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[Review Of] Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians In America And Canada: A Guide To Information Sources, Ernestine Paniagua
[Review Of] Vladimir Wertsman, The Romanians In America And Canada: A Guide To Information Sources, Ernestine Paniagua
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This book is intended as a convenient guide to research on Romanians in both America and Canada. As the subtitle indicates, it is a guide book, one of a multi-volume ethnic studies information guide series that Gale Information Company is currently completing. The volume has two major components: one provides the non-specialist with a broad perspective on major themes in the research literature, and the other provides annotated bibliographies of selected books, pamphlets, and periodicals of special significance.
[Review Of] George Woodcock, The Canadians, John W. Larner Jr.
[Review Of] George Woodcock, The Canadians, John W. Larner Jr.
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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!
[Review Of] Prejudice: Perceiving And Believing, David N. Mielke
[Review Of] Prejudice: Perceiving And Believing, David N. Mielke
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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 …
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[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco
[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] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Pretend Indians: Images Of Native Americans In The Movies, Barbara F. Luebke
[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet (Eds.), The Pretend Indians: Images Of Native Americans In The Movies, Barbara F. Luebke
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Those of us concerned with mass media stereotyping are especially grateful for this well-edited reader, but all persons interested in Native Americans and their ”popular“ images will find it enjoyable and useful.
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
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Charles Moskos is a Greek American sociologist involved in teaching one of the few courses dealing with the subject of his book, Greek Americans. His book is a broad overview of this ethnic group, with both an historical and sociological perspective. The topic is interesting, for the Greeks are one of the few ”New Immigrant” groups to achieve rapid upward mobility without vanishing into the melting pot. Since the success of most southern and eastern European groups has been marked by a slow and uneven upward climb, the Greeks offer an instructive contrast.
[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits Of Native Americans In The Arts, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits Of Native Americans In The Arts, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Through literature, music, and the visual arts people remember who they were and who they are. Jane B. Katz has effectively brought together the ”rememberings" of twenty-one Native American artists who tell briefly of their lives, their work, and the influence of their Native American heritage on all that they create
[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.
[Review Of] Paul Berliner With Kudu, The Sun Rises Late Here, Ricardo Valdes
[Review Of] Paul Berliner With Kudu, The Sun Rises Late Here, Ricardo Valdes
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In a search for means of communication to open new doors of understanding between our neighbors and ourselves on this planet earth, we occasionally encounter a person or a method which seems to fling those doors open. It is with great enthusiasm that I share one such experience with my colleagues in the NAIES. Last fall I attended a concert by Paul Berliner and Kudu. Paul, a musicologist at the School of Music and Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, revealed in a two-hour program of lecture and performance the heart and suffering, hopes and spirit of Zimbabwe in …
[Review Of] Ethnic Studies: The Peoples Of America, David N. Mielke
[Review Of] Ethnic Studies: The Peoples Of America, David N. Mielke
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The market for audiovisual materials on American ethnic experiences is extremely healthy. As with the wide availability of products in any marketable area, one needs to be particularly conscious of quality, price, and usability. In selecting materials in ethnic studies the purchaser must often decide between multiethnic packages to achieve breadth, or singular ethnic packages which present the ethnic experience in some depth. The user then might attempt to creatively integrate the two.
[Review Of] David W. Baird, The Quapaw Indians: A History Of The Downstream People, David R. Mcdonald
[Review Of] David W. Baird, The Quapaw Indians: A History Of The Downstream People, David R. Mcdonald
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Baird, in a highly engaging book, examines the history of a little known Indian tribe. Originally inhabitants of the Ohio Valley, the Quapaws, by 1973, had migrated to the area around the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers where they were first encountered by the French. Considered important allies by the French and later the Spanish, the Quapaws served as a buffer against the British and British-allied Indians. The results of contacts with Europeans, however, were soon felt by the Quapaws; by 1763 their population had dropped to seven hundred from an estimated six to fifteen thousand in 1682.
[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White
[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] Michael Keresztesi And Gary R. Cocozzoli, German-American History And Life: A Guide To Information Services, Rachel A. Bonney
[Review Of] Michael Keresztesi And Gary R. Cocozzoli, German-American History And Life: A Guide To Information Services, Rachel A. Bonney
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This work consists of over 1,200 entries on German-Americans, compiled and evaluated by librarians Michael Keresztesi and Gary R. Cocozzoli. The major objective is “to stimulate interest and facilitate research in German-Americana” (p. xvi) by presenting ”penetrator works, basic treatises, landmark writings, and documents which constitute the best available sources of information on their respective topic areas. . . .” ( p. xv) Only English-language books have been described and assessed in terms of their ”research value and information-yielding capacity.“ (p. xv) Periodical and journal articles were omitted for reasons of space and because of their accessibility through standard abstracts …
[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright
[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.