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[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman
[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
A unique experience awaits readers of Miracle Hill, the autobiography of Blackhorse Mitchell, nicknamed “Barney” a young Navaho boy who began his own story as an assignment in his twelfth grade English class in the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Arts under the tutelage of Terry D. Allen. Unlike the other students in the class, who finished their life stories in half an hour or so, Barney found that he had a whole book stored up inside him, just waiting to be put on paper But Barney was still in the process of learning English as a second language, …
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In The Immigrants Speak, Italian Americans Tell Their Story LaGumina has fashioned fourteen personal life histories that include miners, shoemakers, a poet, an artist, theater people, a social worker, a soldier, a lawyer and an entrepreneur. Through their recollections they have increased our understanding of the Italian American experience. Their stories. told in the first person, both dramatize and illuminate the role of ethnicity in the twentieth century. As LaGumina states, “These stories detail the lives of a people bridging two cultures in modern history.”
[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry
[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Rebels and Victims is a useful contribution to the comparative analysis of ethnic literature. This balanced, thorough presentation on the fiction of Wright and Malamud examines their ethnic literary works. Avery touches on many interdisciplinary factors which make the book of some interest to those discussing Afro-American and Jewish-American ethnic groups functioning in society.