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[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1989

[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley

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California's fertile San Joaquin Valley is the setting of this first published collection of poems by one of Chicano literature's leading voices [other books include The Tale of Sunlight (1978), Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom (1980), Where Sparrows Work Hard (1981), and Black Hair (1985)]. Thirty-eight poems comprise the three sections which take the reader through a series of disturbing images of the region. (Critic Bruce-Novoa has compared Elements with T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land). In the first poem, " San Fernando Road," migrants are described in the language of travail as men " Whose arms/Were …

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[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard Jan 1989

[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard

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Schlesier has a necessary footnote advisory to readers explaining the way in which he has structured The Wolves of Heaven. In the advisory Schelesier [Schlesier] writes that the book is a slow read on purpose so as to develop the story of how it was that the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), came out of the boreal forest to become hunters of the northern plains, evolving eventually into the 19th century Tsistsistas bison hunting horse nomads.

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[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1989

[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies

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This book does exactly what it says it will, namely to study how language is used by the some two hundred and fifty citizens of Pella who still make use of it. As such it should be useful to those interested in nineteeth [nineteenth] century emigrants from Europe whose descendants are still clinging to part of their ethnic roots.

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[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison Jan 1989

[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison

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This text addresses the complex challenge of comprehending religious otherness. Brown and Brightman present a previously unpublished 1823 letter journal of fur trader George Nelson in which he reflects on his struggle to understand the Cree and Ojibwa people he knew at first hand. While he constantly wondered at the strangeness of Algonquian religion, he also expressed his admiration as frequently. The Cree and the Ojibwa were thoroughly religious and, paradoxical as it seemed to Nelson, he did admit that their religion worked.

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[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold Jan 1989

[Review Of] Luciano Mangiafico. Contemporary American Immigrants: Patterns Of Filipino, Korean And Chinese Settlement In The United States, Steven J. Gold

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Since the passage of the immigration acts of 1965, a large number of skilled Asians have migrated to the United States. Scholars have noticed this trend, labelling these, along with other skilled third world sojourners, "the new immigration."

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[Review Of] Langston Hughes. The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Alice A. Deck Jan 1989

[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 …

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[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate Jan 1989

[Review Of] Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660, Neil Nakadate

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Citizen 13660, first published in 1946, is part of the scant first-person record of Japanese American experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Like S. Frank Miyamoto's Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle (1939, repr. 1984) and Toshio Mori's Yokohama, California (1949, repr. 1986), Okubo's book has been given new life by the University of Washington Press.

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[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1989

[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case Of Mexican Americans And Puerto Ricans In Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez

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Felix M. Padilla's contribution to the growing body of literature on Latino/Hispanic identity in the United States represents a significant departure from the way most social scientists have approached their analysis of ethnic identity and consciousness. On his way to putting together a conceptual framework for supporting his thesis of an emerging Latino ethnic identity and consciousness, Padilla provides a substantial in-depth analysis of the Mexican American and Puerto Rican community-based organization in Chicago during the early 1970s.

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[Review Of] Gilbert L. Wilson. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians, Norma C. Wilson Jan 1988

[Review Of] Gilbert L. Wilson. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians, Norma C. Wilson

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Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden was originally published in 1917 as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation. First written as Wilson's doctoral dissertation, the book is particularly informative about the gardening techniques of Hidatsa women. The narrative voice is that of Maxidiwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman). Thus, the book fits within the genre of as-told-to autobiography; however, the narrative is more focused and detailed than Wilson's general autobiography of the same woman, Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story, published in 1921.

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[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish Jan 1988

[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish

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Ethnographic studies have long been plagued by questions of credibility. Can the ethnographer believe his or her sources? And, in turn, can readers believe the ethnographer? Ronald Frey knows full well that such issues of "believability" plague anyone attempting to understand a culture's otherness from the outside. He is determined to explain general historical, religious, and cultural aspects of "the world of the Crow Indians" from as close to the inside as he possibly can tell them.

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[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman Jan 1988

[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman

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William L. Andrews' To Tell a Free Story is a fine study of the history and development of the Afro-American narrative in its first century. Andrews presents the narrative in the hands of its creators as a dynamic form which, when studied for its process of telling, expresses the movement of its writers from an absence of self to a celebration of both self and community. It follows in the footsteps of Andrew's' other important contributions to the field of black studies, and promises to serve as a resource to which other studies of the genre can look.

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[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger

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There would be little disagreement among students of American Jewry that we know relatively little about the experience of Jews living in the smaller cities and towns of this country. In recent years, the number of community studies has grown. Typically, however, the research site is a larger metropolis, or else a circumscribed neighborhood of Jewish settlement in a major urban center.

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[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz Jan 1988

[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz

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Dirk Hoerder has undertaken a truly mammoth task -- the identification, analysis, and the location of surviving collections of the immigrant labor press published in the United States and Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. For the most part his efforts have been successful. Without question he has provided researchers interested in the American immigrant experience or American labor history with a valuable research tool.

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[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan Jan 1988

[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan

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In the introduction to Native Americans of the Pacific Coast, Vinson Brown presents many admirable ambitions for any scholar writing on human existence. Brown proclaims that he will attempt to make the first Americans "live" in the style of the 1500s to 1700s during the "days of old" and of "glory and independence." He then proceeds to assert that, in order to accomplish this goal, antiquated concepts used to "justify" the conquest of tribal Peoples must be "put aside." He urges us, "instead," to be inquisitive and open so that we can "see and hear" what indigenous life was like …

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[Review Of] Barry T. Klein. Reference Encyclopedia Of The American Indian, Douglas Kachel Jan 1988

[Review Of] Barry T. Klein. Reference Encyclopedia Of The American Indian, Douglas Kachel

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First published in 1967, this is an indispensable resource for information about the current Indian population and its affairs. The title may be misleading since information about the Canadian Indian population is also provided. It does not offer any chronological history of the North American Indian complete with pictures and maps, such as Carl Waldman's classical work, Atlas of the North American Indians, but instead provides a basic reference directory of current (1986) Indian activities, organizations, resources, and a "who's who" in the Indian culture.

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[Review Of] Jane Campbell. Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation Of History, Abby H. P. Werlock Jan 1988

[Review Of] Jane Campbell. Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation Of History, Abby H. P. Werlock

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Jane Campbell's timely study -- a revision of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation -- appears as an early and sustained response to Afro-American mythmaking, one of the central concerns of current black scholarship. Campbell posits that, to counter the dehumanized experience of blacks in America, Afro-American writers from 1853 to the present have utilized the romance genre to infuse history "with a mythic dimension," thereby transforming their characters from victims into actors who can change history. Beginning with William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853) and ending with David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident 1981), Campbell's exploration of the transcendent nature of black writing …

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[Review Of] David Montejano. Anglos And Mexicans In The Making Of Texas, 1836-1986, Helen M. Castillo Jan 1988

[Review Of] David Montejano. Anglos And Mexicans In The Making Of Texas, 1836-1986, Helen M. Castillo

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Montejano presents an organized historical perspective of Anglos and Mexicans in the making of Texas. Four major time periods of incorporation, reconstruction, segregation and integration are used effectively to compartmentalize major historical events, serve as accurate sociopolitical descriptors and facilitate reader comprehension of these events. This approach is particularly helpful to the novice historian in conjunction with the tables and maps used to illustrate the content discussed. Sensitive ethnic cultural issues are discussed objectively with inflammatory or emotion laden terms avoided. Though subtle, subjectivity is present in the author's interpretative comments of Texas-Mexico history; the reader gains a sense of …

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[Review Of] S. Frank Miyamoto. Social Solidarity Among The Japanese In Seattle, Neil Nakadate Jan 1988

[Review Of] S. Frank Miyamoto. Social Solidarity Among The Japanese In Seattle, Neil Nakadate

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Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle is a rare and irreplaceable study of Japanese American life prior to World War II. Its focus is "the social relational network of the Japanese community" as dominated by the immigrant, first generation Issei -- the intimate fusion of expectations, obligations, and reciprocity that prevailed in the years between immigration and internment. First published in 1939, Miyamoto's monograph was reprinted in 1981 and 1984 by the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Washington, each time with a new introduction by the author.

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[Review Of] Stow Persons. Ethnic Studies At Chicago, 1905-1945, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli Jan 1988

[Review Of] Stow Persons. Ethnic Studies At Chicago, 1905-1945, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

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The University of Chicago rose out of the marshes on the southside of Chicago in the 1890s to win recognition as one of the world's leading research institutes. The multiethnic city of Chicago, teeming with immigrants and displaced rural blacks, offered its sociologists an immediate challenge. These scholars were to directly influence the study of racial and ethnic groups and the field of sociology for many decades. However influential the work of the "Chicago School" was, their hold on American sociology was broken in the post World War II period as activists and intellectuals dealt with America's unfulfilled promise for …

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[Review Of] Ronald Takaki, Ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives On Race And Ethnicity In America, Ernest A. Champion Jan 1988

[Review Of] Ronald Takaki, Ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives On Race And Ethnicity In America, Ernest A. Champion

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From Different Shores is surely a very welcome addition to the growing body of research and serious study of ethnicity in America. Ronald Takaki has marshalled the expertise and scholarship of the more well-known scholars in the field and has produced a book which should be useful to serious students of ethnic studies.

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Title Index, Volume 10, 1987 Jan 1988

Title Index, Volume 10, 1987

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 10, 1987

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The Co-Opting Of Ethnic Studies In The American University: A Critical View, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1988

The Co-Opting Of Ethnic Studies In The American University: A Critical View, Jesse M. Vazquez

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The birth of ethnic studies in the American university was accompanied by the politics and pedagogy of rage, pride, and mistrust for the then prevailing curricular academic structures and its tradition-bound, academically conservative gatekeepers. The campus take-overs, student demands, and confrontations were a common expression of the times, and concomitantly these were also shapers of the changing times. The presence or absence of ethnic minority faculty and students in our universities was and continues to be one of many indices by which we measure the willingness of this society to live up to its responsibility and promise to guarantee expanding …

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Ethnic Studies In The Twenty-First Century: A Proposal, Charles C. Irby Jan 1988

Ethnic Studies In The Twenty-First Century: A Proposal, Charles C. Irby

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If you will consider the dualistic thinking which undergirds Western philosophical tradition, then it comes as a surprise to no one that the periodization of history is based on white male experiences as the sum of western civilization, especially the glorification of war and the celebration of unbridled "raw-power." So, too, it is not surprising that Aristotelian logic and Cartesian metaphysics form the godhead for monocultural and unisexual education in U.S. society, which is at the least bisexual and multicultural. For a decade-and-a-half now, ethnic, minority, and women's studies proponents have suggested that their purposes for existence were to challenge …

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Contributors Jan 1988

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1988

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Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott Jan 1988

Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott

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Ethnic Studies as a curriculum at predominantly white colleges and universities remains a relatively new phenomenon in academe. The recent history of these formations can be traced back to the several social change movements of the 1960s. These changes, spearheaded by the civil rights movement and the black student protests in the South in early 1960s, provided the impetus for the social change spillover which many college and university campuses were to experience in earnest beginning with the mid-1960s.[1]

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[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez Jan 1988

[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez

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Chicano Ethnicity is a valuable contribution to ethnic scholarship and the question of why people of Mexican descent in the U.S. choose different names. Chicano, Mexican-American, American of Mexican descent, and Mexicano are distinct. Since this population is heterogeneous, Keefe and Padilla study how three primary factors, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Loyalty, and Assimilation/Acculturation account for such diversity. These three primary factors shape unique expressions of group identity and an extended sense of the self.

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[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo

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In this book, Minrose Gwin explores the interrelationships between women as a model of Southern racial experiences. In order to understand "this volatile, often violent connection between black and white women of the Old South," she examines a wide variety of books including proslavery and abolitionist fiction of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives, diaries, and modern fictional versions of the Southern slave experience by Faulkner, Cather and Margaret Walker.

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[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo

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While American history is replete with outrageous and tragic examples of racism, two of the most prominent in recent memory are the government's World War II removal and internment of Japanese Americans and its postwar attack on the tribal rights and consequently the services, reservations, and cultural integrity of Native Americans through a policy known as "termination." Ironically, these two episodes intersect in the person of Dillon Meyer. Meyer ran the vast archipelago of Japanese American concentration camps as the Director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) from 1942-46 and then administered a larger system of lndian reservations as the …

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[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada Jan 1988

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada

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A result of the collaboration of several dozen specialists, this new reference work provides a wealth of information about the largest groups of immigrants who went east to settle in the United States: the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and Southeast Asians. It includes brief historical sketches of each of these groups and essays on a number of topics such as Asian-American literature, immigration law, and educational issues that affect Asian Americans. It also includes alphabetically arranged entries on hundreds of topics, a chronology of Asian-American history, and a bibliography.

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