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Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 7th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies Jan 1979

Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 7th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This paper reviews some of the most salient aspects of E. M. Rogg's (1974) seminal work, The Assimilation of Cuban Exiles; The Role of Community and Class--a sociological study of the Cuban community in the town of West New York in northeastern New Jersey. Although taking issue with some of the author's theses, this paper elaborates on other findings of the book in question by means of more recent participant-observation field research in the same neighborhood. For example, the new data confirms Rogg's proposition that the organized ethnic minority helps to direct the process of acculturation, though slowly.

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Guest Editorial, Louis Sarabia Jan 1979

Guest Editorial, Louis Sarabia

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic studies is a rather strange field. In the first place, it is not a "field" in the traditional sense of other academic disciplines, but rather it seeks to include any and all disciplines. Second, it deals with people, and as our colleagues in the so-called "behavioral sciences" have discovered, people are perhaps the most unpredictable of all living things to study, thus the problems are many. Third, many of the subjects which we in ethnic studies have chosen to research, by the very nature of the fact that we deal with ethnic minorities, have tended to strike others not …

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Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden Jan 1979

Pasta Or Paradigm: The Place Of Italian-American Women In Popular Film, Daniel Golden

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The year is 1930, the film is Little Caesar, and Hollywood begins its long and often irresponsible tradition of portraying the Italian-American male as gangster, thug, sociopath. The gangster genre has traditionally focused on male activities--men in groups, their rites of passage into underworld manhood, and their perverted American dreams of success achieved through community extortion, syndicated corruption, and blood murder. But hidden in the story of Caesar Enrico Bandello, who has justifiably been called our "archetypal" film gangster, we also discover fragmentary, but important, early portrayals of the Italian woman in America.

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[Review Of] William E. Sims, Black Studies: Pitfalls And Potential, Adlean Harris Jan 1979

[Review Of] William E. Sims, Black Studies: Pitfalls And Potential, Adlean Harris

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

According to the author of this important study, the students who instigated the demand for Black Studies were a “new breed” of Black students. They were different from the White Majority in their manners, speech, style of dressing, and walking. They were also different from their Black predecessors in these same areas. In addition, they were veterans of the Civil Rights Movement; their heroes were Black activists--Ralph Brown, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver; they had no intention of “escaping the ghetto.”

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[Review Of] John Higham (Ed.), Ethnic Leadership In America, Edith Blicksilver Jan 1979

[Review Of] John Higham (Ed.), Ethnic Leadership In America, Edith Blicksilver

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The growing awareness of America's ethnic pluralism has become one of the factors shaping modern American history. Ethnic writers, as well as ethnic leaders, began the task of illuminating the meaning of their own historic and cultural traditions within the larger contexts of the nation and of the world. They have served as interpreters of their people.

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[Review Of] Orlando Romero, Nambe--Year One, Vernon E. Lattin Jan 1978

[Review Of] Orlando Romero, Nambe--Year One, Vernon E. Lattin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In the last few years the New Mexican Chicano narrative has taken a significant place within Chicano fiction. Writers like Anaya, Candelaria, and Ulibarri have revealed the uniqueness of being Chicano in New Mexico, often writing about the people who have maintained their century-old ties with past customs and ways of life. Orlando Romero’s novel, Nambe--Year One, adds a new and interesting voice to this growing body of literature.

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Guest Editorial, Robert Yoshioka Jan 1978

Guest Editorial, Robert Yoshioka

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Let me begin this editorial by formally thanking Dr. Charles Irby, Past President of the NAIES, for his exemplary leadership over the past two years. The membership in general, and the Executive Council in particular, are indebted to Chuck for his commitment and hard work. The Association has grown strong as a result of Chuck's efforts. Our thanks to you, Chuck! We will continue to pursue the ideal of unity through diversity, in its many ramifications, during the next two years.

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[Review Of] Barbara Bryant Solomon, Black Empowerment: Social Work In Oppressed Communities, Emma Turner Lucas Jan 1978

[Review Of] Barbara Bryant Solomon, Black Empowerment: Social Work In Oppressed Communities, Emma Turner Lucas

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

At long last an issue of great importance to the Black communit [community] in the social work arena has been addressed. The commencement of social service programs in the l960's brought about an even greate [greater] need for a deeper understanding of the effects of social ills on minorities, especially Blacks. While some individuals had good intentions of bringing about this understanding, they lacked the necessary familiarity with the Black community and its conditions. Black Empowerment addresses itself to this concern by describing the operational mobility of the Black community within a larger society.

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[Review Of] Virginia Vans-Mclaughlin, Family And Community, Italian Immigrants In Buffalo, 1880-1930, Frank J. Cavaioli Jan 1978

[Review Of] Virginia Vans-Mclaughlin, Family And Community, Italian Immigrants In Buffalo, 1880-1930, Frank J. Cavaioli

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin has made a major contribution to the study of ethnic immigration history, in general, and to the existing knowledge of the Italian Americans, in particular. In Family and Community, Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880—1930, she explores the relationship between the social and economic roots of the contadini from the Italian mezzogiorno and their life in urban industrial America.

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[Review Of] Robert A. Huttenback, Racism And Empire: White Settlers And Coloured Immigrants In The British Self-Governing Colonies 1820-1910, Georgina Ashworth Jan 1978

[Review Of] Robert A. Huttenback, Racism And Empire: White Settlers And Coloured Immigrants In The British Self-Governing Colonies 1820-1910, Georgina Ashworth

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The events in Queensland, and particularly Western Australia, just before the December 1977 General Election would be recognizable to anyone who had read Richard A. Huttenback's Racism and Empire. The dishonorable attempt to disenfranchise the illiterate Aborigines--which was foiled only by a Cabinet Minister crossing the floor and the casting vote of the speaker--was a direct inheritance of the "Natal formula," which is the main exercise of Huttenback's book. The formula was, in its purest form, simply a means, by language and literacy testing, of "keeping unwanted immigrants out of a colony through the use of a mechanism which seemed …

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Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 6th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies Jan 1978

Abstracts Of Papers Presented At The 6th Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Before developing programs to help minority women, program developers should assess themselves. White men usually create problems that cause minority women to need programs developed. White men who have had minimal social contact with minority women are not qualified to solve minority women's problems. White men ask white women and minority men to give assistance in solving minority women's problems. White women, who have been considered superior to minority women because of social, educational, or economical circumstances, are not qualified to solve minority women's problems. Minority men who have chauvinist values and do not have minority women's concerns at heart …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1978

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Explorations In Poetry. To Sister A-Go-Go, The Masks, To The Unconcerned, For No Other Reason, Philip N. Henry Jan 1978

Explorations In Poetry. To Sister A-Go-Go, The Masks, To The Unconcerned, For No Other Reason, Philip N. Henry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poems by Philip N. Henry: to sister a-go-go, The Masks, to the unconcerned, and for no other reason

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The "Barbarous Massacre" Reconsidered: The Powhatan Uprising Of 1622 And The Historians, J. Frederick Fausz Jan 1978

The "Barbarous Massacre" Reconsidered: The Powhatan Uprising Of 1622 And The Historians, J. Frederick Fausz

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Powhatan Uprising of March 22, 1621/22, was the single most significant event of Anglo-Indian relations in Virginia. An early example of a native culture’s rebellion against intruding European civilization, the uprising climaxed a mere decade and a half of intercultural contact. Its impact upon trans-Atlantic ideology and policy was impressive: it brought to an end the first (forty year) phase of British imperialis [imperialist] accelerated Virginia's unique course of development, and hastened the doom of an American Indian empire with vast potential.

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Notes On Contributors Jan 1978

Notes On Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1978

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The Asian Woman In America, Gloria L. Kumagai Jan 1978

The Asian Woman In America, Gloria L. Kumagai

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Both females and males, regardless of their racial ethnic group, are seriously limited in their information about Asian women. Far too often the system educates individuals about race and sex as two distinct and separate categories. Consequently, Asian women, as well as other women of color, are viewed either as members of their ethnic group or their sexual group, and rarely as members of both groups simultaneously. This paper presents an overview of the historical context and the present-day status of Asian women in America as well as implications for education and change.

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[Review Of] Ernesto Galarza, Farm Workers And Agri-Business In California, 1947-1960, Rosa Fernandez Jan 1978

[Review Of] Ernesto Galarza, Farm Workers And Agri-Business In California, 1947-1960, Rosa Fernandez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The reader who is already familiar with Galarza's work will not find it surprising that once again he has done a painstaking job of writing this account of the history of agricultural workers in California during the years l947 to 1960. Contrary to Galarza's own fears that the academically minded might find his book ”insufficient“ and the list of suggested readings ”too thin,” Farm Workers and Agri-business in California, 1947-1960 provides the reader with a wealth of information based on careful research and on Galarza's own recollections of his experiences as a farm worker and union organizer during that period.

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Editor's Corner, George E. Carter Jan 1978

Editor's Corner, George E. Carter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Since the inception of NAIES, the matter of the organization serving as a communications network has been one of some concern. The need for this kind of activity within the Association is self-evident. When a program, person, or institution encounters difficulty, the existence of a vehicle which can bring to bear external pressure can often be extremely useful. Some might raise the question of being seen as an “outside agitator,” but given the scope of the membership of NAIES, this kind of pressure can often be brought from closeby. The matter of a network for communication also opens the door …

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Contents Jan 1978

Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1978

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Notes On Contributors Jan 1978

Notes On Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1978

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1978

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Contents Jan 1978

Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol.1, no.1, 1978

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Guest Editorial: Explorations In Ethnic Studies, A New Journal, Charles C. Irby Jan 1978

Guest Editorial: Explorations In Ethnic Studies, A New Journal, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The National Association of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies (NAIES)was organized at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse during the third annual meeting of the Minority Studies Conference in the spring of 1975. The founding of the "association," with its unwieldy title that was changed a year later, resulted from a meeting of about a dozen persons

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A Developmental Design For Understanding Ethnicity, Charles C. Irby Jan 1978

A Developmental Design For Understanding Ethnicity, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Carl O. Sauer, the late dean of North American anthropogeography, noted that: We are touching upon a very serious topic that Americans, with their emphasis on acculturation, Americanization, and so forth, have never explored properly. Our own cultural minorities, living and surviving, persisting in some of their own attitudes of values and consciences, have a seminal as well as a historical significance as long as they resist absorption into the general pattern, but we pay little attention to them.1

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Education And The Images Of The American Indian, Gretchen Bataille Jan 1978

Education And The Images Of The American Indian, Gretchen Bataille

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Looking at any schedule of college courses, one is likely to find several classes which come under the rubric of ethnic studies. The courses are popular with teachers and students alike because they represent a change of pace from traditional study. Hopefully, such courses suggest a move toward an appreciation and recognition of the cultural diversity in America and mean that, as a nation, we are ready to follow the suggestion of Louis Ballard, American Indian composer and author, who stated that "cultural differences should be honored, not merely 'accepted,' which is nothing more than a synonym for 'tolerated.'" In …

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A Perceived Ethnic Factor In California's Farm Labor Conflict: The Nisei Farmers League, Stephen S. Fugita Jan 1978

A Perceived Ethnic Factor In California's Farm Labor Conflict: The Nisei Farmers League, Stephen S. Fugita

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The farm labor conflict has been volatile for over three quarters of a century in California's rich agriculture valleys. The most recent years of this struggle have been associated with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Worker’s Union (UFW). A new element, the Nisei Farmers League (NFL), also emerged during the same time period. The NFL was formed in 1971 after some Japanese American farmers were picketed and their property damaged by persons sympathetic to the UFW. These growers charged that they had been "singled out" by the UFW in their area. Their ranches are located in central San Joaquin …

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[Review Of] Joel Schor, Henry Highland Garnet: A Voice In Black Radicalism In The Nineteenth Century, Michael J. Stanke Jan 1978

[Review Of] Joel Schor, Henry Highland Garnet: A Voice In Black Radicalism In The Nineteenth Century, Michael J. Stanke

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ninety-five years ago in Liberia, Africa, Henry Highland Garnet died. Besides being an ardent abolitionist, Garnet was also a Presbyterian minister, newspaper editor, orator, author, and political organizer. Historian George Washington Williams personally observed that Garnet's oratory was "equal in ability to Frederick Douglass, especially in logic and terse statement." Carter G. Woodson stated that "Garnet created the ideas which Frederick Douglass tempered and presented to the world in a more palliative and acceptable form." Despite Garnet's accomplishments, almost a century has passed in which Garnet's biography remained unwritten. Happily, Joel Schor has filled that void with his book, Henry …

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Editor's Comment, George E. Carter Jan 1978

Editor's Comment, George E. Carter

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Are you a member of the Anti-Slavery Society? It would be interesting to know how many members of NAIES know that there is such an organization. The question of membership was asked of the editor this past summer when in London, England, working on a research project The answer was "no"; however, in July, 1977, the rolls of the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights did increase by one, and the number of members in the United States jumped significantly. The most recent membership report listed a total Society membership of 907. The number of members in the …

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[Review Of] Milton J. Esman (Ed.), Ethnic Conflict In The Western World, Hardy T. Frye Jan 1978

[Review Of] Milton J. Esman (Ed.), Ethnic Conflict In The Western World, Hardy T. Frye

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic conflict has reemerged in the economic and political arenas of the western world, less between nation states, more within the boundaries of particular nations. The type of conflict that emerged in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's was racial, in sharp contrast to the ethnonationalist conflict in western Europe and Canada. The latter has a long history and has been shaped by cultural, linguistic, and religious differences. This conflict declined after World War II but is now back on the scene. The explanation of its return is one of the major purposes of this book. A second …

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[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), I Am The Fire Of Time: The Voices Of Native American Women, Gretchen Bataille Jan 1978

[Review Of] Jane B. Katz (Ed.), I Am The Fire Of Time: The Voices Of Native American Women, Gretchen Bataille

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Speaking at the Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies in April, Bea Medicine admonished the audience that rather than lament the work which has not yet been done by or about Native American women, we must recognize the significance and breadth of what has already been written. I Am the Fire of Time shows just that. The selections come from nineteenth century transcripts as well as from contemporary women poets and activists. Over and over the reader is reminded that the Native American woman was not and is not the drudge or burden bearer portrayed in American fiction and …

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