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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Gary Okihiro Jan 1983

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Gary Okihiro

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The foregoing essay by James Robert Payne describes two important pieces of Afroamerican literature and places them within their historical context. Payne offers a tantalizing account of those examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth century black nationalist writing; he fails, however, to explain their historical significance in terms of black nationalist thought around the turn of the century.

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Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Barbara Hiura Jan 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Alternative Education for the Rom" concerns a little written about ethnic group, the Gypsy, and concentrates on the dilemma of cultural resistance on the part of the Rom and cultural change for their survival in the U.S. Leita Kaldi discusses an educational alternative the Rom in Seattle, Washington find acceptable to bridge the gap between traditional Rom culture and the U.S. social structure.

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Editors Notes, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

Editors Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue of the journal is dedicated to each NAIES member, for you have made it possible with your membership dues. After a lengthy delay, our publications are back on schedule. Sigler Printing of Ames, Iowa, has closed our printing-schedule gap and enhanced the quality of our presentation in both Explorations in Ethnic Studies and Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

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Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Alice A. Deck Jan 1983

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

James Payne's thoughtful and carefully documented essay stresses the importance of evaluating ethnic American, specifically Afroamerican, fiction within its historical context. The historical information he provides in his essay concerning the Afroamerican response to the Spanish-American War and to America's paranoia of a supposed "Yellow Peril" does indeed shed light on how Griggs and Corrothers each imaginatively re-invested a specific social reality with an Afroamerican revolutionary furor-a rage which ironically had the best interest of the country at heart.

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[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson Jan 1983

[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hawaii provides a unique opportunity to measure social change as it relates to ethnicity and race relations in the United States. This opportunity has been seized by sociologists at the University of Hawaii, using papers by their students to discover the patterns which emerge in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. In this way, researchers such as Romanzo Adams, Bernard Hormann and Andrew Lind have increased our understanding of the social forces at work in Hawaii. The pattern is continued by Wayne S. Wooden, who taught sociology at the Hilo campus of the University of Hawaii.

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[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker Jan 1983

[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book, whose author is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, is an important contribution to Afro-American and diplomatic history. Its subject was, as the author notes, a "second echelon member of the national Negro leadership" at the turn of the nineteenth century . Mature biographies of such figures are few but are vital if the contours of black history are to be filled.

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[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish Jan 1983

[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Tom Miller's On The Border is a disarmingly straightforward book. At first glance it seems to be a simple travelog-the account of his journey at the dawn of the decade in a 1968 Valiant, accompanied by a photographer companion, Norah Booth, along the entire distance of the United States/Mexico border from Brownsville and Matamoros to Chula Vista and Tijuana. The only photographs in the book, however, are verbal ones.

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[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Journey Toward Hope is a welcome volume on blacks west of the Mississippi. The author has effectively demonstrated how Oklahoma's geography, between the West and the South, was responsible for its segregated development; white Oklahomans chose the racial customs, policies, and institutions of the Deep South to “keep Blacks in their place."

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[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1983

[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Historians are typically satisfied with pinpointing dates and describing associated events while minimizing speculation and interpretations which cannot be directly supported with evidence. There is no question that this is a vital and popular methodological approach, and Chicano studies historians have usually complied with this norm--until now.

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[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna Jan 1982

[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya contains a translation of roughly half of Mordechai Hakohen's Highid Mordekhai, a Hebrew volume describing the history, customs and institutions of the Jews of Tripolitania, completed in Libya in the 1920s but first published by Harvey Goldberg in Jerusalem in 1978. For this English translation, Goldberg has rewritten and expanded his introduction so that it provides both historical background and biographical data on Hakohen. He has also appended a most valuable series of head notes and endnotes which both clarify and supplement the text.

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[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright Jan 1982

[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The seven carefully documented essays in literary criticism in this excellent short volume are possibly more lively and provocative than those ordinarily found in scholarly publications. The title,however, might well have been: eight black writers and the human condition. Definitions of humanism are varied though not contradictory, but the book is held together by reassessments of black literature which challenge many of the assumptions of previous critics.

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[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler Jan 1982

[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In this compilation of eight essays, anthropologists Jack 0. Waddell and Michael Everett provide a generally refreshing way of looking at drinking behavior among the Papago, Pima, Yaqui, Taos Pueblo, Navajo, and White Mountain Apache of Arizona and New Mexico. The authors realize that much of what has been written about Native American alcohol use has come from an Anglo-Euro set of definitions which emphasizes the adoption of drinking behavior from whites, treating drinking without reference to Indian cultural differences and attributing it to some form of social dislocation caused by white intrusion and oppression.

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1982

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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Critique [Of Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics], Michele Zak Jan 1982

Critique [Of Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics], Michele Zak

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Two primary assumptions appear to inform this descriptive article about Byzantine Catholic communities in the United States: (1) old traditions are maintained in new environments through “syncretism”; and (2) the symbols that emerge in those syncretisms are reflective of the world view of the ethnic group that created them.

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African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study, Kristine L. Martin Jan 1982

African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study, Kristine L. Martin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The new nations of Africa and the islands of the South Pacific have much in common, despite their ethnic and cultural diversity and the vast distance that separates them. The literature which has developed over the past thirty years in Africa and over the past ten in the Pacific mirrors their shared experiences and outlook. The authors from both regions have acted as spokespersons for their people, voicing concerns about their future as individuals as well as members of a politically viable ethnic community.

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[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris Jan 1982

[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Researching black genealogy is not the same as researching white genealogy, either in methodology or sources. Eichholz and Rose, assistant professors at Queens College, City University of New York, and also co-directors of the Ethnic Genealogy Center, are established authors in the field. Eichholz had published The Linville Family in America (1970) and A Second Visit with the Linvilles (1976). Rose has published Tapestry (1979) and Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900 (1980), Together they co-edited the book Black Genesis (1978), rated as one of the best handbooks on the methodology and sources for black genealogy. One of the most …

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[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1982

[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a "classic First Amendment case" (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of …

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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh Jan 1982

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Charles L. P. Silet, The Make-Believe Indian: Native Americans In The Movies, Helen Kathleen Walsh

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Make-Believe Indian is all that is implied in the title and more. The slide-tape program is a useful instructional device which goes beyond the scholarly margins of The Pretend Indians (1980) by the same authors. The program clearly depicts how most white Europeans had their "images of Indians" formed well before their arrival in the Americas. We are subsequently shown and told how these fixed images of Indians were generated through the dime novels of the nineteenth century and transferred to the silver screen by movie producers in Hollywood.

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[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy Jan 1982

[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Storyteller is a collection of traditional stories, imaginative prose, verse, and autobiographical sketches purposefully interwoven with photographs taken over four generations by Silko's family and friends. The recurrent center of the work is Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico where she was raised. However, the book encompasses peoples other than Pueblo-Navaho, Zuni, the Yupik of Alaska-and in the opening pages we find her invocation to all Native peoples of North America.

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[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall Jan 1982

[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Aware of the philosophical disagreement and conceptualconfusion over the proper place of multiethnic education in the American school system, Banks has gone a long way in providing educators with a clear modus operandi in the field. The book is comprised of seventeen chapters divided into six parts; it also includes three useful appendices and an index.

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[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin Jan 1982

[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Bloody Ground, in 1941, was the book-length result of a reporter's coverage for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Day's work appeared well ahead of any national concern over Appalachia and was received with admiration by some, outrage by others. It was then eclipsed by the events of the Second World War.

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[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye Jan 1982

[Review Of] Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., Race And Ethnic Relations, Hardy T. Frye

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In the field of race relations, particularly in the United States, many scholars have turned their attention to the area of government policy and its implication for American racial relations.1 Race and Ethnic Relations by Blalock is concerned with this issue, but not exclusively. He makes the point that racial and ethnic conflict is not simply an American problem but indeed exists as a problem for most societies and emphasizes the desirability of comparative analysis whenever possible. Blalock also wants to rescue us from the naive assumption that it is possible to view race and ethnic relations in isolation.

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[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1982

[Review Of] Neshnabek: The People, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Potawatomi Indians (Prairie Band) of Kansas are portrayed in this film which has been some forty to fifty years in the making. The original footage was taken by Floyd A. Schultz, an amateur anthropologist, between 1930 and 1941. These scenes have been supplemented by historical still shots, maps, and other archival documents assembled from various sources in the 1960s and 1970s. During the summers of 1978 and 1979 Donald Stull, a professor of anthropology presently at the University of Kansas, conducted field interviews with some of the originally-photographed Potawatomi along with their friends and relatives. Portions of those interviews …

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Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams Jan 1982

Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], James H. Williams

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Kristine Martin demonstrates the need for the serious scholar to address the topic of African and Pacific literature in the form of comparative analysis. She has provided a good example for others to emulate. for her study is concerned with self-identity in the formation of ethnicity.

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Sonnets Polonaise Ii, Albert Solomon Jan 1982

Sonnets Polonaise Ii, Albert Solomon

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes sonnet by Albert Solomon: Polonaise II.

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Mrs. Cameron’S Baby, Louis E. Bryan Jan 1982

Mrs. Cameron’S Baby, Louis E. Bryan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; Mrs. Cameron’s Baby

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Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr Jan 1982

Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

To disagree with the author’s central theme that institutional racism is the principal deterrent to social, economic, and political equality of the races in America would be to ignore centuries of American history in which racial minorities have been oppressed and denied equality of rights and opportunities. Even further, one must agree with the author’s argument that institutional racism is merely the manifestation of “beliefs held so tenaciously that they guide behavior spontaneously by excluding any process which call them into question,” while simultaneously purporting to be open to the individual, irrespective of race», gender or age.

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My Uncle Played The Sax, Louis E. Bryan Jan 1982

My Uncle Played The Sax, Louis E. Bryan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Louis E. Bryan; My Uncle Played the Sax

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At Monticello, Margaret C. Blaker Jan 1982

At Monticello, Margaret C. Blaker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Margaret C. Blaker: At Monticello.

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