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[Review Of] Edward D. Beechert. Working In Hawaii: A Labor History, Patricia Grimshaw
[Review Of] Edward D. Beechert. Working In Hawaii: A Labor History, Patricia Grimshaw
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For those interested in ethnic experience, the history of Hawaii offers unique insight. Initially a Polynesian island group, with a population related culturally to inhabitants of islands as far afield as Easter Island, New Zealand and Tahiti, Hawaii from the late eighteenth century onwards became the home of Americans, Europeans, Portuguese, Filipinos, Chinese and Japanese, all drawn there for differing reasons. When to this ethnic and racial variation, the complex permutations of class and gender are added, observers of Hawaii's past are witness to a rich range of inter-cultural encounters. In Working in Hawaii, Edward Beechert's particular focus is the …
[Review Of] Michelle Cliff. The Land Of Look Behind, Aisha Eshe
[Review Of] Michelle Cliff. The Land Of Look Behind, Aisha Eshe
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Passing and its effect on the individual is one of the themes that Michelle Cliff explores in her book, The Land of Look Behind. Passing is a recurring theme in much of the literature written by people of color both past and present. In much of this literature passing is detrimental to the character. In her attempt to hide her color, Clare Kendry from Nella Larsen's Passing destroys her inner self long before her actual death. When a person does not have a developed sense of self-identity, the self can be lost within any situation.
[Review Of] James D. Cockcroft. Outlaws In The Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant Workers And America's Future, Arthur Ramirez
[Review Of] James D. Cockcroft. Outlaws In The Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant Workers And America's Future, Arthur Ramirez
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In place of myths about Mexican immigrant workers, Cockcroft establishes several well-founded realities. One is that the border is porous because U.S. business interests want it that way so they can have cheap labor to exploit as needed by means of a border " revolving door." Another is that there is such an interrelated U.S.-Mexico economy, achieved through "silent integration," that in effect the border is a legal fiction. A third is that Mexican " undocumented" workers contribute substantially more to the U.S. economy than they take out. A fourth is that U.S. immigration policy is not at all simple …
[Review Of] Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, And Harry H. L. Kitano, Eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation To Redress, Victor N. Okada
[Review Of] Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, And Harry H. L. Kitano, Eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation To Redress, Victor N. Okada
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This collection of previously unpublished essays grew out of a conference in Salt Lake City in 1983 on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the issue of redress. It includes essays by the three editors and contributions, some no more than brief notes, by twenty-seven individuals. It also includes a detailed chronology of Japanese-American history and comprehensive bibliographical notes.
[Review Of] Lenwood G. Davis, With The Assistance Of Marsha L. Moore. Malcolm X: A Selected Bibliography, James Gray
[Review Of] Lenwood G. Davis, With The Assistance Of Marsha L. Moore. Malcolm X: A Selected Bibliography, James Gray
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Malcolm X's central role in contemporary black thought and life means that students of history, sociology, religion, politics, and literature (to begin a list) must study him carefully. This volume provides a useful starting place, and every reasonable public collection should have a copy. Unfortunately, the cost and several shortcomings limit its use for personal libraries.
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., Ed. A Sender Of Words: Essays In Memory Of John G. Neihardt, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., Ed. A Sender Of Words: Essays In Memory Of John G. Neihardt, Helen Jaskoski
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John Neihardt was like James Boswell: each man's genius -- and it is a rare one -- lay in recognizing, respecting and calling forth the greater genius of another. Neihardt’s task was easier; he was nearly the sole arbiter of Black Elk's communication, with little to fear from comparison with other accounts, but also harder. He faced barriers in personal knowledge, tastes, values and language, as well as a public unprepared to accept his mentor's worth. This book pays tribute to Neihardt and appropriately is not a "balanced" appraisal but an appreciation of his best. However, despite claims for his …
[Review Of] Paul Espinoza, Producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, Freddy Dean
[Review Of] Paul Espinoza, Producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, Freddy Dean
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The Lemon Grove Incident is a compelling and informative presentation of how the members of the local school board in Lemon Grove, California, attempted to implement de jure segregation of American citizens of Mexican American descent in 1930. The narratives of actual participants -- victims in the incident -- enhance the authenticity of the presentation and guide the viewer through the convoluted Machiavellianism of the Lemon Grove School Board and its supporting satellites, the Lemon Grove Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and Chamber of Commerce as well as the federal government.
[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre
[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre
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The idea behind this book, a comparative study of Henry David Thoreau's and John Muir's attitudes toward American Indians, is excellent. Muir, born in 1838, was twenty one years younger than Thoreau. He first read Walden and A Week at the University of Wisconsin in 1862, the year of Thoreau's death. His early writings, although not published until much later, contained generally pro-Indian sentiments similar to Thoreau's , while he also had a Thoreau-like squeamishness about Indians being dirty, lazy, superstitious, and demoralized by contact with whites. "Perhaps if I knew them better, I should like them better," he wrote …
[Review Of] Joanne V. Gabbin. Sterling A. Brown: Building The Black Aesthetic Tradition, Jean Walker
[Review Of] Joanne V. Gabbin. Sterling A. Brown: Building The Black Aesthetic Tradition, Jean Walker
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Numerous and diverse agendas have competed for consideration in attempts to establish and set the parameters of the black aesthetic tradition. W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson are only two of several prominent Americans who have participated in this continuing and frequently intense dialogue. Yet perhaps no voice has been more consistently consulted and valued than that of Sterling A. Brown, distinguished teacher, scholar, poet, and critic. Despite the general acknowledgement of Brown's contributions to American literature in general and black American literature in particular, comprehensive scholarly analyses of his unique contributions have been limited. Joanne V. Gabbin addresses this …
[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii
[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii
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This "revised" biography of Franz Fanon (first published in 1973) is a welcome event for those who either missed feeling the impact of his work in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s or were so blinded by the period's turmoil that Fanon's life and work could not be critically evaluated. Grove Press must be congratulated for re-issuing Gendzier's study, particularly since the political fervor for radical political action has passed (for now) and little profit can be expected from this book. In this day of corporate mergers and greed, a commitment to publish what is in the public interest is meritorious.
[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky
[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky
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This book is a collection of papers originally presented at the 1982 Eighth International Economic History Conference held in Budapest. As the title suggests, the volume incorporates a wide range of geographical areas and historical time periods. This multidisciplinary study represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and thus highlights issues and concerns from various disciplinary perspectives. The twenty-two essays in the volume include macro and micro case studies on several continents with authors from several countries. It makes information from many languages available to the English reader. In a sense there is almost an encyclopedic treatment of various …
[Review Of] Rayna Green, Ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry And Fiction By Native American Women, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Rayna Green, Ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry And Fiction By Native American Women, Helen Jaskoski
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This book begins to meet a significant need; ignorance of writings by women of color prevails throughout the American academic/literary establishment, most instructors being unacquainted even with writers like Leslie Silko and Louise Erdrich. Rayna Green's most important accomplishment may be that her anthology introduces serious readers to Native American women's writing. The collection comprises generous samplings from seventeen contemporary authors writing in English: seven pieces of fiction and almost 200 poems. Silko's work is absent, apparently because of copyright problems; writers represented include Erdrich, Paula Gunn Allen, Wendy Rose, Shirley Hill Witt, Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo, Carol Lee Sanchez.
[Review Of] David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer, Phillips G. Davies
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Greenslade' s rather mod title underlines his main thesis -- namely, that ethnic consciousness among Welsh descendants in North America is very high indeed. Both his own evidence and my own observations convince me that he is perfectly justified in his assertion. The one thing he does not really address is "why?"
[Review Of] Jamshid A. Momeni, Ed. Race, Ethnicity, And Minority Housing In The United States, Vagn K. Hansen
[Review Of] Jamshid A. Momeni, Ed. Race, Ethnicity, And Minority Housing In The United States, Vagn K. Hansen
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In virtually every U.S. city, residents are aware of ethnic divisions among the residential sections of the urban area. Demarcation of zones may he clear or nebulous, but it is present despite decades of "melting pot" rhetoric from opinion leaders. In this collection of articles edited by Jamshid A. Momeni of Howard University, contributors examine the relationship between ethnicity and the location and quality of housing in the United States.
[Review Of] Alan Takeo Moriyama. Imingaisha: Japanese Emigration Companies And Hawaii 1894-1908, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] Alan Takeo Moriyama. Imingaisha: Japanese Emigration Companies And Hawaii 1894-1908, Donald L. Guimary
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When the sugar cane plantation owners in Hawaii realized how effective the immigrant Japanese workers were, the planters were faced with a decision. If they continued to bring in more workers, Hawaii could eventually have more Japanese living there than any other ethnic group. But if the planters did not bring in more Japanese, the production -- and profits -- might decline. Hence a decision was made to continue bringing in more laborers from Japan. The ethnic balance of Hawaii was changed. "In sum the planters chose to place the economic welfare of the plantations ahead of all other considerations."
[Review Of] Peter Najarian. Daughters Of Memory, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Peter Najarian. Daughters Of Memory, Margaret Bedrosian
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Daughters of Memory is Peter Najarian's third work of fiction. The first, Voyages (1971) is a classic story of a young man born to immigrant Armenians beginning to come to terms with his family and communal past against the New Jersey backdrop. Written with lyricism and simplicity, it is one of the finest novels by an Armenian American writer. Najarian continued to explore the various parts of his psyche in the less accomplished second book, Wash Me On Home, Mama (1978). But it is only in this latest work that his growing maturity as a writer combined with his developing …
[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] 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] 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] 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.
[Review Of] Frederick J. Dockstader. The Kachina And The White Man: The Influences Of White Culture On The Hopi Kachina Cult, Nancy M. Osborn
[Review Of] Frederick J. Dockstader. The Kachina And The White Man: The Influences Of White Culture On The Hopi Kachina Cult, Nancy M. Osborn
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To the delight of scholars of Native American studies and all other readers with even a passing interest in traditional Puebloan cultures of the American Southwest, Frederick Dockstader' s classic study, The Kachina and the White Man, now has been published in a revised and expanded version. This historical narrative of Hopi life, using spirit beings known as kachinas as its central focus, traces the changes and adaptations the Hopi have made in response to pressures placed upon that Indian culture by the seemingly -- inevitable contact with white society. In addition, the author describes in infinite detail the ceremonialism, …
[Review Of] Ian Smart. Central American Writers Of West Indian Origin: A New Hispanic Literature, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Ian Smart. Central American Writers Of West Indian Origin: A New Hispanic Literature, Laverne GonzáLez
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Ian Smart has made, as he himself asserts in the "Author's Foreword," a very limited approach to the very complex body of literature written by Central American authors of West Indian origin. In fact one wonders if indeed his most insistent premises are verifiable: "the region comprises one cultural area in which common factors have forged a more or less common way of looking at life ... share an identifiable Weltanschauung." His emphasis lies on the commonness of the West Indian experiences which he perceives to be African. To be sure, there are many critics who would take issue with …
[Review Of] Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith Mcdaniel, Eds. The Stories We Hold Secret-Tales Of Women's Spiritual Development, Nancy K. Herzberg
[Review Of] Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith Mcdaniel, Eds. The Stories We Hold Secret-Tales Of Women's Spiritual Development, Nancy K. Herzberg
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The Stories We Hold Secret -- Tales of Women's Spiritual Development is an anthology of thirty-one short fiction pieces written by and about women in America. These are not stories about extraterrestrial visits, enlightenment through gurus, or dramatic religious conversion; rather, these are stories of inner knowing, of our "holy dailiness," as Linda Hogan says in the preface. The stories are as varied as women's experience, from the quietness of a Native American woman cooking beans and cornbread in her kitchen to the tumult of a woman who for the first time becomes involved with a workers' strike.
[Review Of] Michael N. Dobkowski, Ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Michael N. Dobkowski, Ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations, David M. Gradwohl
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This encyclopedic reference work on Jewish sodalities is one of a series of Greenwood Press publications dealing with ethnic American voluntary organizations. Previously published volumes deal with Irish Americans and Hispanic Americans. Some 120 national and local organizations are summarized in alphabetical sequence, as it were, from aleph to sof, or in this case from Agudath Ha-Rabbanim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) to the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America).
[Review Of] Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning Of Migration To The Mainland (2nd Edition), Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning Of Migration To The Mainland (2nd Edition), Jesse M. Vazquez
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Joseph Fitzpatrick's second edition of Puerto Rican Americans returns to a form familiar to readers of the literature that emerged during the 1950s and 60s. In that sense, Fitzpatrick's new edition is comprehensive, multifaceted and filled with supporting data touching almost every aspect of the life of the Puerto Rican migrant in the United States. In this new edition, Fitzpatrick builds on the solid foundation of his earlier work (1971). While occasionally leaving himself vulnerable to his critics, as he did in his first edition, this new effort represents a significant contribution to the on-going dialogue and analysis of the …
[Review Of] Jerrald Asao Hiura, Ed. The Hawk's Well, Victor Okada
[Review Of] Jerrald Asao Hiura, Ed. The Hawk's Well, Victor Okada
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Given the paucity of Japanese·American art and literature in print, one can only welcome this collection of poetry, short fiction, black-and-white prints and drawings, and calligraphy. The reader should be advised, however, that the title may seem to promise more than the book delivers; only five artists and five authors (poems by four and a short story by another) are included here. The volume thus does not provide a wide sampling of art or literature.
[Review Of] Toshio Morio. Yokohama, California, Neil Nakadate
[Review Of] Toshio Morio. Yokohama, California, Neil Nakadate
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The reprinting of this book makes accessible to a new generation of readers the pioneering short fiction of the man William Saroyan called "the first real Japanese-American writer" (Introduction to first edition). First announced by the Caxton Printers for publication in 1942 and finally published in 1949, Yokohama, California suffered a vexed debut and a short life of obscurity and neglect. Given but scant notice by reviewers, Mori's slim collection was received even by his ethnic peers more out of loyal curiosity than any shock of recognition. A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades …
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness, Luis L. Pinto
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An analysis of the concept of Hispanic or Latino as a form of an ethnic conscious identity and behavior separate from the individual ethnic identity of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and another Spanish speaking groups is the subject of Latino Ethnic Consciousness. Its focus is Chicago Mexican American and Puerto Rican populations.
[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
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The most compelling aspect of this dramatic history of immigration to the United States via Ellis Island is its vivid documentation of actual human experiences. Personal testimonies from dozens of immigrants form a living tissue that connects the detailed, fully-researched historical data on immigration history. These oral descriptions recreate the journey for us, illustrate the conditions in the homeland being left behind, and give us an insider's view of the bureaucratic tribulations each immigrant faced on Ellis Island. The result is a powerful, inspiring testimonial to the courage, ingenuity, determination, and strength of the human spirit. These accounts, often expressed …
[Review Of] Leslie W. Dunbar, Ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened To Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, And Other Minorities In The Eighties, Carlos F. Ortega
[Review Of] Leslie W. Dunbar, Ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened To Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, And Other Minorities In The Eighties, Carlos F. Ortega
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Six years since President Reagan took office, public policies related to the needs of the poor have been established which set back the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Although gains have been made, at least on the surface, the current administration's policies have widened the gap between those who have and those who have not. Policies such as affirmative action, education programs, and public welfare are being eroded, sacrificed in favor of escalating military budgets and "constructive engagement" in Central America.