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[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara Jan 1993

[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara

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Nisei, meaning American-born second-generation Japanese, is an epic scale undertaking of the recording of a brief but eventful history of the Japanese immigration to America by a Japanese American journalist. The book consists of twenty-seven chapters which are divided into three parts. The initial focus is on the settlement of the first generation Japanese immigrants in the 1870s, mainly in California and the Pacific states. Then the topic shifts to the emergence of a substantial Nisei population during the 1930-40 period, followed by their maturation through prewar segregation and the wartime internment experience. The third part accounts for the post-internment …

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Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1993

Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez

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In April of 1990, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., published an essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "When Ethnic Studies are Un-American."[1] The publication of that article followed, by about eight months, the release of New York State's Department of Education's now controversial report -- "A Curriculum of Inclusion."[2] Interestingly, the publication of The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society also follows, by about seven months, the release of New York State's second and most current Education Department report calling for the development of a new multicultural social studies curriculum -- One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of …

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[Review Of] Lucy Thompson (Che-Na-Wah-Weitch-Ah-Wah). To The American Indian: Reminiscences Of A Yurok Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1993

[Review Of] Lucy Thompson (Che-Na-Wah-Weitch-Ah-Wah). To The American Indian: Reminiscences Of A Yurok Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Originally published in 1916, this autobiography of Lucy Thompson was accidentally rediscovered in the 1970s by Peter E. Palmquist when he was doing research on the photographer Emma B. Freeman. Palmquist sought out a copy of the book and what he found was Thompson's attempt to tell about her Yurok life in English, a language difficult for her to use to explain traditional Yurok culture. The original publication was poorly edited and locally printed, and, although this reprint has been edited to make it accessible, serious scholars might wish to compare this version to the original, which is available at …

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[Review Of] Juan Suarez. Contra El Viento: Un Historia De Lucha Y Amor, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1993

[Review Of] Juan Suarez. Contra El Viento: Un Historia De Lucha Y Amor, Luis L. Pinto

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Contra El Viento (Against the Wind) is an autobiography that reads like a novel. This biographical narrative is divided into four parts. The novel itself uses the device of a writer-narrator who pieces together the history of his life from the moment of his birth to the most difficult times, now being faced by the Suarez family as they confront the most daily grueling demands and special attention from a beloved member of the family, who suffers from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

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[Review Of] William K. Powers. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1993

[Review Of] William K. Powers. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, David M. Gradwohl

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This book on Plains Indian music and dance goes far beyond its geographically indicated target. It provides an instructive view of musical performances as a paradigm for understanding cultural continuity and change not only among American Indians in general but, I submit, many other ethnic and minority groups. Powers's discussion includes descriptive material pertaining to the movements and costumes involved in Plains Indian tribal and intertribal dances. He also reviews and critiques a number of available audio tapes and records which should be of special interest to readers of Sights and Sounds.

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[Review Of] S. Allen Counter. North Pole Legacy: Black, White, And Eskimo, George H. Junne Jr. Jan 1993

[Review Of] S. Allen Counter. North Pole Legacy: Black, White, And Eskimo, George H. Junne Jr.

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According to the Guiness [Guinness] Book of Records, Eskimos Egingwah, Ootah, Ooqueahand Seegloo, along with African American Matthew Henson, became the first humans to stand on the North Pole. The date of their famous journey to "where no one has gone before" was April 6, 1909. However, they were denied the status of "co-discoverer" with Robert E. Perry, who came along about forty-five minutes later. Perry's reward to Henson for reaching the Pole before him was to ignore Henson from that time. The names of the Eskimos were also dropped from history.

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[Review Of] Marian Anderson. My Lord, What A Morning, Catherine Udall Turley Jan 1993

[Review Of] Marian Anderson. My Lord, What A Morning, Catherine Udall Turley

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When Marian Anderson passed away in April 1993 at the age of ninety-seven, the distinguished contralto was remembered as a gifted artist of great dignity and as a pioneer who shattered racial barriers in the arts. Indeed, most memorial tributes recounted her triumphant concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. On that occasion, which became one of the earliest symbols of the struggle for civil rights in America, Anderson sang after the Daughters of the American Revolution denied her use of the recital stage at Washington's Constitution Hall. Additionally, in 1955 Anderson became the first …

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1993

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

No abstract provided.

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Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza Jan 1993

Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This is my first issue as Publications Editor for the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES). I consider it quite an honor to have been nominated to be the new incoming editor. I would like to thank the outgoing editor, Gretchen M. Bataille, for all of her support and guidance during this transition period. NAES Publications have profited greatly by her commitment and dedication to ensuring that our journal remain an active outlet in publishing important research being produced by scholars in the field of ethnic studies. With the able assistance of Catherine Udall Turley, our managing editor, I am …

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Intermarriage And Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, And Filipino Americans, Karen B. Leonard Jan 1993

Intermarriage And Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, And Filipino Americans, Karen B. Leonard

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The problem is intermarriage, specifically intermarriages patterned by gender (all the men are from one ethnic background and almost all of the women from another) which produce significant biethnic communities. The author's original research on Punjabi Mexican Americans, people whose fathers came from India's Punjab province and whose mothers were of predominantly Mexican or Mexican American heritage, combined field work and interviews with California county records and local historical materials to show the flexibility of ethnic identity. She compares the Punjabi Mexican Americans to Filipino European Americans and Mexican japanese, using studies done by Barbara Posadas and Chizuko Watanabe. She …

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Contributors Jan 1993

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1993

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Local Control Of Nineteenth Century Public Policy And The Ethnic Working Class In New England's Mill Towns, Paul R. Dauphinais Jan 1993

Local Control Of Nineteenth Century Public Policy And The Ethnic Working Class In New England's Mill Towns, Paul R. Dauphinais

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This essay, using census material, newspaper reports, and other primary sources, examines the impact of local control of public policy on ethnic working class in nineteenth century New England. Research on New England's ethnic groups often focuses on large textile centers dominated by outside interests such as Fall River, Massachusetts or Manchester, New Hampshire. Corporate interests in these cities displayed a disproportionate influence of public policy often serving corporate, not public, interests. The focus of this study, Fitchburg and Worcester, Massachusetts, exhibited well diversified economies controlled by local interests. Local control led public policy in a direction more beneficial to …

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A New Look At The Old "Race" Language: Rethinking "Race" And Exclusion In Social Policy, Chorswang Ngin Jan 1993

A New Look At The Old "Race" Language: Rethinking "Race" And Exclusion In Social Policy, Chorswang Ngin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race" current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race" are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race" requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race" and “race relations" to a new language that rejects “race" as a descriptive and an analytical category. It examines the processes through which “racist" social policies are enacted against Asian immigrants in contemporary Southern California.

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Language Policy And Language Repression: The Case Of Spanish Basques And Mexican Americans, Deborah Faltis Jan 1993

Language Policy And Language Repression: The Case Of Spanish Basques And Mexican Americans, Deborah Faltis

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This paper presents the argument that there are many similarities between the linguistic and cultural repression experienced by Basques in Spain and Mexican Americans in the United States. Linguistic and cultural repression, both historically and currently, is analyzed in terms of various language policies, especially those policies related to language use in school. The struggle for and importance of bilingual education for language and cultural maintenance is discussed. The paper concludes with the caution that the rise of conservative political groups such as The English Only Movement demonstrates that concern about linguistic and cultural repression is as imperative currently as …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1993

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Introduction Maulana Karenga, Guest Editor, Maulana Karenga Jan 1993

Introduction Maulana Karenga, Guest Editor, Maulana Karenga

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This special issue on "Ethnicity and Public Policy" explores critical issues in public policy from various vantage points. Its scope is wide-ranging and aims at delineating and analyzing discourse and practices which both inform and constitute public policy on ethnic questions. It includes theoretical, historical and practical studies and represents a variety of approaches to both the definition and discourse of ethnicity and public policy on the national and international level.

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[Review Of] Stephen Clingman. The Novels Of Nadine Gordimer: History From The Inside, Martha A. Davies Jan 1993

[Review Of] Stephen Clingman. The Novels Of Nadine Gordimer: History From The Inside, Martha A. Davies

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Nadine Gordimer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1991, celebrating nearly half a century of her writing of her homeland, South Africa. The prize-giving precipitated the reissue of this survey of Gordimer's work by Stephen Clingman, also a South African. His book was written as a doctoral dissertation for Oxford University. The second edition, under review in this article, is unaltered except for a "Prologue" in which Clingman examines Gordimer's two novels that followed changes in South Africa: the release of Nelson Mandela and other African National Party leaders and the apparent breakdown of apartheid.

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[Review Of] Robert Rotenburg And Gary Mcdonogh, Eds. The Cultural Meaning Of Urban Space, Douglas D. Brimhall Jan 1993

[Review Of] Robert Rotenburg And Gary Mcdonogh, Eds. The Cultural Meaning Of Urban Space, Douglas D. Brimhall

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So begins The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, a compilation of urban case studies edited by Robert Rotenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the International Studies Program at DePaul University, and Gary W. McDonogh, Visiting Professor and Director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. These twelve very diverse chapters attempt to understand the construction of an urban landscape from the cultural and social perspectives of those groups that experience and manipulate the landscape.

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[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa Jan 1993

[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa

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Women, Race, and Ethnicity had its origin in a series of reading lists prepared by the office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian in the mid-1980s; this newest edition supersedes an earlier June 1988 release. Containing almost 2500 sources, this volume provides a selective, annotated list of college-level print (including special journal issues and chapters in anthologies) and audiovisual resources, emphasizing recent materials on ethnic women in the United States (only a few Canadian materials are included). References are classified under twenty-eight disciplines and topics -- such as Anthropology, Education, Literature, Poetry, and Psychology -- and further …

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[Review Of] Faythe Turner, Ed. Puerto Rican Writers At Home In The Usa: An Anthology, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1993

[Review Of] Faythe Turner, Ed. Puerto Rican Writers At Home In The Usa: An Anthology, Luis L. Pinto

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Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA is the most recent, best edited and most complete anthology of literary texts, written in English, by the superstars of Puerto Rican letters residing in the United States of North America.

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[Review Of] Pastora Sanjuan Cafferty And William C. Mcready Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1993

[Review Of] Pastora Sanjuan Cafferty And William C. Mcready Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Luis L. Pinto

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This book is an unrevised third printing of eleven inspiring essays written by twelve social scientists who have devoted years of research to their respective fields. The book opens with an enlightening introduction by the editors, Pastora San Juan Cafferty and William McReady.

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[Review Of] Arthur S. Evans, Jr. And David Lee. Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1993

[Review Of] Arthur S. Evans, Jr. And David Lee. Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, Harriet Ottenheimer

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This is a delightful book. Using the words of over two dozen individual residents of Pearl City, Florida, the authors have put together a group autobiography with both historical and sociological significance. A brief introduction provides background and methodology, and two final chapters by Evans and Lee provide analytical insights and theoretical perspectives on questions of history, sociology and social geography.

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Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza Jan 1993

Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue of the journal contains a variety of articles which are related yet diverse in their focus on topics concerning ethnic studies. In the first article, David Hood and Ruey-Lin Lin extend previous research on sentencing disparities in the state of Washington for Hispanics, Native Americans and Whites. Even after the creation of the Sentencing Reform Act, a decade later, sentencing disparities exist. In her research on the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Theresa Martinez analyzes the role of rap music as being a reflection and/or cause of inner city despair, hopelessness and anger.

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Recognizing The Enemy: Rap Music In The Wake Of The Los Angeles Riots, Theresa A. Martinez Jan 1993

Recognizing The Enemy: Rap Music In The Wake Of The Los Angeles Riots, Theresa A. Martinez

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The May 1992 riots in Los Angeles demonstrated more than anything in recent history that the inner cities are filled with despair, hopelessness, and anger. Some feel that rap music is responsible for both gangs and the lawlessness unleashed by the riots. This paper will seek to address this notion by looking at the rap lyrics of artists who have been considered the most radical and the most angry. By examining rap lyrics we can detect anger and frustration in the ghetto. Rap music did not cause rioting in Los Angeles but it effectively heralded measures taken by inner-city residents …

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Sentencing Disparities In Yakima County: The Washington Sentencing Reform Act Revisited, David L. Hood, Ruey-Lin Lin Jan 1993

Sentencing Disparities In Yakima County: The Washington Sentencing Reform Act Revisited, David L. Hood, Ruey-Lin Lin

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This study expands upon an earlier exploration of sentencing disparity in the Yakima County, Washington judicial system. The Sentencing Reform Act was adopted in 1981, becoming effective in 1984, to end inequitable sentences imposed on individuals who are convicted of similar offenses. This work adds to the original study by including an investigation of "exceptional" sentences and "offense type" crime. Independent variables are defendants' ethnicity (Hispanic, Native American, and White), age, and gender. The period of investigation includes fiscal years 1986 through 1991. Data was provided to the researchers by the Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission and was processed using a …

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[Review Of] Alain Leroy Locke (Jeffrey C. Stewart, Ed.). Race Contacts And Interracial Relations: Lectures On The Theory And Practice Of Race, Vernon Williams Jr Jan 1993

[Review Of] Alain Leroy Locke (Jeffrey C. Stewart, Ed.). Race Contacts And Interracial Relations: Lectures On The Theory And Practice Of Race, Vernon Williams Jr

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Scholars of the history of race and race relations social science should be deeply indebted to Jeffrey C. Stewart for uncovering and meticulously reconstructing these extant lectures by the philosopher better known for his later contributions to the Harlem Renaissance than his social scientific theorizing: Alain LeRoy Locke. The book is an invaluable source on the thought of an African American intellectual on the subject of the nature of race relations during the Progressive Era and on its relationship to ethnic and class relations as well. So fecund are these lectures with insights and hypotheses which deserve further investigation and …

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[Review Of] Virginia Yans-Mclaughlin, Ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, And Politics, Janet E. Benson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Virginia Yans-Mclaughlin, Ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, And Politics, Janet E. Benson

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Immigration Reconsidered presents the latest paradigm of immigration studies from some of the leading scholars in three disciplines. Contributors include historians Samuel Baily, Sucheng Chan, Philip Curtin, Kerby Miller, and Virginia Yans-McLaughlin; sociologists Suzanne Model, Alejandro Portes, Ewa Morawska, and Charles Tilly; and political scientists Lawrence Fuchs and Aristide Zolberg. Several individuals have degrees or interests in more than one field. This book is the outcome of a conference held to celebrate the Statue of Liberty's Centenary. The papers are carefully chosen, of high individual quality, and integrated more than most collections of essays by scholars' responses to each other …

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Cumulative Index By Title, Nos. 7-13 (1987-1993) Jan 1993

Cumulative Index By Title, Nos. 7-13 (1987-1993)

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Cumulative index by title for numbers 7-13, 1987-1993 for Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

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[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson Jan 1993

[Review Of] Stevenj. Gold. Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study, Janet E. Benson

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This fascinating and insightful book is a comparative ethnographic study of Vietnamese and Soviet Jewish refugees. While a voluminous refugee and immigrant literature exists, much research follows a narrow, policy-driven focus rather than an independent academic tradition. Authors also tend to concentrate on specific ethnic groups rather than examining parallels or contrasts between groups. Gold, however, asks the broader question of how refugees create ethnic communities which facilitate "accomodation [accommodation] without assimilation" (Gibson 1988). In the process of comparison, he produces novel conclusions as well as hypotheses for further testing.

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[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1993

[Review Of] John D. Buenker And Lorman A. Ratner, Eds. Multiculturalism In The United States: A Comparative Guide To Acculturation And Ethnicity, Harriet Ottenheimer

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The comparative nature of this book is its most outstanding feature. The editors and authors have all worked to make their approaches to the question of acculturation and ethnicity as comparable as possible across chapters -- and across ethnic groups. The overall framework stresses the differing stresses that individuals in each ethnic group have had to struggle with in their quest to "become American.” It also emphasizes the importance of recognizing that no group is monolithic in its responses to acculturative pressures, that there is always a range of individual paths which might be chosen.

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