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[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini Jan 1985

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini

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Rejoice, students of ethnicity and Italian Americans generally! A body of scholarly literature on the Italian American experience is growing. Richard Alba's book, one of the Ethnic Groups in American Life Series (Milton M. Gordon, editor) is a recent addition to the quality social science writings about this ethnic group.

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[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1985

[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin

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The video program Immigrants, Minorities and School raises a number of important issues related to the school experiences of today's racial and ethnic minority groups (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) when compared with the school experiences of the earlier white European ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States within the last century. There are both similarities and differences in the experiences of each racial and ethnic minority group.

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[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner Jan 1985

[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner

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When Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, and Cosmo Pieterse sat as judges for the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award of 1981, they were faced with some 3,000 entries from more than 700 contestants from which they were to award three cash prizes and a number of book prizes. In the introduction to the book which they subsequently edited, consisting of eighty-two poems from forty-five writers from thirteen countries in Africa, they explain that they had told all entrants they were looking for "originality and imagination as well as evidence of technical skill." They state, also, that they "strove to deliberate …

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[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1985

[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen's The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social context of the current work is less benign. Factors implicated in the shift to more contentious racial and ethnic relations include a struggling national economy, separatist moves in Quebec and the West, a rapidly expanding non White immigration, and advancement of natural resource claims by aboriginal groups at a time when federal pressure for energy development in the …

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[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby Jan 1985

[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby

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Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite's purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many …

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[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber Jan 1985

[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber

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This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs.

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[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet Jan 1985

[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet

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Black actors, and more often than not white actors in blackface, appeared in stereotyped roles in American movies from the beginnings of the industry. Such classic directors as D.W. Griffith and John Ford mindlessly exploited blacks to counterpoint white supremacy and to bear the brunt of the focus of social and political change. Blacks, even more than American Indians, were the recipents [recipients] of the darker side of western irrationality. For example, intermarriage, long treated as a subtheme of Indian/white confrontation, met with virulent rejection in films which treated black/white relationships. Because of their growing numbers and because of long-standing …

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[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young Jan 1985

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young

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At the turn of this century, a group of American blacks from the midwest migrated to Canada to become homesteaders in the remote town of Athabasca, Alberta. Hadley Irwin's latest novel for young people focuses on this little-known chapter of American history. The movement of entire towns of blacks north in search of freedom provides Hadley Irwin an ideal setting for a young boy's search for identity. Rap Davis' growth toward maturity, his determination to "be somebody" parallels the growth and determination of a people to be somebody.

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[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson Jan 1985

[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson

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The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the ''invisible immigrants' of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America," never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale's realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence.

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts Jan 1985

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts

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Poetry by American Indians may be traced to the writings of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee who came to California in the early 1850s, edited several northern California newspapers, and helped create the legend of Joaquin Murieta, and to the works of Alexander Posey, a Creek who wrote romantic nature poems and dialect stories in the style of the local colorists. Nonetheless, few Indian poets existed prior to the 1970s. Since then, there has been a tremendous surge in the numbers of Indians writing poetry, and their work has received a great deal of critical acclaim, as evidenced by the …

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[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker Jan 1985

[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker

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Two publications important in the study of women's literature appeared this spring -- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and this anthology of previously published essays on feminist literary theory. These volumes will probably have greatest impact on university courses in women's literature, but one should not overlook their significance for ethnic studies. Like studies in ethnic literatures, feminist criticism has before it the task of defining a tradition outside of the main-stream and establishing a literary canon not previously acknowledged as valid.

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[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman Jan 1985

[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

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A disturbing, extremely important book. The wealth of information provided by the authors illuminates the present circumstances of ethnic minorities in Western Europe, principally West Germany, and points to potential dangers and repercussions in the future. The thesis of Here for Good posits the change in status of the guest worker from that of migrant or temporary resident to that of immigrant or permanent settler in one of seven major host countries in Western Europe. This shift should mark a parallel shift in the political and economic policies which address the needs of the immigrants and their impact upon the …

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[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons Jan 1985

[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons

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Community-Based Research has a clear sense of purpose: "This handbook is intended as a practical research guide for an era of self-determination in community development" (xvii). The author seeks to provide the means for research to be planned, designed, and implemented by community members with the research priorities set "by the community that lives the socio-economic conditions, rather than by an outsider who studies the community for informational purposes" (2).

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[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1985

[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies

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Ashton's mid-sized volume about the Welsh in America joins the first, and very short account by David Williams, Wales and America (published in Wales in 1946 as part of a bilingual pamphlet series), and Edward George Hartmann's Americans from Wales (nearly three hundred pages, published in 1967 and reprinted in America in 1978).

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[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch Jan 1985

[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch

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Current trends in Afroamerican history toward local, regional, and quantitative history accentuate the prior preoccupation of historians of the Afroamerican experience with considerations of national significance to the all but total disregard of local black history. This volume is consistent with the present drift. With the exception of the concluding essay, Black Americans in North Carolina and the South is an historiographical exercise. It is a result of a 1981 symposium, of the same title, sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Another historiographical volume on North Carolinian history, also co-edited by Jeffrey Crow, resulted from the …

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[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett Jan 1985

[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett

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Linda Hogan's poetry is of the "world," a word which recurs frequently in Eclipse, her latest book of poems. The poems are personal yet not confessional. She speaks of the earth -- and for the earth -- in the roles of human being, Native American, woman, mother, daughter, and granddaughter. They are not the poems of self absorption, of reduction

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[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso Jan 1985

[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso

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William Oandason, Senior Editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and editor of his own journal, A, a Journal of Contemporary Literature, has published other books of poetry, A Branch of California Redwood (reviewed by Kenneth M. Roemer, Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Summer, 1984) and Moving Inland.

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[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster Jan 1985

[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster

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The current popularity, eminence, and international appreciation of the creativity of American Indian artists are such a viable part of the contemporary art scene that most of us are well aware of this distinguished achievement. But it was not always so. Robert Fay Schrader presents detailed, historic review of the trials, endeavors, and vicissitudes of a small but select group of men and women who sought to gain public recognition of American Indian arts and crafts during the first half ofthe twentieth century. The general focus is on the activities of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an advisory and …

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[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1985

[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez

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Sam Selvon's fifth novel Moses Ascending addresses the ethnic experience with dual prongs: linguistic and racial. Although the situation of the novel is not new -- the plight of the subject come to the motherland -- having been treated by George Lamming and others, this handling of the basic theme is: all the sacred cows fall before Selvon's iconoclastic pen. Moses, the "I" protagonist, is but a faintly veiled, highly disillusioned Selvon who dares look at the present world situation: the emperor has no clothes.

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[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1985

[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto

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Puerto Ricans have been writing about their experiences in the mainland for a very long time. At the beginning, the majority of the texts were written in Spanish by Puerto Rican writers residing in this country or by Puerto Rican writers who lived here for periods of time. A careful study of the works published about the life of Puerto Ricans in the mainland shows that they were written in prose.

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[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker Jan 1985

[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker

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The historical novel presents many of the same problems of interpretation posed by the docudrama, both genres possessing an ambiguity attributable to the absence of clearly defined distinctions between fact and fiction. Eddie Iroh, author of The Siren in the Night, obviates the reader's task of inferring these distinctions by announcing in the "Author's Note" the fidelity of his presentation to both the nature and sequence of actual events and admitting the liberty taken in his creation of a military post that did not exist during the time period covered in the novel. The Siren in the Night, the third …

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[Review Of] Roberta Hill Whiteman. Star Quilt, Susan Scarberry-Garcia Jan 1985

[Review Of] Roberta Hill Whiteman. Star Quilt, Susan Scarberry-Garcia

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The central image of this collection of Roberta Hill Whiteman's poetry is that of a handmade gift sewn to last for generations. In an interview in Contact II, Whiteman says that a star quilt helps people, perhaps as a protector of a person seeking a vision. The title poem "Star Quilt" sets the tone and themes for the book, introducing the parallelism between makers of quilts and makers of poems.

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[Review Of] Henry Greenberg And Georgia Greenberg. Carl Gorman's World, Eugene Grigsby Jr. Jan 1985

[Review Of] Henry Greenberg And Georgia Greenberg. Carl Gorman's World, Eugene Grigsby Jr.

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Henry and Georgia Greenberg weave an interesting fabric with the story of the life of Carl Gorman. The warp threads give insight into the history and background of Navajo culture while the weft threads that move between the warp tell us about Carl Gorman. The events of his life add color and texture to the warp. At times the weave is tight while at others quite loose, sometimes with holes or gaps that seem to contradict. Significant highlights add bright color or rough texture to the life of this man who is artist, educator, soldier, administrator, father, and husband.

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[Review Of] John R. Chavez. The Lost Land: The Chicano Image Of The Southwest, Joe Rodriguez Jan 1985

[Review Of] John R. Chavez. The Lost Land: The Chicano Image Of The Southwest, Joe Rodriguez

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The Lost Land is a fine example of ethnic cultural history. Chavez contends that various attitudes of Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo settlers who migrated to the Southwest (the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas) have shaped the sense of identity of contemporary Chicanos in terms of where they live. Many Chicanos feel like " strangers in their own land," and certain features of non-indigenous cultures have fostered a sense of alientation [alienation].

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[Review Of] John Tateishi. And Justice For All: An Oral History Of The Japanese American Detention Camps, Russell Endo Jan 1985

[Review Of] John Tateishi. And Justice For All: An Oral History Of The Japanese American Detention Camps, Russell Endo

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In one of the blatant injustices in American history, 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans were evacuated from their homes by military authorities just after the outbreak of World War II and interned in concentration camps. This episode was the culmination of decades of anti-Asian agitation and more immediate pressures by politicians, newspaper editors, farm and labor organizations, nativist groups, and military officials based on false accusations of Japanese American disloyalty and fifth-column activity by Japanese Americans.

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[Review Of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders, George W. Sieber Jan 1985

[Review Of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders, George W. Sieber

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Published in 1968, reprinted in 1974, and a third printing in 1984, this volume contains a collection of 112 superb photographs, mostly by William S. Soule. Born in Maine in 1836, he was wounded in the Civil War and in 1865 entered the photography business, but sold this to become chief clerk in the sutler store operated by John Tappan at Fort Dodge (Kansas), where he resumed his photographic activity during off-duty hours. Soule probably made most of his photographs of Cheyennes and Araphoes [Arapahos] at Fort Dodge, some others at Camp Supply and Fort Sill (Indian Territory). All of …

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[Review Of] Carol J. Scott. Kentucky Daughter, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith Jan 1985

[Review Of] Carol J. Scott. Kentucky Daughter, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith

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Carol Scott sets out in her first novel to cover some interesting territory: ninth-grader Mary Fred, a girl from a poor white family in Kentucky, decides to make something of herself, and so in order to go to a better school, she moves in with an aunt and uncle who live in a Virginia city on the Chesapeake Bay. As she grows and changes, she comes to recognize the value of her country heritage. Along the way she encounters the prejudices of the "in" crowd, the usual pubescent difficulties with boys, and sexual advances from a disturbed teacher.

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[Review Of] Glenda Riley. Women And Indians On The Frontier, 1825-1915, Kristin Herzog Jan 1985

[Review Of] Glenda Riley. Women And Indians On The Frontier, 1825-1915, Kristin Herzog

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This book makes a simple, but important, point and proves it on the basis of painstaking research: pioneer women went to the frontier with a mental baggage of myths and prejudices about themselves and Indians, but while living in the West they changed their self-image as well as their image of the natives, establishing close relationships with them more frequently than men.

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[Review Of] Michael Soh. Son Of A Mother, Dennis Stewart Jan 1985

[Review Of] Michael Soh. Son Of A Mother, Dennis Stewart

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Three-quarters of this short novel chronicle eldest son Leng' s thoughts, conversations, and actions in endeavoring to fulfill his dying father's charge: "Ah Leng, you're grown up now and I expect you to nurture your character, be a man responsible for bringing up a family of your own. Offspring are very essential to carry down the ancestral line, you know. Of course in so bringing up your own family you must not forget your own parents for they are the ones who brought you up."

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[Review Of] Sameer Y. Abraham And Nabeel Abraham, Eds. Arabs In The New World, Akram Khater Jan 1985

[Review Of] Sameer Y. Abraham And Nabeel Abraham, Eds. Arabs In The New World, Akram Khater

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This book is a collection of sociological essays on immigrant Arab communities in the United States. It is divided into three sections: the first provides historical background to the flow of immigrants from Arab countries; the second is devoted to case studies of Arab communities in the Detroit area (where the greatest concentration of Arab-Americans in the United States is located); and the third provides a useful bibliography of current scholarship about Arab-Americans.

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