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[Contents] Jan 1983

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Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 3, Summer, 1983

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[Review Of] Lloyd Fernando, Ed., Malaysian Short Stories; K. S. Maniam, The Return; And Wong Meng Voon, Glimpses Of The Past, Cheng Lok Chua Jan 1983

[Review Of] Lloyd Fernando, Ed., Malaysian Short Stories; K. S. Maniam, The Return; And Wong Meng Voon, Glimpses Of The Past, Cheng Lok Chua

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

These three books of fiction are set in the multilingual and multiracial context of Singapore and Malaysia, two Southeast Asian nations once part of the British Empire and now a region peopled by a volatile mix of indigenous Malays (roughly 45%) and immigrant Chinese (43%), Indians (10%), and Europeans (0.4%). Reflecting the diversity of this region, one book is a short story anthology by a Chinese (Wong), another a novel by an Indian (Maniam), and the third a collection of stories edited by an Eurasian ( Fernando). All three books have some astonishing strengths and some unfortunate lapses, with Maniam's …

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[Review Of] Rebecca Chua, The Newspaper Editor And Other Stories, Hua-Yuan Li. Mowry Jan 1983

[Review Of] Rebecca Chua, The Newspaper Editor And Other Stories, Hua-Yuan Li. Mowry

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Over the past decade, Sinologists in the West have given much scholarly and critical attention to the study of contemporary Chinese fiction as produced by writers in the People's Republic of China and in Taiwan. In contrast, little scholarly dialogue has concerned fictional works, in Chinese or in any other language, published by writers of Chinese parentage who live outside China or Taiwan and who are known as "overseas Chinese." (A single exception to this is, perhaps, the work of Maxine Hong Kingston.) English language readers interested in contemporary Chinese literature will thus welcome this collection in English of fifteen …

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[Review Of] Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge Of Beyond, Wolfgang Binder Jan 1983

[Review Of] Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge Of Beyond, Wolfgang Binder

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Simone Schwarz-Bart's first novel (1972) makes highly commendable reading for anybody interested in Afro-Caribbean literature. Barbara Bray's translation does remarkably well in capturing the poetic texture of the narrator's (Telumee) account; Bridget Jones' introduction is useful but could have focused more on the novel itself and on its sources.

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[Review Of] Thomas Kochman, Black And White Styles In Conflict, Warner R. Traynham Jan 1983

[Review Of] Thomas Kochman, Black And White Styles In Conflict, Warner R. Traynham

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Race, class and culture are the ingredients of black-white relations in America. Thomas Kochman's book attempts to separate out the cultural component of this mix and to examine it because he believes that it is both ignored and the source of much interracial conflict. The author is Professor of Communications and Theatre at the University of Illinois and has taught and researched in the area of black language and behavior. His background has clearly made him sensitive to aspects of black culture, a sensitivity he exploits in his book.

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[Review Of] Gloria Kumagai (Project Director), America's Women Of Color: Integrating Cultural Diversity Into Non-Sex-Biased Curricula, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1983

[Review Of] Gloria Kumagai (Project Director), America's Women Of Color: Integrating Cultural Diversity Into Non-Sex-Biased Curricula, Gretchen M. Bataille

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is an extensive project with multiple uses for the classroom teacher or director of a multi-cultural, non-sexist teaching program. Kumagai has drawn on the resources of a number of persons to help write, test, and evaluate the materials included.

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Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Vagn K. Hansen Jan 1983

Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Vagn K. Hansen

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Relatively few individuals have the option of choosing an ethnic identity. In most cases that identity is ascribed by parentage or by societal perception. Kinloch's research illuminates both the considerations which may be involved in making a choice of ethnic identity in those persons who have the option and the results of the choice for his sample group.

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[Review Of] Reuben K. Udo, The Human Geography Of Tropical Africa, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

[Review Of] Reuben K. Udo, The Human Geography Of Tropical Africa, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The author explains in the preface that his book "is written for students preparing for the General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level)" as well as "students in Advanced Teachers' Colleges, Colleges of Education and undergraduates taking courses on Africa or African Studies."

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[Review Of] Charles A. Ward, Philip Shashko, And Donald E. Pienkos, Eds., Studies In Ethnicity: The East European Experience In America, Lyle Koehler Jan 1983

[Review Of] Charles A. Ward, Philip Shashko, And Donald E. Pienkos, Eds., Studies In Ethnicity: The East European Experience In America, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Studies in Ethnicity is a collection of papers read at the conference "Aspects of the East European Experience in Europe and America" held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 4-5, 1979. The editors have arranged the papers under three headings : "Ethnicity and Language Maintenance in America," "Ethnic Social Organization: Secular and Religious Dimensions," and "Ethnic Writers in America."

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[Review Of] Amiri Baraka And Amina Baraka, Eds., Confirmation: An Anthology Of African American Women, Richard L. Herrnstadt Jan 1983

[Review Of] Amiri Baraka And Amina Baraka, Eds., Confirmation: An Anthology Of African American Women, Richard L. Herrnstadt

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In his introduction to Confirmation, Amiri Baraka points out that the anthology is not "intended, in the same way that Black Fire was, to attack the house-negro appropriation of bourgeois aesthetics. Rather the purpose of this volume is to draw attention to the existence and excellence of black women writers." The volume accomplishes that extraordinarily well. Confirmation is a major contribution, for it provides solid illustration of the range of work being produced by an impressive number (an even fifty) of accomplished black women writers.

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[Review Of] Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1983

[Review Of] Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb, Laverne GonzáLez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Formerly called British Honduras, Belize, an emerging third world country, second smallest in Central America, originally became a part of the British Empire because its coast gave sanctuary to British sailors and pirates. But a thousand years or so before, the land formed a small part of the mighty Mayan civilization. A dozen or more sites-Mayan centers-have been discovered in Belize and have offered up their pyramids and artifacts as silent testimony to the past. Becoming fully self-governing in 1964, the country continues to experience various power struggles; Guatemala claims Belize since, according to its doctrine, a province which successfully …

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[Review Of] James Lafayette Glenn, My Work Among The Florida Seminoles, Michael D. Green Jan 1983

[Review Of] James Lafayette Glenn, My Work Among The Florida Seminoles, Michael D. Green

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

James Lafayette Glenn's My Work among the Florida Seminoles is a memoir of his five-year tenure (1931-35) as United States agent to the Seminoles. Written in the mid-1940s as a long letter to his daughter, this document remained unpublished in the manuscript holdings of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society until it was discovered and edited by Harry A. Kersey, the leading student of recent Seminole history.

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[Review Of] Lance Liebman, Ed., Ethnic Relations In America, Russell Endo Jan 1983

[Review Of] Lance Liebman, Ed., Ethnic Relations In America, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This small volume contains six background papers prepared under the editorship of Lance Liebman, professor of law at Harvard, for a 1981 meeting on ethnic relations convened by the American Assembly, a well-known policy institution affiliated with Columbia University.

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[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo Jan 1983

[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The first major work of its kind published in France by an Americanist, Les Fils du Soleil (The Children of the Sun: The Mexican Minority as Seen Through the Literature of the United States) deserves recognition as a historical landmark and French contribution to the study of the Chicano. Its thorough treatment of the subject surpasses in thematic outreach all previously published works.

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1983

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry Jan 1983

[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Married at thirteen years of age to an unknown husband, and pregnant two months later! How could her parents allow such a horror to happen? Zem Ping Dong would soon understand the Chinese way: to accept fate and do what must be done, regardless of the cost.

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[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole Jan 1983

[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In Jah Music, Sebastian Clarke has offered a wealth of information on Jamaican popular music especially to this reader who, although a musician and ethnomusicologist, knew very little about the popular music of Jamaica previously. Clarke has provided material on the roots and history of the music: the birth and development of Rastafarianism, then the evolutionary development of Jamaican music, and its three most powerful exponents, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. There is also a chapter on the spoken word, which is the key to all African-derived music. Whether articulated by voice or by another instrument, the word …

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[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones Jan 1983

[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Although it may be true that the equal rights movement for women will result in freeing both women and men from social and legal restrictions (and, in fact, it may be a rather convincing practical political argument), as a feminist, I find a book that supports these rights for women on the basis of reciprocally increased rights for men suspect. It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson arguing, in Notes on Virginia, against the continuation of slavery because of its debilitating moral effects on owners and their families. Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of …

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[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1983

[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the …

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[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1983

[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Americans live in a pluralistic society populated by persons of different ethnic backgrounds, languages, socio-economic levels, and religious beliefs. Within our society other personal characteristics are also evident, e.g., age, sex, physical and mental abilities. Too often value-laden, distorted messages and images are conveyed about those who are not viewed as being members of mainstream America. Prejudice becomes manifest and stereotypic misinformation is used to formulate major decisions affecting the lives of human beings.

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[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright Jan 1983

[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The twenty-five selections, mostly short stories, reprinted here make painful reading for anyone sympathetic to the black African who must live under the daily indignities of apartheid. Considering the number of writers in exile, one may at first find those still living in South Africa suspect but, although the murderous violence familiar to newspaper readers is absent, there is still pain enough. For those unfamiliar with past or current events, fiction here is history as well as art.

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[Review Of] Elsa V. Goveia, A Study On The Historiography Of The British West Indies, To The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Roland L. Guyotte Jan 1983

[Review Of] Elsa V. Goveia, A Study On The Historiography Of The British West Indies, To The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Roland L. Guyotte

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is an extremely learned work. Published originally by the Pan American Institute of History and Geography in 1956 and recently reprinted in paperback by Howard Press, A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies discusses almost seventy-five, often multi-volume works published between 1530 and 1898. This material includes works published in English, French, Spanish and Dutch. As the author points out, many of these volumes were originally composed by gifted amateurs who wrote with polemical purposes. The historiography of the British West Indies is a minefield of controversies about fundamental human questions which are exemplified in a …

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[Review Of] Francis Paul Prucha, Indian-White Relations In The United States: A Bibliography Of Works Published, 1975-1980, Michael D. Green Jan 1983

[Review Of] Francis Paul Prucha, Indian-White Relations In The United States: A Bibliography Of Works Published, 1975-1980, Michael D. Green

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume is the long-awaited supplement to Francis Paul Prucha's Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1977. That work, which contained 9705 items, was complete to 1975. The supplement, with 3400 titles, covers the historical literature made available between 1975 and 1980. Organized into fifteen subject divisions and excellently cross-referenced with a thirty-six page index, the supplement continues the same high quality of Prucha's previous efforts to bring some useable order to the bewildering complexity of American Indian historiography.

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[Review Of] Multicultural Education And The American Indian, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1983

[Review Of] Multicultural Education And The American Indian, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Multicultural Education and the American Indian provides an excellent treatment of selected issues related to the education of American Indians. This volume, by scholars in Indian studies, is divided into six sections and includes an overview and background information, discusses American Indian policy at the national and local level, examines cross-cultural education and the performance of Indian students, and suggests ways to provide more effective teacher training and curriculum development. These concerns are important for both the American Indian and non-Indian communities to understand and address.

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Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Dennis Stewart Jan 1983

Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Perhaps the most valuable contribution that Professors Bataille's and Silet’s treatise makes is to connect the images of the American Indian in movies with antecedent images. The scope of their investigation predates Columbus, includes critical American historical imagery production, takes the reader to the very beginnings of the movie industry, and brings us up-to-date on the effects of the "Great Society" outfalls for both image. and employment of American Indians in the screen entertainment establishment.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982 Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies Title Index Volumes 1-5, 1978-1982

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Reflections, William Oandasan Jan 1983

Reflections, William Oandasan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by William Oandasan: Reflections.

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Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Dennis Stewart Jan 1983

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Professor Payne, in his two selections of seminal writings from the pre-World War I period, has performed a remarkable service for Explorations readers in presenting significant work tersely argued, well-written, and comprehensively considered. Griggs's and Corrothers's fiction contains all of the possibilities for political change that were considered during the 1960s and 1970s.

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A Response To "Our Own Dogs", Alice A. Deck Jan 1983

A Response To "Our Own Dogs", Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In contemporary American Indian songs and stories the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Lakota all voice a rueful hindsight over the hereditary "Great Mistake," or the friendship and kindness which their naive, trusting ancestors extended to the pilgrims on the Mayflower.

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Notes, William Oandasan Jan 1983

Notes, William Oandasan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"first there is the word, the word is the song," Includes poem by William Oandasan: Notes.

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