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Ivy Leaves, 1983-1984, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1984 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Karen Buchanan, Leslie Allen, John Gettys, Cathy Grant, Marty Isom, Wendy Jones, Julie Poole, Charlene Powell, Gayle Pruitt, Robin Raymond, Jeff Sams, April Willoughby, Doug Davison, Susan Wooten. Cover art by Vicki Roberts.

Locating In Searcy, Arkansas: A Facts Book For Business And Industry - Individuals And Family (1984), Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Books

Compiled over a eight-month period, under the auspices of the Searcy Chamber of Commerce, the 1984 edition of this book was a public service project, containing numerous new and expanded sections. This project was a relevant, practical and interesting experience for the Belden Center staff and, at the same time, it helped Searcy by providing a current and complete course of city information.

Analysis Of Economic And Activity Data Reported By Nebraska Non-Profit Organizations, 1983, Murray Frost

Publications

This report is based on the responses of 125 arts organizations. They range from small limited-interest groups to institutions with multi-million dollar budgets. Some are run out of volunteers' homes while others have marble edifices. The respondents in this report do not include local school districts, although universities are included. A copy of the instrument and totals is included as an appendix.

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.

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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

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 …

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.

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 …

[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 …

[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).

[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 …

Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual, Kristin Herzog

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The poem prefaces Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, the story of a young American Indian who regains the wholeness and meaning of his life by rediscovering his ancient tribal roots and rituals.[1] It is a story of the American Southwest, especially the Pueblo-Laguna people. Anyone even vaguely familiar with American Indian culture knows that the groups were originally as different from each other as modern-day Swedes are from Albanians or Catalans, if not more so. There were more than 2,000 independent culture groups in Columbus's time, and they spoke 500 different languages belonging to fifty distinct language groups, some as …

[Review Of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness In The Human Services, Cecilia E. Dawkins

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

James W. Green has produced a sensitive, thought-provoking book which is based on a multi-ethnic approach in the delivery of human services by social workers. Green is a cultural anthropologist who earned a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington where he is currently a faculty member.

[Contents]

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 4, Summer, 1984

Caur Publications Of The Center For Applied Urban Research November 1982 To June 1984, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This list is a supplement to the one published in October, 1982. That booklet listed CAUR studies, reports, and Review articles published from June, 1971 to October, 1982.

A Comparison Of The Corporate Structures And Delivery Of City Services In Omaha And Manila, Roberto Lazaro, Floyd T. Waterman

Publications

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Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Karl J. Reinhardt

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The value of Herzog's study, in addition to the factual information presented, is a tragic reminder of two interrelated truths: 1) by studying history we could learn how to make a better world in which to live; and, 2) we do not learn from history. The women's movement of recent years has two aspects which do not, for all times, go together. One moving force in its genesis is the demand that physical and emotional abuse and misuse of women by men cease. The other, not necessarily related to the first, is that of equal status, which includes equal access …

The Lone Ranger Lied: Tonto Wasn't Real, Lee Hadley

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Whenever Hadley Irwin speaks to school children or to adults, for that matter, someone always asks, "Did the things in the book really happen to you? Are the characters in your books real people?" Writing is full of bits and pieces of the past, but what goes on paper is an amalgam of thousands of things, consciously and unconsciously remembered-experiences, overheard conversations, stories, imagined events. For a child, at least this writer as a child, all things had equal validity; all were equally true, even though she finally learned that growing up was a mixture of reality and myth.

Abstracts From The Twelfth Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In an attempt to record a sense of the formal sessions of the 1984 Conference, we asked the Chairs to assemble abstracts and discussant comments for their sessions. Although we are pleased with a response greater than in 1983, we are aiming for one hundred percent in 1985.

Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s, Linda M.C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Psychological services, as a part of the health-care system, have been "embedded in specific configurations of cultural meanings and social relationships,"[1] and the role of patients and healers cannot be understood apart from that context. This article explores the failure of psychology to effectively address the inhibiting impact of racism on human development, and it suggests a corrective agenda for the training of socially responsive and responsible psychologists, an agenda derived from the literacy education model of Paulo Freire.

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Breaking Silence: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Poets, James B. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bruchac has compiled an anthology of contemporary Amerasian poets who speak in clear and melodious voices. These poets of Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino backgrounds present and affirm fresh ideas and viewpoints in poetic form. They offer an understanding of their backgrounds through variant ideas. Each one captures some sense of her or his background culture and shows how their individual lives have been affected by it.

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[Review Of] Jay C. Chunn, Ii, Patricia J. Dunston, And Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Eds. Mental Health And People Of Color: Curriculum Development And Change, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American colleges, universities, and medical schools have developed elaborate structures for the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness and associated problems in living. The history of psychological training is not value free, but rather is imbedded in the general history of the culture, and reflective of its problematic issues. Whatever theoretical perspective mental health practitioners are trained in, whatever internship experiences are designed to complement the instructional program, the rates of success in identifying and resolving difficulties vary with the ethnicity of their clients. Success is shown disproportionately for a limited population-the clients of European American background. In …

[Review Of] Ken Goodwin. Understanding African Poetry: A Study Of Ten Poets, Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Understanding African Poetry is a valuable asset to anyone interested in African anglophone poetry. Goodwin offers textual analysis, evaluation, and supplementary contextual information on each of the ten poets he chose to discuss. Much of the analysis shows a keen insight and the contextual commentary is quite informative. However, Goodwin's evaluation reflects his bias towards British and white American concepts of what constitutes "good" poetry.

[Review Of] Jane Katz. Artists In Exile: American Odessey [Odyssey], Charles Mueller

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The major accomplishment of this collection of first-person reminiscences and third-person authorial interjection is its presentation of an impressive collection of imported talents, all of whom suffer (often gladly) the intellectual and spiritual privations of the West in exchange for its relative economic and social largess. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy (read "capitalism") is the worst form of government except for all the others. This book says this geometrically, with the lines and curves formed by the various interviews forming a final, however planular, shape.

[Review Of] Ambrose Y.C. King And Rance P.L. Lee, Eds. Social Life And Development In Hong Kong, Richard Doi

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book is a collection of research papers on the political and social conditions of Hong Kong sponsored by the Social Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The collection is not a comprehensive coverage of such conditions in Hong Kong. I t is a selective report with the purpose of updating existing information. The new information will provide a better understanding of Hong Kong's problems and serve as a resource in coping with these problems.

[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Thomas C. Maroukis

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In December, 1977, one of Africa's most celebrated novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong '0, was arrested by the government of Kenya and imprisoned for a year without being charged, tried or convicted of any crime. Detained is his prison diary.

Administración Comunitaria Del Reciclamiento De Desechos: El Sirdo, Marianne Schmink

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

A comienzos de 1978, un grupo de famílias esperaba que le adjudicaran una de las casas comprendidas en un proyecto de viviendas económicas en Mérida, una ciudad de la costa sudeste de México. Algunas casas contaban con un sistema de drenaje nuevo llamado SIRDO (Sistema Integrado de Reciclamiento de Desechos Orgánicos), y las familias interesadas en vivir en la manzana experimental donde se instalaría el SIRDO, podrían ocupar su casa inmediatamente. Tres años más tarde un otro grupo de familias de una comunidad situada en el populoso Valle de Mexico resolvieron ensayar el sistema en su propio vecindario. Las mujeres …