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Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 15, Summer, 1995
[Review Of] Nancy Ablemann And John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans And The Los Angeles Riot, Eugene C. Kim
[Review Of] Nancy Ablemann And John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans And The Los Angeles Riot, Eugene C. Kim
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Beginning with a poetic title, Blue Dreams, the authors recount in depth as to how the Blue Dreams of the Korean American merchants in the East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of 1992 riot that turned out to be “elusive dreams” in America (Blue symbolizes color of heaven, sky, and hope for Koreans).
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
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A member of the Spokane tribe, Alexie writes the heart of a community that is joined through hardship, hope, land, and story. On and off the reservation, from the storytelling of Thomas Builds-the-Fire to Norma's fancydancing, a drumbeat of home follows everyone.
[Review Of] Alfred Arteaga, Ed. An Other Tongue, Kumiko Takahara
[Review Of] Alfred Arteaga, Ed. An Other Tongue, Kumiko Takahara
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
People who are regarded as minorities by their dominant peers are pressured to establish their identity as citizens of a nation and as individuals of a distinct culture. Their identity may be articulated differently governed by such factors as language, race, gender, political and economical status, and so on. All of the fifteen essays collected in this book are purported to address various material conditions of discourse revolving around nation and ethnicity with special focus on linguistic conditions in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. These essays roughly fall into two categories according to their focus either on …
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
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An anthropological linguist specializing in the language and texts of the Karuk people of northwestern California, and editor of the bilingual collection Coyote Stories (1978), William Bright has made his latest volume of "Coyoteana" and "Coyoterotica" accessible to anyone interested in the Coyote Trickster. Bright has lived a long time with Coyote stories and in A Coyote Reader approaches his subject with care and respect . The volume includes references and an index.
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
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In this superb work which is the first full-scale biography of a man who played a major role in the drama that is African American history, Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. emerges as both a master of archival detective work and story-telling. This professor of history at the University of California at Irvine depicts lucidly why Grimké, though not of the stature of Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois, ”was a major figure of his time" and that "his thought and actions were considered of great significance by his contemporaries." "His life,” Bruce sums up quite aptly, ”was a testimony to …
[Review Of] Peter Eichstaedt. If You Poison Us: Uranium And Native Americans, Dorie S. Goldman
[Review Of] Peter Eichstaedt. If You Poison Us: Uranium And Native Americans, Dorie S. Goldman
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"The history of our nation's relations with American Indians is one of ignorance, indifference, exploitation and broken promises." This statement opens journalist Peter Eichstaedt's book, If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans, an examination of this abusive history supplemented with personal interviews, government documents, and a detailed bibliography. Eichstaedt's account of how America's quest for uranium led to mining on reservation lands, consequently poisoning both the land and the miners, is a useful study for someone working in Native American or justice studies while still remaining accessible to a general audience.
[Review Of] Maria, Espinosa. Dark Plums; Maria, Espinosa. Longing, Maythee Rojas
[Review Of] Maria, Espinosa. Dark Plums; Maria, Espinosa. Longing, Maythee Rojas
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Published within the same year, Dark Plums and Longing both delve into the darker side of the human psyche. Similar in topic, the novels explore the complex relationship between love, sexuality, and power. While Dark Plums gives its readers a voyeuristic look into the life of Adrianne, a young, insecure Chilean-American woman who seeks to find herself through various sexual encounters with men and women, Longing leads them through the painful psychological recovery of American Jew Rosa and the simultaneous mental breakdown of her Chilean husband, Antonio. in addition, each novel focuses around the female protagonists' struggle for inner strength …
[Review Of] Melissa L. Meyer. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Melissa L. Meyer. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity And Dispossession At A Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920, Raymond A. Bucko
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Employing a broad multi-disciplinary approach which includes history, anthropology, economics, demography, ecology, and political science, Meyer, a U.C.L.A. historian, has created a sensitive and sweeping analysis of the creation and metamorphosis of the Anishinaabeg ("Chippewa" or "Ojibwe”) who eventually located in contemporary Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation. Eschewing stereotypes of Indians as mere victims of Euro-American history, Meyer shows how the Anishinaabeg -- themselves internally heterogeneous -- transform, adapt, innovate and respond according to their own interests and to changes around them.
[Review Of] Don L. F. N I Lsen. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Bibliographies And Indexes In Popular Culture, Number 1, Barbara A. Bennett
[Review Of] Don L. F. N I Lsen. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Bibliographies And Indexes In Popular Culture, Number 1, Barbara A. Bennett
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Too often, the study of humor lacks the very thing it analyzes. That is one of the reasons Don Nilsen's humor bibliography is such a pleasant surprise. In the cataloguing and describing of the seemingly endless number of humor books and articles, Nilsen has managed to capture the tone of the subject while still doing this tedious job impressively.
[Review Of] W. S. Penn. All My Sins Are Relatives, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] W. S. Penn. All My Sins Are Relatives, Gretchen M. Bataille
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W.S. Penn writes with wit and cleverness, but also with passion and love, about himself, his blood relatives, and his spiritual relatives. If the sins of the father are visited upon the son, Penn is doubly doomed by his need to understand his grandfather’s generation as well as his father’s. It is his grandfather and his father, as well as numerous others, to whom the book is dedicated, and it is this line of family members who have created the writer and critic who explores his own life as a mixed blood by simultaneously exploring the lives of his relatives …
[Review Of] Eileen H. Tamura. Americanization, Acculturation, And Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation In Hawaii, Ann Rayson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Eileen Tamura's new book on the first American-born generation of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii is a well-researched and readable study of the period in the early twentieth century, largely between the world wars, when Japanese immigrants to Hawaii realized they were not going to return home and that they would have generational conflicts with their children, entitled to U.S. citizenship as their parents were not until 1952. An outgrowth of Tamura's 1990 dissertation, "The Americanization Campaign and the Assimilation of the Nisei in Hawaii, 1920 to 1940,” Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity develops the original topic and works back to …
[Review Of] Jesus Salvador Trevino. The Fabulous Sinkhole And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Jesus Salvador Trevino. The Fabulous Sinkhole And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
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This collection is aptly titled, for it is fabulous and a pure delight to read. Film director and writer Jesus Salvador Trevino is a worthy successor to such Chicano luminaries as Mario Suarez and Rolando Hinojosa with his creation of microcosm of a Mexican American community -- Arroyo Grande, Texas. His blending of the real with the magical and the surreal along with a whimsical tone also links him to Ron Arias. The title story gives the reader an introduction to the collection of six interrelated tales since main characters in all the stories are observers of the sinkhole, and …
[Review Of] William H. Tucker. The Science And Politics Of Racial Research, Vernon J. Williams
[Review Of] William H. Tucker. The Science And Politics Of Racial Research, Vernon J. Williams
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Since there is usually a two year period of time that elapses between the acceptance of a manuscript by a university press and its publication, we must commend William H. Tucker, who is an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, in his anticipation of contemporary controversies in reference to the relative abilities of races. Tucker argues that there is continuity in the thought of racists, which over the past two centuries include anthropometricians, eugenicists, and segregationists. ”The imprimatur of science,“ Tucker argues cogently, ”has been offered to justify, first slavery and, later, segregation, nativism, socio-political inequality, class subordination, poverty, …
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Reading The Voice: Native American Oral Poetry On The Page, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Reading The Voice: Native American Oral Poetry On The Page, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Paul Zolbrod is known well by scholars of Native American studies for his work on the Navajo and for his commitment to the understanding of Native literature. In this book he takes bold steps to redefine much of what scholars have taken for granted about criticism and definition of the writings and performance literature of Native peoples. He is to be both commended for his approach and questioned.
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
The Global Resurgence Of Ethnicity: An Inquiry Into The Sociology Of Ideological Discontent, Kasturi Dasgupta
The Global Resurgence Of Ethnicity: An Inquiry Into The Sociology Of Ideological Discontent, Kasturi Dasgupta
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This essay takes the position that global resurgence of ethnic hostilities can be seen as a manifestation of discontent with the proclaimed national ideologies. The breakdown in the conviction that adherence to an ideology and the application of a related social agenda would ameliorate the critically felt ills of a society, has resulted in the redirection of frustrations towards scapegoat minorities. Whether the ideology has been democratic secularism or socialism, the inability to "deliver the cargo" of economic and social well being, political stabliltiy[stability] has proven to be a direct indictment against the ideology itself. And, like opportunistic diseases, ethnic …
From Tribal To Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of Ethnic Ideologies, Sudha Ratan
From Tribal To Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of Ethnic Ideologies, Sudha Ratan
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper examines the political mobilization of tribal identities in north-eastern India. Using examples from Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh, the paper suggests that more attention needs to be paid to domestic politics within the Indian state which have contributed to the mobilization of tribal peoples into highly politicized ethnic groups. The paper will explore the impact of government policies in these hill states and the role of political elites in such mobilization.
Language And Identity: Limonese Creole And The Black Minority Of Costa Rica, Anita Herzfeld
Language And Identity: Limonese Creole And The Black Minority Of Costa Rica, Anita Herzfeld
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Given the general connection between the development of nationalism and linguistic uniformity, the existence of multilingualism and ethnic diversity in a country is a complex problem. Limonese Creole is the language spoken by a Black minority of approximately 30,000 people who have lived in predominantly white and Spanish-speaking Costa Rica for over 400 years. The Limon Province, where this group resides, is markedly distinguishable from the rest in terms of its geography, history, population, economy, language, and culture. This paper seeks to present the development of ethnic relations and language in that area. History shows that either harmonious bilingualism or …
The Spectacle Of The Invisible: Sephardic Jewish Identity In Multicultural Education, Judea Alhadeff
The Spectacle Of The Invisible: Sephardic Jewish Identity In Multicultural Education, Judea Alhadeff
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This study assesses from a North American Sephardic (Spanish-Jewish) perspective, the ambiguous relationships among Jews, "people of color," and definitions of "whiteness" in order to re-evaluate multicultural education in the United States. My intent is not to polarize multiple cultural identities but to illuminate and clarify differences in Jewish histories, identities, and cultures. The assumption that all Jews are and can pass as white, and therefore "have privilege," denies the complexities of racism, anti-Semitism, whiteness, assimilation, and multiculturalism. In a world where hierarchical divisions narrowly define our perceptions, our relations to power, and our multiple identities, Sephardic non-white Jews are …
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1995
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Beyond Ethnicity: Toward A Critique Of The Hegemonic Discipline E. San Juan, Jr., E. San Juan Jr.
Beyond Ethnicity: Toward A Critique Of The Hegemonic Discipline E. San Juan, Jr., E. San Juan Jr.
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
With the current vogue of multiculturalism and cultural diversity requirements as panacea for systemic problems, scholars and teachers of Ethnic Studies need to reassess the principles and goals of their discipline. Los Angeles 1992, among other developments, has exposed the serious inadequacies of old paradigms. A review of the racialized history of Asians in U.S. society, a narrative of oppression and opposition now mystified by the model minority myth, allows us to grasp the flaws of the liberal pluralist focus on culture divorced from the political and economic contexts of unequal power relations. Ultimately, for whom is Ethnic Studies designed? …
The Pan-African Movement And American Black Political Fiction, 1920s To 1950s: Themes Of Alienation, Calvin E. Harris
The Pan-African Movement And American Black Political Fiction, 1920s To 1950s: Themes Of Alienation, Calvin E. Harris
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper focuses on the role of the writer as a social activist. Accordingly, I examine novelist/essayists who published during the Harlem Renaissance period 1920 to 1930 and in some cases beyond. I am interested in part in the Pan-African movement as it impacted on this era of Afro-American history. The central question explored is what are some of the dynamics that exist between the writer, movement elites, movement rank-in-file, and the broader Afro-American community? The central focus is on the kind of interactions that take place between the writer as a political activist, movement elites, and movement activists. The …
Eating Attitudes Of Native American And African American Women: Differences By Race And Acculturation, Lise L. Osvold, Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky
Eating Attitudes Of Native American And African American Women: Differences By Race And Acculturation, Lise L. Osvold, Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Thirty-tour Native American and twenty-eight African American women responded to eating disorders and acculturation measures. African Americans appeared to have greater concern about their body weight and shape than Native Americans. Among all, those who were more acculturated to the U.S. white culture reported more concerns than those who were less acculturated. Also, normal weight women tended to have higher anorexia scores than overweight women as well as a diagnosed anorexic group. Open-ended questions elicited feelings about U.S. symbols of beauty, one's physical self, and usage of standard English. The conceptualization of acculturation to white society and acculturative stress is …
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1995
[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Daniel Rosenberg , Eds. Racism, Dissent, And Asian Americans From 1850 To The Present: A Documentary History, Russell Endo
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Numerous historical studies discuss racism against Asian Americans as well as their resistance to racist policies, practices, and thought. While this scholarship correctly stresses the predominance of racism, it contains passing references to non-Asian individuals and organizations who supported better treatment and the rights of Asians. Foner and Rosenberg argue that these small numbers of supporters were dissenters from prevailing anti-Asian racism and that they deserve greater attention because they represent the existence of more than one perspective of Asian Americans.
Pan-Arabism V. Pan-Africanism In The Sudan: The Crisis Of Divergent Ethnic Ideologies, Jonathan Majak
Pan-Arabism V. Pan-Africanism In The Sudan: The Crisis Of Divergent Ethnic Ideologies, Jonathan Majak
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This article examines the nature and the extent of political and cultural conflict between Northern and Southern Sudanese. It describes and analyzes various attempts by Arab dominated regimes in the Sudan, since independence from Britain, to achieve national intergration[integration] through Pan-Arabist policies that seek to Islamize and Arabize the African and largely Christian South. The current military regime dominated by Muslim fundamentalists is trying to turn the Sudan into an Islamic republic. Not only has this brought about a civil war, but it has also alienated other Muslims in the North who favor a secular government.
Cemetery Squatting And Anti-Chinese Tensions: Insights From Central Java, Daniel Garr
Cemetery Squatting And Anti-Chinese Tensions: Insights From Central Java, Daniel Garr
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Over the centuries, the Chinese minority in Indonesia has lived in an environment characterized by social tensions. This paper will explore Chinese-Javanese relations in the microcosm of a Javanese squatter settlement that has invaded a Chinese cemetery. Four issues will be considered which will illustrate the nature of long-standing tensions between these two ethnic groups: 1) the manner in which informal sector housing is developed; 2) economic attitudes of the Javanese with respect to the Chinese; 3) the relationship of the Chinese to law and authority and how conflict resolution is approached ; and 4) the linguistic context of Chinese-Javanese …
Political Consciousness As A Component Of Black Consciousness In Brazil: Its Presence In The Popular Media, David Covin
Political Consciousness As A Component Of Black Consciousness In Brazil: Its Presence In The Popular Media, David Covin
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The purpose of this paper is to describe the extent to which political consciousness may be found as a component of Black consciousness within a sampling of the Brazilian popular press, and to suggest some significance of that description for the political lives af[of] Afro-Brazilians. In the first section the paper identifies the popular press reviewed and examines the relationship between the popular press and the Afro-Brazilian population. Next, the relationship between Black consciousness and Black political consciousness is discussed, including the significance of that relationship for this paper. It examines the role of the cultural question in some detail. …