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[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1982

[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a "classic First Amendment case" (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of …

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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh Jan 1982

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy Jan 1982

[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall Jan 1982

[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Aware of the philosophical disagreement and conceptualconfusion over the proper place of multiethnic education in the American school system, Banks has gone a long way in providing educators with a clear modus operandi in the field. The book is comprised of seventeen chapters divided into six parts; it also includes three useful appendices and an index.

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[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin Jan 1982

[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye Jan 1982

[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In the field of race relations, particularly in the United States, many scholars have turned their attention to the area of government policy and its implication for American racial relations.1 Race and Ethnic Relations by Blalock is concerned with this issue, but not exclusively. He makes the point that racial and ethnic conflict is not simply an American problem but indeed exists as a problem for most societies and emphasizes the desirability of comparative analysis whenever possible. Blalock also wants to rescue us from the naive assumption that it is possible to view race and ethnic relations in isolation.

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[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1982

[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams Jan 1982

Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristine Martin demonstrates the need for the serious scholar to address the topic of African and Pacific literature in the form of comparative analysis. She has provided a good example for others to emulate. for her study is concerned with self-identity in the formation of ethnicity.

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Sonnets Polonaise Ii, Albert Solomon Jan 1982

Sonnets Polonaise Ii, Albert Solomon

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes sonnet by Albert Solomon: Polonaise II.

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Mrs. Cameron’S Baby, Louis E. Bryan Jan 1982

Mrs. Cameron’S Baby, Louis E. Bryan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; Mrs. Cameron’s Baby

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Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr Jan 1982

Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

To disagree with the author’s central theme that institutional racism is the principal deterrent to social, economic, and political equality of the races in America would be to ignore centuries of American history in which racial minorities have been oppressed and denied equality of rights and opportunities. Even further, one must agree with the author’s argument that institutional racism is merely the manifestation of “beliefs held so tenaciously that they guide behavior spontaneously by excluding any process which call them into question,” while simultaneously purporting to be open to the individual, irrespective of race», gender or age.

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My Uncle Played The Sax, Louis E. Bryan Jan 1982

My Uncle Played The Sax, Louis E. Bryan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; My Uncle Played the Sax

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At Monticello, Margaret C. Blaker Jan 1982

At Monticello, Margaret C. Blaker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Margaret C. Blaker: At Monticello.

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Books Received Jan 1982

Books Received

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Titles appearing in this list may be reviewed in future issues of Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

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[Review Of] Sherry Gorelick, City College And The Jewish Poor: Education In New York, 1880-1924, Dusty Sklar Jan 1982

[Review Of] Sherry Gorelick, City College And The Jewish Poor: Education In New York, 1880-1924, Dusty Sklar

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hidden in these quiet pages is a probing analysis of what has happened to all Americans, not just the Jewish poor who went to City College. Gorelick begins by reexamining the myth, now used against other ethnic groups, that "docile Jews, living in safe slums, gratefully, respectfully, obediently lap up the gifts of Anglo-Saxon culture to the admiration and love of their teachers."

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[Review Of] June Drenning Holmquist, Ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey Of The State's Ethnic Groups, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1982

[Review Of] June Drenning Holmquist, Ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey Of The State's Ethnic Groups, Phillips G. Davies

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It seems only fair to say that this book does for the ethnic groups in Minnesota what the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups does for all the groups in this country. Starting out with the American Indians (the Dakotas and Ojibways particularly), it surveys the more than sixty groups who have chosen to live in the state, ending in the 1970s with an account of the various groups of Indochinese refugees.

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[Review Of] Kenneth Kaunda, The Riddle Of Violence, Anani Dzidzienyo Jan 1982

[Review Of] Kenneth Kaunda, The Riddle Of Violence, Anani Dzidzienyo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Kenneth Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia, has become one of the best known African leaders for a number of reasons: his involvement in the non-aligned movement; his advocacy of "humanism"; his position as a front-line statesman intimately involved with the denouement of the anachronism of white supremacy and the successful emergence of Zimbabwe. The Riddle of Violence, as the name implies, is supposed to be an account of his metamorphosis from an advocate of non-violence in the Gandhian mold to the realization that in the southern African context, the earlier non-violent commitment had become a chimera because the …

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[Review Of] Joseph Rothschild, Ethnopolitics, A Conceptual Framework, Alan Spector Jan 1982

[Review Of] Joseph Rothschild, Ethnopolitics, A Conceptual Framework, Alan Spector

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Whether ethnicity stems from certain intrinsic group characteristics or whether it is a definition conferred upon various groups because of their political, social, and economic environment has been a fundamental debate within the field of ethnic studies. Most students of ethnic studies would agree that ethnicity today embraces both factors, and more, that it is the result of the interactions between both sets of influences. How these factors interact in the political sphere is the core of Rothschild's ambitious new book.

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Design: A Critique Of A Metaphor, Nancy R. Johnson Jan 1982

Design: A Critique Of A Metaphor, Nancy R. Johnson

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Teaching art is basically a process of sharing socially derived knowledge about art with other persons. In order to communicate the cognitive configuration of art as it appears in our culture, it is necessary to use language. In art education, the visual arts are often thought of as a non-verbal symbol system for encoding experience. For this symbol system to be socially known about, however, it must be codified in language. As Hertzler has pointed out, "The key and basic symbolism of man is language. All the other symbol systems can be interpreted only be means of language?". Language is …

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[Review Of] Sandra Maria Esteves, Yerba Buena, Wolfgang Binder Jan 1982

[Review Of] Sandra Maria Esteves, Yerba Buena, Wolfgang Binder

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With this, her first anthology, the New York born Puerto Rican poet Sandra Maria Esteves should establish herself as the "first lady" among the Latin poets in that city. Esteves, thirty-three, whose poetry has appeared before in twenty magazines1 and who is an acknowledged painter, combines in her best work her own ghetto experience with nature symbolism, political, cultural and racial awareness and a determined woman's perspective.

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[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet Jan 1982

[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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Critique [Of Institutional Racism], James A. Perry Jan 1982

Critique [Of Institutional Racism], James A. Perry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

For those who see institutional racism as a problem which can be solved, the points of focus by Deloria are these: An institution is a "person" with a personality shaped by western-culture; and institutional racism is a phenomenon created by western culture. The idea that an institution is a “person” with a personality of its own is not new; the legal profession has held that a corporation, and therefore, an institution, is a “person” protected by the fourth amendment of the Constitution.

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On The Street Be Singin', Jeff Langford Jan 1982

On The Street Be Singin', Jeff Langford

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Jeff Langford; On the Street Be Singin'

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Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], Mary Sisney Jan 1982

Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], Mary Sisney

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristine Martin states that “the literature which has developed over the past thirty years in Africa and over the past ten in the Pacific mirrors their shared experiences and outlook." Black Americans have also lived in a society controlled by whites. They have also been portrayed as uncivilized, culturally deprived, less-than-second—class citizens. And black Americans have also felt “bitterness, frustration, and longing.“ It is not surprising, therefore, that black American literature has many of the characteristics Martin found in African and South Pacific literature.

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Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese Jan 1982

Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Historically, scientific racism has provided reinforcement for maintaining the status quo. Researchers who sought to discover and explain racial difference in intelligence generally operated from a functionalist or social facts paradigm. Gilbert Gonzalez shows that “Racism was essentially an ideological explanation for the social structure, and did not affect the distribution of property, but rationalized that distribution.“ In sum, scientific racism indicated that the social structure was based on the genetic make-up of racial categories.

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Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan Jan 1982

Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Gilbert Gonzalez’s “Racial Intelligence Testing and the Mexican People" is a major contribution in analyzing the educational factors which result in social inequality among the Mexican population in the US. For decades, the power elite has espoused the myth that educational achievement for minorities is the key to social upward mobility. Instead, Gonzalez views education as a system which perpetuates and maintains racial and class divisions in our society.

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Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman Jan 1982

Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Unraveling the tangle of theses that shape the Skovira essay, “Some Symbols of Identity of Byzantine Catholics," exposes not only the intersecting dimensions of ethnicity but also the complex nature of semiotics. Before we can accept the author’s concluding remarks on symbols, we need to consider the ramifications of these various theses. It so happens that the two major theses clash: one suggests ethnic assimilation; the other implies a strengthening of national identity. Perhaps some clarity can be achieved if we consider these themes separately.

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Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart Jan 1982

Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristine Martin’s study makes available the relatively little-known literature of the southern Pacific basin islands. Her article has merit because it is compared with the more widely-read African literature, and she makes a significant contribution with the comparisions [comparison]. Both the Pacific selections, a recent phenomena, and the older African works are transitional literatures — striving to connect the colonized past with a post-colonial synthesis which is relevant to the author of the intended audience. As Martin shows. the audience is composed of compatriots.

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Towards A Model For Considering The Social Functions Of Art, Ronald W. Neperud Jan 1982

Towards A Model For Considering The Social Functions Of Art, Ronald W. Neperud

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The purpose of this paper is to suggest development of a model for examining the social functions of art with the goal that art educators might better understand and value that dimension of human activity. In recent decades individuality, self-expression, and creativity have reigned supreme to the neglect of other dimensions of art important to human welfare--functions important to maintaining the group. The more recent valuing of art of the culturally diverse and the importance of art to groups such as Blacks, Chicanos, and the elderly, and others has suggested that art educators need to understand how art functions in …

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Contents Jan 1982

Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 2, Summer, 1982

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