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Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Gloria Eive Jan 1987

Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Gloria Eive

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Studies of multi-ethnic literature of the U.S., proposed in "From the Ground Up ..." should be, if they are not already, accepted fields of study in colleges, universities and secondary schools. One would hope that by now, the unique perspective offered by multi-ethnic studies would be appreciated for the insight it offers in understanding the many elements which have created our heritage, history and contemporary "American Society" -- and, by extension, global society as well. One would expect that multi-ethnic studies are, or will soon be requisite in "standard" humanities curricula for the same reasons that courses such as geography, …

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Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Jim Schnell Jan 1987

Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Jim Schnell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Bedrosian presents an interesting discussion on spiritual dismemberment and a series of subjects which are related to this concept. As a researcher in crosscultural communication, I find the article to be relevant, not only with multi-ethnic literature, but with human communication processes as well.

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From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1987

From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum, Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Spiritual dismemberment, which many associate with the plight of disinherited Native Americans, has dislocated millions of others in this country as well. Teaching multi-ethnic literature, I note in particular streams of students who like the narrator of Oritz's poem are lonely for an authentic connection to a personal history. Throughout the term, they read selections which extol or dramatize the palpable struggles of characters who have a strong bond with ethnic traditions. They attend class surrounded by identifiable, certifiable ethnics. They listen to the instructor hold forth on the apocalyptic possibilities open to any who have access to these worldviews. …

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[Review Of] Roger D. Abrahams, Ed. Stories From Black Traditions In The New World, Itibari M. Zulu Jan 1987

[Review Of] Roger D. Abrahams, Ed. Stories From Black Traditions In The New World, Itibari M. Zulu

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Abrahams has selected this collection of tales concerning the experiences of African-Americans during and after slavery in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and the American South in an attempt to seriously look at Afro-American folktales (mostly collected by whites) in the New World.

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[Review Of] Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End Of Freedom, Robert Gish Jan 1987

[Review Of] Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End Of Freedom, Robert Gish

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The more one reads contemporary Native American writing, the more one realizes certain overreaching universal themes: namely, that the Native American past lives on, and strongly so, in the soul and consciousness of descendants; and, regardless of tribal affiliation or homeland, the nineteenth-century cultural collision with whites lingers in all such rememberings of the past and in all accounting of the present. These themes transcend the boundaries of history and fiction, prose and poetry, and offer solace to Indian and non-Indian alike.

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[Review Of] Robert J. Norrell. Reaping The Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement In Tuskegee, Floyd W. Hayes Iii Jan 1987

[Review Of] Robert J. Norrell. Reaping The Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement In Tuskegee, Floyd W. Hayes Iii

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Reaping the Whirlwind is a case study of the black American struggle for civil rights and racial democracy in a unique community of the Black Belt South. It is a story of Tuskegee's white political hegemony and the black elite's early cooperation with and later mild challenge to that dominance. In 1880, as a result of collaboration between white politicians and Tuskegee's black leadership, the Democrats secured political control of the Alabama state legislature. The following year, as pay-off for the deal, Tuskegee Institute was established with Booker T. Washington at the helm, and the goal became one of making …

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[Review Of] Michael N. Dobkowski, Ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1987

[Review Of] Michael N. Dobkowski, Ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This encyclopedic reference work on Jewish sodalities is one of a series of Greenwood Press publications dealing with ethnic American voluntary organizations. Previously published volumes deal with Irish Americans and Hispanic Americans. Some 120 national and local organizations are summarized in alphabetical sequence, as it were, from aleph to sof, or in this case from Agudath Ha-Rabbanim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) to the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America).

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[Review Of] Jamshid A. Momeni, Ed. Race, Ethnicity, And Minority Housing In The United States, Vagn K. Hansen Jan 1987

[Review Of] Jamshid A. Momeni, Ed. Race, Ethnicity, And Minority Housing In The United States, Vagn K. Hansen

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In virtually every U.S. city, residents are aware of ethnic divisions among the residential sections of the urban area. Demarcation of zones may he clear or nebulous, but it is present despite decades of "melting pot" rhetoric from opinion leaders. In this collection of articles edited by Jamshid A. Momeni of Howard University, contributors examine the relationship between ethnicity and the location and quality of housing in the United States.

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1987

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

No abstract provided.

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[Review Of] Gerri Hirshey. Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music, Gloria Eive Jan 1987

[Review Of] Gerri Hirshey. Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music, Gloria Eive

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gerri Hirshey's book was conceived, according to her preface, as a series of literary spotlights, illuminating the world of "Soul Music" and the musicians whose performances and recordings created it. In its final form, the book became a collection of semi-biographical sketches combining loosely connected narrative with quotations from the stars themselves, transcribed from Hirshey's many interviews. Her expressed intent was to create "a book of voices" speaking of their music, their lives, their hopes, fears and expectations. The title is taken from the song made famous by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (1965) and reflects emotions expressed by many …

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[Review Of] Marjorie Pryse And Hortense J. Spillers, Eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, And Literary Traditions, Cortland Auser Jan 1987

[Review Of] Marjorie Pryse And Hortense J. Spillers, Eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, And Literary Traditions, Cortland Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The centrality of black women's fiction writers may have been a fact before the publication of Pryse's and Spiller's compilation, but this critical anthology establishes such fiction as a main literary current of late 20th century American literature. The writers included do more than enlighten; they exorcise racist and sexist stereotypes and restore many authors to rightful places of recognition where male critics (black and white) failed to place them.

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[Review Of] R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music And Cycles: Native American Flute Music, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1987

[Review Of] R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music And Cycles: Native American Flute Music, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Perhaps humans are most ethnocentric when it comes to matters of food and music. "Soul food" has become a dimension for defining ethnic groups -- the dishes may be chitlins, bagels, tacos or other such foods. As society becomes more open, these foods pass from the ghettos and barrios to the community at large. One would hope that some inter-ethnic group understanding and appreciation might accompany the sharing of varying gustatory pleasures. Music represents another dimension of ethnic group identity. As with learning to eat different foods, one might comprehend something of the spirit of another people by listening to …

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[Review Of] Pepetela (Artur Pestana). Mayombe: A Novel Of The Angolan Struggle, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1987

[Review Of] Pepetela (Artur Pestana). Mayombe: A Novel Of The Angolan Struggle, Charlotte H. Bruner

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Mayombe: A Novel of the Angolan Struggle, by Pepetela, is a story of a guerrilla base in 1971. The writer, Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santes, fought in Cabinda Province with the MPLA forces that he portrays.

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[Review Of] Alan Takeo Moriyama. Imingaisha: Japanese Emigration Companies And Hawaii 1894-1908, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1987

[Review Of] Alan Takeo Moriyama. Imingaisha: Japanese Emigration Companies And Hawaii 1894-1908, Donald L. Guimary

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

When the sugar cane plantation owners in Hawaii realized how effective the immigrant Japanese workers were, the planters were faced with a decision. If they continued to bring in more workers, Hawaii could eventually have more Japanese living there than any other ethnic group. But if the planters did not bring in more Japanese, the production -- and profits -- might decline. Hence a decision was made to continue bringing in more laborers from Japan. The ethnic balance of Hawaii was changed. "In sum the planters chose to place the economic welfare of the plantations ahead of all other considerations."

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[Review Of] Dennis J. Starr. The Italians Of New Jersey: A Historical Introduction And Bibliography, Lucia C. Birnbaum Jan 1987

[Review Of] Dennis J. Starr. The Italians Of New Jersey: A Historical Introduction And Bibliography, Lucia C. Birnbaum

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume does not aim to be a definitive history of the Italians of New Jersey, but it is an excellent model of regionally grounded scholarship, offering not only the story of one state, but an excellent synthesis of the scholarship on the Italian role in that "greatest migration of peoples in history" to the new world at the end of the nineteenth century. "From 1891 to 1915 more Italians entered the United States than did immigrants from any other country."

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[Review Of] Ian Smart. Central American Writers Of West Indian Origin: A New Hispanic Literature, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1987

[Review Of] Ian Smart. Central American Writers Of West Indian Origin: A New Hispanic Literature, Laverne GonzáLez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ian Smart has made, as he himself asserts in the "Author's Foreword," a very limited approach to the very complex body of literature written by Central American authors of West Indian origin. In fact one wonders if indeed his most insistent premises are verifiable: "the region comprises one cultural area in which common factors have forged a more or less common way of looking at life ... share an identifiable Weltanschauung." His emphasis lies on the commonness of the West Indian experiences which he perceives to be African. To be sure, there are many critics who would take issue with …

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[Review Of] Jules Tygiel. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson And His Legacy, Stewart Rodnon Jan 1987

[Review Of] Jules Tygiel. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson And His Legacy, Stewart Rodnon

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The relationship of black Americans to baseball has never been explained completely, Jules Tygiel believes, because previous accounts have failed to place the events and personalities "into a social or historical context." To rectify this, he has researched meticulously ( thirty-two pages of notes and references) the well-known Jackie Robinson story and widened his focus to deal with black Americans and their baseball athletes from 1945 to 1970. His thesis is that Jackie Robinson and professional baseball in general form a paradigm and a foreshadowing for the American integration process, particularly the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

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[Review Of] S. J. Tambiah. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide And The Dismantling Of Democracy, Proshanta K. Nandi Jan 1987

[Review Of] S. J. Tambiah. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide And The Dismantling Of Democracy, Proshanta K. Nandi

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Is it possible to analyze a political dilemma as convoluted and desperate as the turmoil existing today between the Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus of Sri Lanka that has cost nearly 5,000 lives during the last five years alone? S. J. Tambiah succeeds most admirably in offering a clear assessment of historical, sociological, and other factors contributing to the current crisis in Sri Lanka. This is no mean feat considering that Tambiah is not a dispassionate observer but rather, as a Tamil, has experienced first-hand the effects of the increasing polarization of the two ethnic groups.

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Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Cortland P. Auser Jan 1987

Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The thesis of "From the Ground Up . . ." may be characterized as optimistic, imaginative, and inspirational, viewing as it does the extended role of multiethnic literature in humanities curricula. Unless a humane community, or even a sense of community, as envisioned, is built, the viability of America as a pluralistic nation is very much at risk. Placing the beginning of building such a realization of a "sense of community" upon the individual's responsible actions resulting from the reflection and decision well justifies the title Bedrosian selected.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1987

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 10, Issue 2, 1987

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Table Of Contents Jan 1987

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 7, Summer, 1987

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[Review Of] Raymond J. Demallie. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given To John G. Neihardt, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1987

[Review Of] Raymond J. Demallie. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given To John G. Neihardt, Gretchen M. Bataille

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Although Black Elk Speaks was first published in 1932, it was not until the 1960s that the book gained widespread popularity and elicited the interest of serious scholars of literature, ethnology, and religion. DeMallie provides in this study a resource for further investigation of European influences on Lakota culture as well as the raw material for analysis of Neihardt's role in the final production of Black Elk Speaks.

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[Review Of] Wen-Shing Tseng And David Y. H. Wu, Eds. Chinese Culture And Mental Health, Ella P. Lacey Jan 1987

[Review Of] Wen-Shing Tseng And David Y. H. Wu, Eds. Chinese Culture And Mental Health, Ella P. Lacey

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Tseng and Wu have performed a creditable task in editing this book that involved twenty-nine delegates from the Conference on Chinese Culture and Mental Health (Hawaii, 1982). Their purpose was to have "insiders" produce a definitive work on the Chinese culture and its interaction with the mental component of health. The Chinese are described in the preface as "having a history of at least 5000 years of civilization," with China comprising "... one quarter of the world's people," but having people of the Chinese culture who live in various geographical areas, including "... Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, …

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[Review Of] Paul Espinoza, Producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, Freddy Dean Jan 1987

[Review Of] Paul Espinoza, Producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, Freddy Dean

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Lemon Grove Incident is a compelling and informative presentation of how the members of the local school board in Lemon Grove, California, attempted to implement de jure segregation of American citizens of Mexican American descent in 1930. The narratives of actual participants -- victims in the incident -- enhance the authenticity of the presentation and guide the viewer through the convoluted Machiavellianism of the Lemon Grove School Board and its supporting satellites, the Lemon Grove Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and Chamber of Commerce as well as the federal government.

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[Review Of] Joe R. Feagin And Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism And Sexism, 2nd Ed., Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1987

[Review Of] Joe R. Feagin And Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism And Sexism, 2nd Ed., Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Discrimination American Style seeks to answer two basic questions: "Why do women, blacks, and other minorities experience discrimination in the United States?" and "What types of discriminatory behaviors continue in practice today?" Feagin and Feagin attempt to integrate existing research on issues of racism and sexism which focuses on the overall theme of institutional discrimination. They examine similarities and differences between racist and sexist behaviors and practices in order to determine whether or not discrimination exists, and if so, to what degree. They reject the popular belief that prejudice and bigotry are causes of discrimination and argue that practices which …

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[Review Of] Michelle Cliff. The Land Of Look Behind, Aisha Eshe Jan 1987

[Review Of] Michelle Cliff. The Land Of Look Behind, Aisha Eshe

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Passing and its effect on the individual is one of the themes that Michelle Cliff explores in her book, The Land of Look Behind. Passing is a recurring theme in much of the literature written by people of color both past and present. In much of this literature passing is detrimental to the character. In her attempt to hide her color, Clare Kendry from Nella Larsen's Passing destroys her inner self long before her actual death. When a person does not have a developed sense of self-identity, the self can be lost within any situation.

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[Review Of] June Jordan. On Call: Political Essays, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1987

[Review Of] June Jordan. On Call: Political Essays, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With the publication of her second book of political essays, internationally acclaimed poet June Jordan has established herself as an important spokesperson for the "First World" viewpoint. Just as she reasonably insists on referring to the majority population as "First World" rather than the more familiar "Third World," so she opens many common assumptions in cross-cultural and international relations to examination and re-evaluation.

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[Review Of] Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning Of Migration To The Mainland (2nd Edition), Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1987

[Review Of] Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning Of Migration To The Mainland (2nd Edition), Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Joseph Fitzpatrick's second edition of Puerto Rican Americans returns to a form familiar to readers of the literature that emerged during the 1950s and 60s. In that sense, Fitzpatrick's new edition is comprehensive, multifaceted and filled with supporting data touching almost every aspect of the life of the Puerto Rican migrant in the United States. In this new edition, Fitzpatrick builds on the solid foundation of his earlier work (1971). While occasionally leaving himself vulnerable to his critics, as he did in his first edition, this new effort represents a significant contribution to the on-going dialogue and analysis of the …

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[Review Of] Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, And Harry H. L. Kitano, Eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation To Redress, Victor N. Okada Jan 1987

[Review Of] Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, And Harry H. L. Kitano, Eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation To Redress, Victor N. Okada

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This collection of previously unpublished essays grew out of a conference in Salt Lake City in 1983 on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the issue of redress. It includes essays by the three editors and contributions, some no more than brief notes, by twenty-seven individuals. It also includes a detailed chronology of Japanese-American history and comprehensive bibliographical notes.

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[Review Of] Maria Estes Sanchez . Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach To An Emerging Literature, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1987

[Review Of] Maria Estes Sanchez . Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach To An Emerging Literature, Glen M. Kraig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Sanchez's reason for writing this book was to "contribute to an emerging body of literature that traditionally has had no voice in dominant academic discourse, ... [and to work] toward an understanding of the ambiguities suggested in the identities of the Chicano Scholar and the Chicana Feminist." There is no question that the author has been successful.

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