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[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
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How does one get home when being home is not safe? Or how does one get home alive when the spirit can be killed in the journey there? Getting home alive means searching for the sacred place from which all life emanates. This search is an all consuming passion for both Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales.
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
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In little over a decade this short novel has become a classic, developing a dedicated following, not only in Asian American communities and literature programs, but also in traditional literature programs alongside books such as Huckleberry Finn where the strategies are the same: the view of the world through the clear eye of youth, the puncturing of both pretense and pretension by the view from the bottom up.
[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian
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This work is of interest to any in ethnic studies for it outlines the need and process of establishing a new order of education which would serve the needs of cultural integrity and world unity. This latest version of Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda's description of such an education, published in 1986, is the culmination of decades of thought and observation by the author, who founded the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture in Calcutta. The Swami has also worked closely with UNESCO in furthering the aims of worldwide cultural education which would promote planetary diversity at the same time that it promotes world harmony.
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
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Felix M. Padilla's Puerto Rican Chicago is a noteworthy contribution to the ever burgeoning literature on the Puerto Rican community in the United States. While it is clearly a detailed sociological history of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago, it is also a study which positions this community in a broader network of racial, ethnic and class interactions. As more literature documents and analyzes the histories of diverse Puerto Rican settlements (from New York to Hawaii), scholars will begin to form a more complete picture of the impact of migration, race, labor and industry, and culture on the development of …
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
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Felix M. Padilla's contribution to the growing body of literature on Latino/Hispanic identity in the United States represents a significant departure from the way most social scientists have approached their analysis of ethnic identity and consciousness. On his way to putting together a conceptual framework for supporting his thesis of an emerging Latino ethnic identity and consciousness, Padilla provides a substantial in-depth analysis of the Mexican American and Puerto Rican community-based organization in Chicago during the early 1970s.
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing account of the origins of the protest that triggered the entire civil rights movement and launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks.
[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
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Schlesier has a necessary footnote advisory to readers explaining the way in which he has structured The Wolves of Heaven. In the advisory Schelesier [Schlesier] writes that the book is a slow read on purpose so as to develop the story of how it was that the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), came out of the boreal forest to become hunters of the northern plains, evolving eventually into the 19th century Tsistsistas bison hunting horse nomads.
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
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There are two tales behind Paul Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation. It is his detailed insider's description and analysis of the Chinese Americans who were commonly tracked into this occupation prior to World War II. The immigrant laundrymen of Chinatown worked long hours for low wages and predominantly remained isolated from mainstream Anglo society. This recent publication of Siu's 1953 dissertation is also the story of a son of a Chinese laundryman who immigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a student of Ernest Burgess at the University of Chicago School of Sociology dominated …
[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes
[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes
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Homecoming is that eternal and unrealizable dream for expatriated Filipinos, from the migrant workers of the 1930s to the skilled and professional immigrants of the last two decades. Sheer economic hardship or cultural estrangement after relocation consign them to limbo and leave-taking. Homecoming becomes an act to be imagined; a dream pursued by Carlos Bulosan in his village stories and 1950s novella, The Power of the People; a hope nursed by the "hurt men" of Bienvenido Santos's Scent of Apples (1981); an experience textualized by Ninotchka Rosca's account of the 1986 Four-Day Revolt in Endgame: The Fall of Marcos.
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
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This volume continues in the same vein as Small Faces, but here the poetic voice is more mature, more reflective. There are forty autobiographical essays treating many of the subjects of Faces: Soto’s wife and daughter, his pets (both present and past), friendships, recollections of his childhood and teen years, sex, and the details of his everyday life. There are also two movie reviews and an account of the writing of a review of a bad novel. The essays are grouped in fours, but they are not presented chronologically, and thus can be read in any order. Each of the …
[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate
[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate
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Citizen 13660, first published in 1946, is part of the scant first-person record of Japanese American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Like S. Frank Miyamoto's Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle (1939, repr. 1984) and Toshio Mori's Yokohama, California (1949, repr. 1986), Okubo's book has been given new life by the University of Washington Press.
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
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Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts is a collection of previously published material on related issues, different genres and varied circumstances written over many years. If a good book is one that can evoke interest and response in the reader while at the same time relaying some sort of message, this book ranks in that category.
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
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It is difficult to know what to make of The Life of Okah Tubbee because it is difficult to know what to make of Okah Tubbee. In the 1840s and 1850s he was a performing musician, a ventriloquist, and an "Indian doctor." He claimed to be a Choctaw chief’s son who, somehow, had begun life as a slave in Natchez, Mississippi. His autobiography, possibly written by his wife (possibly of Delaware and Mohawk extraction), appeared in several formats and editions in 1848 and 1852.
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
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This book does exactly what it says it will, namely to study how language is used by the some two hundred and fifty citizens of Pella who still make use of it. As such it should be useful to those interested in nineteeth [nineteenth] century emigrants from Europe whose descendants are still clinging to part of their ethnic roots.
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
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At the turn of the century, playwrights wrestled with realism and wrought a new theater capable of great poetic and symbolic force. It was an exciting time because artists turned their talents to subjects which had never been deemed fit for the stage. The classic requirements of rank and verse were swept aside as audiences learned that even illiterates could make music with their tongues, and that eloquent, serious exploration of the human condition extended well beyond the provinces of kings and queens.
[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski
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This is Beth Brant's first collection of her own work (she also edited A Gathering of Spirit, a collection of writings by American Indian women, for Sinister Wisdom). Length, genre and approach are mixed: poetry, short story, vignette, ritual, coyote tale. Thematic unity emerges in the book through Brant's focus on integrating and synthesizing her Mohawk family heritage with her current situation as writer, urban mother, and lesbian lover. The piece titled "A Long Story" brings the three themes together in the alternating soliloquies of a nineteenth-century Indian mother whose children have been wrenched a way to boarding school and …
[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian
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Reply from Wilderness Island is Peter Balakian's third published collection of poetry. As with his two earlier works, Father Fisheye (1979) and Sad Days of Light (1983), this most recent one brings together the personal and the historical, as the poet further discovers connections between an American identity and an Armenian ancestry. The first section of the volume is a series of poems about the poet's late father.
[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison
[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison
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This text addresses the complex challenge of comprehending religious otherness. Brown and Brightman present a previously unpublished 1823 letter journal of fur trader George Nelson in which he reflects on his struggle to understand the Cree and Ojibwa people he knew at first hand. While he constantly wondered at the strangeness of Algonquian religion, he also expressed his admiration as frequently. The Cree and the Ojibwa were thoroughly religious and, paradoxical as it seemed to Nelson, he did admit that their religion worked.
[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez
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Lucha Corpi's novel, Delia's Song, operates on several levels which remain basically disparate; that is, we seldom have a sense of complete integration. Perhaps, finally Delia herself, must be seen as symbolic of the Chicana in search of self, although even this falters at times. Finally we cannot be sure if Delia represents all Chicana women, the educated Chicana, or the emerging Chicana. Even her name, "Artemis, the one from Delos .... Delia, the beautiful huntress," compounds the dilemma. Huntress of what? We've witnessed her sexual encounters with various males, Daniel, Mario, Fernando, Roger (the Anglo), Jeff, which suggest that …
[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey
[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey
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Over time the Kalispel Indians of northeastern Washington resisted all federal attempts to remove them from their original homelands. Their tenacious attachment to the land eventually enabled them to gain title to a small reservation on the Pend Oreille River. Never fully satisfied with the size of their reservation (4,269.27 acres) and determined to ensure their cultural survival, the Kalispels initiated a land claims case in 1950. Thirteen long and politically difficult years later the tribe settled for three million dollars. Thereafter, they used the settlement to secure their economic future.
[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton
[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton
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This new edition of Dancing Gods includes a six page foreword by Tony Hillerman, a fourteen page introduction by Erna Fergusson, and twelve pages of black and white illustrations prior to its 273 pages of manuscript. The text is arranged in nine units, with internal subdivisions, and ends with a ten page index.
[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl
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This scientific and artistic tome on Iroquois Indian masks, literally a "coffee table book," has been a long time in production. It is the culmination of over sixty years of interest and study by William N. Fenton, deservedly acknowledged as the dean of Iroquois studies. The author's interest in the subject began during his childhood when he spent summers at his family's farm in up-state New York. His grandfather, W.T. Fenton, had obtained two masks from Amos Snow, an Iroquois friend and neighbor, during the mid-nineteenth century. His father, J. W. Fenton, acquired more than a dozen additional masks as …
[Review Of] Ernesto Juan Fonfrias. Five Women In The Life Of Jesus, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Ernesto Juan Fonfrias. Five Women In The Life Of Jesus, Luis L. Pinto
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Religious themes, especially the Marian, had an increasingly high number of publications last year all over the Christian World because 1987 was a Marian year. One of the most exciting and intriguing titles on this theme is this Puerto Rican poligraph.
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
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A volume of the policy and concept of multiculturalism is particularly welcome at a moment when the issue of minority vs. majority rights is once again flaring up in academics and politics. Canada is at the center of this discussion; but comparisons with the US (and Israel) are frequently made, and the US-American situation is explored at length in two essays by Rose. Also, the editor's introduction, though dealing explicitly only with Canada, raises basic issues of the ambivalent view of ethnic difference in liberal thought that transcend national boundaries.
[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker
[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker
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The first volume of a trilogy by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire: Genesis has been called remarkable, fascinating, vivid, passionate, angry, celebratory, and triumphant. It could also be called a history of Latin America to 1700, though that gives little sense of its style or scope. In his introduction, the author describes himself as "not a historian," but as "a writer who would like to contribute to the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America, that despised and beloved land." To do this he has created a great mosaic of stories, most of …
[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz
[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz
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Anthropologist Landsman has written a fascinating study about the events surrounding the seizure of a 612-acre abandoned girls' camp in upstate New York in May 1974 by a group of Mohawks who named their settlement Ganienkeh. The ensuing Indian-white land dispute eventually culminated in the relocation of the Indians to parkland near the Canadian border in 1978 as a result of a unique arrangement, the Turtle Island Trust Agreement, which for "charitable, religious and educational purposes" under New York State law established "a permanent, non-reservation settlement of Indians claiming sovereign status."
[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold
[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold
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Since the passage of the immigration acts of 1965, a large number of skilled Asians have migrated to the United States. Scholars have noticed this trend, labelling these, along with other skilled third world sojourners, "the new immigration."
[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo
[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo
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This book is a long-neglected product of the 1920s negritude movement, in which a new kind of primi ti vis tic in terest concerning the lives of black men and women in the African Diaspora took hold in the literary words of Europe and America. Batouala was written in French by Rene Maran, an Afro-Caribbean writer living in Paris in the 1920s, who had worked for several years in what was then known as French Equatorial Africa. This edition is a reprint of a 1972 English translation that adheres to the lyrical, sensuous style of Maran's prose and that follows …
[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch
[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch
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Few middle and upper class Americans, whether they are black or white, can fathom the extent of humiliation, suffering, and brutality that black people are currently enduring as a result of the South African apartheid policy. Mark Mathabane's autobiographical book Kaffir Boy documents the inhumane treatment of blacks in that society and relates the "meaning of this policy in human terms." The book gives the reader insight into the daily life of a black family struggling to survive in the midst of hatred and bigotry.
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
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The authors' stated purpose for creation of this book was that no work could be found which was appropriate for undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course which related legal issues in case law to cultural pluralism. The authors stated that they desired to create "a book of readings drawing primarily on case law, but also including a wide variety of social science and humanitarian materials ... [with added] text which described and analyzed the content of these cases." The authors were very successful in this endeavor, in that they have put together an excellent compilation of cases which give a …