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Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura Jan 1986

Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Race, class and identity -- key ethnic issues of the 1980s -- have been analyzed from various disciplinary perspectives, and Martinez's article is a contribution to the growing number of written assessments concerning racism and classism in the United States. His research explores the psychological and social perceptions of color, race, identity, and class among Puerto Ricans living in the United States and in Puerto Rico.

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The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1986

The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Most human services practitioners at one time or another must confront cultural issues which in many ways have a direct impact on their role and effectiveness as helping professionals. This article links the phenomenon of ethnic identity to problems, practices, and policies encountered in the field of human services. Although most of the theoretical concepts presented here are related to counseling psychology and education, other practitioners with culturally diverse client populations will also find the information applicable to their work. The social scientist, teacher and researcher, who is often the disseminator of theoretical and methodological paradigms, should also find these …

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Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker Jan 1986

Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Female Power, Ethnicity, and Aging" will surely be of interest to readers of this journal. Scholars in ethnic and women's studies have, no doubt, considered at one time or another the impact of ethnicity and age on the power of women in our culture and have a sense of the negative influence of these factors on women who as a group have marginal status in our power structures. So it is that we are anxious to have our sense of these relationships documented in some way or to have the philosophical implications of the intersections of these factors explored and …

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Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The standard academic presentation on the topic of power rarely alludes to the elderly, ethnic groups, or to females of any age or race. The cultural history of humankind has been one of gross inequities in the distribution of power, and much of this distributional variance has been attributable to the categories of race, gender, and age. When these categories overlap, the impact on individual access to power has been, and continues to be, the greatest.

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[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Jo Miles Schuman's text is designed to help students develop an appreciation for one another's cultural heritage and to expand their knowledge of art. Both objectives are accomplished with considerable grace in this beautifully executed and illustrated celebration of craftsmanship. The author clearly values the creativity of a wide variety of peoples and the potential of art as a language of intercultural understanding.

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[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The editors of this book, associate professors at the University of Chicago, state that their work seeks to promote understanding of and raise questions about Hispanic social issues in the hope that a "collective social agenda" can result.

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American literary scholarship in the mid-1980s generally seems to be insufficiently sophisticated to give more than perfunctory attention to ethnicity's significant role in American writing from the colonial period to the present. When intellectual maturation finally is achieved, as there is reason to believe it will be even though progress proceeds at a disappointing snail's pace, credit for the event will be due in part to Philip Butcher's unique and impressive The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature: 1900-1950, as well as to his earlier two-volume anthology, The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900 (1977). These are essential books for …

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[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ani Dike Egwuonwu is a social scientist and this book is the outcome of several years of observations and interviews about marriage problems in Africa. Egwuonwu intended to show a vivid picture of the problems that have had a deleterious effect on traditional African marriages. The subtlety of his use of the institution of marriage to capture the underlying prejudices and stereotypes that exist among African tribes was certainly a creative venture.

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[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

While the experiences of most ethnic groups are frequently overlooked, this is especially the fate of relatively small groups. Many small groups merit greater attention, for example the Okinawans who migrated to Hawaii from 1900-1924, worked on sugar and pineapple plantations, developed small businesses and community organizations, and achieved a measure of economic and social success. What makes their story of special interest is their ethnic status. At the time of their migration, the homeland of the Okinawans, the Ryukyu archipelago (which includes the island of Okinawa), was part of Japan as it is today. However, the Ryukyus have always …

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[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Oral history is unquestionably an important method for recovering the history of ethnic groups, particularly of ethnic working people who leave few written accounts of their own and whose lives are often ignored or else inadequately described by outsiders because of their apparent routineness and unimportance. Unfortunately, many oral history materials remain unknown and unused except by occasional researchers. In 1976, the Hawaii State Legislature established the Oral History Project (OHP, formerly the Ethnic Studies Oral History Project) at the University of Hawaii to record the recollections of ethnic working men and women. Since then, OHP has interviewed over 250 …

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[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Viewers of this film can anticipate a pleasing aesthetic experience as well as an instructive lesson in American Indian cultural continuity and change. The production is holistic in its conception and execution. From that base there are almost endless interdisciplinary uses for the film in the classroom and for lay audiences beyond academe.

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[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen Jan 1986

[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

An unconventional reference work, the planned International Conceptual Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences should prove useful to persons conducting research in the social sciences or information science. Ethnicity specialists will have an opportunity to make first use of the results of the effort to produce such an encyclopedia because of the early publication of this pilot edition of the ethnicity volume.

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[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford Jan 1986

[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The conferences brought together historians, sociologists and anthropologists who were charged with infusing " sophisticated social theory" into research on the family in Latin America.

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[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Two significant historical events have created a receptive climate for this scholarly look at the American city. In the global context, the advent of multinational capitalism has transformed the city, along with other segments of the American economy. On the domestic front, increasing numbers of American cities have faced fiscal crisis, and in some cases, insolvency, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate Jan 1986

[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Transforming the Past is a major contribution to our understanding of Japanese American experience specifically and to our sense of ethnic experience generally. Yanagisako's study transcends its anthropological base to offer crucial insights previously precluded by both facile “understanding" and methological [methodological] limitations.

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[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon Jan 1986

[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications provides an excellent overview of developmental thinking throughout history and across several theoretical disciplines from Rousseau, the father of the developmental tradition, and Locke, the father of environmentalism, to the behaviorists and psycholinguists, Skinner and Chomsky. Crain then extends his coverage to the humanistic movement of Maslow and others. As Crain traces developmental theory, he draws parallels between early developmentalists and the modern humanists, suggesting that learning theorists and other environmentalists, by placing their focus on controlling and shaping behavior, provide an orientation that is too one sided. Modern humanists, suggests Crain, seek environments …

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900, volumes I and II, is the first publication of the Morgan State University Series in Afroamerican Studies. The series is intended to provide a basis for examining the cultural, religious and social experiences of Afroamericans. Each title in the series is intended to serve as a guide, outline, or syllabus for college courses in Afroamerican studies, American ethnic studies, history and culture, American literature, and American studies. In keeping with these aims, Philip Butcher has compiled two anthologies of major and minor American writings that can be used as readers and course guides. …

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[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach Jan 1986

[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ten years ago Brigham Young University conceived of and began to produce "Culturgrams." "Culturgrams" appeared singly as four page cultural summaries of nearly eighty different countries. A "Culturgram" on a country is "a briefing to aid understanding of, feeling for, and communication with other people." A "Culturgram" begins with an enlarged map of the country addressed, noting major cities and with a key in kilometres and miles. To the side of the large map is a smaller map placing the addressed country in relation to surrounding countries on its continent. The " Culturgram" then presents in narrative style some combination …

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[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig Jan 1986

[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

North American social scientists can benefit from comparing immigration in their own countries to immigration in Australia, another former English colony bordering on the Pacific Ocean. Bottomley and de Lepervanche have assembled a very useful set of theoretical discussions and data-based studies which provide a starting point for such comparisons. The collection focuses on the relationship of immigrants to the institutions and ideologies of the dominant culture in Australia. The underlying perspective is Marxist, although this is not made explicit by every contributor. In addition to a historical review of immigration policies, the authors present critiques of policies and the …

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Kalki, Studies In James Branch Cabell (Vol. 8, No. 4, 1986) Jan 1986

Kalki, Studies In James Branch Cabell (Vol. 8, No. 4, 1986)

Kalki, Studies in James Branch Cabell

No abstract provided.

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Preface And Table Of Contents Jan 1986

Preface And Table Of Contents

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This is the sixth annual publication of the Caucus. Having begun in 1981, we have the good fortune to be coordinated with the times, six in eighty-six. But, more importantly, this issue of the Bulletin demonstrates that our interests are also coordinated with the times. Aesthetic response is central to a majority of the papers and, appropriately, the socially concerned perspective taken by the authors places the audience, the person or persons responding to art, at the center.

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The Pervasiveness Of Culture: Significance For Art Education, Barbara A. Boyer Jan 1986

The Pervasiveness Of Culture: Significance For Art Education, Barbara A. Boyer

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Much of what we learn, we are not aware of -- it is at a taken-for-granted level. This learning is so embedded in our thinking and behavior that even as educators we are often unable to work with or examine these cultural beliefs and assumptions in our teaching and social interactions. In this paper, it is proposed that art educators identify the pervasiveness of culture particularly within educational settings and how cultural attitudes related to art are internalized with in society and affect the teaching/learning process.

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The Feldman Method Of Art Criticism: Is It Adequate For The Socially Concerned Art Educator?, Tom Anderson Jan 1986

The Feldman Method Of Art Criticism: Is It Adequate For The Socially Concerned Art Educator?, Tom Anderson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The structure and inherent values of the Feldman (1981) method of art criticism are debated in some art education circles. On one hand it is argued that the Feldman method, because of its emphasis on formal analysis, lends itself more readily to analytical formalist criticism, and is thus not an adequate instrument for socially concerned art educators. The other side of the debate has it that the method is appropriate for socially contextual interpretation when applied by socially concerned art educators. My thesis is that Feldman's method is well suited for socially contextual criticism of aesthetic forms. I intend to …

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Various Applications Of The Feldman Method, Jack Hobbs Jan 1986

Various Applications Of The Feldman Method, Jack Hobbs

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The way I see the Feldman Method is as a teaching technique and not as a research tool. The reason I even mention this is that apparently others use it as a research tool. I suppose it could be used that way, but I don't see it that way. I certainly agree, however, that art educators need to do a great deal of homework concerning society, sociology, and art history, especially those art educators who subscribe to the viewpoints of the Caucus - -I imagine many of you in here are sympathetic to the Caucus . We're certainly obligated to …

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Feldman On Feldman, Edmund Feldman Jan 1986

Feldman On Feldman, Edmund Feldman

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The inadequacy of writing on the sociology of art has been mentioned. We know the names of those who have taken a sociological approach--Frederick Antal, Arnold Hauser, Anthony Blunt, John Berger, and Tim Clark. Much of the sociology of art has been written by Marxists who have a political as well as a sociological axe to grind. Still, we in art education should be doing more sociological analysis, more work on the consumption of art --with art defined to include every type of man-made image. I fought for the admission of this Social Theory Caucus as an affiliated group of …

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Professional Networking In Art Education, Karen A. Hamblen Jan 1986

Professional Networking In Art Education, Karen A. Hamblen

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The social scientist provides three levels of analysis whereby the sociology of art educators can be examined: (1) statistical information, (2) formal organizational structures, and (3) informal, life-world experiences. Although the first two levels provide valuable information, it is proposed that it is within informal, life-world experiences that professional networking occurs and where the character of much of the field of art education is shaped. In this descriptive and analytical study, the sociology of art educators is examined as a function of networks of power and influence. The discussion is limited to art educators with PhD or EdD degrees who …

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The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education Jan 1986

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.

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Children’S Views On Art In The Primary Grades, K-3, Nancy R. Johnson Jan 1986

Children’S Views On Art In The Primary Grades, K-3, Nancy R. Johnson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This study examined some of the kinds of know ledge that primary students have regarding art. Approximately one hundred students participated in the study. The researcher visited their classrooms, sat among them, and interviewed them as they did their art work. Although the students appeared to have an accurate grasp of the methods for working with art media, they were not very knowledgeable about ways to judge art. At all grade levels, the students' knowledge was somewhat inconsistent and not articulated very well. The students exhibited both unique meanings and socially shared meanings in their discourse and confirmed the importance …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Jonathan Majak Jan 1986

Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Jonathan Majak

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

To be human is to have an identity. Indeed, it is what ethnicity is about. However, as a theoretical or methodological prescription for ethnic studies, as advocated by Hatfield, identity is inadequate even within the categories he has specified. Hatfield seems to be asking theoretical analysts to do what artists, novelists, and philosophers do best because they explore the existential and phenomenological aspects of ethnic identity in depth and usually with greater authenticity. This does not mean that there is no need for self-discovery and understanding in ethnic studies. There are equally pressing non-identity issues with which ethnic studies must …

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Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield Jan 1986

Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The question of identity is fundamental to human life. "Who am I," as a biological and psychological being; as a member of a human group with a particular style and history; as a participant in the common human values, perceptions, and processes which transcend any particular group? Ethnic studies should have as its focus the whole human being, articulated in the biological, socio/cultural, and psycho/personal categories, and the methodology for ethnic studies should reflect the process by which people live and move within the named categories. The interaction of people who are self-consciously engaged in exploring their lives biologically, culturally, …

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