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[Review Of] Carol Munday Lawrence, Producer. Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (Film), Charles C. Irby Jan 1984

[Review Of] Carol Munday Lawrence, Producer. Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (Film), Charles C. Irby

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Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the "Were You There" series produced by Carol Lawrence (the others include The Black West, The Cotton Club, The Facts of Life, Portrait of Two Artists, Sports Profile, and When the Animals Talked). This film's story revolves around Bee Freeman's (the Sepia Mae West) and Lorenzo Tucker's (the black Valentino) recollections of their relationships with Micheaux and their perceptions of his character. Danny Glover plays the role of Oscar Micheaux, Richard Harder is shown as the young Lorenzo Tucker, and Janice Morgan portrays the vamp that was Bee Freeman in …

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[Review Of] William Oandasan. A Branch Of California Redwood, Kenneth M. Roemer Jan 1984

[Review Of] William Oandasan. A Branch Of California Redwood, Kenneth M. Roemer

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One of the best ways to introduce readers to the diversity of Indian literatures (and, by implication, Indian experiences) is to expose them to poetry written in English by Indians. One-dimensional stereotypes about Nobel Savages simply cannot withstand the rich variety of a literature that extends at least back to the 19th-century attempts of a few Indian poets-such as William Wilson (Anishinabe), Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk), and Alexander Posey (Creek)-to imitate and modify English language poetic models up through the recent poems of hundreds of Indian writers whose backgrounds and poetic inclinations reflect numerous tribal, reservation, and urban experiences, as …

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[Review Of] Ronald Takaki. Pau Hana, Barbara Hiura Jan 1984

[Review Of] Ronald Takaki. Pau Hana, Barbara Hiura

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Pau Hana is a refreshing change from the usual genre of ethnic materials expressing the dynamics of culture set within an historical context; it is an exciting sequential analysis of the various ethnic peoples who provided plantation labor for the Hawaiian cane fields from the 1860s to the 1920s. Using primary resources, songs, historical tracts, and census data, Takaki brings together the various ethnic perspectives into a cogent account of the history, culture, and economy of sugar cane plantation existence.

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[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer Jan 1984

[Review Of] Phillips G. Davies. The Welsh In Wisconsin, Marilyn Meisenheimer

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Phillips G. Davies, part Welsh himself, has taught in the English Department at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, since 1 954. He has recently published translations of accounts of Welsh settlements, mostly in the Middle West.

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[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon Jan 1984

[Review Of] Arthur Ashe, With Neil Amdur. Off The Court, Stewart Rodnon

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Arthur Ashe, tennis professional who in 304 tournaments won fifty-one and reached the finals in forty-two others, had a heart attack at thirty-six and then quadruple bypass surgery. A sensitive, well-read and intelligent black athlete, Ashe is instinctively conservative and projects a concerned curiosity in his quest for understanding not only his own problems as man and athlete but also today's serious racial and political issues. This book, his third, is clearly written (with Neil Amdur, New York Times sportswriter) and reflects Ashe's respect for, and admiration of the English language: "I like the English language and its nuances ... …

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[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson Jan 1984

[Review Of] Joseph Owens. Dread: The Rastafarians Of Jamaica, David M. Johnson

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Dread is an exploration of the thought world of the Rastafarian Brethren of Jamaica as synthesized by the author. Father Owens, a white American-born Jesuit priest, did several years of intensive visiting with and listening to Rasta thinkers in the slums of western Kingston, Jamaica; most contact was from 1970 to 1972. He originally met the Rastas while he was doing teaching and social work in the area, and he seems to have been accepted by many of them as a sympathetic listener. Through Owens, Rasta thought comes across as a form of revitalization movement based on a unique interpretation …

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[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller Jan 1984

[Review Of] Rose Basile Green. Songs Of Ourselves, Maxine S. Seller

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"The time has come to be both joyous and lyrical about the particular exhilaration in the experience of the American immigrants and their descendents," writes Rose Basile Green in the introduction of this volume of poetry. "In lifting harmonized voices, the people of this nation sing in a symphony of one theme-we are all Americans" (4).

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[Review Of] J. Fred Macdonald. Blacks And White Tv/ Afro-Americans In Television Since 1948, Barbara F. Luebke Jan 1984

[Review Of] J. Fred Macdonald. Blacks And White Tv/ Afro-Americans In Television Since 1948, Barbara F. Luebke

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Perhaps the most insightful statement MacDonald makes has not so much to do with blacks and television as it does with television itself: "TV . .. was subject to program decisions wherein commercial realities outweighed social ideas." To understand how black Americans have fared on television, one must understand the economic realities that underlie the medium. If a program cannot be sold to advertisers, it is not likely to be on television. Although one can deplore that state of affairs, it is difficult to argue that it is not the case.

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[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1984

[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Devil On The Cross, Charlotte H. Bruner

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James Ngugi without question is Kenya's most prominent and most highly regarded novelist to date. Of the same generation of writers as Achebe, Armah, Soyinka, and Owoonor of West Africa, Ngugi, like them, after a local university education, went abroad for advanced work. In 1964 at Leeds, Ngugi published his novel Weep Not, Child, written when he was a student at Makerere. Shortly thereafter, in 1965, he published The River Between which he had composed even earlier. With A Grain of Wheat the writer completed in 1967 a kind of trilogy, depicting for a western readership a literary explanation and …

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[Review Of] Ken Harrison, Producer. The Last Of The Caddoes (Film), David M. Gradwohl Jan 1984

[Review Of] Ken Harrison, Producer. The Last Of The Caddoes (Film), David M. Gradwohl

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Several staff members and students in anthropology and Indian Studies programs at Iowa State University had the opportunity to view the film, The Last of the Caddoes, during the spring of 1984. The University's Media Resource Center had obtained the film on approval and sought our advice as to whether it should be purchased for on campus classroom use and for rental to interest groups off campus. The film came with a respectable-looking pedigree: it was based on a short story by William Humphrey, an author of considerable repute in Texas; it was produced by Ken Harrison with funding from …

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[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart Jan 1984

[Review Of] The People Of The 'Ksan. Gathering What The Great Nature Provided: Food Traditions Of The Gitskan, Caroline Shugart

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Gathering What the Great Nature Provided is a book about the Gitskan Indian tribe in North Central British Columbia living on the banks of the Skenna River. The book resulted from a project by ninety members of the tribe whose purpose was to document their past for themselves and future generations. This collective authorship shows the commitment and dedication of the people to the goal. Elders were questioned and memories strained to remember the distant past. Their culture is conveyed in a rich oral tradition. The writing was difficult and tedious, accomplished by long hours of interviewing and transcription of …

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[Review Of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness In The Human Services, Cecilia E. Dawkins Jan 1984

[Review Of] James W. Green. Cultural Awareness In The Human Services, Cecilia E. Dawkins

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James W. Green has produced a sensitive, thought-provoking book which is based on a multi-ethnic approach in the delivery of human services by social workers. Green is a cultural anthropologist who earned a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington where he is currently a faculty member.

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[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen, Ed. Studies In American Indian Literature: Critical Essays And Course Design, Barbara Hiura Jan 1984

[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen, Ed. Studies In American Indian Literature: Critical Essays And Course Design, Barbara Hiura

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Studies in American Indian Literature edited by Paula Gunn Allen is an excellent literary survey and resource book for instructors interested in developing college level courses on American Indians. Allen develops the format by including "critical studies in American Indian literature that explain and/or use basic themes, motifs, structures, and symbols found in traditional and modern American Indian literature." These critical essays lead into course outlines for developing American Indian classes.

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[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians. American Justice, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1984

[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., And Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians. American Justice, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Two attorneys, both professors of political science, have written this book on American Indians and the American legal system to clarify American Indian people's place vis-a-vis the United States system of justice. The first chapter provides a much-needed historical context for the current situations. The authors trace the rather convoluted pattern of Indian-U.S. relationships from first contact with the "great white father" through the treaty system, allotment, the Indian Reorganization Act, termination policies, and self-determination, evaluating the malign or benign effects of several presidents. Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon had positive influences on legislation focusing on American Indians; …

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[Review Of] Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Eds. Oklahoma Memories, Robert Gish Jan 1984

[Review Of] Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Eds. Oklahoma Memories, Robert Gish

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Oklahoma looms large in the legends and imagination of westering Americans. Much more than one of the most northeastern of the Southwestern states, Oklahoma in the hearts and minds of many amounts to the fiction of Edna Ferber's Cimarron or John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. "Okies" assuredly have their own mystique if not their own stereotype. Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland, the editors of Oklahoma Memories, seek to document that the "history" of Oklahoma, as recorded by people who have traveled across it and settled it from Indian Territory days to the present, is just as fascinating as its …

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[Review Of] David Sibley. Outsiders In Urban Societies, Russell Endo Jan 1984

[Review Of] David Sibley. Outsiders In Urban Societies, Russell Endo

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While minority groups are usually not associated with the locus of social, political, and economic power in a society, some groups may be more marginal than others. Such is the characteristic position of gypsies, a semi-nomadic people found in several parts of the world. In this book, David Sibley, a lecturer in Geography at Hull University, presents a study of British gypsies based on several years of personal experience in gypsy communities.

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[Review Of] Robert Yeo, Ed. Asean Short Stories, Charles C. Irby Jan 1984

[Review Of] Robert Yeo, Ed. Asean Short Stories, Charles C. Irby

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Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand are the five Asean nations represented in this volume of short stories. Yeo chose four authors from each country for the collection.

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[Review Of] Pamela Mordecai And Mervyn Morris, Eds. Jamaica Woman : An Anthology Of Poems, Faythe Turner Jan 1984

[Review Of] Pamela Mordecai And Mervyn Morris, Eds. Jamaica Woman : An Anthology Of Poems, Faythe Turner

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The history of the Americas, one first of imperialism, second of slavery, is one of which we are aware. Whether accepted or rejected, the colonial heritage has had a hypnotizing effect on many writers in this hemisphere as is abundantly displayed in this anthology, Jamaica Women. The major part of the poetry here is social protest or "message" poetry as opposed to that involved in the structure of language, although we do find both in the surprising variety of subjects considered, some personal-love, family-others cultural and collective-nature, freedom, poverty, work, strength or lack of it. The best of these poems …

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[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Long Lance: The True Story Of An Impostor, Lyle Koehler Jan 1984

[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Long Lance: The True Story Of An Impostor, Lyle Koehler

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In the 1920s, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, reputedly a Blood (or Blackfoot) Indian, was the talk of New York City. A graduate of Carlisle Indian School, a cadet at West Point, a war hero, and a sparring mate for Jack Dempsey, Long Lance was the American Indian made good. He was a journalist of some renown, an eloquent speaker, and a self ordained "spokesman for the Indians of America." Before the decade was finished he had written a highly popular autobiography of his life on the Canadian Plains, actually chased off wolves and speared a moose for his role …

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[Review Of] Michael Anthony. All That Glitters, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1984

[Review Of] Michael Anthony. All That Glitters, Laverne GonzáLez

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The Trinidadian, Michael Anthony, gives us yet another novel, having previously published The Year in San Fernando, Green Days by the River, The Games Were Coming, Streets of Conflict and a collection of short stories, Cricket in the Road. For this novel, he has drawn heavily on the native elements of Trinidad and Tobago. Interestingly enough, the political situation plays only a minor role in the novel, unlike the works of other Caribbean authors like George Lamming and V. S. Naipaul, for example.

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Breaking Silence: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Poets, James B. Irby Jan 1984

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Breaking Silence: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Poets, James B. Irby

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Bruchac has compiled an anthology of contemporary Amerasian poets who speak in clear and melodious voices. These poets of Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino backgrounds present and affirm fresh ideas and viewpoints in poetic form. They offer an understanding of their backgrounds through variant ideas. Each one captures some sense of her or his background culture and shows how their individual lives have been affected by it.

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[Review Of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans And Nixon: Presidential Politics And Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972, George W. Sieber Jan 1984

[Review Of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans And Nixon: Presidential Politics And Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972, George W. Sieber

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In Native Americans and Nixon, Jack D. Forbes, author of several monographs on the Indian in America's past, has undertaken an important subject, one also difficult because essential sources are lacking. Forbes therefore employs a number of hedges such as "we can only guess" (116) in his conjecture about the motives and actions of the Nixon administration relative to Indian Americans. In a foreword taking twenty-three of the 124 pages of "text," Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz of California State University, Hayward, sets the theme of "neocolonialism." Explaining the background of post-World War II techniques of colonial control, she states that "Hundreds …

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[Review Of] James D. Sexton, Ed. Son Of Tecun Uman: A Maya Indian Tells His Life Story, Lyle Koehler Jan 1984

[Review Of] James D. Sexton, Ed. Son Of Tecun Uman: A Maya Indian Tells His Life Story, Lyle Koehler

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Although many Indians north of the Rio Grande have published autobiographies, few Latin American natives have done so. Thus, Northern Arizona University anthropologist James D. Sexton's records of interviews with one Tzutuhil Maya from San Jose, Guatemala, and that Indian's preparation of a personal journal (1972- 1 977) yield incredible promise. The Maya, whom Sexton terms a son of the sixteenth century Quiche warrior prince Tecun Uman, has written a highly readable account of Indian society in one village and his own role in it. Sexton has given the diarist the name Ignacio Bizarro Uipan, "for the sake of anonymity," …

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[Review Of] Robert L. Allen. Reluctant Reformers: Racism And Social Reform Movements In The United Stales, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1984

[Review Of] Robert L. Allen. Reluctant Reformers: Racism And Social Reform Movements In The United Stales, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Allen, editor of The Black Scholar and chair of the Mills College Ethnic Studies Department, reviews in this volume the ideological impact of racism on six distinct social reform movements in United States history. Chronologically presented, the movements begin immediately after the war for independence and extend into the contemporary era.

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[Review Of] Robert J. De Pietro And Edward Ifkovic, Eds. Ethnic Perspectives In American Literature: Selected Essays On The European Contribution, Stewart Rodnon Jan 1984

[Review Of] Robert J. De Pietro And Edward Ifkovic, Eds. Ethnic Perspectives In American Literature: Selected Essays On The European Contribution, Stewart Rodnon

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Because of the present concentrated push to reshape our view of American literature, the battle to include more ethnic and female writers in the traditional stream of our literature is clearly being won, and the salad bowl is replacing the melting pot as a central metaphor in our writing. Correctly, editors DePietro and Ifkovic in this sourcebook emphasize that now various European ethnic groups have been sparked to cultural pluralism by the raising of our consciousness during the past two decades to the riches in black, brown, and red literatures. Further, they indicate that several bibliographies of ethnic writings now …

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[Review Of] Jamake Highwater. The Sun, He Dies, Mic Denfeld Jan 1984

[Review Of] Jamake Highwater. The Sun, He Dies, Mic Denfeld

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How do we ever own our history? How do we ever come to grips with our fairy tales of that history? How do we ever rationalize genocide? The Sun, He Dies makes us ask. Aztec Mexico is presented with its intricacies and intrigues, dreams and realities in this fictional piece based on folk history and historical documents. Nanuatzin, the "woodcutter," is the invented character who ties the events together and presents this alternative view of history that we must face. In the "Afterward and Notes on Sources," Highwater states, " History is always the account of events as seen and …

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[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Ethics In Nigerian Culture, Jeff Singer Jan 1984

[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Ethics In Nigerian Culture, Jeff Singer

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Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian-born member of the Ikwerre tribe. He was trained in the Nigerian University system, served in the Nigerian army, and was Head of the Ministry of Education. He has published several works of fiction for which he is primarily known. In this work, Amadi attempts to classify, describe, and analyze major areas of Nigerian ethical thought.

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[Review Of] A. Partes And C. Hirschman, Eds. "Special Issue: Theory And Methods In Migration And Ethnic Research," International Migration Review, John P. Roche Jan 1984

[Review Of] A. Partes And C. Hirschman, Eds. "Special Issue: Theory And Methods In Migration And Ethnic Research," International Migration Review, John P. Roche

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The summer, 1982, edition of the International Migration Review is a special issue. It contains eight articles which are revisions of papers presented at the Conference on Immigration and Ethnicity Theory and Research, held at Duke University in May, 1981. The purpose of this meeting was to assess the state of knowledge in the field, present new findings and ideas, and identify areas for future investigation. Special attention was given to the determinants of migration, the reception of ethnic minorities, and changes over time.

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[Review Of] Jay C. Chunn, Ii, Patricia J. Dunston, And Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Eds. Mental Health And People Of Color: Curriculum Development And Change, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1984

[Review Of] Jay C. Chunn, Ii, Patricia J. Dunston, And Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Eds. Mental Health And People Of Color: Curriculum Development And Change, Linda M. C. Abbott

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American colleges, universities, and medical schools have developed elaborate structures for the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness and associated problems in living. The history of psychological training is not value free, but rather is imbedded in the general history of the culture, and reflective of its problematic issues. Whatever theoretical perspective mental health practitioners are trained in, whatever internship experiences are designed to complement the instructional program, the rates of success in identifying and resolving difficulties vary with the ethnicity of their clients. Success is shown disproportionately for a limited population-the clients of European American background. In …

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[Review Of] Cav. Valentine J. Belfiglio. The Italian Experience In Texas, Marvin Harris Jan 1984

[Review Of] Cav. Valentine J. Belfiglio. The Italian Experience In Texas, Marvin Harris

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Many people, even native Texans, may be surprised to learn the extent to which Italians have been present and influential in Texas, especially since the late nineteenth century. They are aware of the various cultures that settled the state, such as Hispanics, Germans, Czechoslovakians, and blacks; yet few know that "Italians have been a part of the history of the state since 1540."

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