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Contributors Jan 1983

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 1983

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Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Shirla R. Mcclain Jan 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Shirla R. Mcclain

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Leita Kaldi has introduced the readers to little known data on one of America's most interesting and lesser-known ethnic groups. This critique focuses on further development of the material in the article and the implications of such research for the field of ethnic studies.

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Books Received Jan 1983

Books Received

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Titles appearing in this list may be reviewed in future issues of Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

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[Review Of] Martha Montero, Ed., Bilingual Education Research Handbook: Strategies For The Design Of Multicultural Curriculum And Language Issues In Multicultural Settings, Barbara Hiura Jan 1983

[Review Of] Martha Montero, Ed., Bilingual Education Research Handbook: Strategies For The Design Of Multicultural Curriculum And Language Issues In Multicultural Settings, Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bilingual Education Teacher Handbook is a two volume collection of articles developed by bilingual staff at the Boston University Training and Resource Center of the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. The goal of this project is to "develop teacher awareness of those areas that underlie bilingual education, namely, (a) the role of the systems-context approach; (b) the role in curriculum design of goals and objectives; (c) the development of pedagogical skills in bilingual education." (p. 3) The articles were not intended to be neatly packaged curriculum kits, but rather to provide the fundamental basis for developing and evaluating …

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[Review Of] Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy Of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal, Bernard E. Segal Jan 1983

[Review Of] Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy Of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal, Bernard E. Segal

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It's not unusual for partisans of opposing viewpoints about Cuba to spark each other to flaming argument, while those who prefer less heat and more light can easily find adventure enough just in following the course of the Western Hemisphere's most important social experiment since the Mexican Revolution. Shouldn't a book about twenty years of post-revolutionary Cuba be exciting, especially when it comes to us from Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Cuban native, an early supporter of the revolution and also an early emigre to the United States, and now, as Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, one of only a …

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[Review Of] S. Husin Ali, The Malays: Their Problems And Future, Kirk Endicott Jan 1983

[Review Of] S. Husin Ali, The Malays: Their Problems And Future, Kirk Endicott

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

On December 3, 1974, 2000 Malaysian university students staged demonstrations on the playing field of the Selangor Club in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. They were demonstrating their sympathy for the peasant rubber growers of Kedah, who had been brought to a state of desperate poverty by inflation and the low price of rubber, and protesting government policies which were ostensibly designed to improve the economic condition of all Malays, but had apparently succeeded only in enriching a small group of Malay politicians and businessmen. They demanded a fundamental reorganization of the political and economic system to ensure that the …

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[Review Of] Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race And Class, Edith Blicksilver Jan 1983

[Review Of] Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race And Class, Edith Blicksilver

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

You won't find her listed in Notable American Women beside Frances Elliott Davis who won Eleanor Roosevelt's admiration by challenging racial barriers to become the first black nurse enrolled by the American Red Cross. Nor is this Black Power activist found before theatrical educator Hollie Mae Ferguson Flanagan, encouraged by her artistic German mother and dynamic Scot pioneer father to "set a stout heart to a steep hillside." But Angela Y. Davis deserves recognition when this Harvard Press publication goes into a second printing, because seldom in the history of American justice has a criminal court heard a civil libertarian …

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[Review Of] Joy Hendry, Marriage In Changing Japan: Community And Society, Lyle Koehler Jan 1983

[Review Of] Joy Hendry, Marriage In Changing Japan: Community And Society, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Joy Hendry uses a social anthropological examination of one community, the village of Kurotsuchi on southerly Kyushu Island, to illuminate the pivotal role of marriage in Japanese society. Marriage from pre-Meiji times to the present, she points out, has been crucial to the continuation of the ie, that union of the genealogical family and household/property. Marriage establishes the house head as an integral member of the village associations for governance, tax collection, care of the shrines, road building, and mutual aid. Moreover, it brings together Shintoism and Buddhism in a harmonious blending of rituals concerning birth and death.

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[Review Of] Virginia Huffer, The Sweetness Of The Fig: Aboriginal Women In Transition, Lyle Koehler Jan 1983

[Review Of] Virginia Huffer, The Sweetness Of The Fig: Aboriginal Women In Transition, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During 1970 and 1973, University of Maryland professor of psychiatry Virginia Huffer spent some time with the women of the Lardil and Kaiadilt tribes who live on Mornington Island in northern Australia's Gulf of Carpenteria [Carpentaria]. Forced to accommodate increasingly to Western ways, these women struggle to maintain traditional linkages while they undergo modern change. This conflict between the past and the future, as well as the everyday realities of their existence, are presented through Huffer's psychobiographical lens, primarily through the intervention and words of her chief informant, Elsie Roughsey, a "cooperative, friendly, generous, and intelligent" Lardil woman who is, …

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[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Hua-Yuan Li Mowry Jan 1983

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Hua-Yuan Li Mowry

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

"There is no history, only fictions of varying degree of plausibility." Although historians may disagree with Voltaire's provocative statement, Ruthanne Lum McCunn's choice of this phrase as an opening for her biographical novel, Thousand Pieces of Gold, is probably in keeping with the general agreement that any fiction which claims literary merits must contain some truth. McCunn, an Amerasian born in San Francisco's Chinatown, grew up in Hong Kong. At the age of sixteen, she returned to San Francisco to attend college and subsequently worked as a librarian, teacher, and bilingual/bicultural specialist. She is the author of An Illustrated History …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Linda M.C. Abbott Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Linda M.C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Increased retention of minority undergraduates is a goal that can be supported for a variety of reasons, from the avoidance of human waste, to concern for balanced institutional budgets, to the desirability of turning out larger numbers of minority graduates who will become professional role models for the next generation. The authors have presented a state·of·the·art review of some promising retention programs, together with recommendations for strengthening such programs.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1983

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Helen Maclam Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Jenkins' and Terrell's assessment of factors contributing to the attrition of undergraduate minority students is written in such general terms that it does not make a clear statement of the problem. Further, while their use of Kathleen Burlew's study may have provided some specific insights, to say out of context that "since students may lose interest in educational goals, an occupational end is needed to sustain their motivation to continue" comes perilously close to a rationale for consigning minority students to vocational programs.

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Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education, Verdia Jenkins, Melvin Terrell Jan 1983

Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education, Verdia Jenkins, Melvin Terrell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This article is concerned with the retention of minority undergraduate students, offering recommendations which contribute to a higher rate of student retention in postsecondary institutions. The first section provides a brief introduction to the state-of-the-art concerning attrition and retention. The development of a retention program for minority students comprises the second, more comprehensive section. It provides a listing of resources concerned with the problem. Concluding recommendations are presented which can contribute to the successful retention of minority students.

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Abstracts From The Eleventh Annual Conference On Ethnic Minority Studies, 1983, Ontario, California Jan 1983

Abstracts From The Eleventh Annual Conference On Ethnic Minority Studies, 1983, Ontario, California

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

We asked discussants for the 1983 Conference to summarize their responses to the papers in their sessions, and Stewart Rodnon of Rider College provided a statement which comments specifically on the session for which he was discussant and summarizes the significance of many of the papers delivered at the 1983 Conference. His comments serve as a meaningful preface to these abstracts.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Author And Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982; Supplement To Volume 6, Number 2, (July 1983) Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies Author And Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982; Supplement To Volume 6, Number 2, (July 1983)

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Willie Wright Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Willie Wright

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"The Retention of Undergraduate Minority Students in Institutions of Higher Education" presents an informative discussion on the retention of minority students. The article comprehensively addresses the problems relevant to retaining minority students in institutions of higher learning. In addition, it represents a clear and fairly precise discussion of what elements a retention effort geared toward black students should contain in order to achieve success.

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A Writer Speaks: An Interview With Lorenz Bell Graham, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

A Writer Speaks: An Interview With Lorenz Bell Graham, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Missionary, teacher, professor, strikebreaker, cook, waiter, and author are embodied in the national treasure interviewed here. Lorenz Graham received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater forty-seven years after receiving the B.A. degree. He is almost as old as the twentieth century in years of age and as young as a college freshman in spirit. Graham is a recognized giant as a writer of literature for young readers. His major works include South Town (Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1958), North Town (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965), Whose Town: (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969), Return …

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The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue, perhaps more than any other, brings together the many concerns of NAIES . The abstracts from the Eleventh Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies demonstrate the wide-ranging interests of NAIES members and the many issues unresolved in our society. Lorenz Bell Graham, a guest lecturer at the Conference, agreed to share with Explorations readers some of his experiences as a writer of adolescent fiction.

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Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note, Graham C. Kinloch Jan 1983

Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note, Graham C. Kinloch

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The islands of Hawaii are well-known for their unique level of racial heterogeneity and admixture, overt norms of racial tolerance and harmony, and temperate climate. Of central interest to the social scientist is the manner in which racial and cultural blending take place in such a complex society, particularly among those of mixed racial origin; Hawaii provides a social laboratory in which to study such processes in depth. This paper, viewing racial identity as an important index of intergroup relations, examines the racial identities and related reasons of forty high school adolescents in Hawaii in order to highlight controlling factors …

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Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians, Gretchen M. Bataille, Charles L.P. Silet Jan 1983

Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians, Gretchen M. Bataille, Charles L.P. Silet

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Two general points can be made about Euroamerican exploitation of American Indians: first, whatever level of exploitation they have experienced by the motion picture industry, it is part of a long tradition which dates back to the earliest contacts between white Europeans and Indians; and second, that the exploitation has taken on two forms-economic and psychic. Just how Indians have been taken advantage of economically is relatively clear. Euroamerican history texts happily record the ways in which the native inhabitants of the American shores were bilked, with the $24 worth of beads, for Manhatten [Manhattan] Island and with equally inequitable …

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Contributors Jan 1983

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on Contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983

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Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Terry Simmons Jan 1983

Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Terry Simmons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

James Joyce once said that history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. This article by Gretchen Bataille and Charles Silet is part of our collective process of awakening. The first portion of this article recounts the psychological and economic consequences to the conquest and domination of American Indians by more recent immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. However, one need not dwell upon the history or the tragic unpleasantness of these post-Columbian events. Instead, the focus here is on present blurry eyed attempts to live in and cope with a multicultural, twentieth century North American society.

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Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Helen G. Chapin Jan 1983

Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This modest research note is on solid ground in recognizing that racial identity prevails in the relatively non-racist, pluralist society of Hawaii. Hawaii's peoples are noted for extending respect and tolerance to the diverse racial and ethnic groups in the State, but pluralism has by no means erased all problems.

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Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Jesse Jackson Jan 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Jesse Jackson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Leita Kaldi's "Alternative Education for the Rom" briefly states the plight of Gypsies in the second paragraph: The Rom face an agonizing dilemma today. Either they will persist as urban nomads, in mobile ghettos, in enclaves of poverty and in prisons, or their cultural traditions will have to evolve to enable them to share in the benefits of this society, to develop a better material and social existence. Education is a basic bridge into contemporary U.S. society and a pioneering effort has been made in Seattle, Washington, to encourage the Rom to step onto that bridge.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1983

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1983

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Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction, James Robert Payne Jan 1983

Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction, James Robert Payne

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and James D. Corrothers's "A Man They Didn't Know" are two early Afroamerican fictions which suggest a black alliance with foreign powers in the face of unrelenting racial injustice at home.1 Imperium in Imperio, published in 1899, has been described as "the first political novel" by a black American;2 and "A Man They Didn't Know," appearing in 1913, is probably the first Afroamerican fiction to suggest a specific alliance between American blacks, groups in Mexico, and the Japanese. Sutton E. Griggs is currently undergoing rediscovery, and Imperium in Imperio is by now well known …

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Alternative Education For The Rom, Rom Leita Kaldi Jan 1983

Alternative Education For The Rom, Rom Leita Kaldi

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Rom* in the United States are nearly 100% illiterate. There are very few in any of the professions. The Rom cannot rely on gajo (non-Gypsy) doctors, lawyers, and educators who do not understand their ways or their unique problems.

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Our Own Dogs, Robert N. Zimmerman Jan 1983

Our Own Dogs, Robert N. Zimmerman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Robert N. Zimmerman: Our Own Dog.

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