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[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hyung-chan Kim's bibliography of humanities and social science materials on Asian Americans has two basic but important assets. First, its 3,396 entries encompass a large proportion of the relevant literature (creative writing and federal government publications have been excluded as they are adequately covered in other sources). Second, the bibliography is nicely organized. It is divided into two main sections dealing respectively with historical and contemporary matters. Each section has chapters on a variety of subjects, for example marriage and family, community organizations, immigration and refugees, and acculturation, adaptation and assimilation. Within each chapter, the appropriate books/monographs, articles, and theses/dissertations …

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[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1990

[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer

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This is a wide-ranging, insightful and often fascinating survey of popular ethnic musics of the world. The title is perhaps a bit misleading. By "western" Manuel clearly means modern Northern European and those parts of the Americas most directly influenced by the Anglo-Germanic traditions of Northern Europe. This is certainly a current and popular connotation for the word, and most readers should have no trouble with Manuel's use of the term in this way. Readers who are used to thinking of "western" as comprising Europe, Africa and the Americas, however, will have to make adjustments. Manuel excludes consideration of "westernized" …

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[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1990

[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto

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Often political violence in Guatemala is analyzed as if it were identical to political violence in other Central American countries. On account of the desire to simplify this political and economical reality in the public debate, there is a tendency to see the conflict as the result of the international rivalries between East and West. The literature of this conflict deals primarily with the view from government officials and the opinion of the representatives of the transnationals economically involved in the area.

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[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes Jan 1990

[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes

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With the rise of Filipino nationalism in the sixties and the consequent resort to literature written in Filipino and the vernacular, Philippine writing in English ebbed in importance. At that decisive juncture of national crisis, the verdict was made that Philippine literature in English had reached a dead end. Scholars and critics produced searching critiques of aesthetic orthodoxies and turned their attention to other cultural legacies. This reversal of fortunes for the literature in English after four decades of undisputed hegemony in Philippine cultural life partly explains why its history remains unwritten.

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley

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Gary Soto is one of America's finest poets, a writer whose previous collections (The Elements of San Joaquin -- 1977, The Tale of Sunlight -- 1978, Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom -- 1980, Where Sparrows Work Hard -- 1981, and Black Hair -- 1985) have received wide critical acclaim, not only from Chicano critics but from others as well. In this latest volume Soto again demonstrates that he is an accomplished literary craftsman with a great deal to say. The forty-one poems are presented in three untitled sections and range from pensive reflections on old age and …

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Symbolic And Competitive Racism On Campus, Monica L. Jackson Jan 1990

Symbolic And Competitive Racism On Campus, Monica L. Jackson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

After a short hiatus, overt racism is on the rise again. Increases in reported racially motivated crime and violence have been noted all over the country. In the wider U.S. society, identifiable racial incidents have been estimated to have increased 55 percent from 1986 to 1987. According to the Community Relations Service (CRS), African Americans comprised two-thirds of the victims in the cases reported in 1987. Although this racial violence has taken various forms ranging from name-calling, vandalism, and cross-burning to actual physical assaults that result in casualties and death, these have not been isolated incidents but have their basis …

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"Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name?, Johnny Washington Jan 1990

"Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name?, Johnny Washington

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Within the United States the African American[1] community has again reverted to the problem of ethnic identity and the question, "Who are we -- 'Blacks' or 'African Americans'?" is now being debated. It will be recalled that a similar debate was carried on in the 1960s, and the history of this identity question extends to the 1920s and beyond.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1990

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 13, Issue 2, 1990

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Thinking Woman's Children And The Bomb, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1990

Thinking Woman's Children And The Bomb, Helen Jaskoski

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Sometime in the pre-dawn hours of July 16, 1979, an earthen dam holding back wastes produced by United Nuclear Corporation's uranium mill parted in Church Rock, New Mexico. From the widening breach poured ninety four million gallons of highly contaminated effluent and 1,100 tons of wet slurry sands.

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Critiques [Of "Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name? By Johnny Washington], Bamidele J. Bracy Jan 1990

Critiques [Of "Black" Or "African American"; What's In A Name? By Johnny Washington], Bamidele J. Bracy

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Aside from examining the ways people ascribe meaning to the terms "Black" and "African-American" and possible "underlying social dynamics" impeding or precipitating ethnic label changes, Washington concludes that these above mentioned "sign-posts" may be justifiable periodic changes which an ethnic group should constantly re-interpret on its ever evolving "cosmic" journey. Washington presents an interesting case from a philosophical/metaphysical standpoint. From a social scientific perspective, however, there is much to be determined.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1990

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Contributors Jan 1990

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, 1990

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[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Gobernador Glu Glu Y Otros Cuentos (Governor Glu Glu And Other Stories), Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Gobernador Glu Glu Y Otros Cuentos (Governor Glu Glu And Other Stories), Carl R. Shirley

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Sabine R. Ulibarrí is a prolific and engaging story teller whose works portray the people, the landscape, the folklore, and the tenacious yet evolving way of life in Hispanic northern New Mexico. His previous bilingual collections include Tierra Amarilla (published in Spanish in Ecuador in 1964 and in a dual-language edition in New Mexico in 1971), Mi abuela fumaba puros/My Grandma Smoked Cigars (1977), and Primeros Encuentros/First Encounters (1982.) In these collections, Ulibarri's portrait of the people and the history of his region is an intimate, loving, and somewhat nostalgic one. This latest volume continues to explore the same territory …

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[Review Of] Jack Kugelmass, Ed. Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays On American Jewry, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1990

[Review Of] Jack Kugelmass, Ed. Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays On American Jewry, David M. Gradwohl

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This volume contains twelve varied, academically insightful, and often just plain entertaining chapters, along with the editor's lengthy and instructive introduction. Each chapter includes helpful explanatory footnotes, in-text translation of Hebrew and Yiddish terms, and abundant references to the large body of literature drawn upon by the individual authors. The book should not only be of interest and utility to students specializing in Jewish studies but also to those scholars analyzing the general processes of ethnicity in the United States. For the latter audience, a separate over-all glossary might have enhanced the volume beyond the translations within the text.

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[Review Of] Terry G. Jordan And Matti Kaups. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic And Ecological Interpretation, Richard F. Fleck Jan 1990

[Review Of] Terry G. Jordan And Matti Kaups. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic And Ecological Interpretation, Richard F. Fleck

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Terry Jordan and Matti Kaups have produced a new study which is revealing, thorough, and extremely well documented with ample illustrations, charts, and maps. Their thesis is fascinating: Finnish immigrants played a highly significant role in the shaping of the American backwoods frontier. The authors trace the origin of the Finns from Finland's interior where winters were (are) severe and where chinked log cabins and double-pen cabins became an art along with hunting, gathering, and marginal crop growing. Such a life style prepared them for immigration from Savo-Karelian Finland to the lower Delaware Valley settlements in New Jersey and Pennsylvania …

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[Review Of] Sophie Trupin. Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs Of A Jewish Homesteader, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sophie Trupin. Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs Of A Jewish Homesteader, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Dakota Diaspora was originally published in 1984 by the Alternative Press in Berkeley and quickly went out of print. The University of Nebraska Press is to be congratulated for putting the volume back into circulation.

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[Review Of] Ralph David Abernathy. And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography, Keith D. Miller Jan 1990

[Review Of] Ralph David Abernathy. And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography, Keith D. Miller

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

When this book appeared, major elements of the press selected a tiny fragment for a front-page story worthy of the National Enquirer. Unfortunately, journalists virtually ignored the book as a whole, preferring to sensationalize Abernathy's "revelations" about the sex life of Martin Luther King, Jr. As a result, Abernathy became a pariah; when he died several months later, the recent controversy dominated many obituary notices.

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[Review Of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights Or Wrong, Elizabeth Mcneil Jan 1990

[Review Of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights Or Wrong, Elizabeth Mcneil

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Skokie is an Illinois suburb in which about 7,000 Jewish survivors of the European Holocaust live. In 1978, The National Socialist Party of American [America] (NSPA) (known until 1970 as the American Nazi Party) wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, to publically speak about the NSPA's ultimate purpose, which is to "create an all-white [non-Jewish] America in our lifetime," via legal methods "hopefully." The NSPA's immediate goal in marching in Skokie was "to dramatize the fact that there is no free speech for National Socialists ... a pressure move in order to force the system, the courts ... to give [the …

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[Review Of] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ed. The Classic Slave Narratives, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ed. The Classic Slave Narratives, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

At last here is a compact, inexpensive paperback that presents the major black autobiographies of the slave era. It is easy now for teachers of literature, history, or sociology to have their students reading the full texts of the classic slave narratives, instead of just reading bits and pieces of them in anthologies. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., provides an informative introduction to the volume, which consists of works by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. Gates notes that these texts "span nearly three-quarters of a century (1789-1861); the authors, two men and two women, include one African, …

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[Review Of] Diego Echevarria. Los Sures, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1990

[Review Of] Diego Echevarria. Los Sures, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Perhaps one of the more perplexing, yet also intriguing aspects of Diego Echevarria's film, Los Sures, is the illusion that he creates of isolation and disconnection from the larger world that shapes and engulfs his subject -- a Puerto Rican community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The way Echevarria presents the Los Sures community gives one the sense that it sits alone and apart in a land of unknown origin. Yet it is located only a stone's throw away from one of the most affluent urban centers in the world. Not even the Hasidic Jews, who share …

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[Review Of] Deborah Gesensway And Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images From America's Concentration Camps, Barbara Hiura Jan 1990

[Review Of] Deborah Gesensway And Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images From America's Concentration Camps, Barbara Hiura

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"Shikataganai! Shikataganai! It cannot be helped." The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II devastated the Japanese community, ruined businesses, and destroyed families. Memories and recollections of the Japanese American concentration camp experience are collected in this beautifully crafted work illustrating in text and prints the images produced by the incarcerated Japanese Americans. Beyond Words captures the personal insights of this experience, the unjust accusations and imprisonment of a people, their treatment as enemy aliens and foreigners, and "those damned barbed wire fences" enclosing them. Many found solace in expressing themselves in art and poetry illustrating their insights into …

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[Review Of] Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph And Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Cousin Joe: Blues From New Orleans, Nancy Hellner Jan 1990

[Review Of] Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph And Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Cousin Joe: Blues From New Orleans, Nancy Hellner

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Unlike more traditional biographies, oral histories require that readers suspend their basic cultural assumptions about narrative. These assumptions, according to James Clifford, form a "myth of personal coherence" in which readers expect a narrator's life story to represent a coherent and continuous self. The discrepancy between what a reader expects and what a reader receives forces the editor of an oral life-story to choose among several editorial options. In Cousin Joe, a work which took over twenty years to collect, to transcribe, and to edit, Harriet Ottenheimer informs us that she chose from three editing possibilities. She decided not to …

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[Review Of] Yukiko Kimura. Issei: Japanese Immigrants In Hawaii, Ann Rayson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Yukiko Kimura. Issei: Japanese Immigrants In Hawaii, Ann Rayson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Yukiko Kimura is a retired professor of sociology from the University of Hawaii who has also held a number of research positions in Japan and the United States during her long career. Since retiring in Honolulu in 1968, she has been researching studies of the Japanese in Hawaii and has published several articles in this area. Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii is her first book.

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[Review Of] Pedro Amador Llorens. Shipwrecked Of Mona Island, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1990

[Review Of] Pedro Amador Llorens. Shipwrecked Of Mona Island, Luis L. Pinto

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Historically, migration between the islands of Puerto Rico and La Hispaniola began in pre-Colombian times, but at no other time in our history has this migration had the profound social, economic and political implications that it has today. The political and economic forces that operate in the Latin American world are responsible for the enormous contingents of indigent people that establish themselves in the periphery of large and capital cities, from where they look for the first opportunity to cross into neighboring countries and many times far beyond.

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[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai, Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Barbara Urrea Jan 1990

[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai, Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Barbara Urrea

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

For years editors of standard American literature anthologies have presented undergraduates with a narrow view of the American literary experience. Their anthologies have reflected the predominant view of the academy, which has maintained a traditional literary canon denying the importance of works by women and ethnic authors. This denial has sparked controversy and gained national media attention, resulting in gradual changes in curricula at many universities, including Stanford. As the climate of the undergraduate classroom changes and reflects a wider vision, so must the anthologies used in the classroom. The recently published Heath Anthology of American Literature is just such …

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[Review Of] Earl Lovelace. A Brief Conversion And Other Stories, Lucy Wilson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Earl Lovelace. A Brief Conversion And Other Stories, Lucy Wilson

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A gentle beauty pervades these stories. It softens the ironies, dignifies the poverty, and serves as a subtle reminder of the indomitability of the human spirit.

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[Review Of] Phyllis Mauch Messenter, Ed. The Ethics Of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1990

[Review Of] Phyllis Mauch Messenter, Ed. The Ethics Of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, Helen Jaskoski

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"That should be in a museum!" Brave words from Indiana Jones, undoubtedly the world's most famous (real or fictional) archaeologist, as he confronts low-life site plunderers, venal middlemen, corrupt politicians and wealthy private collectors. Life for the redoubtable Dr. Jones is simple (as it seems to have been for Lord Elgin); for those of us in the real world unfortunately not. What should be in a museum, and when, and how it should get there are questions underlying this collection of essays that grew out of a 1986 conference in Minneapolis on the ethics of collecting. Papers and symposia transcripts …

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[Review Of] Thurman B. O'Daniel, Ed. Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1990

[Review Of] Thurman B. O'Daniel, Ed. Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume of biographical and critical essays on the life and work of Jean Toomer is, as its Preface suggests, a "comprehensive study." Its forty-six essays by thirty-nine scholars attest to its wide scope, and the extensive bibliography by the chief editor will prove most useful for present and future researchers.

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[Review Of] James Officer. Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856, Richard Griswold Del Castillo Jan 1990

[Review Of] James Officer. Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856, Richard Griswold Del Castillo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

One of the glaring gaps in Southwestern historiography has been the lack of a modern scholarly interpretation of the Spanish and Mexican presence in Arizona. Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of the North Mexican States and Texas and John F. Bannon's The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821 have been the best sources for the study of pre-American Arizona, but these works treat the history of this region as a subtopic of a larger story. With the publication of Hispanic Arizona, scholars now have a thorough, detailed and scholarly study that is entirely devoted to the history of northern Sonora and southern Arizona.

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[Review Of] Herbert Shapiro. White Violence And Black Response: From Reconstruction To Montgomery, Peter M. Ostenby Jan 1990

[Review Of] Herbert Shapiro. White Violence And Black Response: From Reconstruction To Montgomery, Peter M. Ostenby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In scholarly, but more often popular, thought there is the benighted attitude or inclination to believe that racial violence is located at the margins of the American experience. Violent clashes between ethnic groups are subtly framed as "outbursts," thus implying an aberration from normal relations. Because ignorance or stupidity is branded the ugly parent of such behavior, we are led easily to overlook the significance of such violence.

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