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[Review Of] Peter Iverson, Ed. The Plains Indians Of The Twentieth Century, Richard F. Fleck Jan 1988

[Review Of] Peter Iverson, Ed. The Plains Indians Of The Twentieth Century, Richard F. Fleck

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Iverson' s new volume of collected essays by authorities on reservation life serves as an invaluable aid to a further understanding of the sometimes agonizing social problems vis-a-vis the federal government. The book contains, in addition to Iverson's short introduction, eleven essays (three by Native Americans) dealing with the complex cultural problems of twentieth-century Plains Indian reservations. Iverson's essay stresses cultural independence despite overwhelming odds which face the modern Indian.

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[Review Of] Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. Liberazione Della Donna. Feminism In Italy, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli Jan 1988

[Review Of] Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. Liberazione Della Donna. Feminism In Italy, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

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A book on feminism in Italy might draw a bewildered look from the average American. The image of Italian women, cultivated by the popular media, is of either a sultry sex pot or a black garbed mamma stirring a spaghetti pot. In both examples these women are seen as subservient to the Italian male. It is unfortunate that these images are so pervasive, and that accurate information on Italian women in our society is limited, since their experiences can be instructive.

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[Review Of] John Bodnar. The Transplanted: A History Of Immigrants In Urban America, Gloria Eive Jan 1988

[Review Of] John Bodnar. The Transplanted: A History Of Immigrants In Urban America, Gloria Eive

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The Transplanted is represented as a synthesis of the immigrant experience in urban America. Bodnar posits the confrontation with capitalism as sole explanation for migration, emigration and immigrant behavior in the new country. His stated intent is to "rescue" immigration history from older views of immigrants as hapless victims of circumstance.

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[Review Of] Nicholas Colangelo, Dick Dustin, And Cecelia H. Foxley, Eds. Multicultural Nonsexist Education: A Human Relations Approach, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1988

[Review Of] Nicholas Colangelo, Dick Dustin, And Cecelia H. Foxley, Eds. Multicultural Nonsexist Education: A Human Relations Approach, Margaret A. Laughlin

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Despite earlier efforts to reduce prejudice and eliminate discrimination, the decade of the 1980s continues to be marked by ongoing assaults on human dignity. Enforcement of earlier hard-earned civil rights laws are declining, oppression of various groups and individuals in our society continues, and attitudes of prejudice and examples of discrimination are reported in the media on a regular basis. Adults are often unable or unwilling to confront their own values, beliefs, and behaviors concerning human oppression. As a result, young people are often presented with inaccurate, incomplete, or inadequate information concerning forces which help to shape our institutions and …

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[Review Of] Luvenia A. George. Teaching The Music Of Six Different Cultures, Constance C. Giugliano Jan 1988

[Review Of] Luvenia A. George. Teaching The Music Of Six Different Cultures, Constance C. Giugliano

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With the recent appearance of more authentic ethnic music in music curriculum series, as well as the spreading influence of the Orff approach to music education based on indigenous and "primitive" musics and even the proliferation of commercial music influenced by non-Western styles, the appetite of music teachers has been well-whetted for additional source material on ethnic music. In this revised edition of Luvenia George's 1976 book, we have an extraordinary resource that now makes it inexcusable not to have an enriched music program in our schools.

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[Review Of] John H. Haley. Charles N. Hunter And Race Relations In North Carolina, James H. Bracy Jan 1988

[Review Of] John H. Haley. Charles N. Hunter And Race Relations In North Carolina, James H. Bracy

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Haley wanted to write a biography of C. N. Hunter, noted black educator/newspaperman/businessman/community leader, but instead he wrote a multilayered work which also included a study of race relations and black history in North Carolina from post-Civil War up to the Great Depression. Hunter was born a slave in 1851 and died a freeman in 1931. His mother died when he was approximately four years old and he was raised by "enlightened" slave masters. Haley's account of Hunter's life leads the reader through a series of disconcerting struggles which are almost storybook in nature. C. N. Hunter comes across as …

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[Review Of] Shivalingappa S. Halli. How Minority Status Affects Fertility: Asian Groups In Canada, Celia J. Wintz Jan 1988

[Review Of] Shivalingappa S. Halli. How Minority Status Affects Fertility: Asian Groups In Canada, Celia J. Wintz

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The broad subject of ethnicity and its impact on the social behavior of immigrant and minority groups is topical and is of interest both to scholars and to the general public. As a result, Halli's study of fertility rates among Asian immigrants and their descendants in Canada addresses a timely subject.

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[Review Of] Langston Hughes. I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, Cary D. Wintz Jan 1988

[Review Of] Langston Hughes. I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, Cary D. Wintz

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I Wonder As I Wander, originally published in 1956, is the second and last volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography. In the first volume, The Big Sea, Hughes focused on his early life and his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance; to a large degree it constitutes his memoirs of the Harlem Renaissance. I Wonder As I Wander is more personal. It is an account of his experiences and his musings during the 1930s, after he had distanced himself from the Harlem Renaissance, while he was in the most political phase of his long career, and while his travels took him across …

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[Review Of] Martin S. Jankowski. City Bound: Urban Life And Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1988

[Review Of] Martin S. Jankowski. City Bound: Urban Life And Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth, Homer D.C. Garcia

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This work ranks as one of the most significant analyses of urban Chicano political socialization to date. Unlike contemporaries who are either theoreticians or numbers crunchers, Jankowski undertakes a quantitative analysis that is theoretically based. Hypotheses developed from three theories are tested to ascertain which best explains the political assimilation of Chicano adolescents in San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Los Angeles. The theories compared are: the Wirth/Chicago School which argues that the length of urban residence promotes assimilation; the neighborhood solidarity model which proposes that upward socioeconomic mobility and neighborhood integration promote assimilation; and the Marxist theory which argues that the …

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[Review Of] Ronald W. Johnson And Michael G. Schene, Eds. Cultural Resources Management, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1988

[Review Of] Ronald W. Johnson And Michael G. Schene, Eds. Cultural Resources Management, David M. Gradwohl

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Aimed primarily at an audience of archaeologists, architects, historians, cultural geographers, and social anthropologists, the essays contributed to this volume focus in on the different philosophies, techniques, and activities associated with the management of cultural resources in the United States. Particularly emphasized is the importance of integrating ethnographic, oral, historical, archival, and archaeological data in the identification, analysis, preservation, and interpretation of historic buildings, sites, and districts. Beyond private efforts in this sphere are activities at municipal, state, and national levels as mandated by federal laws.

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[Review Of] Jerry Kammer. The Second Long Walk: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, George W. Sieber Jan 1988

[Review Of] Jerry Kammer. The Second Long Walk: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, George W. Sieber

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The job of the social sciences and sometimes investigative reporters is to deal with on-going problems that cannot be solved, but must be coped with; Jerry Kammer has found an example of this in the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. His first contact with the subject was during summer, 1974, as a newspaper reporter. His book includes interviews with people involved, thoughtful analysis of their statements, chronology of events, two maps, 27 photographs, an adequate index, and chapter endnotes.

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[Review Of] Jacqueline Jones. Labor Of Love, Labor Of Sorrow: Black Women, Work And The Family, From Slavery To The Present, Helan E. Page Jan 1988

[Review Of] Jacqueline Jones. Labor Of Love, Labor Of Sorrow: Black Women, Work And The Family, From Slavery To The Present, Helan E. Page

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Jacqueline Jones' Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow examines the struggle of African-American women to protect their household and community based "labor of love" while controlling their wage-earning "labor of sorrow." Illustrated by a rich collection of photographs, extensively referenced and supplemented by appendices, Jones' study relates changes in the structure and management of black households to changes in the kinds of work African-American women have done.

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[Review Of] Judy Nolte Lensink, Ed. Old Southwest! New Southwest: Essays On A Region And Its Literature, Sergio D. Elizondo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Judy Nolte Lensink, Ed. Old Southwest! New Southwest: Essays On A Region And Its Literature, Sergio D. Elizondo

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Here are sixteen essays by various genres of thinkers, among which we find poets, fiction writers, scientists, historians, academic and lay scholars, librarians and artists who presented papers in 1985 at a conference bearing the book's title. N. Scott Momaday, Frank Waters, R. Hinojosa Smith, Janice Monk and Vera Norwood, Rudolfo A. Anaya, and John Nichols are among the contributors. Their papers are the text of this work on the cultures of the American Southwest. Old Southwest indeed becomes an American culture reader, like a treatise on its epistemology and the forms of literature past and present of the region …

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[Review Of] Ronald L. Lewis. Black Coal Miners In America: Race, Class, And Community Conflict, 1780-1980, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1988

[Review Of] Ronald L. Lewis. Black Coal Miners In America: Race, Class, And Community Conflict, 1780-1980, David M. Gradwohl

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As an historian, Ronald L. Lewis has researched the role of blacks in the coal mining industry, an overall topic which has been largely ignored in treatments of American history. The resulting publication goes far in meeting the need to recognize the fact that blacks were an important part of this national economic enterprise. Lewis' book is interestingly written, well-organized, and extensively documented. Having been born and raised in a coal town, Lewis has been a witness to some of the events he describes. He argues, insightfully, that "Black miners did not share a monolithic experience. American coal miners have …

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[Review Of] Sally M. Miller, Ed. The Ethnic Press In The United States: A Historical Analysis And Handbook, Roberta J. Astroff, Andrew Feldman Jan 1988

[Review Of] Sally M. Miller, Ed. The Ethnic Press In The United States: A Historical Analysis And Handbook, Roberta J. Astroff, Andrew Feldman

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This book is first and foremost a much-needed reference text. It fills a scholarly void in media history by presenting the press histories of twenty-eight immigrant groups.

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[Review Of] Richard Newman, Comp. Black Access: A Bibliography Of Afro-American Bibliographies, Richard L. Herrnstadt Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Newman, Comp. Black Access: A Bibliography Of Afro-American Bibliographies, Richard L. Herrnstadt

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Richard Newman, who has previously published a number of bibliographies on various subjects in Afro-American studies, has made an important contribution to that field with his compilation of Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies, a listing of over 13,000 bibliographies. The book also includes a pleasant and informative introductory essay, "Fifty Years of Collecting," by Dorothy B. Porter, librarian emerita at Howard University.

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[Review Of] Dorothy Burton Skardal And Ingeborg R. Kongslien, Eds. Essays On Norwegian-American Literature And History, Gerald Thorson Jan 1988

[Review Of] Dorothy Burton Skardal And Ingeborg R. Kongslien, Eds. Essays On Norwegian-American Literature And History, Gerald Thorson

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Why should readers and students of ethnic studies be interested in essays on a group who are no longer a viable ethnic minority and who wrote primarily in a language few Americans read? The answer is that their literature and history are a part of American culture; it also is to be found in the similarities between the problems and attitudes of the Norwegian immigrants a century ago and the situations of contemporary ethnic groups. A perusal of this volume can contribute insights into the American ethnic experience.

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[Review Of] James Craig-Holte. The Ethnic I: A Sourcebook For Ethnic-American Autobiography, Samuel Hinton Jan 1988

[Review Of] James Craig-Holte. The Ethnic I: A Sourcebook For Ethnic-American Autobiography, Samuel Hinton

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This is indeed a fascinating collection from a diverse group of ethnic-Americans. The book generally fulfills a need for the study of ethnic perspectives from the standpoint of literature and culture. Autobiographical insights, though basically personal, present us with historical, social, cultural, sexual and racial perceptions which are crucial to the interpretation of life, role, and identity in a pluralistic society. The major goal of Craig-Holte's book is "to provide an overview of the genre of ethnic-American autobiography and to examine the work of representative writers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and historical periods."

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[Review Of] C. Peter Ripley, Ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol. 1: The British Isles, 1830-1865, Orville W. Taylor Jan 1988

[Review Of] C. Peter Ripley, Ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol. 1: The British Isles, 1830-1865, Orville W. Taylor

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From 1830 until 1865, hundreds of American, Canadian, and West Indian blacks went to the British Isles and became active in the antislavery movement, which in 1833 reached a peak there with abolition of slavery in the Empire but was only beginning to gain momentum in the United States. They represented the full spectrum of free or fugitive Western Hemisphere blacks: some were well-known antislavery speakers and writers such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany; others were originally unknowns such as John Andrew Jackson, who spoke in "the peculiar broken dialect of the negro," and John Brown, whose language was …

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[Review Of] Werner Sollors. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent And Descent In American Culture, Barbara Hiura Jan 1988

[Review Of] Werner Sollors. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent And Descent In American Culture, Barbara Hiura

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Sollors writes a provocative assessment of ethnic literature within American culture. He substantiates the premise that ethnic literature is American literature and is historically and ideologically grounded in the established American immigrant pattern. Sollors develops a theoretical base for understanding immigrant/ethnic literature from its Puritan beginnings to the multiethnic reflection of American contemporary society. Rather than being outside the American tradition, immigrant writings are "not only expressions of mediation between cultures but also [act] as handbooks of socialization into the codes of Americanness." He says that immigrant writers express their dualistic role as inheriting characteristics from their ancestors (descent) and …

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[Review Of] William H. Turner And Edward J. Cabell, Eds. Blacks In Appalachia, David M. Johnson Jan 1988

[Review Of] William H. Turner And Edward J. Cabell, Eds. Blacks In Appalachia, David M. Johnson

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The editors are a civil rights worker (Cabell) and an academician (Turner) who evidence a longstanding interest in the Appalachian region and especially in the place and history of black people there. The articles are grouped into eight parts: Basic Approaches, Historical Perspectives, Community Studies, Race Relations, Black Coal Miners, Blacks and Local Politics, Personal Anecdotal Accounts of Black Life, and Selected Demographic Aspects. According to Turner's article on the demography of Black Appalachia, he defines Appalachia as the Appalachian Regional Commission counties in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

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[Review Of] Sarah Blacher Cohen, Ed. From Hester Street To Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage And Screen, Louise Mayo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Sarah Blacher Cohen, Ed. From Hester Street To Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage And Screen, Louise Mayo

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The considerable Jewish American presence on the stage and screen (and now television), has long been marveled at and discussed. Jewish "dominance" in mass media has been a source of pride to Jews and anguish to anti-semites. Nevertheless, it has only been since the 1960s that numbers have been translated into content. From Hester Street to Hollywood attempts to analyze the Jewish presence and experience in areas as varied as serious drama and stand-up comedy.

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[Review Of] Pontheolla T. Williams. Robert Hayden: A Critical Analysis Of His Poetry, James L. Gray Jan 1988

[Review Of] Pontheolla T. Williams. Robert Hayden: A Critical Analysis Of His Poetry, James L. Gray

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Pontheolla Williams' book is fairly straightforward. Because Hayden's life is not well-known, she provides a thirty-five page biography before examining Hayden's work in chronological order generally giving each volume a separate chapter. She includes a bibliography of Hayden's work and of the secondary material she used, notes, several of the major poems she studies, a chronology of Hayden's life, another of his poetry, and an index. All of these, especially the two chronologies, will help the person wanting to study Hayden.

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[Review Of] T. Obinkaram Echewa. The Crippled Dancer, David K. Bruner Jan 1988

[Review Of] T. Obinkaram Echewa. The Crippled Dancer, David K. Bruner

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At the end of The Crippled Dancer, Ajuzia asks, "Was everyone coincidentally and inadvertently carrying a bag packed by other people?" Like Browning's Andrea del Sarto who says, "So free we seem, so fettered fast we are," Ajuzia appears to accept the limitations fate and/or custom place upon the individual. Both men accept with reluctance, however, for both are free, creative spirits aware of the waste of their own talents.

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[Review Of] Ngugiwa Thiong'o. Decolonizing The Mind: The Politics Of Language In African Literature, David K. Bruner Jan 1987

[Review Of] Ngugiwa Thiong'o. Decolonizing The Mind: The Politics Of Language In African Literature, David K. Bruner

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"This book, Decolonising the Mind, is my farewell to English as a vehicle for any of my writings. From now on it is Gikuyu and Kiswahili all the way." This declaration by Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one he has every right to make. Many of us, however, will hear it as a casting-off of the large and appreciative readership he enjoyed from the days when, as James Gugi, he instructed and enriched us with The River Between and other fine works of art. To be sure, one can sympathize with any African's hatred of colonization, can feel with him a …

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[Review Of] Bo Scholer, Ed. Coyote Was Here: Essays On Contemporary Native American Literary And Political Mobilization, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1987

[Review Of] Bo Scholer, Ed. Coyote Was Here: Essays On Contemporary Native American Literary And Political Mobilization, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Scholars doing research in ethnic literature have long been aware of the political nature of much of that literature. Although many critics find politicizing of literature difficult to deal with in their assessment of the artistic value of the works, it is dishonest to ignore this reality. Schöler has provided thirteen essays by creative writers and critics which define both the nature of the literature and the power of the political views which inform much of the creative output of contemporary American Indian writers. According to Schöler, "politics and aesthetics go hand in hand." Schöler and other European critics have …

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[Review Of] Lydio F. Tomasi, Ed. Italian Americans: New Perspectives In Italian Immigration And Ethnicity, Gloria Lothrop Jan 1987

[Review Of] Lydio F. Tomasi, Ed. Italian Americans: New Perspectives In Italian Immigration And Ethnicity, Gloria Lothrop

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There are those who have heralded the 1980s as "The Decade of the Italian American" as many of the 20 million Americans of Italian descent achieve increasing prominence in politics, business, education and the arts. This new role assumed by Americans of immigrant stock has necessitated revised patterns of investigation addressing the impact of socio-economic mobility, the effects of transmigration and the growing phenomenon of exogenous marriage. For example, of the Italian American women born since 1950, between two-thirds and three-quarters have married outside the ethnic group. Finally, the size and multigenerational sampling provided by the Italian American population invites …

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[Review Of] Roger D. Abrahams, Ed. Stories From Black Traditions In The New World, Itibari M. Zulu Jan 1987

[Review Of] Roger D. Abrahams, Ed. Stories From Black Traditions In The New World, Itibari M. Zulu

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Abrahams has selected this collection of tales concerning the experiences of African-Americans during and after slavery in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and the American South in an attempt to seriously look at Afro-American folktales (mostly collected by whites) in the New World.

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[Review Of] Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End Of Freedom, Robert Gish Jan 1987

[Review Of] Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End Of Freedom, Robert Gish

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The more one reads contemporary Native American writing, the more one realizes certain overreaching universal themes: namely, that the Native American past lives on, and strongly so, in the soul and consciousness of descendants; and, regardless of tribal affiliation or homeland, the nineteenth-century cultural collision with whites lingers in all such rememberings of the past and in all accounting of the present. These themes transcend the boundaries of history and fiction, prose and poetry, and offer solace to Indian and non-Indian alike.

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[Review Of] Robert J. Norrell. Reaping The Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement In Tuskegee, Floyd W. Hayes Iii Jan 1987

[Review Of] Robert J. Norrell. Reaping The Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement In Tuskegee, Floyd W. Hayes Iii

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Reaping the Whirlwind is a case study of the black American struggle for civil rights and racial democracy in a unique community of the Black Belt South. It is a story of Tuskegee's white political hegemony and the black elite's early cooperation with and later mild challenge to that dominance. In 1880, as a result of collaboration between white politicians and Tuskegee's black leadership, the Democrats secured political control of the Alabama state legislature. The following year, as pay-off for the deal, Tuskegee Institute was established with Booker T. Washington at the helm, and the goal became one of making …

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