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[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy
[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy
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Storyteller is a collection of traditional stories, imaginative prose, verse, and autobiographical sketches purposefully interwoven with photographs taken over four generations by Silko's family and friends. The recurrent center of the work is Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico where she was raised. However, the book encompasses peoples other than Pueblo-Navaho, Zuni, the Yupik of Alaska-and in the opening pages we find her invocation to all Native peoples of North America.
[Review Of] Eileen Tway, Ed., Reading Ladders For Human Relations, W. Thomas Jamison
[Review Of] Eileen Tway, Ed., Reading Ladders For Human Relations, W. Thomas Jamison
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Reading Ladders for Human Relations is essentially an annotated bibliographical listing of books appropriate for young people. The books bave been grouped under five headings: (1) Growing into Self, (2) Relating to Wide Individual Differences, (3) Interacting with Groups, (4) Appreciating Different Cultures, and (5) Coping in a Changing World. The publication data of the majority of the works listed fall within the decade of the seventies. An alphabetical listing of publishers and authors and titles completes the book.
[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler
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In this compilation of eight essays, anthropologists Jack 0. Waddell and Michael Everett provide a generally refreshing way of looking at drinking behavior among the Papago, Pima, Yaqui, Taos Pueblo, Navajo, and White Mountain Apache of Arizona and New Mexico. The authors realize that much of what has been written about Native American alcohol use has come from an Anglo-Euro set of definitions which emphasizes the adoption of drinking behavior from whites, treating drinking without reference to Indian cultural differences and attributing it to some form of social dislocation caused by white intrusion and oppression.
[Review Of] Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon On A White Horse, Carol Schoen
[Review Of] Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon On A White Horse, Carol Schoen
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The republication of Anzia Yezierska's Red Ribbon on a White Horse, with an afterword by her daughter, Louise Henriksen, is an important event in two respects: first, it represents another step in the rediscovery of a significant writer whose work deals with the experience of immigrant Jewish women at the turn of the twentieth century. Second, it is a valuable document for information on that period of mass migration. Scholars concerned with ethnic literature, as well as those previously unfamiliar with Yezierska's works, will find here interesting insights into the problems and pressures of the immigrants.
[Review Of] Un Nuevo Dia, Barbara Hiura
[Review Of] Un Nuevo Dia, Barbara Hiura
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Un Nuevo Dia is a bilingual (Spanish/English) quarterly publication whose purpose is to report on "the progress being made both locally and nationally in new and improved educational programs for minority children."1 It is achieving this goal by printing articles which deal with discriminatory practices against minority students in various community public schools. Many of the articles offer solutions to this problem, emphasizing community action as an effective political tool.
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[Review Of] Lynwood Carranco And Estle Beard, Genocide And Vendetta: The Indian Wars Of Northern California, Charles E. Roberts
[Review Of] Lynwood Carranco And Estle Beard, Genocide And Vendetta: The Indian Wars Of Northern California, Charles E. Roberts
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Indian and white relations in northern California is a subject that has made little impact on the American historical imagination. Only Theodora Kroeber's lshi in Two Worlds, a book that derives its power from romantic concepts of the noble savage and the vanishing red man, has garnered much of an audience. What is sorely needed are histories of such tribes as the Pomo, Hupa, Witun, and Maidu that take them from the 1820s into the 20th century. Such study is difficult to pursue; the rapidity with which California's native peoples were overrun and their cultures shattered has left a chaotic …
[Review Of] Walter Dyke And Ruth Dyk, Eds., Left Handed: A Navajo Autobiography, Andrew Wiget
[Review Of] Walter Dyke And Ruth Dyk, Eds., Left Handed: A Navajo Autobiography, Andrew Wiget
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When Walter Dyk published Son of Old Man Hat in 1938, he introduced most of the world to a remarkable youth: Left Handed of the Bitahni clan, adopted son of Old Man Hat. That classic anthropological autobiography was the story of a child, born before his time, who grew to be a humorous, sensitive and observant young man. Left Handed dictated this story, which he concluded with his marriage, almost a half a century after most of the events had occurred. Following the Second World War, Dyk returned to the Navajo Reservation for the rest of the story and found …
[Review Of] William A. Doublass And Richard W. Etulain, Eds., Basque Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Sergio D. Elizondo
[Review Of] William A. Doublass And Richard W. Etulain, Eds., Basque Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Sergio D. Elizondo
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This is a selected and annotated bibliography on the European and American Basques, the immigrants and their descendents known as the Amerikanauk. It is useful for both lay people and serious researchers and, short as it may seem, treats a wide variety of subjects concerning one of the least known minority ethnic groups that are an integral part of this multicultural country.
[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris
[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris
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Researching black genealogy is not the same as researching white genealogy, either in methodology or sources. Eichholz and Rose, assistant professors at Queens College, City University of New York, and also co-directors of the Ethnic Genealogy Center, are established authors in the field. Eichholz had published The Linville Family in America (1970) and A Second Visit with the Linvilles (1976). Rose has published Tapestry (1979) and Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900 (1980), Together they co-edited the book Black Genesis (1978), rated as one of the best handbooks on the methodology and sources for black genealogy. One of the most …
[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin
[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin
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Bloody Ground, in 1941, was the book-length result of a reporter's coverage for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Day's work appeared well ahead of any national concern over Appalachia and was received with admiration by some, outrage by others. It was then eclipsed by the events of the Second World War.
[Review Of] J. Anthony Paredes, Ed., Anishinabe: 6 Studies Of Modern Chippewa, Andrew Wiget
[Review Of] J. Anthony Paredes, Ed., Anishinabe: 6 Studies Of Modern Chippewa, Andrew Wiget
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At a time when contemporary Indian life is overlooked in favor of romantic glorification of the past, this book is especially welcome. It is unique in its vision, presenting in a single volume six complementary reports of coordinated research done during the 1960s among one of the largest Native American tribes.
[Review Of] Ira Bruce Nadel, Jewish Writers Of North America: A Guide To Information Sources, Stewart Rodnon
[Review Of] Ira Bruce Nadel, Jewish Writers Of North America: A Guide To Information Sources, Stewart Rodnon
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This is an extensive bibliography covering selected American and Canadian Jewish authors, both contemporary and historical. The book is separated into four major sections: General Reference Guides (bibliographies, literary histories, anthologies, etc.), Poets, Novelists and Short-Story Writers, and Dramatists. Each of the last three sections is divided into two parts: American-Jewish and Canadian-Jewish authors. Concluding the volume are two appendixes-Yiddish Literature, and Checklists of Additional American and Canadian Jewish Writers-plus the usual author, title, and subject indexes.
[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet
[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet
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This is an extraordinarily impressive and thorough compilation of primarily documentary films made by and about Native Americans. The Museum of the American Indian, the Heye Foundation and Elizabeth Weatherford and Emelia Seubert are to be commended for their effort and industry. Native Americans on Film and Video grew out of a major exhibition, "The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas," where more than one hundred and twenty-five films and video tapes were shown by the museum.
[Review Of] Anne Wortham, The Other Side Of Racism: A Philosophical Study Of Black Race Consciousness, Ramond L. Hall
[Review Of] Anne Wortham, The Other Side Of Racism: A Philosophical Study Of Black Race Consciousness, Ramond L. Hall
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The author, "a freelance writer, editor, and broadcast researcher .... (presently) a doctoral candidate in sociology at Boston College," proposes to study blacks who advocate black consciousness. Wortham condemns ethnic or racial consciousness, and therefore characterizes "the other side of racism " as "a dilemma of individual self-esteem as opposed to problems of group conflict in race relations."
[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl
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The Potawatomi Indians (Prairie Band) of Kansas are portrayed in this film which has been some forty to fifty years in the making. The original footage was taken by Floyd A. Schultz, an amateur anthropologist, between 1930 and 1941. These scenes have been supplemented by historical still shots, maps, and other archival documents assembled from various sources in the 1960s and 1970s. During the summers of 1978 and 1979 Donald Stull, a professor of anthropology presently at the University of Kansas, conducted field interviews with some of the originally-photographed Potawatomi along with their friends and relatives. Portions of those interviews …
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh
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The Make-Believe Indian is all that is implied in the title and more. The slide-tape program is a useful instructional device which goes beyond the scholarly margins of The Pretend Indians (1980) by the same authors. The program clearly depicts how most white Europeans had their "images of Indians" formed well before their arrival in the Americas. We are subsequently shown and told how these fixed images of Indians were generated through the dime novels of the nineteenth century and transferred to the silver screen by movie producers in Hollywood.
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[Review Of] Evelyn Gross Avery, Rebels And Victims: The Fiction Of Richard Wright And Bernard Malamud, Edith Blicksilver
[Review Of] Evelyn Gross Avery, Rebels And Victims: The Fiction Of Richard Wright And Bernard Malamud, Edith Blicksilver
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Evelyn Gross Avery's comparison of Richard Wright's works and themes with those of Bernard Malamud asserts that a clear pattern of behavior is discernible in both Afro-American and Jewish-American fiction. Both black and Jew, facing a hostile Anglo-power society, psychologically and sometimes even physically abused, emerged as rebels striking out at exploitation and injustice or as victims, internalizing their frustrated anguish.
[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor
[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor
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This collection of plays is significant because it is the first Native American drama written by a Native American. Hanay Geiogamah, a Kiowa Indian, has been actively involved as a playwright (producing these plays in the 19705), has taught drama at the University of Washington, and has directed Native American theater in recent years (directing his own work, as well as other drama, at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York and directing the Native American Theater Ensemble). This thin volume, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, was readied for publication only after each drama had been performed and …
[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman
[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman
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The author, Shul-ya, a Mohave of the Beaver Clan, originally wrote the tales in this book for his children, later expanding them for the enjoyment of all ages. Born on the Arizona Fort Mohave Reservation, Shul-ya learned these tales from an uncle who had dreamed the character of Swift Lance, the mythological hero of the tales.
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok
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We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin is the simply and sensitively told tale of a Mesquakie Indian girl who comes of age during a turbulent period in the history of her nation. In 1845, after fifteen years of treaties, the Mesquakie (sometimes also called the Fox) Indians were expelled from their lands along the Iowa River and forcibly marched to Kansas, where they were relocated on reservation lands far inferior to their own. The Mesquakies managed to avoid being acculturated into white ways, and over a period of years saved the money they got from the U.S. …
[Review Of] Kevin Marjoribanks, Ethnic Families And Children's Achievement, Shirley Vining-Brown
[Review Of] Kevin Marjoribanks, Ethnic Families And Children's Achievement, Shirley Vining-Brown
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In this book Marjoribanks clearly stands with the environmentalists in the ”nature vs. nurture” controversy over inequalities in children's academic achievement. He examines the relation between various dimensions of family environments, attitudes toward school, and the academic performance of eleven year old children from different Australian ethclasses, i.e., groups that are horizontally stratified according to social status, while at the same time vertically stratified into ethnic groups. By examining data from six Australian ethclasses (Anglo-Australian middle social-status families; and Anglo-Australian, English, Greek, Southern Italian, and Yugoslavian lower social-status families), Marjoribanks finds that differences in family learning environments are related to …
[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte
[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte
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During the past fifteen years a legion of scholars have turned their attention to the history of slavery and race relations in America. Mentioning such names as David Brion Davis, Eugene Genovese, Winthrop Jordan, Sterling Stuckey, Leon Litwack, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, or Willie Lee Rose simply reminds us of how far scholarhsip [scholarship] has advanced since the early 1960s. A characteristic of this work has been to shift attention back from the mid-nineteenth century to earlier times and to view American slavery in its international setting. One conclusion has been to underscore the depth of North American racism …
[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro
[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro
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Schneider’s The Africans offers a provocative interpretation of African society. Unlike other introductory texts, Schneider is not concerned with an exhaustive or even representative survey of African life; rather, his concern is to put forth a non-Marxist social-cultural-economic theory of African society which would provide a broad analytical framework. He succeeds in sketching, in this comparatively slim volume, a sweeping new view of African society. (Cf., G. P. Murdock, Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History, New York, 1959; James L. Gibbs, Jr., ed., Peoples of Africa, New York, 1965; Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Garden City, …
[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson
[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson
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This book is intended as a footnote to the larger history of the last years of the slave trade in the Atlantic and to the efforts of the British West Indian planters to find labor substitutes for the emancipated slaves. During this period, the Royal Navy recaptured in the Atlantic some of the people exported from Africa as slaves by other colonial powers, and took them to Sierra Leone or to St. Helena. Officials from several West Indian islands tried to induce some of these recaptives to immigrate to the West Indies as indentured laborers. This book is a social …
[Review Of] Ellease Sutherland, Let The Lion Eat Straw, Janet Cheatham Bell
[Review Of] Ellease Sutherland, Let The Lion Eat Straw, Janet Cheatham Bell
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This novella covers the life of Abeba Williams Torch from her childhood in North Carolina to her death at a fairly young age in Harlem. The potential for a fully realized novel is everywhere in this book, but because the author chose not to include the detail which would make it so, the effect is unsatisfying.
[Review Of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal And American Indian Tribalism: The Administration Of The Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal And American Indian Tribalism: The Administration Of The Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45, George W. Sieber
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John Collier became Indian Commissioner during the New Deal Administration of Franklin Roosevelt. For more than a decade Collier had been a severe critic of the Indian Bureau; his appointment marked a significant break with past governmental attitudes which had been implemented under the General Allotment Act of 1887, and had resulted in immense land transfers to non-Indian ownership.