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[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey Jan 1989

[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Over time the Kalispel Indians of northeastern Washington resisted all federal attempts to remove them from their original homelands. Their tenacious attachment to the land eventually enabled them to gain title to a small reservation on the Pend Oreille River. Never fully satisfied with the size of their reservation (4,269.27 acres) and determined to ensure their cultural survival, the Kalispels initiated a land claims case in 1950. Thirteen long and politically difficult years later the tribe settled for three million dollars. Thereafter, they used the settlement to secure their economic future.

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[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride Jan 1989

[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1989

[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is Beth Brant's first collection of her own work (she also edited A Gathering of Spirit, a collection of writings by American Indian women, for Sinister Wisdom). Length, genre and approach are mixed: poetry, short story, vignette, ritual, coyote tale. Thematic unity emerges in the book through Brant's focus on integrating and synthesizing her Mohawk family heritage with her current situation as writer, urban mother, and lesbian lover. The piece titled "A Long Story" brings the three themes together in the alternating soliloquies of a nineteenth-century Indian mother whose children have been wrenched a way to boarding school and …

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[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector Jan 1989

[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker Jan 1989

[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The first volume of a trilogy by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire: Genesis has been called remarkable, fascinating, vivid, passionate, angry, celebratory, and triumphant. It could also be called a history of Latin America to 1700, though that gives little sense of its style or scope. In his introduction, the author describes himself as "not a historian," but as "a writer who would like to contribute to the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America, that despised and beloved land." To do this he has created a great mosaic of stories, most of …

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[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1989

[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua Jan 1989

[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette Jan 1989

[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[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 Jan 1989

[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

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1989

[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1989

[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz Jan 1989

[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Anthropologist Landsman has written a fascinating study about the events surrounding the seizure of a 612-acre abandoned girls' camp in upstate New York in May 1974 by a group of Mohawks who named their settlement Ganienkeh. The ensuing Indian-white land dispute eventually culminated in the relocation of the Indians to parkland near the Canadian border in 1978 as a result of a unique arrangement, the Turtle Island Trust Agreement, which for "charitable, religious and educational purposes" under New York State law established "a permanent, non-reservation settlement of Indians claiming sovereign status."

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[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg Jan 1989

[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In little over a decade this short novel has become a classic, developing a dedicated following, not only in Asian American communities and literature programs, but also in traditional literature programs alongside books such as Huckleberry Finn where the strategies are the same: the view of the world through the clear eye of youth, the puncturing of both pretense and pretension by the view from the bottom up.

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[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones Jan 1989

[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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Critique [Of National Newspaper Analysis Of The Press Coverage Of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: The Confirmation Of The Candidate By J. Gregory Payne, Scott C. Ratzan, And Robert A. Baukus], Roberta J. Astroff Jan 1989

Critique [Of National Newspaper Analysis Of The Press Coverage Of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: The Confirmation Of The Candidate By J. Gregory Payne, Scott C. Ratzan, And Robert A. Baukus], Roberta J. Astroff

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The basic tenets for this article appear to be the following: "objective" news is possible; that "solely present[ing] facts" equals objectivity; and that "colorblind" news is even a possibility in this society.

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Contributors Jan 1989

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1989

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1989

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume continues in the same vein as Small Faces, but here the poetic voice is more mature, more reflective. There are forty autobiographical essays treating many of the subjects of Faces: Soto’s wife and daughter, his pets (both present and past), friendships, recollections of his childhood and teen years, sex, and the details of his everyday life. There are also two movie reviews and an account of the writing of a review of a bad novel. The essays are grouped in fours, but they are not presented chronologically, and thus can be read in any order. Each of the …

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[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) And The Missisauga Indians, Kristin Herzog Jan 1989

[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) And The Missisauga Indians, Kristin Herzog

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This excellent historical study will make a contribution in various fields: American Indian missions, Canadian history and Indian policy, history of Methodism, theory of acculturation, and -- in terms of Peter Jones's wife -- women's studies.

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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1989

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This slim, superb collection is Soto's second foray into the field of prose (Living Up The Street: Narrative Recollections was the 1985 American Book Award winner). The thirty-one vignettes in Small Faces, written in December, 1983, and between June and August, 1984, are imbued with warmth, charm, and nostalgia. They touch subjects such as human nature, human relationships, and love, all from a very personal viewpoint that of the author. During the course of the book, we come to know the poet, his wife and daughter, and his friends. Selections treat the narrator's college days, travel, poetry and philosophy, as …

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[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko Jan 1989

[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei Jan 1989

[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei

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Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing account of the origins of the protest that triggered the entire civil rights movement and launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1989

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 9, Summer, 1989

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[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert Jan 1989

[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1989

[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1989

[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book is a long-neglected product of the 1920s negritude movement, in which a new kind of primi ti vis tic in terest concerning the lives of black men and women in the African Diaspora took hold in the literary words of Europe and America. Batouala was written in French by Rene Maran, an Afro-Caribbean writer living in Paris in the 1920s, who had worked for several years in what was then known as French Equatorial Africa. This edition is a reprint of a 1972 English translation that adheres to the lyrical, sensuous style of Maran's prose and that follows …

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1989

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1989

[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Reply from Wilderness Island is Peter Balakian's third published collection of poetry. As with his two earlier works, Father Fisheye (1979) and Sad Days of Light (1983), this most recent one brings together the personal and the historical, as the poet further discovers connections between an American identity and an Armenian ancestry. The first section of the volume is a series of poems about the poet's late father.

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[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr Jan 1989

[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It is difficult to know what to make of The Life of Okah Tubbee because it is difficult to know what to make of Okah Tubbee. In the 1840s and 1850s he was a performing musician, a ventriloquist, and an "Indian doctor." He claimed to be a Choctaw chief’s son who, somehow, had begun life as a slave in Natchez, Mississippi. His autobiography, possibly written by his wife (possibly of Delaware and Mohawk extraction), appeared in several formats and editions in 1848 and 1852.

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[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1989

[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons Jan 1989

Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Adelman's historical account of the rise and development of Jewish studies in European and American universities has implications not only for the current debate regarding the appropriateness and place of Jewish studies programs in the academy but also for the place of ethnic studies in university curricula in general. I believe the most compelling argument against ethnic studies programs in higher education charges them with institutionalizing specific ideologies and thus undermining the self-critical investigation of divergent positions within a traditional discipline. But this charge raises an equally troublesome presupposition : that courses of study can and should be compartmentalized into …

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