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Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 7, Issue 1, 1984
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s, Linda M.C. Abbott
Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s, Linda M.C. Abbott
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Psychological services, as a part of the health-care system, have been "embedded in specific configurations of cultural meanings and social relationships,"[1] and the role of patients and healers cannot be understood apart from that context. This article explores the failure of psychology to effectively address the inhibiting impact of racism on human development, and it suggests a corrective agenda for the training of socially responsive and responsible psychologists, an agenda derived from the literacy education model of Paulo Freire.
Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins
Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Cecilia E. Dawkins
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Abbott's presentation should be of critical concern for educators and practitioners who prepare others to deliver psychological services to ethnic minority clients. A strong point of the article is the description of a serious problem in many educational programs which fail to adequately prepare psychologists to work among a variety of ethnic groups. Equally significant, the author provides pragmatic recommendations and strategies for addressing the concerns which emerge from a theoretical framework.
Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Anthony J. Cortese
Critique [Of Ethnicity And Empowerment: Implications For Psychological Training In The 1980s By Linda M.C. Abbott], Anthony J. Cortese
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The United States has a poor record in meeting the mental health needs of its minority populations. By focusing on individual pathology and relying on the white male as norm, practitioners have provided an ethnocentric and ineffective means of treating their culturally diverse clients. No longer can mental health problems be regarded only in terms of disabling mental illnesses and identified psychiatric disorders. They must also embody harm to mental health linked with perpetual poverty and unemployment and the institutionalized discrimination that happens on the basis of race or ethnicity, age, sex, social class, and mental or physical handicap. In …
Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual, Kristin Herzog
Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual, Kristin Herzog
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The poem prefaces Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, the story of a young American Indian who regains the wholeness and meaning of his life by rediscovering his ancient tribal roots and rituals.[1] It is a story of the American Southwest, especially the Pueblo-Laguna people. Anyone even vaguely familiar with American Indian culture knows that the groups were originally as different from each other as modern-day Swedes are from Albanians or Catalans, if not more so. There were more than 2,000 independent culture groups in Columbus's time, and they spoke 500 different languages belonging to fifty distinct language groups, some as …
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Linda Jean Carpenter
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Linda Jean Carpenter
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Herzog's article is organized around three threads which she proposes as useful for strengthening the fabric of contemporary U.S. society. The three threads, teased from an exploration of a portion of the Dekanawida-Hayonwatha stories (narrative and ritual of the Haudenosaunee) are: 1. the high status of women in Haudenosaunee society 2. the understanding of statecraft as a sacred responsibility toward all creation 3. peace as justice and wholeness in the social order. The threads found in stories dating back to about the 15th century provide a view of beliefs denominated by the Haudenosaunee society as being praiseworthy and of good …
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Ernest Champion
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Kristin Herzog's journey into the past is a necessary journey for serious students of ethnic and American studies; she establishes the relevance and validity of oral literature which has been relegated to an inferior status by scholars in the western world. The attempt to impose an inferior status on oral literature is rather sinister when one considers the absence of a written literature has been taken to mean an absence of intellectual activity on the part of such people. Not only American Indians but also Africans have suffered a great deal because of the tendency to regard such people as …
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Alice Deck
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Alice Deck
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
After a lengthy description of the various facets of Haudosaunee ritual, Kristin Herzog makes some interesting statements on the parallels between our modem day social arguments and those which plagued them centuries ago. The unique feature of Haudosaunec social organization is its systematic balance of power between the sexes. Although it is doubtful that American women who are currently engaged in a struggle for political and social power will achieve quite the same degree of equity, just studying a society in which such a balance was achieved is helpful for those in the process of defining women's goals and objectives.
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Karl J. Reinhardt
Critique [Of Women, Religion, And Peace In An American Indian Ritual By Kristin Herzog], Karl J. Reinhardt
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The value of Herzog's study, in addition to the factual information presented, is a tragic reminder of two interrelated truths: 1) by studying history we could learn how to make a better world in which to live; and, 2) we do not learn from history. The women's movement of recent years has two aspects which do not, for all times, go together. One moving force in its genesis is the demand that physical and emotional abuse and misuse of women by men cease. The other, not necessarily related to the first, is that of equal status, which includes equal access …
Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison, Linda Buck Myers
Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison, Linda Buck Myers
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Humpty Dumpty was correct to see the important connection between language and power; and if Lewis Carroll had developed this discussion further, he might have had his characters comment as well on the interrelationship between language and thought, language and culture, and language and social change. While linguists and anthropologists continue the difficult debate about whether language is culture or is merely "related" to culture, and while sociolinguists and psychologists question the effects of language on society and on the psyche, American blacks and women understand all too well that "He is master who can define,"[1] and that the process …
Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Neil Nakadate
Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Neil Nakadate
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In "Stranger in the Village" (1953), James Baldwin asserted that "the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it." In her article on naming in Toni Morrison's novels, Linda Buck Myers asks us to consider Morrison's insights regarding who does the controlling and how. In the end Myers offers us a number of useful and provocative observations regarding language and our uses of it as they inform ethnic experience.
Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Richard Herrnstadt
Critique [Of Perception And Power Through Naming: Characters In Search Of Self In The Fiction Of Toni Morrison By Linda Buck Myers], Richard Herrnstadt
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Linda Buck Myers's "Perception and Power Through Naming" is an especially interesting and perceptive analysis of some of the unique ways in which Toni Morrison uses language to develop meaning through characterization; and the article deals with issues that are at the thematic core of Morrison's four published novels. Indeed, the subtitle of the article, "Characters in Search of a Self in the Fiction of Toni Morrison," is perhaps a more accurate description of what the author properly finds to be basic to an understanding of Morrison's fiction. The need for people to achieve self-identity within a societal framework is, …
The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby
The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
"Haudenosaunee," you say? "And how do you spell that?" I asked. That was my response to Thadodahho at Onondaga in the summer of 1983 as he raised my consciousness about the name Iroquois as used by the French and the name Haudenosaunee as the People name themselves.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, 1984
[Index, Volume 6, 1983] Titles
[Index, Volume 6, 1983] Titles
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 6, 1983
[Review Of] Cav. Valentine J. Belfiglio. The Italian Experience In Texas, Marvin Harris
[Review Of] Cav. Valentine J. Belfiglio. The Italian Experience In Texas, Marvin Harris
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Many people, even native Texans, may be surprised to learn the extent to which Italians have been present and influential in Texas, especially since the late nineteenth century. They are aware of the various cultures that settled the state, such as Hispanics, Germans, Czechoslovakians, and blacks; yet few know that "Italians have been a part of the history of the state since 1540."
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Breaking Silence: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Poets, James B. Irby
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Breaking Silence: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Poets, James B. Irby
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Bruchac has compiled an anthology of contemporary Amerasian poets who speak in clear and melodious voices. These poets of Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino backgrounds present and affirm fresh ideas and viewpoints in poetic form. They offer an understanding of their backgrounds through variant ideas. Each one captures some sense of her or his background culture and shows how their individual lives have been affected by it.
[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon
[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Arthur Ashe, tennis professional who in 304 tournaments won fifty-one and reached the finals in forty-two others, had a heart attack at thirty-six and then quadruple bypass surgery. A sensitive, well-read and intelligent black athlete, Ashe is instinctively conservative and projects a concerned curiosity in his quest for understanding not only his own problems as man and athlete but also today's serious racial and political issues. This book, his third, is clearly written (with Neil Amdur, New York Times sportswriter) and reflects Ashe's respect for, and admiration of the English language: "I like the English language and its nuances ... …
[Review Of] John R. Cooley. Savages And Naturals: Black Portraits By While Writers In Modern American Literature, Richard L. Herrnstadt
[Review Of] John R. Cooley. Savages And Naturals: Black Portraits By While Writers In Modern American Literature, Richard L. Herrnstadt
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
John R. Cooley's Savages and Naturals is a critical analysis of the ways in which "modern" American writers have depicted black characters. His thesis, briefly stated, is that in their fiction white American writers portray black Americans as primitives-as "savages" or as "naturals." "Savages" are those who are perceived as intrinsically evil and who consequently represent a threat to civilized society. "Naturals" are those who are simple, essentially rustic folk (the term is only roughly synonymous to the traditional "noble savage").
[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer
[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Phillips G. Davies, part Welsh himself, has taught in the English Department at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, since 1 954. He has recently published translations of accounts of Welsh settlements, mostly in the Middle West.
[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver
[Review Of] Susan Schaefer Davis. Patience And Power, Women's Lives In A Moroccan Village, Edith Blicksilver
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
For most Americans, Morocco calls to mind nomadic Berber horsemen, sinister spies in dimly-lit Casbah cafes, the armed intervention of marines in 1801 to subdue marauding pirates. Certainly, except for exotic stereotypical cabaret singers, Moroccan women have played no role in the Hollywood versions of what village life is like in this small, mountainous North African country whose history was shaped by such diverse groups as Arabs, Moors, Frenchmen and Spaniards. Anthropologist Susan Schaefer Davis at Trenton State University has described women's lives in a specific Moroccan village in her skillfully constructed exploration of lifestyle experiences in a collection of …
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians. American Justice, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians. American Justice, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Two attorneys, both professors of political science, have written this book on American Indians and the American legal system to clarify American Indian people's place vis-a-vis the United States system of justice. The first chapter provides a much-needed historical context for the current situations. The authors trace the rather convoluted pattern of Indian-U.S. relationships from first contact with the "great white father" through the treaty system, allotment, the Indian Reorganization Act, termination policies, and self-determination, evaluating the malign or benign effects of several presidents. Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon had positive influences on legislation focusing on American Indians; …
[Review Of] Richard J. Fapso. Norwegians In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer
[Review Of] Richard J. Fapso. Norwegians In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The pamphlet opens with a description of Norway, the land and its agricultural economy, the increased population that resulted from the industrial revolution, and the development of a cash economy. Three pages of photographs and a map of land use in Norway supplement this section. The fixed classes of the agricultural system included a large number of border or freeholders and husbands or cotters who considered themselves free but who were often landless despite their free status. In 1825, Norwegian migration to America began, by 1 835 it had picked up speed, and by 1860 nearly 70,000 Norwegians had emigrated …
[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia
[Review Of] John E. Farley. Majority-Minority Relations, Homer D. C. Garcia
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
John E. Farley, who is on the faculty of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville), says that he has written this book because he is concerned about the deteriorating status of minorities and intergroup relations in the United States. His main objective is to increase awareness of these issues among college students in race relations classes by not only describing but also analyzing and attempting to explain the problems which our society faces.
[Review Of] John E. Fleming, Gerald R. Gill, And David H. Swinton. The Case For Affirmative Action For Blacks In Higher Education ., P. Rudy Mattai
[Review Of] John E. Fleming, Gerald R. Gill, And David H. Swinton. The Case For Affirmative Action For Blacks In Higher Education ., P. Rudy Mattai
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The case for affirmative action has become a major problematic concern within the last several years. Beginning with the notorious Bakke vs. the Regents of the University of California, 1978, and cresting with the recent ultraconservative stance taken by at least the most vocal members of the Civil Rights Commission, affirmative action may very well be the tidal wave that washed against the minds of those who are actively involved in obliterating racism, as well as those who remain unmindful of the beast. The Case For Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education deserves to once again be taken down …
[Review Of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans And Nixon: Presidential Politics And Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans And Nixon: Presidential Politics And Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972, George W. Sieber
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In Native Americans and Nixon, Jack D. Forbes, author of several monographs on the Indian in America's past, has undertaken an important subject, one also difficult because essential sources are lacking. Forbes therefore employs a number of hedges such as "we can only guess" (116) in his conjecture about the motives and actions of the Nixon administration relative to Indian Americans. In a foreword taking twenty-three of the 124 pages of "text," Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz of California State University, Hayward, sets the theme of "neocolonialism." Explaining the background of post-World War II techniques of colonial control, she states that "Hundreds …
[Review Of] Phillip Foss, Ed. The Clouds Threw This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Phillip Foss, Ed. The Clouds Threw This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This is a collection of contemporary American Indian poetry in which the total effort is a result of the poets making the decisions about content rather than the editor. Foss provided the writers with the opportunity to select their own "best" or "favorite" for inclusion, avoiding perhaps the negative response that artists sometimes have to editors who choose the "wrong" poems! It is interesting to see the choices some made; at times I wished for a discerning editor, but the variety of material provided a cross-section of poetry being written today by American Indians.
[Review Of] Ken Goodwin. Understanding African Poetry: A Study Of Ten Poets, Alice A. Deck
[Review Of] Ken Goodwin. Understanding African Poetry: A Study Of Ten Poets, Alice A. Deck
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Understanding African Poetry is a valuable asset to anyone interested in African anglophone poetry. Goodwin offers textual analysis, evaluation, and supplementary contextual information on each of the ten poets he chose to discuss. Much of the analysis shows a keen insight and the contextual commentary is quite informative. However, Goodwin's evaluation reflects his bias towards British and white American concepts of what constitutes "good" poetry.
[Review Of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness In The Human Services, Cecilia E. Dawkins
[Review Of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness In The Human Services, Cecilia E. Dawkins
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
James W. Green has produced a sensitive, thought-provoking book which is based on a multi-ethnic approach in the delivery of human services by social workers. Green is a cultural anthropologist who earned a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington where he is currently a faculty member.