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[Review Of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights Or Wrong, Elizabeth Mcneil Jan 1990

[Review Of] Shelia Chamovitz. Skokie: Rights Or Wrong, Elizabeth Mcneil

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Skokie is an Illinois suburb in which about 7,000 Jewish survivors of the European Holocaust live. In 1978, The National Socialist Party of American [America] (NSPA) (known until 1970 as the American Nazi Party) wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, to publically speak about the NSPA's ultimate purpose, which is to "create an all-white [non-Jewish] America in our lifetime," via legal methods "hopefully." The NSPA's immediate goal in marching in Skokie was "to dramatize the fact that there is no free speech for National Socialists ... a pressure move in order to force the system, the courts ... to give [the …

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[Review Of] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ed. The Classic Slave Narratives, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1990

[Review Of] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ed. The Classic Slave Narratives, Angelo Costanzo

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At last here is a compact, inexpensive paperback that presents the major black autobiographies of the slave era. It is easy now for teachers of literature, history, or sociology to have their students reading the full texts of the classic slave narratives, instead of just reading bits and pieces of them in anthologies. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., provides an informative introduction to the volume, which consists of works by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. Gates notes that these texts "span nearly three-quarters of a century (1789-1861); the authors, two men and two women, include one African, …

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[Review Of] Diego Echevarria. Los Sures, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1990

[Review Of] Diego Echevarria. Los Sures, Jesse M. Vazquez

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Perhaps one of the more perplexing, yet also intriguing aspects of Diego Echevarria's film, Los Sures, is the illusion that he creates of isolation and disconnection from the larger world that shapes and engulfs his subject -- a Puerto Rican community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The way Echevarria presents the Los Sures community gives one the sense that it sits alone and apart in a land of unknown origin. Yet it is located only a stone's throw away from one of the most affluent urban centers in the world. Not even the Hasidic Jews, who share …

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[Review Of] Deborah Gesensway And Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images From America's Concentration Camps, Barbara Hiura Jan 1990

[Review Of] Deborah Gesensway And Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images From America's Concentration Camps, Barbara Hiura

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"Shikataganai! Shikataganai! It cannot be helped." The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II devastated the Japanese community, ruined businesses, and destroyed families. Memories and recollections of the Japanese American concentration camp experience are collected in this beautifully crafted work illustrating in text and prints the images produced by the incarcerated Japanese Americans. Beyond Words captures the personal insights of this experience, the unjust accusations and imprisonment of a people, their treatment as enemy aliens and foreigners, and "those damned barbed wire fences" enclosing them. Many found solace in expressing themselves in art and poetry illustrating their insights into …

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[Review Of] Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph And Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Cousin Joe: Blues From New Orleans, Nancy Hellner Jan 1990

[Review Of] Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph And Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Cousin Joe: Blues From New Orleans, Nancy Hellner

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Unlike more traditional biographies, oral histories require that readers suspend their basic cultural assumptions about narrative. These assumptions, according to James Clifford, form a "myth of personal coherence" in which readers expect a narrator's life story to represent a coherent and continuous self. The discrepancy between what a reader expects and what a reader receives forces the editor of an oral life-story to choose among several editorial options. In Cousin Joe, a work which took over twenty years to collect, to transcribe, and to edit, Harriet Ottenheimer informs us that she chose from three editing possibilities. She decided not to …

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[Review Of] Yukiko Kimura. Issei: Japanese Immigrants In Hawaii, Ann Rayson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Yukiko Kimura. Issei: Japanese Immigrants In Hawaii, Ann Rayson

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Yukiko Kimura is a retired professor of sociology from the University of Hawaii who has also held a number of research positions in Japan and the United States during her long career. Since retiring in Honolulu in 1968, she has been researching studies of the Japanese in Hawaii and has published several articles in this area. Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii is her first book.

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[Review Of] Pedro Amador Llorens. Shipwrecked Of Mona Island, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1990

[Review Of] Pedro Amador Llorens. Shipwrecked Of Mona Island, Luis L. Pinto

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Historically, migration between the islands of Puerto Rico and La Hispaniola began in pre-Colombian times, but at no other time in our history has this migration had the profound social, economic and political implications that it has today. The political and economic forces that operate in the Latin American world are responsible for the enormous contingents of indigent people that establish themselves in the periphery of large and capital cities, from where they look for the first opportunity to cross into neighboring countries and many times far beyond.

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[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai, Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Barbara Urrea Jan 1990

[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai, Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Barbara Urrea

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For years editors of standard American literature anthologies have presented undergraduates with a narrow view of the American literary experience. Their anthologies have reflected the predominant view of the academy, which has maintained a traditional literary canon denying the importance of works by women and ethnic authors. This denial has sparked controversy and gained national media attention, resulting in gradual changes in curricula at many universities, including Stanford. As the climate of the undergraduate classroom changes and reflects a wider vision, so must the anthologies used in the classroom. The recently published Heath Anthology of American Literature is just such …

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[Review Of] Earl Lovelace. A Brief Conversion And Other Stories, Lucy Wilson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Earl Lovelace. A Brief Conversion And Other Stories, Lucy Wilson

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A gentle beauty pervades these stories. It softens the ironies, dignifies the poverty, and serves as a subtle reminder of the indomitability of the human spirit.

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[Review Of] Phyllis Mauch Messenter, Ed. The Ethics Of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1990

[Review Of] Phyllis Mauch Messenter, Ed. The Ethics Of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, Helen Jaskoski

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"That should be in a museum!" Brave words from Indiana Jones, undoubtedly the world's most famous (real or fictional) archaeologist, as he confronts low-life site plunderers, venal middlemen, corrupt politicians and wealthy private collectors. Life for the redoubtable Dr. Jones is simple (as it seems to have been for Lord Elgin); for those of us in the real world unfortunately not. What should be in a museum, and when, and how it should get there are questions underlying this collection of essays that grew out of a 1986 conference in Minneapolis on the ethics of collecting. Papers and symposia transcripts …

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[Review Of] Thurman B. O'Daniel, Ed. Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1990

[Review Of] Thurman B. O'Daniel, Ed. Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation, Cortland P. Auser

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This volume of biographical and critical essays on the life and work of Jean Toomer is, as its Preface suggests, a "comprehensive study." Its forty-six essays by thirty-nine scholars attest to its wide scope, and the extensive bibliography by the chief editor will prove most useful for present and future researchers.

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[Review Of] James Officer. Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856, Richard Griswold Del Castillo Jan 1990

[Review Of] James Officer. Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856, Richard Griswold Del Castillo

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One of the glaring gaps in Southwestern historiography has been the lack of a modern scholarly interpretation of the Spanish and Mexican presence in Arizona. Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of the North Mexican States and Texas and John F. Bannon's The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821 have been the best sources for the study of pre-American Arizona, but these works treat the history of this region as a subtopic of a larger story. With the publication of Hispanic Arizona, scholars now have a thorough, detailed and scholarly study that is entirely devoted to the history of northern Sonora and southern Arizona.

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[Review Of] Herbert Shapiro. White Violence And Black Response: From Reconstruction To Montgomery, Peter M. Ostenby Jan 1990

[Review Of] Herbert Shapiro. White Violence And Black Response: From Reconstruction To Montgomery, Peter M. Ostenby

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In scholarly, but more often popular, thought there is the benighted attitude or inclination to believe that racial violence is located at the margins of the American experience. Violent clashes between ethnic groups are subtly framed as "outbursts," thus implying an aberration from normal relations. Because ignorance or stupidity is branded the ugly parent of such behavior, we are led easily to overlook the significance of such violence.

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[Review Of] Jon Michael Spencer. Sacred Symphony: The Chanted Sermon Of The Black Preacher, Angela M. S. Nelson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Jon Michael Spencer. Sacred Symphony: The Chanted Sermon Of The Black Preacher, Angela M. S. Nelson

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In his latest book to date, Sacred Symphony; The Chanted Sermon of the Black Preacher, Spencer states in the introduction that there are seven musical elements that make up the "chanted sermon" and these include melody, rhythm, call and response, harmony, counterpoint, form, and improvisation. He not only states that these musical components appear in the chanted sermons, but he illustrates how they are manifested in the sermon event through sermons and/or testimonies of white male and female observers, ex-slaves, ministers, and scholars of black preaching.

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[Review Of] H. Nigel Thomas. From Folklore To Fiction: A Study Of Folk Heroes And Rituals In The Black American Novel, Harriet Ottenheimer Jan 1990

[Review Of] H. Nigel Thomas. From Folklore To Fiction: A Study Of Folk Heroes And Rituals In The Black American Novel, Harriet Ottenheimer

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The complex and important relationship between African American folklore and African American literature is the focus of this thoughtful, well-written book. Many African American writers have drawn from folklore, and Thomas sets out to demonstrate--by analyzing specific examples--some of the traditions that have developed in the use of folklore in African American writing.

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[Review Of] Robert D. Bullard, Ed. In Search Of The New South: The Black Urban Experience In The 1970s And The 1980s, W. M. Akalou Jan 1990

[Review Of] Robert D. Bullard, Ed. In Search Of The New South: The Black Urban Experience In The 1970s And The 1980s, W. M. Akalou

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This book is part of a growing list of published materials on the prospect and dilemma of black urban life in America. Drawing from the experiences of blacks in six Southern cities, In Search of the New South is essentially concerned with the status of blacks in the South between 1970 and 1980. While some qualitative changes have been noted, the book, as a whole, paints a bleak picture about the condition of blacks in the South. In fact, if one were to use the time-worn argument of the glass half-filled with water, it is clear that the authors have …

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[Review Of] John F. Crawford, William Balassi, And Annie O. Eysturoy, Eds. This Is About Vision: Interviews With Southwestern Writers, Jennifer L. Scoutten Jan 1990

[Review Of] John F. Crawford, William Balassi, And Annie O. Eysturoy, Eds. This Is About Vision: Interviews With Southwestern Writers, Jennifer L. Scoutten

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This Is About Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers is a compilation of sixteen interviews. The writers are ordered chronologically by date of birth, and there is a strong sense of movement from older ideas about the Southwest represented by authors such as Frank Waters to the development of new cultural values and ideas with younger writers like Rudolfo Anaya and Luci Tapahonso. Each of the interviews is prefaced by biographic information as well as a selected bibliography. Crawford's introduction to the book is thorough and provides a "map" or guide to the thematic development of the interviews.

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[Review Of] Diana Der Hovanessian. About Time, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1990

[Review Of] Diana Der Hovanessian. About Time, Margaret Bedrosian

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As Armenian American literature matures, the impact of the massacres and dispersion of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 widens in meaning and relevance. A recently published collection of poetry by Diana Der Hovanessian suggests how issues raised by those long-ago events permeate the imagination of contempory [contemporary] Armenian American writers, giving poignant focus to their work. Diana Der Hovanessian, the foremost translator of Armenian poetry into English, demonstrated this most memorably in her Anthology of Armenian Poetry. Her first volume, How to Choose Your Past (1978, Ararat Press) displayed her wit and concern with the transmission of …

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[Review Of] Richard H. Thompson. Theories Of Ethnicity: A Critical Appraisal, Johnny Washington Jan 1990

[Review Of] Richard H. Thompson. Theories Of Ethnicity: A Critical Appraisal, Johnny Washington

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This work is a systematic attempt to identify certain major theories that govern our discourse and analyses of issues pertaining to ethnicity and race. Sociobiology, primordialism, assimilationism, world-system theory and neo-Marxism are among the theories included.

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[Review Of] Allen L. Woll And Randall M. Miller. Ethnic And Racial Images In American Film And Television: Historical Essays And Bibliography, Angela M. S. Nelson Jan 1990

[Review Of] Allen L. Woll And Randall M. Miller. Ethnic And Racial Images In American Film And Television: Historical Essays And Bibliography, Angela M. S. Nelson

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Allen Woll and Randall Miller in Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television have compiled in one volume the writings about the images of ethnic and racial groups in American television and film. Woll and Miller state in their Introduction that the purpose of their book was to "attempt to unite the work (the nature and importance of mass media stereotypes and their effects on society) from a wide variety of disciplines, languages and fields of study in order to expand the vistas of scholarly research in this area." Ethnic and Racial Images is divided into twelve chapters, …

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[Review Of] Ernesto Juan Fonfrias. Five Women In The Life Of Jesus, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1989

[Review Of] Ernesto Juan Fonfrias. Five Women In The Life Of Jesus, Luis L. Pinto

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Religious themes, especially the Marian, had an increasingly high number of publications last year all over the Christian World because 1987 was a Marian year. One of the most exciting and intriguing titles on this theme is this Puerto Rican poligraph.

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[Review Of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily, Franchot Ballinger Jan 1989

[Review Of] Ella Cara Deloria. Waterlily, Franchot Ballinger

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Waterlily is a fictional rendering of a typical Teton woman's life in the nineteenth century, at the time the Sioux were first experiencing contact with the invading white world. The perspective from which the work was written (in the 1940s) is unique on two counts. First, its author was herself Sioux (albeit Yankton, not Teton) which allowed her to bring to the work an understanding and empathy not available to the mostly male Euro-American ethnographers also writing about the Sioux

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[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan Jan 1989

[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan

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Marina E. Espina's Filipinos in Louisiana is her long awaited, first collection; it is also an announcement of her book on eighteenth-century Filipino settlement in Louisiana and the United States, Manilamen in the New World. The chapters of Filipinos in Louisiana are Espina's articles in chronological order covering two decades of research, all of which were published between 1976 and 1981 in Philippine News, New Orleans Ethnic Cultures and Perspectives on Ethnicity in New Orleans. Filipinos in Louisiana opens a little-known compartment in the history of the Filipino-American community. Espina, as a professional librarian, has had access to archival resources …

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[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell Jan 1989

[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell

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Peter Kwong presents a provocative portrait of Chinese-Americans in The New Chinatown. This book describes aspects which have been the basis for the development of Chinese-American culture. However, the book does not (as the title indicates) clearly differentiate between a "new" Chinatown and an "old" Chinatown. Thus, an initial review left this reader wondering why the book is titled as such.

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[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1989

[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl

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This scientific and artistic tome on Iroquois Indian masks, literally a "coffee table book," has been a long time in production. It is the culmination of over sixty years of interest and study by William N. Fenton, deservedly acknowledged as the dean of Iroquois studies. The author's interest in the subject began during his childhood when he spent summers at his family's farm in up-state New York. His grandfather, W.T. Fenton, had obtained two masks from Amos Snow, an Iroquois friend and neighbor, during the mid-nineteenth century. His father, J. W. Fenton, acquired more than a dozen additional masks as …

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[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen Jan 1989

[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen

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A volume of the policy and concept of multiculturalism is particularly welcome at a moment when the issue of minority vs. majority rights is once again flaring up in academics and politics. Canada is at the center of this discussion; but comparisons with the US (and Israel) are frequently made, and the US-American situation is explored at length in two essays by Rose. Also, the editor's introduction, though dealing explicitly only with Canada, raises basic issues of the ambivalent view of ethnic difference in liberal thought that transcend national boundaries.

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[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling Jan 1989

[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling

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There are two tales behind Paul Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation. It is his detailed insider's description and analysis of the Chinese Americans who were commonly tracked into this occupation prior to World War II. The immigrant laundrymen of Chinatown worked long hours for low wages and predominantly remained isolated from mainstream Anglo society. This recent publication of Siu's 1953 dissertation is also the story of a son of a Chinese laundryman who immigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a student of Ernest Burgess at the University of Chicago School of Sociology dominated …

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[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera Jan 1989

[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera

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How does one get home when being home is not safe? Or how does one get home alive when the spirit can be killed in the journey there? Getting home alive means searching for the sacred place from which all life emanates. This search is an all consuming passion for both Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales.

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[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch Jan 1989

[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch

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Few middle and upper class Americans, whether they are black or white, can fathom the extent of humiliation, suffering, and brutality that black people are currently enduring as a result of the South African apartheid policy. Mark Mathabane's autobiographical book Kaffir Boy documents the inhumane treatment of blacks in that society and relates the "meaning of this policy in human terms." The book gives the reader insight into the daily life of a black family struggling to survive in the midst of hatred and bigotry.

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[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport Jan 1989

[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport

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According to Bell, his book is "a comprehensive sociopsychological, sociocultural interpretive history of the Afro-American novel. It seeks to unearth, identify, describe, and analyze some of the major thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the Afro-American novel from its beginning in 1853 to 1983." This quotation about the book's scope and intention, as well as its title, are indicative of the strengths and weaknesses (mainly the latter) of the entire study. For one thing, it is an understood fact that just as there are African-American experiences, there are also literary traditions. Whereas one study of one tradition (such as Barbara …

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