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[Review Of] R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music And Cycles: Native American Flute Music, David M. Gradwohl
[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 …
[Review Of] Robert J. Norrell. Reaping The Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement In Tuskegee, Floyd W. Hayes Iii
[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 …
[Review Of] Kenneth R. Philp, Ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts Of Indian-White Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] Kenneth R. Philp, Ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts Of Indian-White Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan, Elmer R. Rusco
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This book is a summary of a truly historic conference held at Sun Valley, Idaho, from August 17 to 20, 1983. Organized by the Institute of the American West, under the leadership of E. Richard Hart, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., and Vine Deloria, Jr., the conference brought together over 400 persons interested in Indian affairs from around the country; included were most of the people who do research and write on contemporary Indian affairs and many of the participants in past and present Indian affairs. For example, present were four past Commissioners of Indian Affairs -- Robert L. Bennett, Alexander …
[Review Of] Monte Piliawsky. Exit 1 3: Oppression And Racism In Academia, David B. Bills
[Review Of] Monte Piliawsky. Exit 1 3: Oppression And Racism In Academia, David B. Bills
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The first half of Exit 13: Oppression and Racism in Academia presents a case study of the University of Southern Mississippi. (The title refers to the I-59 exit leading to Hattiesburg.) Monte Piliawsky concentrates on the early 1970s, during part of which time he held an appointment in the Department of Political Science at USM. He portrays a university controlled by a bigoted administration and describes in great detail the arbitrary and decentralized authority exercised there. His depiction of the University's leadership reveals it as comical if insensitive at one extreme and viciously racist and vindictive on the other. USM …
[Review Of] Marjorie Pryse And Hortense J. Spillers, Eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, And Literary Traditions, Cortland Auser
[Review Of] Marjorie Pryse And Hortense J. Spillers, Eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, And Literary Traditions, Cortland Auser
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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.
[Review Of] Bo Scholer, Ed. Coyote Was Here: Essays On Contemporary Native American Literary And Political Mobilization, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Bo Scholer, Ed. Coyote Was Here: Essays On Contemporary Native American Literary And Political Mobilization, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Scholars doing research in ethnic literature have long been aware of the political nature of much of that literature. Although many critics find politicizing of literature difficult to deal with in their assessment of the artistic value of the works, it is dishonest to ignore this reality. Schöler has provided thirteen essays by creative writers and critics which define both the nature of the literature and the power of the political views which inform much of the creative output of contemporary American Indian writers. According to Schöler, "politics and aesthetics go hand in hand." Schöler and other European critics have …
[Review Of] Dennis J. Starr. The Italians Of New Jersey: A Historical Introduction And Bibliography, Lucia C. Birnbaum
[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."
[Review Of] Paul J. Strand And Woodrow Jones, Jr. Indochinese Refugees In America: Problems Of Adaptation And Assimilation, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Paul J. Strand And Woodrow Jones, Jr. Indochinese Refugees In America: Problems Of Adaptation And Assimilation, Russell Endo
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Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, over three-quarters of a million Indochinese refugees have come to the United States. Numerous studies have been conducted on their adjustment to American society and on resettlement policies and programs. This book covers these very topics and is organized into three sections. The first part provides some background on the cultures and political histories of the major Indochinese groups and on federal and state policies and programs. The second investigates problems experienced by the Indochinese, particularly with regard to their health, education, language abilities, and employment and is based on a 1981 needs …
[Review Of] S. J. Tambiah. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide And The Dismantling Of Democracy, Proshanta K. Nandi
[Review Of] S. J. Tambiah. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide And The Dismantling Of Democracy, Proshanta K. Nandi
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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.
[Review Of] Ngugiwa Thiong'o. Decolonizing The Mind: The Politics Of Language In African Literature, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Ngugiwa Thiong'o. Decolonizing The Mind: The Politics Of Language In African Literature, David K. Bruner
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"This book, Decolonising the Mind, is my farewell to English as a vehicle for any of my writings. From now on it is Gikuyu and Kiswahili all the way." This declaration by Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one he has every right to make. Many of us, however, will hear it as a casting-off of the large and appreciative readership he enjoyed from the days when, as James Gugi, he instructed and enriched us with The River Between and other fine works of art. To be sure, one can sympathize with any African's hatred of colonization, can feel with him a …
[Review Of] Lydio F. Tomasi, Ed. Italian Americans: New Perspectives In Italian Immigration And Ethnicity, Gloria Lothrop
[Review Of] Lydio F. Tomasi, Ed. Italian Americans: New Perspectives In Italian Immigration And Ethnicity, Gloria Lothrop
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There are those who have heralded the 1980s as "The Decade of the Italian American" as many of the 20 million Americans of Italian descent achieve increasing prominence in politics, business, education and the arts. This new role assumed by Americans of immigrant stock has necessitated revised patterns of investigation addressing the impact of socio-economic mobility, the effects of transmigration and the growing phenomenon of exogenous marriage. For example, of the Italian American women born since 1950, between two-thirds and three-quarters have married outside the ethnic group. Finally, the size and multigenerational sampling provided by the Italian American population invites …
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters . The Sun Is Not Merciful, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters . The Sun Is Not Merciful, Helen Jaskoski
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Anna Lee Walters' first collection of short stories has already won two awards, the Virginia McCormick Scully Literary Award for "the best published work during 1985 reflecting the life, history or heritage of the Western Indians" and the 1985 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
[Review Of] Gilbert Ware. William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure, Allene Jonse
[Review Of] Gilbert Ware. William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure, Allene Jonse
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William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure is a book written about the life and works of William H. Hastie, the first black federal judge. Gilbert Ware, who was a professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia at the time of the publication of this book, is to be commended for his ability to capture and convey the essence of the person and leadership of William Hastie.
[Review Of] Joel Williamson. The Crucible Of Race, Orville W. Taylor
[Review Of] Joel Williamson. The Crucible Of Race, Orville W. Taylor
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Almost twenty years ago Joel Williamson, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began work on this book, envisioned as the definitive history and reinterpretation of black-white relationships in our time. Along the way he modified his conceptions many times and detoured in 1977-78 to write New People, a study of the physical and cultural mixing of blacks and whites.
Index Of Reviewers And Titles
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Index of reviewers and titles for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, No. 7, Summer, 1987.
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 10, Issue 1, 1987
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
An Interview With Geraldine Keams, Gretchen M. Bataille
An Interview With Geraldine Keams, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
When Geraldine Keams visited Iowa State University for the annual Symposium on the American Indian in 1983, I had the opportunity to interview her. The tape remained untranscribed until we met again in California during the fall of 1986, more than three years later. Geri and I discussed the directions her life had taken since our initial meeting, and we both agreed that her comments made in 1983 were still relevant. The interview is printed below in full, and some contemporary comments about her life bring the interview up to date.
Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels, Robbie Jean Walker
Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels, Robbie Jean Walker
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Various strategies for coping have surfaced in the uncertain, arduous, and frequently faltering struggle by black Americans for equality of opportunity, coping strategies characterized variously as carefully considered judgments or mere reactions devoid of ideological commitment. These efforts have engaged the attention of historians, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, and other scholars motivated by a perceived obligation to explicate the nature of the struggle and articulate viable modes for ameliorating the effects of discrimination. Literary artists have also manifested a similar interest by using the medium of imaginative literature to illuminate and dramatize the realities of the historical situation.
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Otis L. Scott
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Otis L. Scott
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Intersecting the tools of psychological and sociological research which attempt to explain real human behavior with the tools of the novelist which attempt to portray a fictional accounting of human behavior, Walker presents an analytical model for examining the coping behaviors of three women in two novels of Alice Walker: The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple.
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Mary F. Sisney
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Mary F. Sisney
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
An examination of the coping strategies of vulnerable and victimized women characters in Alice Walker's fiction does suggest possibilities for coping with racial oppression. The most oppressed woman in Walker's fiction, however, is not Mem, Margaret, or Celie, but Sofia, the wife of Harpo, Celie's stepson in The Color Purple. Certainly Sofia is one of those "women who are cruelly exploited, spirits and bodies mutilated, relegated to the most narrow and confining lives, sometimes driven to madness." But she is not brutalized by her husband. Her tormentors are much more powerful and, therefore, much more frightening.
The Challenges And Limitations Of Conducting Research Among The Old Order Amish, Jerry Savells, Thomas Foster
The Challenges And Limitations Of Conducting Research Among The Old Order Amish, Jerry Savells, Thomas Foster
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The Old Order or "horse and buggy" Amish have been a part of American society for more than two centuries. Today, some 95,000 Amish persons reside in over twenty states, a Canadian province, and two countries in Latin America. Although variations exist in the social values and behavioral practices within different Amish communities (or church districts), they have basically resisted the acculturation process that would reinforce and promote a standard of living and lifestyle embraced by most of the non-Amish in the U.S.
Critique [Of The Challenges And Limitations Of Conducting Research Among The Old Order Amish By Jerry Savells And Thomas Foster], David Gradwohl
Critique [Of The Challenges And Limitations Of Conducting Research Among The Old Order Amish By Jerry Savells And Thomas Foster], David Gradwohl
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The fact that the Old Order Amish have resisted acculturation processes in the United States is not startling news. The generally successful persistence of many aspects of traditional Amish culture as islands within the mainstream of American society has been well-articulated in general studies by John Hostetler and others. It is also documented in more specific community studies, for example the work of Elmer and Dorothy Schwieder at Kalona, Iowa, published in 1975 -- a source not cited in the above article, although that community was also among the individual Old Order Amish groups studied by Savells and Foster. Similarly, …
Critique [Of The Challenges And Limitations Of Conducting Research Among The Old Order Amish By Jerry Savells And Thomas Foster], Louise Mayo
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This article, by Jerry Savells and Thomas Foster may well be useful for researchers attempting studies of groups living voluntarily outside of the "mainstream" of American society. To a non-specialist like this historian, however, the article is ultimately frustrating.
Author And Title Index, Volume 9, 1986
Author And Title Index, Volume 9, 1986
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Author and title index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 9, 1986
[Index, Volume 9,1986] Title
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 9, 1986
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1987
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Critique [Of From The Ground Up: Multiethnic Literature In The Humanities Curriculum By Margaret Bedrosian], Gloria Eive
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, …
[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce
[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce
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The volume is a collection of loosely-coupled essays, several coupled somewhat more loosely than the others, and all relating to government provided elementary and secondary multicultural education and to teacher training in Britain. A good many British-education-bureaucracy abbreviations are used and these tend to slow the flow of the otherwise splendid cross-cultural transfer potential to American and other readers.