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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller
[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller
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"The time has come to be both joyous and lyrical about the particular exhilaration in the experience of the American immigrants and their descendents," writes Rose Basile Green in the introduction of this volume of poetry. "In lifting harmonized voices, the people of this nation sing in a symphony of one theme-we are all Americans" (4).
[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Signe Hammer. Daugh Ters And Mothers: Mothers And Daughters, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Poet, actress, and author ( Women: Body and Culture), Signe Hammer here attempts an exploration of the complex bonds and strains between women, their daughters, and their mothers. While it is written for a popular audience, the book's credibility is strengthened by the inclusion of scholarly chapter notes following the final chapter.
[Review Of] Wan Hashim. Race Relations In Malaysia, Foster Brown
[Review Of] Wan Hashim. Race Relations In Malaysia, Foster Brown
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Wan Hashim is presently a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. He obtained his master's degree in Social Anthropology from Monash University, Australia, and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.
[Review Of] Jamake Highwater. The Sun, He Dies, Mic Denfeld
[Review Of] Jamake Highwater. The Sun, He Dies, Mic Denfeld
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How do we ever own our history? How do we ever come to grips with our fairy tales of that history? How do we ever rationalize genocide? The Sun, He Dies makes us ask. Aztec Mexico is presented with its intricacies and intrigues, dreams and realities in this fictional piece based on folk history and historical documents. Nanuatzin, the "woodcutter," is the invented character who ties the events together and presents this alternative view of history that we must face. In the "Afterward and Notes on Sources," Highwater states, " History is always the account of events as seen and …
[Review Of] Ambrose Y.C. King And Rance P.L. Lee, Eds. Social Life And Development In Hong Kong, Richard Doi
[Review Of] Ambrose Y.C. King And Rance P.L. Lee, Eds. Social Life And Development In Hong Kong, Richard Doi
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This book is a collection of research papers on the political and social conditions of Hong Kong sponsored by the Social Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The collection is not a comprehensive coverage of such conditions in Hong Kong. I t is a selective report with the purpose of updating existing information. The new information will provide a better understanding of Hong Kong's problems and serve as a resource in coping with these problems.
[Review Of] Arnoldo De Ledn. The Tejano Community, 1836 - 1900, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Arnoldo De Ledn. The Tejano Community, 1836 - 1900, Wolfgang Binder
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De León's pioneering effort is a most welcome volume to Chicano Studies. The historian's findings in the history of the Mexicans in Texas during most of the last century present a major addition to our knowledge of how agrarian Tejanos lived from the Texas Revolution to the turn of the century.
[Review Of] Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Wisconsin Indians, John Heimerl
[Review Of] Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Wisconsin Indians, John Heimerl
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The author, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, is a native of Wisconsin born in Milwaukee, where she is now the Head Curator of Anthropology of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Prior to this position she was the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Lurie is author of The American Indian Today, which received an award for scholarship and has written Mountain Wolf Woman, the autobiography of a Winnebago woman, and numerous articles.
[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky
[Review Of] Ellen Matthews. Culture Clash, Robert Warshawsky
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One tragedy of war is a people uprooted-tom from their land, history, and culture to seek a haven in a foreign country. Culture Clash is such a story. Ellen Matthews describes a Vietnamese family's struggle to adapt to American culture and yet retain their autonomy and self-respect. As a freelance writer and sponsor of Quang and his family, the author is well qualified to write this unpretentious account of their mutual experience. Composed from a diary the author kept between 1975-1979, the text is a detailed subjective study of the day-to-day events and conflicts between herself and the Quang family.
[Review Of] Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Eds. Oklahoma Memories, Robert Gish
[Review Of] Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Eds. Oklahoma Memories, Robert Gish
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Oklahoma looms large in the legends and imagination of westering Americans. Much more than one of the most northeastern of the Southwestern states, Oklahoma in the hearts and minds of many amounts to the fiction of Edna Ferber's Cimarron or John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. "Okies" assuredly have their own mystique if not their own stereotype. Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland, the editors of Oklahoma Memories, seek to document that the "history" of Oklahoma, as recorded by people who have traveled across it and settled it from Indian Territory days to the present, is just as fascinating as its …
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Thomas C. Maroukis
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Thomas C. Maroukis
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In December, 1977, one of Africa's most celebrated novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong '0, was arrested by the government of Kenya and imprisoned for a year without being charged, tried or convicted of any crime. Detained is his prison diary.
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner
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James Ngugi without question is Kenya's most prominent and most highly regarded novelist to date. Of the same generation of writers as Achebe, Armah, Soyinka, and Owoonor of West Africa, Ngugi, like them, after a local university education, went abroad for advanced work. In 1964 at Leeds, Ngugi published his novel Weep Not, Child, written when he was a student at Makerere. Shortly thereafter, in 1965, he published The River Between which he had composed even earlier. With A Grain of Wheat the writer completed in 1967 a kind of trilogy, depicting for a western readership a literary explanation and …
[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson
[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson
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Dread is an exploration of the thought world of the Rastafarian Brethren of Jamaica as synthesized by the author. Father Owens, a white American-born Jesuit priest, did several years of intensive visiting with and listening to Rasta thinkers in the slums of western Kingston, Jamaica; most contact was from 1970 to 1972. He originally met the Rastas while he was doing teaching and social work in the area, and he seems to have been accepted by many of them as a sympathetic listener. Through Owens, Rasta thought comes across as a form of revitalization movement based on a unique interpretation …
[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart
[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart
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Gathering What the Great Nature Provided is a book about the Gitskan Indian tribe in North Central British Columbia living on the banks of the Skenna River. The book resulted from a project by ninety members of the tribe whose purpose was to document their past for themselves and future generations. This collective authorship shows the commitment and dedication of the people to the goal. Elders were questioned and memories strained to remember the distant past. Their culture is conveyed in a rich oral tradition. The writing was difficult and tedious, accomplished by long hours of interviewing and transcription of …
[Review Of] Robert J. De Pietro And Edward Ifkovic, Eds. Ethnic Perspectives In American Literature: Selected Essays On The European Contribution, Stewart Rodnon
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Because of the present concentrated push to reshape our view of American literature, the battle to include more ethnic and female writers in the traditional stream of our literature is clearly being won, and the salad bowl is replacing the melting pot as a central metaphor in our writing. Correctly, editors DePietro and Ifkovic in this sourcebook emphasize that now various European ethnic groups have been sparked to cultural pluralism by the raising of our consciousness during the past two decades to the riches in black, brown, and red literatures. Further, they indicate that several bibliographies of ethnic writings now …
[Review Of] A. Partes And C. Hirschman, Eds. "Special Issue: Theory And Methods In Migration And Ethnic Research," International Migration Review, John P. Roche
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The summer, 1982, edition of the International Migration Review is a special issue. It contains eight articles which are revisions of papers presented at the Conference on Immigration and Ethnicity Theory and Research, held at Duke University in May, 1981. The purpose of this meeting was to assess the state of knowledge in the field, present new findings and ideas, and identify areas for future investigation. Special attention was given to the determinants of migration, the reception of ethnic minorities, and changes over time.
[Review Of] Wilma Rudolph, Wilma, Stewart Rodnon
[Review Of] Wilma Rudolph, Wilma, Stewart Rodnon
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In 1960 at the 18th modern Olympiad in Rome, Wilma Rudolph, twenty-years-old and black from Clarksville, Tennessee, became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals. Having experienced physical handicaps, racial prejudice, and bitter poverty, she had stretched her natural abilities to become the fastest woman runner of her day. Subsequently she received plenty of promotion but little cash, and her message calls attention to the precarious emotional and financial status of black American women, especially black American women athletes. This autobiography (Martin Ralbovsky, author of the excellent Destiny's Darlings, a boys-of-summer story of Little League baseball, is …