Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Sociology Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Virginia Commonwealth University

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 1501 - 1530 of 2016

Full-Text Articles in Sociology

[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig Jan 1986

[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Tiryakian and Rogowski have edited a strong and useful collection of nine theoretical and seven comparative articles on nationalism in advanced industrial societies in the West. What is new in the presentations in this work is the systematic comparison of a number of nationalist movements that have been treated hitherto as separate cases. The writers are focusing on nationalism in advanced capitalist economies rather than in developing nations or socialist industrial states, so examples are drawn from Quebec and Western Europe. A great strength of the collection lies in the richness of the analysis produced by contributors drawn from a …

Go to article

Goan Literature From Peter Nazareth: An Interview, Charles C. Irby Jan 1985

Goan Literature From Peter Nazareth: An Interview, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Peter Nazareth is an associate professor in the English Department and the Afro american Studies Program at the University of Iowa. His job includes being an advisor to the International Writing Program, which brings published writers from thirty to forty countries to Iowa City each fall. During the fall of 1984, he accompanied Michael Anthony (Trinidad) and Flora Nwapa (Nigeria) to Iowa State University for readings, and it was a golden opportunity to get some insights about the growth and development of both Goan literature and its primary catalytic agent to date.

Go to article

Critique [Of Chicano Ethnicity And Aging By Marvin A. Lewis], Barbara L. Hiura Jan 1985

Critique [Of Chicano Ethnicity And Aging By Marvin A. Lewis], Barbara L. Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Lewis's article presents a creative and exciting approach for understanding the importance elderly people have not only in the family but in the community as well. He blends literary personification, cultural integration, and social science strategies for illustrating Chicano traditions and their relationships to the aging process. Literary works involving curandero/curandera and abuelo/abuela folk traditions depict reverance [reverence], honor, power, and prestige as engaging qualities inherited by the elderly. Lewis's analysis of Anaya's Bless Me Ultima and Santiago's Famous All Over Town illustrate the congruence folk traditions have with the positive aspects of the aging process. By using literature to …

Go to article

Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1985

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Index, Volume 7,1984, Author, Title Jan 1985

Index, Volume 7,1984, Author, Title

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Author and title index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 7, 1984

Go to article

Chicano Ethnicity And Aging, Marvin A. Lewis Jan 1985

Chicano Ethnicity And Aging, Marvin A. Lewis

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In an insightful article published a decade ago, "The Chicano Aged," David Maldonado offers some comments that are germane to this presentation. In summing up the dilemma of the Chicano elderly, he asserts: The aged person in the extended family holds high status and commands the respect and obedience of the younger family members. Within the extended family structure. the aging person grows in prestige and respect. The individual holds high rank and has influence in the life of the group.[1] This is the position afforded the aged in many societies as long as the elderly are able to function …

Go to article

Critique [Of Chicano Ethnicity And Aging By Marvin A. Lewis], Ron Striano Jan 1985

Critique [Of Chicano Ethnicity And Aging By Marvin A. Lewis], Ron Striano

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Art serves the societal functions of recording, interpreting and predicting. Here, analysis of popular archetypes in Chicano fiction and poetry are used to illustrate cultural values toward the elderly and conflicts of values between generations of Chicanos. This leads to an examination of how Chicano values differ from Anglo-American values toward the elderly. The author demonstrates the problems of acculturation, blending into and enriching another culture while retaining a sense of one's own culture, versus assimilation, abandoning one's own heritage and taking on the values of another culture. In the latter, upward mobility striving by younger Chicanos creates a chasm …

Go to article

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], A. William Hoglund Jan 1985

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], A. William Hoglund

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Stasiulis's two-part essay offers a critique of the policies on immigration and racism pursued by the Canadian government during the past decade or so. While the government's multicultural institutions seek to ameliorate racism, its immigration agencies get blamed for intensifying the problem. The latter agencies are better supported than the former which are on the "fringes of state power," and, according to the author, have little chance of changing immigration policies.

Go to article

Contributors Jan 1985

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1985

Go to article

[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder Jan 1985

[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This first comprehensive history of the Jicarilla Apaches proves an indispensible [indispensable] tool for understanding this tribe, government and Indian relations, and the history of the state of New Mexico. Veronica Tiller was, despite being part of a prominent Jicarilla family, able to strike a balance between giving the reader a wealth of detailed facts pertaining to the tribe and its smaller organizational units and placing them within the larger context of government or New Mexico state policies. The author, who used an impressive number of government documents, is modest and clear sighted enough not to claim an Indian point …

Go to article

[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker Jan 1985

[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Paul G. Zolbrod's Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story is a revision of Washington Matthews' "The Navaho Origin Legend" published in Navaho Legends (Boston: American Folklore Society) in 1897. Zolbrod justly describes Matthews' version of this narative [narrative] as "one of the world's significant literary works," and his rewriting of it makes it accessible as never before to English speaking readers. The narrative is essentially sacred in nature, dealing with the emergence of precursors to human beings through successive primal worlds and with male and female deities who must achieve harmony, peace, and balance between themselves and throughout the world …

Go to article

Table Of Contents Jan 1985

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 8, Issue 1, 1985

Go to article

Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1985

Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature, Margaret Bedrosian

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Periodically bolting out of the Boston apartment that keeps her safe in a world unmoved by her existence, clad in the heavy sweaters and thick wool socks that shield her barren spinsterhood, the Auntie of Hapet Kharibian's "Home in Exile" also breaks out of the box that imprisons most portraits of Armenian American women.[1] As Auntie exerts her pittance of domestic authority by shopping for Ajax and picking green beans for an aged father's stew, nurturing insanity through her idle days, the reader briefly glimpses a refreshing truthfulness behind the types and stereotypes that populate much Armenian American literature. Auntie's …

Go to article

Contributors Jan 1985

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1985

Go to article

Critique [Of Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature By Margaret Bedrosian], Linda M.C. Abbott Jan 1985

Critique [Of Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature By Margaret Bedrosian], Linda M.C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Female characters, drawn from a sampling of Armenian American writing, are examined for clues to the breadth of their individual and group experience in this brief literature review. The author early concludes that the range of experience and personality available for examination in such an overview is extremely limited. The bulk of the review is then given to a presentation of possible historical and cultural explanations for the typical flat, narrow, and slightly negative portrayal.

Go to article

Racism And The Canadian State, Daiva K. Stasiulis Jan 1985

Racism And The Canadian State, Daiva K. Stasiulis

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The practices and official discourse of a variety of state institutions in Canada have reflected a new level of "race consciousness" during the past five years. A notable development within the Canadian state has been the emergence at all levels of administrative and parliamentary institutions of new "race relations " and "visible minority" committees, liaison and consultative structures, programs, and commissions. Following a series of racially-motivated attacks within Toronto subways directed principally at South Asians, the Metropolitan Toronto Police and the Toronto Transit Commission jointly established a system designed to intercept attackers and prevent further incidents. A growing number of …

Go to article

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Delo E. Washington Jan 1985

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Delo E. Washington

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Stasiulis has not only entered a great debate but has sought to order it. The interconnections between Canada's recent policies on multiculturalism, immigration, and the efforts to implement the two are the reference points around which that debate is centered. The possibilities for racism, however, need to be made more clear by the author. Scholars can make significant contributions in this regard by investigating what seems to be unrelated programs and practices. Since practices are tied to the same policies, an identifiable theoretical perspective is proposed as the leverage for yielding insights about relationships between people and things that would …

Go to article

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Luis L. Pinto Jan 1985

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Luis L. Pinto

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The value of "Racism and the Canadian State" is its tragic reminder that injustice is alive and flourishing in Canada as well as the United States and elsewhere. Stasiulis presents an interesting and perceptive analysis of the practices of official discourse of different Canadian institutions which have brought about a new level of "race onsciousness [consciousness]." She deals effectively with the measures taken by the federal government, within the past five years, to confront the social problems and demands of visible minorities in Canadian society.

Go to article

A.K.A. Pablo: Mexican American Images For Television, Norman L. Friedman Jan 1985

A.K.A. Pablo: Mexican American Images For Television, Norman L. Friedman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The study of "minority group images in mass media" has been of considerable interest both to humanities and social science writers in the ethnic and media fields. Most investigations have focused upon the descriptive content of the minority portrayals, though a few have also dealt with related aspects of minority group reactions to images. Among the large volume of varied writings have been those which have considered minority group images in films, [1] images of Asian Americans in print and electronic media, [2] dissections of single television shows about minorities, [3] and responses of minority audiences and media critics to …

Go to article

Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature, Alice A. Deck Jan 1985

Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature, Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Portraits of elderly Afroamerican men and women abound in American literature and vary from stories which present a mythic primordial character who symbolizes emotional stability, experiential wisdom and a community's cultural and historical heritage, to works in slice-of-life realistic style which dramatize the social and psychological conditions of aged blacks. Included in this second category are works which show the confrontation between old and new social standards. Coupled with this range of portraits is a variety of attitudes toward elderly blacks.

Go to article

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini Jan 1985

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Rejoice, students of ethnicity and Italian Americans generally! A body of scholarly literature on the Italian American experience is growing. Richard Alba's book, one of the Ethnic Groups in American Life Series (Milton M. Gordon, editor) is a recent addition to the quality social science writings about this ethnic group.

Go to article

[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1985

[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The video program Immigrants, Minorities and School raises a number of important issues related to the school experiences of today's racial and ethnic minority groups (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) when compared with the school experiences of the earlier white European ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States within the last century. There are both similarities and differences in the experiences of each racial and ethnic minority group.

Go to article

[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner Jan 1985

[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

When Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, and Cosmo Pieterse sat as judges for the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award of 1981, they were faced with some 3,000 entries from more than 700 contestants from which they were to award three cash prizes and a number of book prizes. In the introduction to the book which they subsequently edited, consisting of eighty-two poems from forty-five writers from thirteen countries in Africa, they explain that they had told all entrants they were looking for "originality and imagination as well as evidence of technical skill." They state, also, that they "strove to deliberate …

Go to article

[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1985

[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen's The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social context of the current work is less benign. Factors implicated in the shift to more contentious racial and ethnic relations include a struggling national economy, separatist moves in Quebec and the West, a rapidly expanding non White immigration, and advancement of natural resource claims by aboriginal groups at a time when federal pressure for energy development in the …

Go to article

[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby Jan 1985

[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite's purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many …

Go to article

[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber Jan 1985

[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs.

Go to article

[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet Jan 1985

[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Black actors, and more often than not white actors in blackface, appeared in stereotyped roles in American movies from the beginnings of the industry. Such classic directors as D.W. Griffith and John Ford mindlessly exploited blacks to counterpoint white supremacy and to bear the brunt of the focus of social and political change. Blacks, even more than American Indians, were the recipents [recipients] of the darker side of western irrationality. For example, intermarriage, long treated as a subtheme of Indian/white confrontation, met with virulent rejection in films which treated black/white relationships. Because of their growing numbers and because of long-standing …

Go to article

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young Jan 1985

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

At the turn of this century, a group of American blacks from the midwest migrated to Canada to become homesteaders in the remote town of Athabasca, Alberta. Hadley Irwin's latest novel for young people focuses on this little-known chapter of American history. The movement of entire towns of blacks north in search of freedom provides Hadley Irwin an ideal setting for a young boy's search for identity. Rap Davis' growth toward maturity, his determination to "be somebody" parallels the growth and determination of a people to be somebody.

Go to article

[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson Jan 1985

[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the ''invisible immigrants' of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America," never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale's realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence.

Go to article

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts Jan 1985

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Poetry by American Indians may be traced to the writings of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee who came to California in the early 1850s, edited several northern California newspapers, and helped create the legend of Joaquin Murieta, and to the works of Alexander Posey, a Creek who wrote romantic nature poems and dialect stories in the style of the local colorists. Nonetheless, few Indian poets existed prior to the 1970s. Since then, there has been a tremendous surge in the numbers of Indians writing poetry, and their work has received a great deal of critical acclaim, as evidenced by the …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last