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[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck Jan 1986

[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Tales from Cameroon is Richard Bjornson's translation of two collections of allegories, anecdotes, and short stories by the Cameroonian writer Rene Philombe. Originally composed in French over a twenty year period between the late 1950s and the late 1970s, these fifteen works reveal the human greed, jealousy, and blindness to its own destructive behavior which Philombe believes divides Cameroonians among themselves.

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Contributors Jan 1986

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1986

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Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura Jan 1986

Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Race, class and identity -- key ethnic issues of the 1980s -- have been analyzed from various disciplinary perspectives, and Martinez's article is a contribution to the growing number of written assessments concerning racism and classism in the United States. His research explores the psychological and social perceptions of color, race, identity, and class among Puerto Ricans living in the United States and in Puerto Rico.

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The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1986

The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Most human services practitioners at one time or another must confront cultural issues which in many ways have a direct impact on their role and effectiveness as helping professionals. This article links the phenomenon of ethnic identity to problems, practices, and policies encountered in the field of human services. Although most of the theoretical concepts presented here are related to counseling psychology and education, other practitioners with culturally diverse client populations will also find the information applicable to their work. The social scientist, teacher and researcher, who is often the disseminator of theoretical and methodological paradigms, should also find these …

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Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker Jan 1986

Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Female Power, Ethnicity, and Aging" will surely be of interest to readers of this journal. Scholars in ethnic and women's studies have, no doubt, considered at one time or another the impact of ethnicity and age on the power of women in our culture and have a sense of the negative influence of these factors on women who as a group have marginal status in our power structures. So it is that we are anxious to have our sense of these relationships documented in some way or to have the philosophical implications of the intersections of these factors explored and …

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Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The standard academic presentation on the topic of power rarely alludes to the elderly, ethnic groups, or to females of any age or race. The cultural history of humankind has been one of gross inequities in the distribution of power, and much of this distributional variance has been attributable to the categories of race, gender, and age. When these categories overlap, the impact on individual access to power has been, and continues to be, the greatest.

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[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Jo Miles Schuman's text is designed to help students develop an appreciation for one another's cultural heritage and to expand their knowledge of art. Both objectives are accomplished with considerable grace in this beautifully executed and illustrated celebration of craftsmanship. The author clearly values the creativity of a wide variety of peoples and the potential of art as a language of intercultural understanding.

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[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia

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The editors of this book, associate professors at the University of Chicago, state that their work seeks to promote understanding of and raise questions about Hispanic social issues in the hope that a "collective social agenda" can result.

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American literary scholarship in the mid-1980s generally seems to be insufficiently sophisticated to give more than perfunctory attention to ethnicity's significant role in American writing from the colonial period to the present. When intellectual maturation finally is achieved, as there is reason to believe it will be even though progress proceeds at a disappointing snail's pace, credit for the event will be due in part to Philip Butcher's unique and impressive The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature: 1900-1950, as well as to his earlier two-volume anthology, The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900 (1977). These are essential books for …

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[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray

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Ani Dike Egwuonwu is a social scientist and this book is the outcome of several years of observations and interviews about marriage problems in Africa. Egwuonwu intended to show a vivid picture of the problems that have had a deleterious effect on traditional African marriages. The subtlety of his use of the institution of marriage to capture the underlying prejudices and stereotypes that exist among African tribes was certainly a creative venture.

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[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

While the experiences of most ethnic groups are frequently overlooked, this is especially the fate of relatively small groups. Many small groups merit greater attention, for example the Okinawans who migrated to Hawaii from 1900-1924, worked on sugar and pineapple plantations, developed small businesses and community organizations, and achieved a measure of economic and social success. What makes their story of special interest is their ethnic status. At the time of their migration, the homeland of the Okinawans, the Ryukyu archipelago (which includes the island of Okinawa), was part of Japan as it is today. However, the Ryukyus have always …

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[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Oral history is unquestionably an important method for recovering the history of ethnic groups, particularly of ethnic working people who leave few written accounts of their own and whose lives are often ignored or else inadequately described by outsiders because of their apparent routineness and unimportance. Unfortunately, many oral history materials remain unknown and unused except by occasional researchers. In 1976, the Hawaii State Legislature established the Oral History Project (OHP, formerly the Ethnic Studies Oral History Project) at the University of Hawaii to record the recollections of ethnic working men and women. Since then, OHP has interviewed over 250 …

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[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Viewers of this film can anticipate a pleasing aesthetic experience as well as an instructive lesson in American Indian cultural continuity and change. The production is holistic in its conception and execution. From that base there are almost endless interdisciplinary uses for the film in the classroom and for lay audiences beyond academe.

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[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen Jan 1986

[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

An unconventional reference work, the planned International Conceptual Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences should prove useful to persons conducting research in the social sciences or information science. Ethnicity specialists will have an opportunity to make first use of the results of the effort to produce such an encyclopedia because of the early publication of this pilot edition of the ethnicity volume.

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[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford Jan 1986

[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The conferences brought together historians, sociologists and anthropologists who were charged with infusing " sophisticated social theory" into research on the family in Latin America.

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[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Two significant historical events have created a receptive climate for this scholarly look at the American city. In the global context, the advent of multinational capitalism has transformed the city, along with other segments of the American economy. On the domestic front, increasing numbers of American cities have faced fiscal crisis, and in some cases, insolvency, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate Jan 1986

[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Transforming the Past is a major contribution to our understanding of Japanese American experience specifically and to our sense of ethnic experience generally. Yanagisako's study transcends its anthropological base to offer crucial insights previously precluded by both facile “understanding" and methological [methodological] limitations.

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[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon Jan 1986

[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon

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Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications provides an excellent overview of developmental thinking throughout history and across several theoretical disciplines from Rousseau, the father of the developmental tradition, and Locke, the father of environmentalism, to the behaviorists and psycholinguists, Skinner and Chomsky. Crain then extends his coverage to the humanistic movement of Maslow and others. As Crain traces developmental theory, he draws parallels between early developmentalists and the modern humanists, suggesting that learning theorists and other environmentalists, by placing their focus on controlling and shaping behavior, provide an orientation that is too one sided. Modern humanists, suggests Crain, seek environments …

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900, volumes I and II, is the first publication of the Morgan State University Series in Afroamerican Studies. The series is intended to provide a basis for examining the cultural, religious and social experiences of Afroamericans. Each title in the series is intended to serve as a guide, outline, or syllabus for college courses in Afroamerican studies, American ethnic studies, history and culture, American literature, and American studies. In keeping with these aims, Philip Butcher has compiled two anthologies of major and minor American writings that can be used as readers and course guides. …

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[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach Jan 1986

[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ten years ago Brigham Young University conceived of and began to produce "Culturgrams." "Culturgrams" appeared singly as four page cultural summaries of nearly eighty different countries. A "Culturgram" on a country is "a briefing to aid understanding of, feeling for, and communication with other people." A "Culturgram" begins with an enlarged map of the country addressed, noting major cities and with a key in kilometres and miles. To the side of the large map is a smaller map placing the addressed country in relation to surrounding countries on its continent. The " Culturgram" then presents in narrative style some combination …

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[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig Jan 1986

[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

North American social scientists can benefit from comparing immigration in their own countries to immigration in Australia, another former English colony bordering on the Pacific Ocean. Bottomley and de Lepervanche have assembled a very useful set of theoretical discussions and data-based studies which provide a starting point for such comparisons. The collection focuses on the relationship of immigrants to the institutions and ideologies of the dominant culture in Australia. The underlying perspective is Marxist, although this is not made explicit by every contributor. In addition to a historical review of immigration policies, the authors present critiques of policies and the …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Jonathan Majak Jan 1986

Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Jonathan Majak

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

To be human is to have an identity. Indeed, it is what ethnicity is about. However, as a theoretical or methodological prescription for ethnic studies, as advocated by Hatfield, identity is inadequate even within the categories he has specified. Hatfield seems to be asking theoretical analysts to do what artists, novelists, and philosophers do best because they explore the existential and phenomenological aspects of ethnic identity in depth and usually with greater authenticity. This does not mean that there is no need for self-discovery and understanding in ethnic studies. There are equally pressing non-identity issues with which ethnic studies must …

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Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield Jan 1986

Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The question of identity is fundamental to human life. "Who am I," as a biological and psychological being; as a member of a human group with a particular style and history; as a participant in the common human values, perceptions, and processes which transcend any particular group? Ethnic studies should have as its focus the whole human being, articulated in the biological, socio/cultural, and psycho/personal categories, and the methodology for ethnic studies should reflect the process by which people live and move within the named categories. The interaction of people who are self-consciously engaged in exploring their lives biologically, culturally, …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Neil Nakadate Jan 1986

Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Neil Nakadate

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

John Hatfield's discussion of identity and ethnicity in an increasingly wider, abstract, and problematical context is an extended definition of the current dilemma. I suspect Hatfield intends to offer an essentially optimistic statement, but for many readers questions and doubts may remain, if not predominate.

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Critique [Of Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined By Chris Ruggiero], Gloria Lothrop Jan 1986

Critique [Of Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined By Chris Ruggiero], Gloria Lothrop

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The results of the 1980 United States census indicate that about twelve million persons were reported as being partly or solely of Italian ancestry. One in twenty people in the United States or 5.4 percent of the total U.S. population claims Italian descent, representing the sixth largest group in the United States.

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Critique [Of Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students By Keith D. Parker], Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1986

Critique [Of Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students By Keith D. Parker], Homer D.C. Garcia

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The article by Keith D. Parker raises interesting theoretical and methodological questions, but this review focuses on the latter. The author is correct in his critical assessment of black self-esteem research (BSER) methodology. Projective measures have been used in most cases and questions have been raised regarding the validity of such self-esteem measures and therefore about the believability of BSER findings.[1] In addition, blacks and whites tested have not been representative of the general black or white communities of the United States, yet inferences to and comparisons of the populations have been made. Finally, studies have employed non-multivariate statistical techniques …

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Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Terry Simmons Jan 1986

Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Terry Simmons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

When the first Dutch missionaries reached the far shores of Java, they heard rumors of a recently captured large white monkey being held in a remote village. By the time the missionaries reached the village, however, the mysterious monkey had vanished. They found only the post where it had been tied. Chiseled in stone nearby in Latin, English and Dutch were these words: "Help! I am a Dutch sailor."

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[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1986

[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Described by historians William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner as "a case study of manipulation and fraud," this book tells the story of the loss of an entire reservation belonging to the Ottawa Indians by a series of events which led eventually to the dissolution of the tribe itself in the 1950s. Several bands of Ottawa Indians living in what is now Michigan and Ohio were deprived of their lands there by a series of treaties forcing land cessions and by allotment of their lands. Three bands of Ottawa Indians were relocated to a reservation in northeastern Kansas in …

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers Jan 1986

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In recent years, poetry anthologists have strayed from the literary field into the terrain of sociology, where they have collected an odd assortment of scriblings [scribblings]: poems focusing on female athletes, the children of alcoholics, Vietnam War veterans, gays and lesbians, scuba divers, and numerous other ethnic, social, and occupational groups. In fact, the proliferation of such anthologies has been so great that absurdity long ago set in and one expects shortly to see collections devoted to hangnail sufferers and carpet layers.

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[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1986

[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book is primarily a discussion of foreign ethnic groups who have come to the United States. Perhaps the most striking thing about it is that it is a revision of The Ethnic Dimension in American Society (Holbrook Press, Boston, 1974) with the authors' names reversed.

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