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Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 9, Summer, 1989
[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto
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Influenced by the teachings of his mentor and friend Manfred Halpern, David Abalos brings in this book a radically new understanding of the political choices that Hispanics living in the United States must make in their everyday struggle for survival.
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[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
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Until the Morning After represents a large share of the poetry and the life of Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor. The poems are grouped by sections, titles of earlier volumes arranged sequentially. Much of Awoonor's rather stormy life, including his political protest, strategic self-exile, and incarceration is reflected in this collection. But there are central themes: a love of land, an ethnic pride, a desire to perpetuate local expressions and natural beauties. Despite his years abroad and extensive travels, Awoonor's poetry is very African. In fact, it is a celebration of Africanness. Characteristically, although he signed his earlier work as George …
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
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According to Bell, his book is "a comprehensive sociopsychological, sociocultural interpretive history of the Afro-American novel. It seeks to unearth, identify, describe, and analyze some of the major thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the Afro-American novel from its beginning in 1853 to 1983." This quotation about the book's scope and intention, as well as its title, are indicative of the strengths and weaknesses (mainly the latter) of the entire study. For one thing, it is an understood fact that just as there are African-American experiences, there are also literary traditions. Whereas one study of one tradition (such as Barbara …
[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig
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The author's stated purpose of this work was to "inform the reader about the Chicano population and its concerns" and "the potential impact of the group on America's future." In that sense the work is a resounding success. The author correctly points out that "those who teach and design policy relevant to Hispanic children are few ... [and thus] the need to understand the Chicano in order not only to be able to provide services but also better race and ethnic relations in the United States" is great.
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
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It is risky for an editor to compose a book of twenty-one interviews , each being centered in the same type of questions: What started you writing? Who were your models? What role does your tradition play in your work? How do you relate to mainstream poetry? The amazing result of reading this book is the recognition that it is neither repetitious nor dull, but highly informative and a pleasure to read. The reason for this outcome lies not only in the poetic sensibility, literary knowledge, and psychological skill of the interviewer, but in the quality of the poets selected …
[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua
[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua
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This is a more than capable first book by a Chinese American woman poet whose work evinces great potential. Marilyn Chin is a San Franciscan born in Hong Kong, raised in Oregon, and schooled in the U.S. (Chinese at Massachusetts and creative writing at Iowa). Many of her poems gathered here first saw light in journals like Bridge, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Kayak and others.
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
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Politically-oriented poetry is difficult to do well. Many politically oriented writers resist displaying a certain type of passion, the type of intense commitment that helps a writer convey ideas without being didactic, because displaying such intensity may make the writer feel vulnerable or weak in public. Conversely, many poets and artists use their art to grasp and convey what they see as profound dichotomy need not hold firm, however. Art, including poetry, has shown itself to be an effective way to convey important ideas, and the political struggles that surround issues of racial violence, oppression, war, famine, and the destruction …
[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride
[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride
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This anthology bobs out of the stormy sea of psychological research centered on minorities. The relationship between psychometrics and American minorities such as blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics, is a long and troubled one. Prior to World War II standardized psychologic instruments were used mostly to assess and compare educational performance or "temperament" of whites and blacks or other racial minorities. But criticism emerged which questioned the reliability of such psychological tests. The tests seemed to find that, first, blacks and other minorities were inferior educational achievers compared to whites; and, second, severe psychosocial deficiencies of these minority group populations …
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
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Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982 is a landmark publication. It is a comprehensive record and holdings list of extant issues of 1,164 historical and current periodicals published for the past 150 years . The scope of this volume is broad, covering literary, political, and historical journals as well as general newspapers and feature magazines.
[Review Of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily, Franchot Ballinger
[Review Of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily, Franchot Ballinger
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Waterlily is a fictional rendering of a typical Teton woman's life in the nineteenth century, at the time the Sioux were first experiencing contact with the invading white world. The perspective from which the work was written (in the 1940s) is unique on two counts. First, its author was herself Sioux (albeit Yankton, not Teton) which allowed her to bring to the work an understanding and empathy not available to the mostly male Euro-American ethnographers also writing about the Sioux
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
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Like so many accounts of immigration, this has both a dark side and a light side. The latter is primarily a story of courage and determination and final success. The former is one of persecution and of propaganda, both pro- and anti-Mormon.
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
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In this work Deriada portrays through a series of seven plays an accurate portrayal of life in the Philippine Islands. The images presented could only be developed by someone who has lived and experienced the culture first hand.
[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan
[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan
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Marina E. Espina's Filipinos in Louisiana is her long awaited, first collection; it is also an announcement of her book on eighteenth-century Filipino settlement in Louisiana and the United States, Manilamen in the New World. The chapters of Filipinos in Louisiana are Espina's articles in chronological order covering two decades of research, all of which were published between 1976 and 1981 in Philippine News, New Orleans Ethnic Cultures and Perspectives on Ethnicity in New Orleans. Filipinos in Louisiana opens a little-known compartment in the history of the Filipino-American community. Espina, as a professional librarian, has had access to archival resources …
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Following David J. Garrow's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Bearing the Cross, Adam Fairclough makes extensive use of information gleaned from FBI wiretaps as well as other sources in an effort to peruse the soul of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Fairclough's subtitle is no accident, for he focuses at least as much on the SCLC as he does on King. Significantly, this emphasis causes him to add a chapter about the SCLC after King's death, a postscript not available in other books about King.
[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan
[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan
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The past several years have witnessed the publication of a handful of books and articles focusing on Latino politics in the United States. These studies fall into three general categories: the first type of research attempts to shatter the popular myths about the lack of political sophistication among Latinos by discussing institutional obstacles which hinder Latino political aspirations; the second kind of study documents the rich organizational history of Latinos over the past century; the third type of literature promotes a variety of theoretical models as a way to explain the lack of influence of Latinos on the electoral process.
[Review Of] E. Jane Gay. With The Nez Perces: A Lice Fletcher In The Field, 1889-92, Gretchen Harvey
[Review Of] E. Jane Gay. With The Nez Perces: A Lice Fletcher In The Field, 1889-92, Gretchen Harvey
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Persons interested in Indian history will not want to overlook this collection of E. Jane Gay's letters written from Nez Perce (Nimipu) country between 1889-1892. On four separate trips to the West, Gay accompanied her friend, special agent and anthropologist Alice Fletcher, whose job it was to coordinate the allotment of the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho. While "Her Majesty" (Gay's endearment for Fletcher) figures prominently in the correspondence, the letters tell us less about Fletcher than the subtitle suggests. What they do provide, however, is an insightful account of the allotment process at the local level, and herein lies …
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
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Gikandi, has added an excellent critical work to his earlier volumes on new African writers. Employing the techniques of modern criticism, he analyzes significant works of eleven African writers including, among others, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ferdinand Oyono, and Ayi Kwei Armah. He is concerned with the form-content relationship in the novels examined, as well as the part played by centers of consciousness of main characters. As he states, he set out to "show how ... life and consciousness" move from external reality of the novel to "interiority."
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
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Howard Harrod's work provides an interpretation of the religious and moral world of the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne and Blackfeet tribes of the Northwestern Plains. Well aware that the material he is utilizing represents interpretations by early ethnographers, he transcends this hermeneutical problem to provide an idealized reconstruction of this world guided by the theories of Schutz and Geertz and the work of Joseph Brown.
[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert
[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert
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Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian of the Northern Lushootseed of Western Washington, has collected and edited thirty-three fine examples of Salish oral literature. As an instructor in Lushootseed Salish language and literature at the University of Washington, she has had excellent opportunities to collect material and work out a presentational form in English. This volume collects stories from the Myth Age with special emphasis on Raven, Mink and Coyote stories. These stories, largely "light and humorous," explore the actions of beings with human and animal characteristics who existed before the world was transformed into the world we see today. Hilbert …
[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck
[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck
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In the last ten years a number of critical studies on the Harlem Renaissance have been published, and these in turn have sparked a revival of interest in the cultural, political, and social activities that took place during the ten-year period in Afroamerican history between 1919 and 1929. There is a renewed interest in the life and writings of Renaissance figures such as Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes. Hence many of their autobiographies, first published in the 1930s and 1940s, are being reissued in response to the demand for more information …
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
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Covering the period from the beginning of slavery in America and up to the present, this important and powerful book demonstrates the necessity for a black theology. Major Jones provides an incisive analysis of each entity of the Godhead-God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and relates it to the oppressed African-American. Drawing on his own impressions and the findings of many other theologians, Major Jones has provided an informed up-to-date basis for black Christianity. This book is an excellent synthesis of the paucity of research on African-American theology. However, the book does not appear to meet one of its …
[Review Of] Ruth Kirk. Tradition And Change On The Northwest Coast: The Makah,Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, And Nuxalt, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Ruth Kirk. Tradition And Change On The Northwest Coast: The Makah,Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, And Nuxalt, David M. Gradwohl
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Much has been written about the traditional social organization, art, and technology of the Northwest Coast Indians whose settlements stretch from the state of Washington, through British Columbia, and into southern Alaska. In this volume, writer-photographer Ruth Kirk summarizes the historic and present-day culture of four native groups in the southern part of this region: the Makah, Southern Kwakiutl, and people who call themselves Nuu-chah-nulth and Nuxalk. Until recently, the latter two groups were referred to, respectively, as the Nootka and the Bella Coola. Kirk's task, undertaken with the sponsorship of the Royal British Columbia Museum, was to update information …
[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell
[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell
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Peter Kwong presents a provocative portrait of Chinese-Americans in The New Chinatown. This book describes aspects which have been the basis for the development of Chinese-American culture. However, the book does not (as the title indicates) clearly differentiate between a "new" Chinatown and an "old" Chinatown. Thus, an initial review left this reader wondering why the book is titled as such.
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
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This latest study of immigrant entrepreneurs to come out of the collaborative efforts of sociologists Light and Bonacich is another significant contribution to Asian American Studies specifically, but also to ethnic studies, immigrant studies, urban studies , and business-economic studies in general. It contributes to our understanding of the history of Los Angeles, and it constitutes an important companion piece to existing studies of Korean Americans, such as Illsoo Kim's work on Koreans in New York City. As a case study, it also elaborates on the related theoretical models of "middlemen minorities" and "immigrant entrepreneurs," and how, in this case, …
[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones
[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones
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The White Press and Black America chronicles the many deficiencies of press coverage of black America. Martindale, an assistant professor of journalism at Youngstown State University, has worked as a newspaper reporter and section editor and has published articles in several scholarly journals. She is to be commended for her compelling and informative book.
[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser
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The editors in attempting to cover Chicano literature written since 1848 by Americans of Mexican descent have done a fine service for all students of American literature whether they are specialists or generalists, tyros or scholars. The work in more than one way provides a comprehensive reference guide.
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling
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With her latest book, Chinese American Portraits, Ruthanne Lum McCunn adds to her growing list of publications about the painful struggle and heroic survival of the Chinese in America. In an engaging novelistic style, accompanied by equally eloquent photographs, she tells detailed stories of seventeen diverse men and women, ranging from Yung Wing, educator and patriot, and the first Chinese to graduate from an American university (Yale, class of 1854), to Ho Yuet Fung, writer and filmmaker, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1970s. Interspersed within these primary narratives are photographs and lengthy captions telling the stories of other …
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
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The twelve individual essays contained in this volume were originally presented as papers in the Cemeteries and Gravestones Section at a conference of the American Culture Association. A short foreword by James Deetz, an early leader in the anthropological study of New England cemeteries from the colonial period, provides some instructive initial insights into the wealth of cultural information which can be derived from the study of mortuary behavior in the United States. Meyer's thoughtful introduction and his topical bibliography, though not exhaustive, will be of considerable utility for those wishing to pursue the research topic further. An index along …