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Critique [Of A Proposed Model For Advocacy Services For Mexican Undocumented Aliens With Mental Health Needs], Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Mexican undocumented aliens are and will continue to be a presence in the United States. This Proposal cites a 1972 study of an estimated eight million illegal aliens in this country, a figure that has climbed sharply since that date. Positive contributions toward improving the living and working situations of this population are, therefore, necessary and important.

Critique [Of Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research], Arnold Kahn

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Johnson’s paper contains four assumptions which deserve further attention, especially in the context of ethnic minorities. These four assumptions are both obvious and at the root of the ethical problems: 1) Minorities need services; 2) services are to be provided by the dominant group; 3) the providing of services must be evaluated for cost-effectiveness; and 4) the evaluators are more likely to come from the dominant group than the minority group and hence be more powerful than those being evaluated. This, then, leads to the basic problem addressed by Johnson: How can this evaluation process occur such that the rights …

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Ethnicity And Human Rights: An Organizational And Individual Perspective, George E. Carter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human rights adopted by the United Nations in December, 1948, holds: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Article II stipulates that everyone is entitled to the rights set forth in the Declaration "without distinction of any kind," including race, colour, sex, language. In the view of many American ethnic people the question of human rights and ethnicity has been and still is one of the most neglected aspects of …

[Review Of] George Woodcock, The Canadians, John W. Larner Jr.

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Canadians offers nothing new to advanced students of North American ethnicity. It is a richly illustrated, pleasant, inoffensive, pseudo-comprehensive pictorial account of Canada's history. Every library should have it for the general reader, for it is a facile introduction to a complex North American alternative nation. Canadians would probably be tempted to serialize portions of it -- in Anglo newspapers!

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

[Review Of] Prejudice: Perceiving And Believing, David N. Mielke

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During the past ten years Edward Asner has become one of the most highly regarded actors in television and cinema. He has seemed best suited to roles which have portrayed power, authority, and usually wisdom. The most impressive of his characters has been his ”Lou Grant” (probably due to its long tenure involving two shows) and the public has extended Lou Grant's attributes to Asner, the person. This public respect and confidence is a legitimate recognition of a liberal and concerned human being who has been involved with numerous causes of justice. It would have been difficult to find a …

[Review Of] Kevin Marjoribanks, Ethnic Families And Children's Achievement, Shirley Vining-Brown

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In this book Marjoribanks clearly stands with the environmentalists in the ”nature vs. nurture” controversy over inequalities in children's academic achievement. He examines the relation between various dimensions of family environments, attitudes toward school, and the academic performance of eleven year old children from different Australian ethclasses, i.e., groups that are horizontally stratified according to social status, while at the same time vertically stratified into ethnic groups. By examining data from six Australian ethclasses (Anglo-Australian middle social-status families; and Anglo-Australian, English, Greek, Southern Italian, and Yugoslavian lower social-status families), Marjoribanks finds that differences in family learning environments are related to …

[Review Of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal And American Indian Tribalism: The Administration Of The Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45, George W. Sieber

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

John Collier became Indian Commissioner during the New Deal Administration of Franklin Roosevelt. For more than a decade Collier had been a severe critic of the Indian Bureau; his appointment marked a significant break with past governmental attitudes which had been implemented under the General Allotment Act of 1887, and had resulted in immense land transfers to non-Indian ownership.

A Proposed Model For Advocacy Services For Mexican Undocumented Aliens With Mental Health Needs, Ramon Salcido

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the studies that have focused on undocumented aliens from Mexico, to discuss barriers that inhibit their use of mental health services, and to outline ways in which social workers employed in mental health institutions can become actively involved in helping this group. Since 1900, immigration to the United States from Mexico has followed a pattern of continuing legal and illegal entry; legal alien families from Mexico are defined as those who have been legally admitted to the U.S., whereas undocumented families.are those residing in the U.S. who have entered illegally. Mexico has …

An Invisible Minority: An Examination Of Migrant Education, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

If one had the task of identifying the most educationally disadvantaged group of youngsters in the United States, the ones who under-perform all other groups enrolled in school, who have the highest school dropout rate, who have the lowest academic achievement level and highest number of school failures, no doubt the group readily identified would be the children of migrant agricultural families. These children face a unique set of problems. The migrant family, moving from state to state, alone or in groups, has created a unique life style reflecting the unpredictable agricultural conditions. Available statistics concerning the educational plight of …

Critique [Of Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions], Jimmy L. Williams

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Aside from the intrinsic merit of Dr. Shirley V. Brown's "Symbolic interaction and Black Mental Health,...” the paper raises several important corollary issues that need extensive investigation; (1) the effects of one's self-concept upon how he or she views others; (2) the negligible effects of affirmative action programs; (3) the adverse effects of public school integration on blacks; (4) the validity of the assumption that schools in predominantly black neighborhoods are inherently inferior; and (5) the insidious notion that mainstreaming is both possible and desirable.

God's Silence And The Shrill Of Ethnicity In The Chicano Novel, Joe E. Rodriquez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic identity has to do with freely set of values, attitudes, and behavior from one’s cultural legacy in order to affirm a unique sense of peoplehood. In the United States ethnic groups such as the Chicano or Mexican American are often stigmatized, and the psychological burden of ethnic awareness can weigh heavily. Yet a healthy sense of ethnic identity is absolutely necessary for a positive self-concept when a person is part of a group that is slighted because of race or appearance. The question then is: how do Chicanos come to terms with their cultural tradition in a society that …

Critique [Of The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction], W. Thomas Jamison

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The findings of Professor Reinhardt as they relate to his survey of the image of homosexuals in Chicano prose fiction are interesting and informative, but not surprising given the "macho" mental set often associated with this culture. His first two points, which seem to hold about the homosexual in contemporary society, also seem to be the viewpoint held by most Americans. In other words, a lack of tolerance towards the homosexual is not unique to Chicanos. As for the fact that Chicanos are ignored in writings which have homosexuality as a theme, this probably stems from the tendency for writers …

The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction, Karl J. Reinhardt

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

One of the world's best-kept secrets, until recently, was that a sizable proportion of men and women find their most significant relationships, both emotionally and physically, with members of their own sex. For example, the 1971 edition of Brief Lives fails to inform its readers that homosexual relationships were meaningful in the lives of Tchaikovsky, Thoreau, Garcia Lorca or Virginia Wolfe. A most blatant example of this intentional negligence dealing with Chicano writers can be found in Literatura Chicana: texto y contexto, in which a selection of John Rechy is given a fourteen-line introduction which does not mention that Rechy …

[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This collection of plays is significant because it is the first Native American drama written by a Native American. Hanay Geiogamah, a Kiowa Indian, has been actively involved as a playwright (producing these plays in the 19705), has taught drama at the University of Washington, and has directed Native American theater in recent years (directing his own work, as well as other drama, at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York and directing the Native American Theater Ensemble). This thin volume, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, was readied for publication only after each drama had been performed and …

[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The author, Shul-ya, a Mohave of the Beaver Clan, originally wrote the tales in this book for his children, later expanding them for the enjoyment of all ages. Born on the Arizona Fort Mohave Reservation, Shul-ya learned these tales from an uncle who had dreamed the character of Swift Lance, the mythological hero of the tales.

[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright

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This brief collection of eleven scholarly and well-documented critical essays, written largely by African university professors of language and literature who hold degrees from European and American universities, is even more restricted than the title suggests. With a half dozen or so notable exceptions, only the poetry, drama, and novels published since 1965 are discussed here. And not all West African countries are represented.

A Note On Reviews, Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue (January 1981) of Explorations In Ethnic Studies is the last in which book reviews will appear. ln March we will publish our first annual review supplement, Explorations in Sights and Sounds. Sights and Sounds will consist entirely of reviews and we plan to include non-print media such as records and films, as well as books, monographs, and new journals.

Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A major point of ambiguity in the essay on ethnic theater, namely the inexact, overly-generalized application of the term ethnic, unwittingly perpetuates a widespread misconception about immigrant groups and unfortunately weakens valuable observations on immigrant culture. The study reinforces the tendency to perceive groups other than one's own as homogeneous and undifferentiated.

[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A unique experience awaits readers of Miracle Hill, the autobiography of Blackhorse Mitchell, nicknamed “Barney” a young Navaho boy who began his own story as an assignment in his twelfth grade English class in the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Arts under the tutelage of Terry D. Allen. Unlike the other students in the class, who finished their life stories in half an hour or so, Barney found that he had a whole book stored up inside him, just waiting to be put on paper But Barney was still in the process of learning English as a second language, …

Critique [Of Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Shirley Vining Brown's “Symbolic Interaction and Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self Conceptions” presents significant and vital information concerning the effects of negative self-concepts on black Americans. The most interesting aspect of the paper is the development of the concept of "negative belief systems."

Critique [Of What Is Ethnic Pride? A Poem], Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Judith Lundin's poem successfully conveys both the elusive nature of defining ethnic pride and the certainty that it exists.

Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Jeffrey F. Huntsman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Seller's broad overview of the functions of ethnic theater in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century provides a useful compilation of information hitherto scattered throughout a variety of often obscure publications. Commenting chiefly on Scandanavian, [Scandinavian] German, and Yiddish theater, she presents a glimpse into a complicated and rich social and cultural life through which American communities of immigrants established and maintained a sense of identity with their place and culture of origin and through which life in Europe was sea-changed into a different but still distinct life in America.

[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco

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Thomas Wildcat Alford was born a Shawnee and died a white man. While an oversimplification, this is not an unfair summary of his memoir, ”told to” Florence Drake. A reprint of the 1936 edition, the book has a brief preface by author Angie Debo (which, however, has little information).

[Review Of] Robert L. Schuyler (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives On Ethnicity In America: Afro-American And Asian American Culture History, Lyle Koehler

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Robert Schuyler, Associate Curator in charge of the American Historical Archaeology Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, believes that archaeologists have too often avoided working with Afro-American and Asian American sites and have not effectively used interdisciplinary sources to interpret patterns in the archaeological record. The fourteen articles in Archaeological Perspectives attempt to remedy such concerns but, perhaps in part because of the newness of this interest, the selections are of uneven quality.

The Relationship Between Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern, Achievement, And Life Satisfaction, Larraine A. Felland

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This study examined the relationship between Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern, academic achievement and life satisfaction. The subjects were 87 undergraduates selected for their extreme scores on the Jenkins Activity Survey, Form T. There were 41 Type As and 46 Type Bs. Along with the Jenkins Activity Survey, Form T the participants were administered a life satisfaction survey similar to Soper's (1979) and their official academic gradepoint average was obtained from the Academic Records office. A point-biserial correlation indicated that there was a significant (p

The various relationships and their possible explanations and indications were discussed in depth. Significance of …

[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White

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La Partera is the story of Jesusita Aragén, one of the last traditional midwives of northeastern New Mexico, as written from recorded interviews between the author and Jesusita. Before telling Jesusita's account of her own life, the author introduces the reader geographically, historically, and culturally to the area of San Miguel County and its main city of Las Vegas. Buss clearly shows her love and understanding of this region where she and her husband served as United Church of Christ ministers in 1975. She writes, ”the weather is dominated by striking turquoise skies and a brilliant, penetrating sun” (p. 2) …

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok

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We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin is the simply and sensitively told tale of a Mesquakie Indian girl who comes of age during a turbulent period in the history of her nation. In 1845, after fifteen years of treaties, the Mesquakie (sometimes also called the Fox) Indians were expelled from their lands along the Iowa River and forcibly marched to Kansas, where they were relocated on reservation lands far inferior to their own. The Mesquakies managed to avoid being acculturated into white ways, and over a period of years saved the money they got from the U.S. …

[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During the past fifteen years a legion of scholars have turned their attention to the history of slavery and race relations in America. Mentioning such names as David Brion Davis, Eugene Genovese, Winthrop Jordan, Sterling Stuckey, Leon Litwack, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, or Willie Lee Rose simply reminds us of how far scholarhsip [scholarship] has advanced since the early 1960s. A characteristic of this work has been to shift attention back from the mid-nineteenth century to earlier times and to view American slavery in its international setting. One conclusion has been to underscore the depth of North American racism …