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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1996, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 6, Number 4 NEW DNSERVATIONIST: Agriculture in California's Central Valley by Kevin S. Frazier ;:';:::::;:.'ij ; (Editor's note: our feature article this month was written by a senior at the University of the Pacific, the first recipient of the Rockwell Hunt Summer Research Scholarship for UOP undergraduates.) s I frequently drive through the California Central Valley from my home in Sonora to school in Stockton, my constant companions are expansive agricultural fields. Corn gives way to tomatoes which give way to sugar beets; orchards of walnuts turn to orchards of peaches or apricots; herds of cattle graze by the …

Mlgpa News (August 1996), Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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American Irish Newsletter - August 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Acla Update (August 1996), Claire Gelinas, Aids Coalition Of Lewiston-Auburn

ACLA update (1996-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1996, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1996, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Interview With Yvonne Dodge Regarding Sarah Gertrude Knott (Fa 459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Yvonne Dodge, Princeton, Kentucky, conducted by Michael Ann Williams regarding the life of Sarah Gertrude Knott and her sister Gladys Knott. Dodge discusses the Knott family, but the majority of the interview focuses on Sarah's personal and professional life, including her work with the National Folk Festival.

In The Affirmative, Vol.3, No.4 (Mid-July/Mid-August 1996), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

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The Scoop, Vol.8, No.1 (Summer 1996), June Seamans, Pwa Coalition

Scoop / the People with AIDS Coalition of Maine (1990-1995)

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Maine Speakout Communique, Vol.1, No.3 (Summer 1996), Madeleine Winter, Maine Speakout Project

Maine Speakout communique (1995-1997)

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Mississippi Folklife. Volume 29, Number 1 (Summer/Fall 1996), Mississippi Folklore Society, University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Mississippi Folklife

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American Irish Newsletter - July 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Matlovich Society (Summer 1996), Matlovich Society

Matlovich Society (1991-1997)

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Vol. 16, No. 3 (1996), Lance P. Martin, Robert F. James, Joseph Zaitchik

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

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Haitian Immigrants And African-American Relations: Ethnic Dilemmas In A Racially-Stratified Society, Gemima M. Remy

Trotter Review

This article focuses on Haitian immigrants and how they have attempted to interpret their migration experience and ascribed racial and ethnic status in the U.S. It is argued that the legal and economic positions of Haitian immigrants have not only impacted their perceptions and understanding of their living conditions in this country, but they have also compelled them to reassess their self-definition as a distinct group of individuals with their own history, culture, nationality, and racial identity. Like many other Caribbean immigrants, Haitians "suffer double invisibility... as immigrants and black immigrants or double visibility as blacks in the eyes of …

Cape Verdean-Americans: A Historical Perspective Of Ethnicity And Race, Jean E. Barker

Trotter Review

Cape Verdean immigrants in the United States worked to establish their own unique ethnic identity in an effort not to be grouped with Afro-Americans. On the Cape Verde Islands they were Portuguese citizens and identified as Portuguese. In the United States they persisted in stressing their identification as Portuguese, claiming the right to self-designation rather than accepting one imposed by an exceedingly race-conscious society. As one immigrant stated: "We are not black, we are Portuguese. We know we have black in our blood, and white." In the turn-of-the-century United States any amount of African ancestry guaranteed an identification by society …

Leadership In The African Immigrant Community: Conflict And Coalition, Mfon Ufot

Trotter Review

Whenever African immigrants gather, most assuredly the conversation of their plight to the United States, will be a heated topic. Most of the discussion laments the apparent apathy in the African community and the lack of collective leadership to mobilize it. According to the 1990 census, there are over 350,000 African in the United States and that number is increasing every year. The State Department's Information on Immigration reports about 20,000 Africans won the "immigration lottery" to emigrate to the United States last year. This year, about 20,000 slots are allotted to the African continent. This program is a part …

The Political Issues For African Immigrants In The United States, Paul E. Udofia

Trotter Review

Since the 1970s the African-born population in the United States has grown steadily in numbers. This increase of African immigrants offers an historic opportunity for sustained reconstruction of ancestral relationships with Black America. At this point, however, Africans who are mostly English-speaking and highly educated, remain largely isolated and even ostracized. So, what must be done for these groups, Blacks and African immigrants, to begin working together effectively? This essay begins with one basic query necessary for understanding this potential development: What is the current status of African immigrants in the United States? After providing a brief overview in response …

Caribbean Migrant Experiences In Church And Society, J A George Irish

Trotter Review

One of the greatest ironies of the Caribbean community in New York is, that it is at one and the same time, both "power-full" and powerless. Its power lies essentially in a relatively untapped and latent potential, whereas its powerlessness rests in its virtual immobilization as an ethnic group. By dint of sheer numbers the Caribbean presence, whether solely anglophone/West Indian, or more broadly representative of the wider Caribbean Basin, is a formidable force to reckon with, since over 30 percent of the immigrant population of New York is Caribbean. In fact, they are among the fastest growing immigrant groups. …

In The Affirmative, Vol.3, No.3 (Mid-June/Mid-July 1996), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

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John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1996, John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

John Muir Newsletter summer 1996 university of the pacific volume 6, number 3 JOHN MUIR'S ATTENTION EPISTEMOLOGY by Richard Wiebe (Editor's note: Professor of Philosophy at Fresno Pacific College, Richard Wiebe presented this paper at a 1995 conference sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). Talk of mysteries!—Think of our life in nature,— daily tobe shown matter, to come in contact with it,— rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the so/M earth! the actual world! the common sensel Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we? —"Ktaadn" from The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau …

Friendship: An African-American Community On The Prarie Margin Of Northeast Texas, Melissa M. Green, Duane E. Peter, Donna K. Shepard

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The following report summarizes the findings of an intensive archival and oral history review, coupled with limited archeological investigations, of the small post-Reconstruction era African-American community of Friendship located on the Prairie Margin of Northeast Texas. The archival and oral history reviews concentrated on the community as a whole between the years of 1880 and 1945: its beginnings, its social and religious structures, its economic development, its interaction with other communities in the area, and ultimately, its demise. The archeological investigations were directed more toward individual sites or homesteads within the community. The results of these investigations have culminated into …

American Irish Newsletter - June 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1996, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Anthropology And Environmental Studies Of The Southwest: The Integration Of People And The Land Through Time, Terri S. Ross

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

The indigenous peoples of the American Southwest are so culturally integrated with their environment that it is impossible to separate the land and the people. Personal interviews with three Navajo women provide an original and native voice illustrating their relationship to the environment. Five different topics chosen from their interviews have been researched to provide academic information for a more complete picture illustrating the integration of the people and the land through time.

I claim to understand the relationship between anthropology and environmental studies of the American Southwest. The people must be viewed in their native environment, and their voice …

In The Affirmative, Vol.3, No.2 (Mid-May/Mid-June 1996), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

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University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1996, University Of Southern Maine

Commencement Programs

University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1996

Saturday, May 11th, 1996 at 9:00am

Address by Terrence MacTaggert, Chancellor University of Maine System

Confederate Veterans At Rest: Archeological And Bioacheological Investigations At The Texas State Cemetery, Travis County, Texas, Helen Danzeiser Dockall, Douglas K. Boyd, Martha Doty Freeman, Rolando L. Garza, Kevin E. Stork, Karl W. Kibler, Joan E. Baker

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Since its inception in 1851, the Texas State Cemetery in Austin has risen in stature to become the state's premier burial place for state officials, historical figures, and prominent citizens. Extensive renovation work that began in 1995 necessitated an archeological study that included historic archival research, pedestrian survey, geomorphological assessment, mechanical testing in proposed construction zones, recording and investigation of historical features (including three unmarked graves) found in construction zones, and excavation and relocation of 57 graves of Confederate veterans and spouses. Prewitt and Associates, Inc., conducted these investigations between April and August of 1995. Archival research provides a concise …

Northern Lambda Nord Communique, Vol.17, No.3 (May/June 1996), Northern Lambda Nord, Dick Harrison

Communiqué / Northern Lambda Nord (1981-1999)

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American Irish Newsletter - May 1996, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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