Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Sociology Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Book review

Discipline
Institution
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 361 - 390 of 852

Full-Text Articles in Sociology

[Review Of] Peter M. Whiteley. Deliberate Acts: Changing Hopi Culture Through The Oraibi Split, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1991

[Review Of] Peter M. Whiteley. Deliberate Acts: Changing Hopi Culture Through The Oraibi Split, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In this volume, Peter Whiteley, an anthropologist, probes into the reasons for the split in Oraibi, largest of the thirteen Hopi Indian communities in northeastern Arizona, early in this century. Oraibi was a thriving village in 1540 at the time of Coronado's entrada into the southwest; archaeological evidence suggests that the village was settled at least four or five centuries earlier. In 1906, one group of villagers angrily left or were forced out of Oraibi and established a settlement known as Bacavi. Previous studies have portrayed the Bacavi Hopi as "hostiles," that is, culturally traditional people who opposed U.S. goverment …

Go to article

[Review Of] Roland E. Wolsey. The Black Press, U.S.A., Allene Jones Jan 1991

[Review Of] Roland E. Wolsey. The Black Press, U.S.A., Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Black Press, U.S.A. is an interesting book written about black publications in the United States from a historical perspective. The author, a white professor emeritus of Journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University, is to be commended on his ability to organize the history of the black press in such an organized and interesting manner.

Go to article

[Review Of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ed. 9 Plays By Black Women, Opal Palmer Adisa Jan 1991

[Review Of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ed. 9 Plays By Black Women, Opal Palmer Adisa

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Black women writers, primarily novelists, have taken center stage for the last two decades, but black women playwrights have not been given similar coverage. The explanation, in part, is that plays are often only published after successful productions, and the plays by the majority of black women have only been produced in local, small theaters. Consequently, their works have not been given serious critical attention. Margaret Wilkerson's 9 Plays by Black Women showcases plays by established and well celebrated black female playwrights, like Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Beah Richards as well as less well-known playwrights whose works …

Go to article

[Review Of] H. David Brumble Iii. American Indian Autobiography, Raymond A. Bucko Jan 1991

[Review Of] H. David Brumble Iii. American Indian Autobiography, Raymond A. Bucko

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American Indian Autobiography provides significant insight into the nature and production of Indian autobiographies, past and present. Aware of the heterogeneity of native cultures, H. David Brumble perceptively demonstrates the continuity of these works with both their cultural and literary roots -- oral narrative. He elucidates six genera of oral narrative, convincingly establishing their continuity from the earliest to contemporary works. Stressing the bicultural nature of Indian autobiography, Brumble carefully analyzes both the effect of white editors working within the cultural assumptions of their eras in eliciting and shaping Indian autobiographies and the ramifications of culture contact and adaptation on …

Go to article

[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Condor And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Condor And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume continues in the same vein as Governor Glu Glu, but Ulibarri here delves even more deeply into the world of fantasy. Many of the eleven stories in El Condor are like sugar-coated medicine: the sweetness prepares the reader for the lesson which comes in the form of a moral at the end. "The Man Who Didn't Eat," for example, is a tale of the scientific creation of a man who is vegetable Frankenstein's monster, with parts taken from many plants. The creature in Ulibarri's story is benevolent; as a result of his superhuman effort to save his neighbors …

Go to article

[Review Of] Sid White And S. E. Solberg, Eds. Peoples Of Washington: Perspectives On Cultural Diversity, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sid White And S. E. Solberg, Eds. Peoples Of Washington: Perspectives On Cultural Diversity, Phillips G. Davies

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book about the various ethnic people in the state is disappointing in two ways: its format, and its very limited material about some of the groups who have been and are living in the state.

Go to article

[Review Of] Carolyn Gilman And Mary Jane Schneider. The Way To Independence: Memories Of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920, Paivi H. Hoikkala Jan 1990

[Review Of] Carolyn Gilman And Mary Jane Schneider. The Way To Independence: Memories Of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920, Paivi H. Hoikkala

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In the early 1800s, when Lewis and Clark visited the Hidatsas, they lived at the mouth of the Knife River with their close allies the Mandans. The estimated 2,000 Hidatsas farmed the fertile valleys and lived in villages overlooking the river. But in 1837, smallpox struck these village dwellers and diminished their numbers by half. The remainder of Hidatsas and Mandans decided to leave their homes and journey north, settling in Like-a-Fishhook village. In 1885, the Hidatsas moved again, this time settling in Independence, North Dakota.

Go to article

[Review Of] Nash Candelaria. The Day The Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Nash Candelaria. The Day The Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Although Nash Candelaria has published quite a few short stories, it is in the field of the novel where his most outstanding contributions lie. Memories of the Alhambra (1977), Not by the Sword (1982), and Inheritance of Strangers (1985) form an historical trilogy of New Mexico that expresses the conflicts inherent in a society that is largely defined in terms of conquest. The first work takes a disturbing look at a "New" Mexican who wants to believe he is Spanish, while the other two depict the resiliency of the culture in crisis of the first book.

Go to article

[Review Of] Clara E. Rodriguez. Puerto Ricans Born In The U.S.A, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1990

[Review Of] Clara E. Rodriguez. Puerto Ricans Born In The U.S.A, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It may be apocryphal by now, but it has often been said, and it is repeated again by Rodriguez in her most recent contribution to the literature that "Puerto Ricans still hold the dubious distinction of being among the most researched and least understood people in the United States, if not the world. "Rodriguez's use of the existing voluminous literature on the Puerto Rican experience certainly reinforces this widely held belief. Puerto Ricans are the second largest Latino ethnic group in the United States, and in New York City one out of every eight people is Puerto Rican. This is …

Go to article

[Review Of] Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. "Let All Of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans And The Campaign For Educational Equality In Texas, 1910-1981, Carlos F. Ortega Jan 1990

[Review Of] Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. "Let All Of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans And The Campaign For Educational Equality In Texas, 1910-1981, Carlos F. Ortega

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

It is well known among educational researchers that pervasive segregation of blacks and underepresentation [underrepresentation] of Mexican Americans in higher education continues to this day, although these practices and policies violate federal law. A recent study by the Tomas Rivera Center for Policy Studies found that the state of Texas failed during the five years of its Equal Educational Opportunity Plan for Higher Education to eliminate the disparities in its system and improve the educational experiences of minorities. The structural dimensions of educational policy have a long and tumultuous history. Moreover, the notion that Mexican American parents care little for …

Go to article

[Review Of] Cary D. Wintz. Black Culture And The Harlem Renaissance, John C. Walter Jan 1990

[Review Of] Cary D. Wintz. Black Culture And The Harlem Renaissance, John C. Walter

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In 1925 Professor Alain Locke argued in The New Negro that the Negro was "moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives ..." which were "none other than the ideals of American institutions and democracy." This allowed for blacks everywhere to be called "New Negroes" but nowhere were there as many New Negroes as in Harlem. The activities of these people in politics, arts, literature, music and the like between World War I and the Depression Era came to be called the Harlem Renaissance.

Go to article

[Review Of] Beth Brant, Ed. A Gathering Of Spirit: A Collection By North American Indian Women, Paivi H. Hoikkala Jan 1990

[Review Of] Beth Brant, Ed. A Gathering Of Spirit: A Collection By North American Indian Women, Paivi H. Hoikkala

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In A Gathering of Spirit, Beth Brant has collected poetry, short stories, letters, and essays written by Native American women, relating their experiences of life in Canada and in the United States. The participating women come from all walks of life. Included are such established authors and scholars as Paula Gunn Allen, Joy Harjo, and Bea Medicine as well as women in prisons, lesbians, and those who live their everyday life on reservations or in urban centers. What unites these women are their experiences as Indian women.

Go to article

[Review Of] Marion Wilson Starling. The Slave Narrative: Its Place In American History, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Marion Wilson Starling. The Slave Narrative: Its Place In American History, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is another reprint of Marion Wilson Starling's breakthrough study of the slave narrative, which she undertook for her Ph.D. dissertation at New York University in 1946 under the advisorship of Oscar Cargill. During the 1960s and 1970s when slave autobiography became a serious critical endeavor, many scholars referred to Starling's thorough historical and literary research; however, her dissertation was not published until 1981. Then, Starling's work became more readily available, and now the paperback edition allows this well-deserved book to reach a wider audience.

Go to article

[Review Of] Lois Weis, Ed. Class, Race, & Gender In American Education, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1990

[Review Of] Lois Weis, Ed. Class, Race, & Gender In American Education, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Class, Race & Gender in American Education should be read by preservice and experienced educators and social scientists who are interested in teaching young people who come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, represent various racial and ethnic heritages, and those with special needs. School as a major socializing institution often holds the key for many students. It is also important to study the ways individuals and groups prepare for the future. Some students are successful in school settings, but many become discouraged and are pushed out due to the structure and/or culture of the school. This volume seeks to enrich this …

Go to article

[Review Of] Roger Daniels. Asian America: Chinese And Japanese In The United States Since 1850, Russell Endo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Roger Daniels. Asian America: Chinese And Japanese In The United States Since 1850, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Roger Daniels is one of the premier scholars of Asian American history and has previously done pathbreaking research on the anti-Japanese movement in California and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. Now, in Asian America, Daniels presents an interpretive account of the Chinese and Japanese in the U.S. In doing so, he attempts to show that these groups are an integral part of the immigration and ethnic history of America, especially by stressing parallels in the experiences of Asian and European immigrants. Daniels further argues that, because of a number of factors, there are differences as well as …

Go to article

[Review Of] John R. Salter. Jackson Mississippi, Allene Jones Jan 1990

[Review Of] John R. Salter. Jackson Mississippi, Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Jackson Mississippi is a fascinating book written about the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi in the sixties. The author, John Salter, a white outsider and sociologist who served as advisor and organizer of the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson is to be commended for his ability to write about the movement in such a vivid and moving manner. Salter does an excellent job in describing the many problems encountered in striking out against the many injustices that existed in Mississippi.

Go to article

[Review Of] Harold Bascom. Apata, Lucy Wilson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Harold Bascom. Apata, Lucy Wilson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Apata is subtitled: "The story of the reluctant criminal." This more or less sums up the plot, for after page sixty-three, the hero's fortunes plummet steadily, culminating in "the biggest manhunt ever seen" in the colony of British Guiana, with Apata both predator and prey, alternatively. With the unflinching pessimism of naturalism, Bascom traces the life of Michael Rayburn Apata, a young Guianese with a brilliant academic career ahead of him. The forces of heredity and environment conspire to destroy his chance for admission to King's College, prevent him from marrying the woman he loves, and limit him to dead-end …

Go to article

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Baseball In April And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Baseball In April And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gary Soto's previous prose collections (Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections -- 1985, Small Faces -- 1986, and Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets -- 1988) all contained stories about growing up, but this latest book focuses exclusively on the trials and tribulations of children and young teenagers. The eleven sketches in Baseball in April range in subject from broken Barbie dolls to championship marble tournaments, and all reveal a compassionate, understanding insight as well as the deft handiwork of a fine writer. For those who do not understand Spanish, the author has supplied a short appendix with translations of words and …

Go to article

[Review Of] Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John, Elizabeth A. Mcneil Jan 1990

[Review Of] Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John, Elizabeth A. Mcneil

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Annie John, even though set in the West Indies and about a black Caribbean girl, is a work whose universally felt experience goes beyond allowing the novel to be neatly categorized as a piece of "ethnic" or "women's" writing. Born on Antigua, the island in which she sets the novel, Jamaica Kincaid catches many of the ways of being peculiar to this place. Maybe it is because Kincaid makes the setting home that we as readers find it so easy to slip into the story.

Go to article

[Review Of] James A. Banks And Cherry A. Mcgee Banks, Eds. Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1990

[Review Of] James A. Banks And Cherry A. Mcgee Banks, Eds. Multicultural Education: Issues And Perspectives, Margaret A. Laughlin

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With a rapidly increasing minority population in the United States, it is more important than ever for both future and experienced teachers to recognize and appreciate the diversity of young people enrolled in our schools. By the year 2000 it is projected that one of three or more students will be part of an ethnic minority. In some cities and states, minority background students are already the majority school population. Teachers will be facing more and more students from different ethnic, cultural, language, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. Many classes will include special needs students who are gifted, handicapped, or both. …

Go to article

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography And Research Guide, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hyung-chan Kim's bibliography of humanities and social science materials on Asian Americans has two basic but important assets. First, its 3,396 entries encompass a large proportion of the relevant literature (creative writing and federal government publications have been excluded as they are adequately covered in other sources). Second, the bibliography is nicely organized. It is divided into two main sections dealing respectively with historical and contemporary matters. Each section has chapters on a variety of subjects, for example marriage and family, community organizations, immigration and refugees, and acculturation, adaptation and assimilation. Within each chapter, the appropriate books/monographs, articles, and theses/dissertations …

Go to article

[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1990

[Review Of] Peter Manuel. Popular Musics Of The Non- Western World, Harriet Ottenheimer

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is a wide-ranging, insightful and often fascinating survey of popular ethnic musics of the world. The title is perhaps a bit misleading. By "western" Manuel clearly means modern Northern European and those parts of the Americas most directly influenced by the Anglo-Germanic traditions of Northern Europe. This is certainly a current and popular connotation for the word, and most readers should have no trouble with Manuel's use of the term in this way. Readers who are used to thinking of "western" as comprising Europe, Africa and the Americas, however, will have to make adjustments. Manuel excludes consideration of "westernized" …

Go to article

[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1990

[Review Of] James L. Sexton. Campesino: The Diary Of A Guatemalan Indian, Luis L. Pinto

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Often political violence in Guatemala is analyzed as if it were identical to political violence in other Central American countries. On account of the desire to simplify this political and economical reality in the public debate, there is a tendency to see the conflict as the result of the international rivalries between East and West. The literature of this conflict deals primarily with the view from government officials and the opinion of the representatives of the transnationals economically involved in the area.

Go to article

[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes Jan 1990

[Review Of] Florentino Valeros And Estrellita Valeros-Gruenberg, Filipino Writers In English: A Biographical And Bibliographical Directory, Oscar V. Campomanes

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

With the rise of Filipino nationalism in the sixties and the consequent resort to literature written in Filipino and the vernacular, Philippine writing in English ebbed in importance. At that decisive juncture of national crisis, the verdict was made that Philippine literature in English had reached a dead end. Scholars and critics produced searching critiques of aesthetic orthodoxies and turned their attention to other cultural legacies. This reversal of fortunes for the literature in English after four decades of undisputed hegemony in Philippine cultural life partly explains why its history remains unwritten.

Go to article

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Gary Soto. Who Will Know Us?, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Gary Soto is one of America's finest poets, a writer whose previous collections (The Elements of San Joaquin -- 1977, The Tale of Sunlight -- 1978, Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom -- 1980, Where Sparrows Work Hard -- 1981, and Black Hair -- 1985) have received wide critical acclaim, not only from Chicano critics but from others as well. In this latest volume Soto again demonstrates that he is an accomplished literary craftsman with a great deal to say. The forty-one poems are presented in three untitled sections and range from pensive reflections on old age and …

Go to article

[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Gobernador Glu Glu Y Otros Cuentos (Governor Glu Glu And Other Stories), Carl R. Shirley Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sabine R. Ulibarri. El Gobernador Glu Glu Y Otros Cuentos (Governor Glu Glu And Other Stories), Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Sabine R. Ulibarrí is a prolific and engaging story teller whose works portray the people, the landscape, the folklore, and the tenacious yet evolving way of life in Hispanic northern New Mexico. His previous bilingual collections include Tierra Amarilla (published in Spanish in Ecuador in 1964 and in a dual-language edition in New Mexico in 1971), Mi abuela fumaba puros/My Grandma Smoked Cigars (1977), and Primeros Encuentros/First Encounters (1982.) In these collections, Ulibarri's portrait of the people and the history of his region is an intimate, loving, and somewhat nostalgic one. This latest volume continues to explore the same territory …

Go to article

[Review Of] Jack Kugelmass, Ed. Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays On American Jewry, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1990

[Review Of] Jack Kugelmass, Ed. Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays On American Jewry, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This volume contains twelve varied, academically insightful, and often just plain entertaining chapters, along with the editor's lengthy and instructive introduction. Each chapter includes helpful explanatory footnotes, in-text translation of Hebrew and Yiddish terms, and abundant references to the large body of literature drawn upon by the individual authors. The book should not only be of interest and utility to students specializing in Jewish studies but also to those scholars analyzing the general processes of ethnicity in the United States. For the latter audience, a separate over-all glossary might have enhanced the volume beyond the translations within the text.

Go to article

[Review Of] Terry G. Jordan And Matti Kaups. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic And Ecological Interpretation, Richard F. Fleck Jan 1990

[Review Of] Terry G. Jordan And Matti Kaups. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic And Ecological Interpretation, Richard F. Fleck

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Terry Jordan and Matti Kaups have produced a new study which is revealing, thorough, and extremely well documented with ample illustrations, charts, and maps. Their thesis is fascinating: Finnish immigrants played a highly significant role in the shaping of the American backwoods frontier. The authors trace the origin of the Finns from Finland's interior where winters were (are) severe and where chinked log cabins and double-pen cabins became an art along with hunting, gathering, and marginal crop growing. Such a life style prepared them for immigration from Savo-Karelian Finland to the lower Delaware Valley settlements in New Jersey and Pennsylvania …

Go to article

[Review Of] Sophie Trupin. Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs Of A Jewish Homesteader, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1990

[Review Of] Sophie Trupin. Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs Of A Jewish Homesteader, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Dakota Diaspora was originally published in 1984 by the Alternative Press in Berkeley and quickly went out of print. The University of Nebraska Press is to be congratulated for putting the volume back into circulation.

Go to article

[Review Of] Ralph David Abernathy. And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography, Keith D. Miller Jan 1990

[Review Of] Ralph David Abernathy. And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography, Keith D. Miller

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

When this book appeared, major elements of the press selected a tiny fragment for a front-page story worthy of the National Enquirer. Unfortunately, journalists virtually ignored the book as a whole, preferring to sensationalize Abernathy's "revelations" about the sex life of Martin Luther King, Jr. As a result, Abernathy became a pariah; when he died several months later, the recent controversy dominated many obituary notices.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last