and responsibility. Finally, educating the imagination toward a more just society for all through literature is a most meaningful use of the secondary school …

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Critique [Of Inter-Ethnic Issues In Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window By Steven R. Carter], Helen Maclam Jan 1988

Critique [Of Inter-Ethnic Issues In Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window By Steven R. Carter], Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Carter's analysis of the varied ethnic backgrounds of the characters in this play demonstrates Hansberry's commitment to a multiethnic society. Ethnicity is also clearly a factor in the complexity of the individual characters themselves, and in their interaction. Carter further gives a credible rationale (documented by quotations from Robert Nemiroff’s correspondence) for Hansberry's choice of Sidney, a Jew, as the vehicle for her message.

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The Effects Of Reading Ethnic Literature On The Attitudes Of Adolescents, Joan Wynne Sullivan Jan 1988

The Effects Of Reading Ethnic Literature On The Attitudes Of Adolescents, Joan Wynne Sullivan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The first statement reflects one student's vision of her world and her solution to one problem in that world. Written in an essay which asked white students for their reactions to having Vietnamese in their school, the statement reveals a limited view of the world and possibly a parroting of community rhetoric. The second statement is an oral response by the same student taped during her reading of a novel which dealt with ethnic issues. Her revised perception indicating the need for a new look at other ethnic groups, rather than an expulsion of them from the country, suggests the …

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