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[Review Of] Marion Wilson Starling. The Slave Narrative: Its Place In American History, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Marion Wilson Starling. The Slave Narrative: Its Place In American History, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is another reprint of Marion Wilson Starling's breakthrough study of the slave narrative, which she undertook for her Ph.D. dissertation at New York University in 1946 under the advisorship of Oscar Cargill. During the 1960s and 1970s when slave autobiography became a serious critical endeavor, many scholars referred to Starling's thorough historical and literary research; however, her dissertation was not published until 1981. Then, Starling's work became more readily available, and now the paperback edition allows this well-deserved book to reach a wider audience.

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[Review Of] Lois Weis, Ed. Class, Race, & Gender In American Education, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1990

[Review Of] Lois Weis, Ed. Class, Race, & Gender In American Education, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Class, Race & Gender in American Education should be read by preservice and experienced educators and social scientists who are interested in teaching young people who come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, represent various racial and ethnic heritages, and those with special needs. School as a major socializing institution often holds the key for many students. It is also important to study the ways individuals and groups prepare for the future. Some students are successful in school settings, but many become discouraged and are pushed out due to the structure and/or culture of the school. This volume seeks to enrich this …

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[Review Of] Roger Daniels. Asian America: Chinese And Japanese In The United States Since 1850, Russell Endo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Roger Daniels. Asian America: Chinese And Japanese In The United States Since 1850, Russell Endo

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Roger Daniels is one of the premier scholars of Asian American history and has previously done pathbreaking research on the anti-Japanese movement in California and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. Now, in Asian America, Daniels presents an interpretive account of the Chinese and Japanese in the U.S. In doing so, he attempts to show that these groups are an integral part of the immigration and ethnic history of America, especially by stressing parallels in the experiences of Asian and European immigrants. Daniels further argues that, because of a number of factors, there are differences as well as …

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[Review Of] John R. Salter. Jackson Mississippi, Allene Jones Jan 1990

[Review Of] John R. Salter. Jackson Mississippi, Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Jackson Mississippi is a fascinating book written about the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi in the sixties. The author, John Salter, a white outsider and sociologist who served as advisor and organizer of the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson is to be commended for his ability to write about the movement in such a vivid and moving manner. Salter does an excellent job in describing the many problems encountered in striking out against the many injustices that existed in Mississippi.

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[Review Of] Harold Bascom. Apata, Lucy Wilson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Harold Bascom. Apata, Lucy Wilson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Apata is subtitled: "The story of the reluctant criminal." This more or less sums up the plot, for after page sixty-three, the hero's fortunes plummet steadily, culminating in "the biggest manhunt ever seen" in the colony of British Guiana, with Apata both predator and prey, alternatively. With the unflinching pessimism of naturalism, Bascom traces the life of Michael Rayburn Apata, a young Guianese with a brilliant academic career ahead of him. The forces of heredity and environment conspire to destroy his chance for admission to King's College, prevent him from marrying the woman he loves, and limit him to dead-end …

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Baseball In April And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Baseball In April And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gary Soto's previous prose collections (Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections -- 1985, Small Faces -- 1986, and Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets -- 1988) all contained stories about growing up, but this latest book focuses exclusively on the trials and tribulations of children and young teenagers. The eleven sketches in Baseball in April range in subject from broken Barbie dolls to championship marble tournaments, and all reveal a compassionate, understanding insight as well as the deft handiwork of a fine writer. For those who do not understand Spanish, the author has supplied a short appendix with translations of words and …

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"What Shall I Give My Children?" The Role Of The Mentor In Gloria Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place And Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow, Linda Wells Jan 1990

"What Shall I Give My Children?" The Role Of The Mentor In Gloria Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place And Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow, Linda Wells

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The question Gwendolyn Brooks asks in her poem "What Shall I Give My Children?" is a central question asked by African Americans: how can I who am considered less than perfect by mainstream America give to my children a sense of their own self-worth? In a culture where being poor, black, and female triply marginalizes an individual, what kind of consciousness develops from such marginality? How does such marginality carry over into the next generation and into the community of other women? How does the power of mentoring and affiliation help women to overcome the institutional oppression leveled against them …

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Critique [Of "What Shall I Give My Children?" The Role Of The Mentor In Gloria Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place And Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow By Linda Wells], Sandra E. Bowen Jan 1990

Critique [Of "What Shall I Give My Children?" The Role Of The Mentor In Gloria Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place And Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow By Linda Wells], Sandra E. Bowen

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In her discussion of Mattie Michael and Avey Johnson as mentors in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Wells uses as a focal point Gwendolyn Brooks's poem "What Shall I Give My Children?" It is a socially and politically institutionalized assignment that becomes cosmic when experienced by African American women. Joanne M. Braxton expresses it: "As Black American women, we are born into a mystic sisterhood, and we live our lives within a magic circle, a realm of shared language, reference, and allusion within the veil of our blackness and our femaleness …

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[Review Of] Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John, Elizabeth A. Mcneil Jan 1990

[Review Of] Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John, Elizabeth A. Mcneil

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Annie John, even though set in the West Indies and about a black Caribbean girl, is a work whose universally felt experience goes beyond allowing the novel to be neatly categorized as a piece of "ethnic" or "women's" writing. Born on Antigua, the island in which she sets the novel, Jamaica Kincaid catches many of the ways of being peculiar to this place. Maybe it is because Kincaid makes the setting home that we as readers find it so easy to slip into the story.

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[Review Of] James A. Banks And Cherry A. Mcgee Banks, Eds. Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1990

[Review Of] James A. Banks And Cherry A. Mcgee Banks, Eds. Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With a rapidly increasing minority population in the United States, it is more important than ever for both future and experienced teachers to recognize and appreciate the diversity of young people enrolled in our schools. By the year 2000 it is projected that one of three or more students will be part of an ethnic minority. In some cities and states, minority background students are already the majority school population. Teachers will be facing more and more students from different ethnic, cultural, language, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. Many classes will include special needs students who are gifted, handicapped, or both. …

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[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hyung-chan Kim's bibliography of humanities and social science materials on Asian Americans has two basic but important assets. First, its 3,396 entries encompass a large proportion of the relevant literature (creative writing and federal government publications have been excluded as they are adequately covered in other sources). Second, the bibliography is nicely organized. It is divided into two main sections dealing respectively with historical and contemporary matters. Each section has chapters on a variety of subjects, for example marriage and family, community organizations, immigration and refugees, and acculturation, adaptation and assimilation. Within each chapter, the appropriate books/monographs, articles, and theses/dissertations …

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[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1990

[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is a wide-ranging, insightful and often fascinating survey of popular ethnic musics of the world. The title is perhaps a bit misleading. By "western" Manuel clearly means modern Northern European and those parts of the Americas most directly influenced by the Anglo-Germanic traditions of Northern Europe. This is certainly a current and popular connotation for the word, and most readers should have no trouble with Manuel's use of the term in this way. Readers who are used to thinking of "western" as comprising Europe, Africa and the Americas, however, will have to make adjustments. Manuel excludes consideration of "westernized" …

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[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1990

[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Often political violence in Guatemala is analyzed as if it were identical to political violence in other Central American countries. On account of the desire to simplify this political and economical reality in the public debate, there is a tendency to see the conflict as the result of the international rivalries between East and West. The literature of this conflict deals primarily with the view from government officials and the opinion of the representatives of the transnationals economically involved in the area.

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[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes Jan 1990

[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With the rise of Filipino nationalism in the sixties and the consequent resort to literature written in Filipino and the vernacular, Philippine writing in English ebbed in importance. At that decisive juncture of national crisis, the verdict was made that Philippine literature in English had reached a dead end. Scholars and critics produced searching critiques of aesthetic orthodoxies and turned their attention to other cultural legacies. This reversal of fortunes for the literature in English after four decades of undisputed hegemony in Philippine cultural life partly explains why its history remains unwritten.

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gary Soto is one of America's finest poets, a writer whose previous collections (The Elements of San Joaquin -- 1977, The Tale of Sunlight -- 1978, Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom -- 1980, Where Sparrows Work Hard -- 1981, and Black Hair -- 1985) have received wide critical acclaim, not only from Chicano critics but from others as well. In this latest volume Soto again demonstrates that he is an accomplished literary craftsman with a great deal to say. The forty-one poems are presented in three untitled sections and range from pensive reflections on old age and …

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Popular Culture’S Revolt Against The Normalizing Consequences Of Tradition, Pat Rafferty Jan 1990

Popular Culture’S Revolt Against The Normalizing Consequences Of Tradition, Pat Rafferty

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

For several years there has been an ongoing debate regarding whether street art (graffiti) qualifies as art or could be more aptly described as vandalism. While this paper does not claim to resolve the issue, a discussion of the corollary of that - the extent to which we are willing to tolerate divergence from normative expectations, lends insight into the topic of the means and limitations of what is representable as art.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1990

Table Of Contents

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Table of contents for the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1990, Number Ten.

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Editorial Re(Mark)! The Question Of Representation, Jan Jagodzinski Jan 1990

Editorial Re(Mark)! The Question Of Representation, Jan Jagodzinski

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

As the perceptive, or should I say - receptive reader may not(e), no thumbprint appears in the margins of this years editorial-rather, an index finger 'figures' prominently. The index sign is particularly apropos for this issue for index signs give us dues to what is being represented. Deceivingly, they establish their meanings through a physical relationship to their referents. As Krauss puts it: "They are the marks or traces of a particular cause, and that cause is the thing to which they refer, the object they signify. Into the category of the index, we would place physical traces (like footprints), …

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Creativity And Political Identification In The Work Of Herbert Read, David Thistlewood Jan 1990

Creativity And Political Identification In The Work Of Herbert Read, David Thistlewood

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The idea of a class conflict, in which a powerful minority subjugates the majority among other ways by depriving it of any sense of self-esteem deriving from worthwhile, original work - that is, by suppressing its creativity - was something Herbert Read acquired through his youthful involvement in the late stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was a premise he was never seriously to question, as was the corresponding idea that to assert one's right to be creative was to engage in a political act. He was certain that artistic conventions were the means of suppression, and that …

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Art Education And The Promotion Of Intercultural Understanding, F. Graeme Chalmers Jan 1990

Art Education And The Promotion Of Intercultural Understanding, F. Graeme Chalmers

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The comparative study of art, of response to art, and the production of art forms which matter can help us to understand each other. Art has always been a powerful force in shaping our vision of the world. We need to understand each other's vision and keep our own alive. We need to combat any art-for-art's-sake attitudes that may be entrenched in schools because it is a rather peculiar notion of art and one that deters a full understanding of the role of art in a variety of contexts and cultures. In contrast, art educators who view art as a …

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The Promises Of Art Appreciation: The Foundations Of Aesthetic Education, Charles R. Jansen Jan 1990

The Promises Of Art Appreciation: The Foundations Of Aesthetic Education, Charles R. Jansen

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

A history of appreciation could quickly multiply into a collection of histories, some tracing theories of appreciation as a phenomenon of mind and some tracing appreciation as a pedagogical subject or goal. In order to limit the directions a history of appreciation could take, this paper assumes that art appreciation in pedagogy encompasses and reflects various theories of art appreciation as a process of mind and thus focuses on the institutionalization of art appreciation.

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The Limits Of Linear Modes Of Inquiry Into Naturalistic World-Views: A Case Study Of Cherokee Culture, Karen L. Sorensen, Charles G. Wieder Jan 1990

The Limits Of Linear Modes Of Inquiry Into Naturalistic World-Views: A Case Study Of Cherokee Culture, Karen L. Sorensen, Charles G. Wieder

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

We begin with the cultural-anthropological assumption that a people’s world-view is based in concepts of time and process, and is reflected in the ceremonies, customs, rituals, and other traditional patterns of social conduct within the society. In a case study of the Native American Cherokee, linear modes of inquiry, characteristic of Western science, are shown to be limited in their capacity to examine and appreciate these dimensions of culture in pre-literate societies. It is suggested that those aspects of our own culture which are grounded in aesthetic value may also be relatively inaccessible for the same reason. By examining meanings …

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Contributors Jan 1990

Contributors

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Notes on Contributors.

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The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education Jan 1990

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.

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Symbolic And Competitive Racism On Campus, Monica L. Jackson Jan 1990

Symbolic And Competitive Racism On Campus, Monica L. Jackson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

After a short hiatus, overt racism is on the rise again. Increases in reported racially motivated crime and violence have been noted all over the country. In the wider U.S. society, identifiable racial incidents have been estimated to have increased 55 percent from 1986 to 1987. According to the Community Relations Service (CRS), African Americans comprised two-thirds of the victims in the cases reported in 1987. Although this racial violence has taken various forms ranging from name-calling, vandalism, and cross-burning to actual physical assaults that result in casualties and death, these have not been isolated incidents but have their basis …

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"Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name?, Johnny Washington Jan 1990

"Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name?, Johnny Washington

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Within the United States the African American[1] community has again reverted to the problem of ethnic identity and the question, "Who are we -- 'Blacks' or 'African Americans'?" is now being debated. It will be recalled that a similar debate was carried on in the 1960s, and the history of this identity question extends to the 1920s and beyond.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1990

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 13, Issue 2, 1990

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Thinking Woman's Children And The Bomb, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1990

Thinking Woman's Children And The Bomb, Helen Jaskoski

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Sometime in the pre-dawn hours of July 16, 1979, an earthen dam holding back wastes produced by United Nuclear Corporation's uranium mill parted in Church Rock, New Mexico. From the widening breach poured ninety four million gallons of highly contaminated effluent and 1,100 tons of wet slurry sands.

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Critiques [Of "Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name? By Johnny Washington], Bamidele J. Bracy Jan 1990

Critiques [Of "Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name? By Johnny Washington], Bamidele J. Bracy

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Aside from examining the ways people ascribe meaning to the terms "Black" and "African-American" and possible "underlying social dynamics" impeding or precipitating ethnic label changes, Washington concludes that these above mentioned "sign-posts" may be justifiable periodic changes which an ethnic group should constantly re-interpret on its ever evolving "cosmic" journey. Washington presents an interesting case from a philosophical/metaphysical standpoint. From a social scientific perspective, however, there is much to be determined.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1990

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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