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[Review Of] Bill Ong Hing. Making And Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, Jun Xing
[Review Of] Bill Ong Hing. Making And Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, Jun Xing
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Bill Ong Hing's book has fulfilled a long-felt need in Asian American studies. Since the publication of Milton R. Konvitz's The Alien and Asiatic in American Law (1946), no comprehensive overview of how American immigration policy influenced Asian immigration has been published. The subject, however, represents one of the most important aspects of Asian American experience. Historically, the anti-Asiatic Exclusion Laws played a defining role in the evolution of Asian America. Today, the legacy of racist immigration policies continue to limit Asian Americans, and the current debate over immigration remains an issue of great importance for the communities.
[Review Of] K. Tslanina Lomawalma. They Called It Prairie Light, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] K. Tslanina Lomawalma. They Called It Prairie Light, Raymond A. Bucko
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This work adeptly weaves the documentary history of the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School of Oklahoma (1884-1980) with the oral histories of sixty-one Indian students spanning the years between 1920 and 1940. While there are many works on Indian education, this one is unique because the core of the history is presented through the voices of former students.
[Review Of] Charles F. Lummis. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories, Silvester J. Brito
[Review Of] Charles F. Lummis. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories, Silvester J. Brito
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories is composed of forty-two stories (tales) that range from the teachings (and/or) exploits of Coyote to the adventures of the Wise Bear. These folk tales were collected and translated from Spanish to English, as well as interpreted by the late Charles F. Lummis. The original title of this book was Tile Mall Who Married the Moon, published in 1894 by Century Company New York. This Bison edition is a reprint of another version published in 1910 by Century Company New York; being expanded and retitled. It also has an informative, new introduction by Robert F. Gish. In …
[Review Of] James B. Mckee. Sociology And The Race Problem: The Failure Of A Perspective, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] James B. Mckee. Sociology And The Race Problem: The Failure Of A Perspective, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In his sweeping study of the treatment of African Americans in American sociology from the 1920s until the 1960s, James B. McKee, a professor emeritus of sociology at Michigan State University, concludes that sociologists "need to revive an older democratic commitment to speak to a larger public that includes and cuts across the conflicting racial identities whose fates are inexorably bound together in the same historical struggles" (366-7).
[Review Of] C. Hart Merriam. The Dawn Of The World: Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California, Susan L. Rockwell
[Review Of] C. Hart Merriam. The Dawn Of The World: Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California, Susan L. Rockwell
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Naturalist C. Hart Merriam devoted the last years of his life to research on Indians of California, meticulously recording and documenting his observations and the knowledge he gained from the various tribes. In 1910, he published a collection of myths and tales told to him by the elders of the California Mewan Indians under the title, The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. Eighty-three years later the University of Nebraska Press has published a Bison Book Edition of Merriam’s collection. Except for the change in title, the Bison Book Edition is …
[Review Of] Rebecca R. Martin. Libraries And The Changing Face Of Academia: Responses To Growing Multicultural Populations, Deborah Hollis
[Review Of] Rebecca R. Martin. Libraries And The Changing Face Of Academia: Responses To Growing Multicultural Populations, Deborah Hollis
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
With great anticipation I sat down to read Rebecca R. Martin's work about academic libraries services to multicultural populations in the United States. I had hoped to read about reasoned and responsible approaches to this current hot topic. What I found instead was an anthology of the politically correct chatter pulled from the last ten years of library literature. Martin's book raises no new issues for the academic library administrator. Libraries And The Changing Face of Academia is a tame discussion of a serious issue that has kept academic librarians wringing their hands over the past decade. Rebecca Martin does …
[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim
[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Marchetti poignantly mirrors Orientalism as conceived in the eyes of typical Hollywood filmmakers of their Eurocentric discourse, flavored with their own notions of romance, race and sexuality, and the "Yellow Peril," the way they want to entertain the American viewers. The book introduces fifteen major classical films which span over a seventy-year period (1915-1985) with sharp literary as well as cinematographic criticism on Protestant ethics, gender supremacy, and conjugal family structure.
[Review Of] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
[Review Of] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Susan Olzak’s work, The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict, is informative and contributes to an understanding of ethnic violence from an historical perspective. The central finding is that ethnic/racial conflict arises from an increase in intergroup competition for social resources. Exploring economic and political competition in the United States from 1877 to 1914, Olzak concludes that violence is most apt to occur when members of a disadvantaged ethnic/racial group experience greater equality of opportunity. This new environment creates a situation whereby members of a formerly segregated group become rivals for social awards. An environment which contains several disadvantaged groups …
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Genaro Padilla and University of Wisconsin Press should be commended for the publication of a much needed addition to the study of American autobiography, in general, and ethnic autobiography, in particular. Early Mexican American autobiographies remain largely ignored and forgotten. The importance of these autobiographies should not be ignored, however, especially with regard to the study of the West and Southwest. With this book, Padilla opens the door to the retrieval and study of these important historical documents.
[Review Of] Suzanne M. Sinke And Rudolph J. Vecoli, Eds. A Century Of European Migrations, 1830-1930, Liliane M. Vassberg
[Review Of] Suzanne M. Sinke And Rudolph J. Vecoli, Eds. A Century Of European Migrations, 1830-1930, Liliane M. Vassberg
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This collection of sixteen essays stems from the proceedings of a 1986 symposium commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Based on work by American and European scholars, this volume owes its strength to transnational and comparative perspectives and to theoretical approaches strongly inspired by Frank Thistlethwaite’s influential 1960 essay “Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.” Reprinted in the present volume, Thistlethwaite’s paper advocated studying European migration -- and return migration -- as a means of social mobility in the context of industrialization and capitalism, within Europe and …
[Review Of] Paul M. Sniderman And Thomas Piazza. The Scar Of Race, David Goldstein-Shirley
[Review Of] Paul M. Sniderman And Thomas Piazza. The Scar Of Race, David Goldstein-Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Into the murky, politically-charged waters of contemporary racial politics shines this welcome ray of light. Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, using clever research design and innovative techniques, clarify the changing meaning of race in today’s political landscape and conclusively dismiss many strongly-held, but nonetheless inaccurate, assumptions about whites’ attitudes toward African Americans.
[Review Of] Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Race And The City: Work, Community, And Protest In Cincinnati, 1820-1970, Cedric D. Page
[Review Of] Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Race And The City: Work, Community, And Protest In Cincinnati, 1820-1970, Cedric D. Page
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This collection of essays offers diverse perspectives on the social, political, and economic currents that shaped racial and ethnic geography of Cincinnati from the antebellum period through the post-World War II era. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. offers a unique and instructive collection of works that contribute to a clear understanding of the impact of city-building, economic transition and social-political transformation on the residents of Cincinnati between 1820 and 1970. Throughout the book, the spatial character of the city is the focus while the influence of site and situation of the ”Queen City” proscribe its economic fortunes and quality of urban …
[Review Of] Velma Wallis. Two Old Women, Vanessa Holford
[Review Of] Velma Wallis. Two Old Women, Vanessa Holford
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Velma Wallis says of Two Old Women, it is “a story about my people and my past -- something about me that I could grasp and call mine.” She introduces her written story as an attempt to continue that which is rapidly being silenced by television and modern ”conveniences” -- the children who now seem uninterested in traditional tales to one day be able to call the legend theirs. In setting this tale to paper, she succeeds not only in her goal to interest future generations among her own people, but also in offering outside readers of all ages a …
[Review Of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Patricia A. Turner, associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis, published Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture earlier in 1994. Now she has made another valuable contribution to the study of African American culture with I Heard It Through the Grapevine; and in addition, has added to the understanding of how urban legends start and continue to persist. Just as Jan Harold Brunvand's Vanishing Hitchhiker made the general public aware of these legends, Turner's study makes both Black and White readers aware of the significance of …
[Review Of] H. Henrietta Stockel. Women Of The Apache Nation: Voices Of Truth, Sally Mcbeth
[Review Of] H. Henrietta Stockel. Women Of The Apache Nation: Voices Of Truth, Sally Mcbeth
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
At a time when books about Native American women need to provide the reader with unromanticized images of strong women in their own right, Stockel’s book, Women of the Apache Nation, succeeds only partially. The sixty-two page historical introduction and the two shorter introductions to the Mescalero (New Mexico) and Fort Sill (Oklahoma) Apache, while important to situating the women’s narratives that follow, are flawed by inaccuracies, overly dependent on secondary sources, and replete with unnecessary references to historical male figures and male relatives. Stockel, for example, incorrectly uses the term ”Western pache” which does not include Mescalero or Fort …
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters. Talking Indian: Reflections On Survival And Writing, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters. Talking Indian: Reflections On Survival And Writing, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Anna Lee Walters creates an interesting chronicle that is both personal and historical. As she writes of self and family, she also writes about a multitribal web of cultural beliefs and historical interactions with whites that have come to define tribal people today.
[Review Of] Lynn Brodie Welch, Ed. Perspectives On Minority Women In Higher Education, Judith E. O'Dell
[Review Of] Lynn Brodie Welch, Ed. Perspectives On Minority Women In Higher Education, Judith E. O'Dell
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This book is a compilation of papers presented at various International Conferences for Women in Higher Education sponsored by the University of Texas at El Paso. The chapters focus on the educational experience from very different views including classroom experiences, relations with co-workers, historical aspects, and minority women as leaders. In addition, there are chapters focusing on the experiences of specific ethnic groups, with the content at times being only marginally related to the higher educational experience. Collectively, the chapters provide the reader with a broad perspective on the situations minority women are likely to encounter while working in colleges …
A Pattern Of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior, Thelma J. Shinn
A Pattern Of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior, Thelma J. Shinn
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the many contemporary American novelists of non-European ethnicities and one of many women novelists who have found in mythology and folklore both stories and images which can transform the genre by providing "novel" patterns of order and "meronymic" language. These inclusive patterns and words help expand our perspective as they encompass both the linear and cyclical stories of the individual within the context of communal and social, mythic and historic, truths. In The Woman Warrior, the complex "frog knot" of her female heritage is untied for us not only to open up women's possible …
Welfare Policies And Racial Stereotypes: The Structural Construction Of A Model Minority, Mary E. Kelsey
Welfare Policies And Racial Stereotypes: The Structural Construction Of A Model Minority, Mary E. Kelsey
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Whereas the economic mobility observed among Asian Americans is often attributed to their cultural values, this article demonstrates the importance of state aid to the economic mobility of a community of Southeast Asian refugees living in California. Using data from a lengthy ethnographic study of rural Laotian refugees, the content and administration of social welfare programs offered political refugees is contrasted with the social policies extended toward other poor communities. As variations in social policies can constrain or facilitate economic mobility, the concrete impact of welfare state policies on different ethnic communities is a topic in need of further exploration.
Media Discourse And The Feminization Of Poverty, Carmen L. Manning-Miller
Media Discourse And The Feminization Of Poverty, Carmen L. Manning-Miller
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Source diversity models suggest that by using non-conventional, non-official sources for news content, the prevailing perceptions about poor people and their needs would be undermined in news coverage. This study found that major newspapers are making efforts to diversify the sources quoted in their coverage of poverty issues. However, the portrayals of poor people have not changed, particularly for women and people of color. Results of this study suggest that source diversity research must go further to explore how sources are used to address the problems of the poor and how media influence public perceptions of public policy related to …
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Editor's Note Miguel A.Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza
Editor's Note Miguel A.Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This issue of the journal has a wide variety of articles dealing with multiple dimensions of ethnicity. The first article by Arthur S. Evans, Jr. and Sara Torres focuses on the perceptions of domestic abuse among Mexican American and Anglo American women. More importantly, the paper deals with the role culture plays in the perception, definition, and interpretation of domestic abuse issues.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, 1994