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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] 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] 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] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Frank D. Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, And Rodolfo Alvarez, Eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Cary D. Wintz
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Mexican-Americans comprise the second largest minority group in the United States and one of the most rapidly growing elements in the population. Their history in the American southwest goes back almost four hundred years, they have interacted with Anglo·Americans in that region since the early nineteenth century, and have been the most numerous immigrant group coming to the United States since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite this clear evidence of their significance and their impact on this country, scholars in the social sciences have often neglected this ethnic group in their research and writing. This volume makes an …
[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] 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] 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.
[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] Joe R. Feagin And Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism And Sexism, 2nd Ed., Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] Joe R. Feagin And Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism And Sexism, 2nd Ed., Margaret A. Laughlin
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Discrimination American Style seeks to answer two basic questions: "Why do women, blacks, and other minorities experience discrimination in the United States?" and "What types of discriminatory behaviors continue in practice today?" Feagin and Feagin attempt to integrate existing research on issues of racism and sexism which focuses on the overall theme of institutional discrimination. They examine similarities and differences between racist and sexist behaviors and practices in order to determine whether or not discrimination exists, and if so, to what degree. They reject the popular belief that prejudice and bigotry are causes of discrimination and argue that practices which …
[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] John A. Grim. The Shaman: Patterns Of Siberian And Ojibway Healing, Ronald N. Satz
[Review Of] John A. Grim. The Shaman: Patterns Of Siberian And Ojibway Healing, Ronald N. Satz
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John A. Grim utilizes the methodology of the fields of anthropology, mythology, psychology, and sociology to elucidate the religious meaning of shamanism as exemplified in Siberian and Ojibway societies. Although shamans have long been viewed as primordial religious personalities, a comprehensive interpretation of the shamanic religious experience has been lacking. This book provides important insights that will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in the American Indian religious experience.
[Review Of] Gerri Hirshey. Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music, Gloria Eive
[Review Of] Gerri Hirshey. Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music, Gloria Eive
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Gerri Hirshey's book was conceived, according to her preface, as a series of literary spotlights, illuminating the world of "Soul Music" and the musicians whose performances and recordings created it. In its final form, the book became a collection of semi-biographical sketches combining loosely connected narrative with quotations from the stars themselves, transcribed from Hirshey's many interviews. Her expressed intent was to create "a book of voices" speaking of their music, their lives, their hopes, fears and expectations. The title is taken from the song made famous by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (1965) and reflects emotions expressed by many …
[Review Of] June Jordan. On Call: Political Essays, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] June Jordan. On Call: Political Essays, Linda M. C. Abbott
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With the publication of her second book of political essays, internationally acclaimed poet June Jordan has established herself as an important spokesperson for the "First World" viewpoint. Just as she reasonably insists on referring to the majority population as "First World" rather than the more familiar "Third World," so she opens many common assumptions in cross-cultural and international relations to examination and re-evaluation.
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn. Sole Survivor, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn. Sole Survivor, Russell Endo
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In November, 1942, the British freighter Benlomond was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of South America with the loss of its entire crew except for a young Chinese steward named Poon Lim. Through his resourcefulness and determination, Lim survived on a wooden raft for 133 days before being picked up by a Brazilian fisherman. Sole Survivor is a fictionalized account of Lim's experience, the longest such ordeal at sea, based largely on interviews with Lim, military and maritime documents, and magazine and newpaper [newspaper] stories.
[Review Of] Nicholasa Mohr. Rituals Of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Nicholasa Mohr. Rituals Of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, Luis L. Pinto
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Rituals of Survival: A Woman 's Portfolio is a collection of six short stories written by the New York born Puerto Rican female writer, Nicholasa Mohr. Mohr has written a very effective myth-breaking account about six Puerto Rican women who defy all odds and survive in the asphalt jungle, best known as New York City.
[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] 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] 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] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell
[Review Of] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell
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This is a book that is important for what it begins and for what will follow it, as well as for what it is. It demonstrates that there have been hundreds of black women photographers, working almost from the time the camera was invented, whose contributions, and even existence, have not been documented. Mainstream histories of photography have included few black photographers and no black female photographers. I expect this book to stimulate others to research the many women photographers mentioned here, as well as those who are missing, and I hope they do this research before the materials are …
[Review Of] Mark Naison. Communists In Harlem During The Depression, W. A. Jordan Iii
[Review Of] Mark Naison. Communists In Harlem During The Depression, W. A. Jordan Iii
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The Communist Party and its relationship to blacks in the United States is a difficult subject to fully research. Necessary critical information must lie in still secret vaults in Washington and in Moscow. Naison's former dissertation is a praise-worthy effort to unravel fact from fantasy as it applied to Black Harlem and the Party.
[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] R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music And Cycles: Native American Flute Music, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music And Cycles: Native American Flute Music, David M. Gradwohl
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Perhaps humans are most ethnocentric when it comes to matters of food and music. "Soul food" has become a dimension for defining ethnic groups -- the dishes may be chitlins, bagels, tacos or other such foods. As society becomes more open, these foods pass from the ghettos and barrios to the community at large. One would hope that some inter-ethnic group understanding and appreciation might accompany the sharing of varying gustatory pleasures. Music represents another dimension of ethnic group identity. As with learning to eat different foods, one might comprehend something of the spirit of another people by listening to …