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[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall
[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall
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Aware of the philosophical disagreement and conceptualconfusion over the proper place of multiethnic education in the American school system, Banks has gone a long way in providing educators with a clear modus operandi in the field. The book is comprised of seventeen chapters divided into six parts; it also includes three useful appendices and an index.
[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye
[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye
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In the field of race relations, particularly in the United States, many scholars have turned their attention to the area of government policy and its implication for American racial relations.1 Race and Ethnic Relations by Blalock is concerned with this issue, but not exclusively. He makes the point that racial and ethnic conflict is not simply an American problem but indeed exists as a problem for most societies and emphasizes the desirability of comparative analysis whenever possible. Blalock also wants to rescue us from the naive assumption that it is possible to view race and ethnic relations in isolation.
[Review Of] Hedu Bouraoui, Ed., The Canadian Alternative: Cultural Pluralism And Canadian Unity, George F. Theriault
[Review Of] Hedu Bouraoui, Ed., The Canadian Alternative: Cultural Pluralism And Canadian Unity, George F. Theriault
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Alternative might be defined as "proving or necessitating a choice between two (or, loosely, more than two) things." The reader with an active interest in the theme expressed in the sub-title will readily perceive as did the writers of the papers included in this interesting little book, that its main title must be understood in the looser meaning.
[Review Of] Sandra Maria Esteves, Yerba Buena, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Sandra Maria Esteves, Yerba Buena, Wolfgang Binder
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With this, her first anthology, the New York born Puerto Rican poet Sandra Maria Esteves should establish herself as the "first lady" among the Latin poets in that city. Esteves, thirty-three, whose poetry has appeared before in twenty magazines1 and who is an acknowledged painter, combines in her best work her own ghetto experience with nature symbolism, political, cultural and racial awareness and a determined woman's perspective.
[Review Of] Mario T. Garcfa, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans Of El Paso, 1880- 1920, Joe Rodriguez
[Review Of] Mario T. Garcfa, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans Of El Paso, 1880- 1920, Joe Rodriguez
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Mario T. Garcia's Desert Immigrants documents and analyzes the growth of the border city of El Paso, Texas. The transformation of El Paso from a small crossroads community between Mexico and the U.S. to a major commercial and industrial metropolis is presented in terms of "the growth of American industrial capitalism and its need for new sources of cheap and manageable labor." Garcia's attention to the economic underpinnings of El Paso's growth is well developed and he integrates many types of historical information. Business and labor statistics, demographic figures and newspaper accounts of day-to-day life in the city show the …
[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna
[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna
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The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya contains a translation of roughly half of Mordechai Hakohen's Highid Mordekhai, a Hebrew volume describing the history, customs and institutions of the Jews of Tripolitania, completed in Libya in the 1920s but first published by Harvey Goldberg in Jerusalem in 1978. For this English translation, Goldberg has rewritten and expanded his introduction so that it provides both historical background and biographical data on Hakohen. He has also appended a most valuable series of head notes and endnotes which both clarify and supplement the text.
[Review Of] Sherry Gorelick, City College And The Jewish Poor: Education In New York, 1880-1924, Dusty Sklar
[Review Of] Sherry Gorelick, City College And The Jewish Poor: Education In New York, 1880-1924, Dusty Sklar
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Hidden in these quiet pages is a probing analysis of what has happened to all Americans, not just the Jewish poor who went to City College. Gorelick begins by reexamining the myth, now used against other ethnic groups, that "docile Jews, living in safe slums, gratefully, respectfully, obediently lap up the gifts of Anglo-Saxon culture to the admiration and love of their teachers."
[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco
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David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a "classic First Amendment case" (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of …
[Review Of] June Drenning Holmquist, Ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey Of The State's Ethnic Groups, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] June Drenning Holmquist, Ed., They Chose Minnesota: A Survey Of The State's Ethnic Groups, Phillips G. Davies
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It seems only fair to say that this book does for the ethnic groups in Minnesota what the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups does for all the groups in this country. Starting out with the American Indians (the Dakotas and Ojibways particularly), it surveys the more than sixty groups who have chosen to live in the state, ending in the 1970s with an account of the various groups of Indochinese refugees.
[Review Of] Kenneth Kaunda, The Riddle Of Violence, Anani Dzidzienyo
[Review Of] Kenneth Kaunda, The Riddle Of Violence, Anani Dzidzienyo
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Kenneth Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia, has become one of the best known African leaders for a number of reasons: his involvement in the non-aligned movement; his advocacy of "humanism"; his position as a front-line statesman intimately involved with the denouement of the anachronism of white supremacy and the successful emergence of Zimbabwe. The Riddle of Violence, as the name implies, is supposed to be an account of his metamorphosis from an advocate of non-violence in the Gandhian mold to the realization that in the southern African context, the earlier non-violent commitment had become a chimera because the …
[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright
[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright
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The seven carefully documented essays in literary criticism in this excellent short volume are possibly more lively and provocative than those ordinarily found in scholarly publications. The title,however, might well have been: eight black writers and the human condition. Definitions of humanism are varied though not contradictory, but the book is held together by reassessments of black literature which challenge many of the assumptions of previous critics.
[Review Of] Philip Rosen, The Neglected Dimension: Ethnicity In American Life, Barbara Linebaugh
[Review Of] Philip Rosen, The Neglected Dimension: Ethnicity In American Life, Barbara Linebaugh
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This book was initiated by the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs with funding from the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Office of Education. It clearly states and carries out its purpose, i.e., alteration of the ordinary high school curriculum to reflect the diversity of the American ethnic heritage. Throughout the text the richness and significance of that diversity is highlighted, emphasizing several times in skillful and simple language that to be a hyphenated American is un-American. The author has gone to great lengths to include writing from a wide variety of ethnic groups in his selections; any student reading …
[Review Of] Joseph Rothschild, Ethnopolitics, A Conceptual Framework, Alan Spector
[Review Of] Joseph Rothschild, Ethnopolitics, A Conceptual Framework, Alan Spector
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Whether ethnicity stems from certain intrinsic group characteristics or whether it is a definition conferred upon various groups because of their political, social, and economic environment has been a fundamental debate within the field of ethnic studies. Most students of ethnic studies would agree that ethnicity today embraces both factors, and more, that it is the result of the interactions between both sets of influences. How these factors interact in the political sphere is the core of Rothschild's ambitious new book.
[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy
[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy
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Storyteller is a collection of traditional stories, imaginative prose, verse, and autobiographical sketches purposefully interwoven with photographs taken over four generations by Silko's family and friends. The recurrent center of the work is Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico where she was raised. However, the book encompasses peoples other than Pueblo-Navaho, Zuni, the Yupik of Alaska-and in the opening pages we find her invocation to all Native peoples of North America.
[Review Of] Eileen Tway, Ed., Reading Ladders For Human Relations, W. Thomas Jamison
[Review Of] Eileen Tway, Ed., Reading Ladders For Human Relations, W. Thomas Jamison
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Reading Ladders for Human Relations is essentially an annotated bibliographical listing of books appropriate for young people. The books bave been grouped under five headings: (1) Growing into Self, (2) Relating to Wide Individual Differences, (3) Interacting with Groups, (4) Appreciating Different Cultures, and (5) Coping in a Changing World. The publication data of the majority of the works listed fall within the decade of the seventies. An alphabetical listing of publishers and authors and titles completes the book.
[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler
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In this compilation of eight essays, anthropologists Jack 0. Waddell and Michael Everett provide a generally refreshing way of looking at drinking behavior among the Papago, Pima, Yaqui, Taos Pueblo, Navajo, and White Mountain Apache of Arizona and New Mexico. The authors realize that much of what has been written about Native American alcohol use has come from an Anglo-Euro set of definitions which emphasizes the adoption of drinking behavior from whites, treating drinking without reference to Indian cultural differences and attributing it to some form of social dislocation caused by white intrusion and oppression.
[Review Of] Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon On A White Horse, Carol Schoen
[Review Of] Anzia Yezierska, Red Ribbon On A White Horse, Carol Schoen
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The republication of Anzia Yezierska's Red Ribbon on a White Horse, with an afterword by her daughter, Louise Henriksen, is an important event in two respects: first, it represents another step in the rediscovery of a significant writer whose work deals with the experience of immigrant Jewish women at the turn of the twentieth century. Second, it is a valuable document for information on that period of mass migration. Scholars concerned with ethnic literature, as well as those previously unfamiliar with Yezierska's works, will find here interesting insights into the problems and pressures of the immigrants.
[Review Of] Lynwood Carranco And Estle Beard, Genocide And Vendetta: The Indian Wars Of Northern California, Charles E. Roberts
[Review Of] Lynwood Carranco And Estle Beard, Genocide And Vendetta: The Indian Wars Of Northern California, Charles E. Roberts
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Indian and white relations in northern California is a subject that has made little impact on the American historical imagination. Only Theodora Kroeber's lshi in Two Worlds, a book that derives its power from romantic concepts of the noble savage and the vanishing red man, has garnered much of an audience. What is sorely needed are histories of such tribes as the Pomo, Hupa, Witun, and Maidu that take them from the 1820s into the 20th century. Such study is difficult to pursue; the rapidity with which California's native peoples were overrun and their cultures shattered has left a chaotic …
[Review Of] Walter Dyke And Ruth Dyk, Eds., Left Handed: A Navajo Autobiography, Andrew Wiget
[Review Of] Walter Dyke And Ruth Dyk, Eds., Left Handed: A Navajo Autobiography, Andrew Wiget
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When Walter Dyk published Son of Old Man Hat in 1938, he introduced most of the world to a remarkable youth: Left Handed of the Bitahni clan, adopted son of Old Man Hat. That classic anthropological autobiography was the story of a child, born before his time, who grew to be a humorous, sensitive and observant young man. Left Handed dictated this story, which he concluded with his marriage, almost a half a century after most of the events had occurred. Following the Second World War, Dyk returned to the Navajo Reservation for the rest of the story and found …
[Review Of] William A. Doublass And Richard W. Etulain, Eds., Basque Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Sergio D. Elizondo
[Review Of] William A. Doublass And Richard W. Etulain, Eds., Basque Americans: A Guide To Information Sources, Sergio D. Elizondo
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This is a selected and annotated bibliography on the European and American Basques, the immigrants and their descendents known as the Amerikanauk. It is useful for both lay people and serious researchers and, short as it may seem, treats a wide variety of subjects concerning one of the least known minority ethnic groups that are an integral part of this multicultural country.
[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris
[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris
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Researching black genealogy is not the same as researching white genealogy, either in methodology or sources. Eichholz and Rose, assistant professors at Queens College, City University of New York, and also co-directors of the Ethnic Genealogy Center, are established authors in the field. Eichholz had published The Linville Family in America (1970) and A Second Visit with the Linvilles (1976). Rose has published Tapestry (1979) and Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900 (1980), Together they co-edited the book Black Genesis (1978), rated as one of the best handbooks on the methodology and sources for black genealogy. One of the most …
[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin
[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin
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Bloody Ground, in 1941, was the book-length result of a reporter's coverage for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Day's work appeared well ahead of any national concern over Appalachia and was received with admiration by some, outrage by others. It was then eclipsed by the events of the Second World War.
[Review Of] J. Anthony Paredes, Ed., Anishinabe: 6 Studies Of Modern Chippewa, Andrew Wiget
[Review Of] J. Anthony Paredes, Ed., Anishinabe: 6 Studies Of Modern Chippewa, Andrew Wiget
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At a time when contemporary Indian life is overlooked in favor of romantic glorification of the past, this book is especially welcome. It is unique in its vision, presenting in a single volume six complementary reports of coordinated research done during the 1960s among one of the largest Native American tribes.
[Review Of] Ira Bruce Nadel, Jewish Writers Of North America: A Guide To Information Sources, Stewart Rodnon
[Review Of] Ira Bruce Nadel, Jewish Writers Of North America: A Guide To Information Sources, Stewart Rodnon
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This is an extensive bibliography covering selected American and Canadian Jewish authors, both contemporary and historical. The book is separated into four major sections: General Reference Guides (bibliographies, literary histories, anthologies, etc.), Poets, Novelists and Short-Story Writers, and Dramatists. Each of the last three sections is divided into two parts: American-Jewish and Canadian-Jewish authors. Concluding the volume are two appendixes-Yiddish Literature, and Checklists of Additional American and Canadian Jewish Writers-plus the usual author, title, and subject indexes.
[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet
[Review Of] Elizabeth Weatherford, Ed. With Emelia Seubert, Native Americans On Film And Video, Charles L. P. Silet
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This is an extraordinarily impressive and thorough compilation of primarily documentary films made by and about Native Americans. The Museum of the American Indian, the Heye Foundation and Elizabeth Weatherford and Emelia Seubert are to be commended for their effort and industry. Native Americans on Film and Video grew out of a major exhibition, "The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas," where more than one hundred and twenty-five films and video tapes were shown by the museum.
[Review Of] Anne Wortham, The Other Side Of Racism: A Philosophical Study Of Black Race Consciousness, Ramond L. Hall
[Review Of] Anne Wortham, The Other Side Of Racism: A Philosophical Study Of Black Race Consciousness, Ramond L. Hall
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The author, "a freelance writer, editor, and broadcast researcher .... (presently) a doctoral candidate in sociology at Boston College," proposes to study blacks who advocate black consciousness. Wortham condemns ethnic or racial consciousness, and therefore characterizes "the other side of racism " as "a dilemma of individual self-esteem as opposed to problems of group conflict in race relations."