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[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo Jan 1983

[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo

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The first major work of its kind published in France by an Americanist, Les Fils du Soleil (The Children of the Sun: The Mexican Minority as Seen Through the Literature of the United States) deserves recognition as a historical landmark and French contribution to the study of the Chicano. Its thorough treatment of the subject surpasses in thematic outreach all previously published works.

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[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry Jan 1983

[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry

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Married at thirteen years of age to an unknown husband, and pregnant two months later! How could her parents allow such a horror to happen? Zem Ping Dong would soon understand the Chinese way: to accept fate and do what must be done, regardless of the cost.

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[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole Jan 1983

[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole

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In Jah Music, Sebastian Clarke has offered a wealth of information on Jamaican popular music especially to this reader who, although a musician and ethnomusicologist, knew very little about the popular music of Jamaica previously. Clarke has provided material on the roots and history of the music: the birth and development of Rastafarianism, then the evolutionary development of Jamaican music, and its three most powerful exponents, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. There is also a chapter on the spoken word, which is the key to all African-derived music. Whether articulated by voice or by another instrument, the word …

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[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones Jan 1983

[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones

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Although it may be true that the equal rights movement for women will result in freeing both women and men from social and legal restrictions (and, in fact, it may be a rather convincing practical political argument), as a feminist, I find a book that supports these rights for women on the basis of reciprocally increased rights for men suspect. It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson arguing, in Notes on Virginia, against the continuation of slavery because of its debilitating moral effects on owners and their families. Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of …

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[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1983

[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille

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The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the …

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[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1983

[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin

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Americans live in a pluralistic society populated by persons of different ethnic backgrounds, languages, socio-economic levels, and religious beliefs. Within our society other personal characteristics are also evident, e.g., age, sex, physical and mental abilities. Too often value-laden, distorted messages and images are conveyed about those who are not viewed as being members of mainstream America. Prejudice becomes manifest and stereotypic misinformation is used to formulate major decisions affecting the lives of human beings.

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[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright Jan 1983

[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright

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The twenty-five selections, mostly short stories, reprinted here make painful reading for anyone sympathetic to the black African who must live under the daily indignities of apartheid. Considering the number of writers in exile, one may at first find those still living in South Africa suspect but, although the murderous violence familiar to newspaper readers is absent, there is still pain enough. For those unfamiliar with past or current events, fiction here is history as well as art.

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[Review Of] Elsa V. Goveia, A Study On The Historiography Of The British West Indies, To The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Roland L. Guyotte Jan 1983

[Review Of] Elsa V. Goveia, A Study On The Historiography Of The British West Indies, To The End Of The Nineteenth Century, Roland L. Guyotte

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This is an extremely learned work. Published originally by the Pan American Institute of History and Geography in 1956 and recently reprinted in paperback by Howard Press, A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies discusses almost seventy-five, often multi-volume works published between 1530 and 1898. This material includes works published in English, French, Spanish and Dutch. As the author points out, many of these volumes were originally composed by gifted amateurs who wrote with polemical purposes. The historiography of the British West Indies is a minefield of controversies about fundamental human questions which are exemplified in a …

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[Review Of] Francis Paul Prucha, Indian-White Relations In The United States: A Bibliography Of Works Published, 1975-1980, Michael D. Green Jan 1983

[Review Of] Francis Paul Prucha, Indian-White Relations In The United States: A Bibliography Of Works Published, 1975-1980, Michael D. Green

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This volume is the long-awaited supplement to Francis Paul Prucha's Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1977. That work, which contained 9705 items, was complete to 1975. The supplement, with 3400 titles, covers the historical literature made available between 1975 and 1980. Organized into fifteen subject divisions and excellently cross-referenced with a thirty-six page index, the supplement continues the same high quality of Prucha's previous efforts to bring some useable order to the bewildering complexity of American Indian historiography.

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[Review Of] Multicultural Education And The American Indian, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1983

[Review Of] Multicultural Education And The American Indian, Margaret A. Laughlin

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Multicultural Education and the American Indian provides an excellent treatment of selected issues related to the education of American Indians. This volume, by scholars in Indian studies, is divided into six sections and includes an overview and background information, discusses American Indian policy at the national and local level, examines cross-cultural education and the performance of Indian students, and suggests ways to provide more effective teacher training and curriculum development. These concerns are important for both the American Indian and non-Indian communities to understand and address.

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[Review Of] Martha Montero, Ed., Bilingual Education Research Handbook: Strategies For The Design Of Multicultural Curriculum And Language Issues In Multicultural Settings, Barbara Hiura Jan 1983

[Review Of] Martha Montero, Ed., Bilingual Education Research Handbook: Strategies For The Design Of Multicultural Curriculum And Language Issues In Multicultural Settings, Barbara Hiura

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Bilingual Education Teacher Handbook is a two volume collection of articles developed by bilingual staff at the Boston University Training and Resource Center of the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. The goal of this project is to "develop teacher awareness of those areas that underlie bilingual education, namely, (a) the role of the systems-context approach; (b) the role in curriculum design of goals and objectives; (c) the development of pedagogical skills in bilingual education." (p. 3) The articles were not intended to be neatly packaged curriculum kits, but rather to provide the fundamental basis for developing and evaluating …

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[Review Of] Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy Of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal, Bernard E. Segal Jan 1983

[Review Of] Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy Of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal, Bernard E. Segal

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It's not unusual for partisans of opposing viewpoints about Cuba to spark each other to flaming argument, while those who prefer less heat and more light can easily find adventure enough just in following the course of the Western Hemisphere's most important social experiment since the Mexican Revolution. Shouldn't a book about twenty years of post-revolutionary Cuba be exciting, especially when it comes to us from Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Cuban native, an early supporter of the revolution and also an early emigre to the United States, and now, as Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, one of only a …

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[Review Of] S. Husin Ali, The Malays: Their Problems And Future, Kirk Endicott Jan 1983

[Review Of] S. Husin Ali, The Malays: Their Problems And Future, Kirk Endicott

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On December 3, 1974, 2000 Malaysian university students staged demonstrations on the playing field of the Selangor Club in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. They were demonstrating their sympathy for the peasant rubber growers of Kedah, who had been brought to a state of desperate poverty by inflation and the low price of rubber, and protesting government policies which were ostensibly designed to improve the economic condition of all Malays, but had apparently succeeded only in enriching a small group of Malay politicians and businessmen. They demanded a fundamental reorganization of the political and economic system to ensure that the …

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[Review Of] Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race And Class, Edith Blicksilver Jan 1983

[Review Of] Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race And Class, Edith Blicksilver

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You won't find her listed in Notable American Women beside Frances Elliott Davis who won Eleanor Roosevelt's admiration by challenging racial barriers to become the first black nurse enrolled by the American Red Cross. Nor is this Black Power activist found before theatrical educator Hollie Mae Ferguson Flanagan, encouraged by her artistic German mother and dynamic Scot pioneer father to "set a stout heart to a steep hillside." But Angela Y. Davis deserves recognition when this Harvard Press publication goes into a second printing, because seldom in the history of American justice has a criminal court heard a civil libertarian …

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[Review Of] Joy Hendry, Marriage In Changing Japan: Community And Society, Lyle Koehler Jan 1983

[Review Of] Joy Hendry, Marriage In Changing Japan: Community And Society, Lyle Koehler

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Joy Hendry uses a social anthropological examination of one community, the village of Kurotsuchi on southerly Kyushu Island, to illuminate the pivotal role of marriage in Japanese society. Marriage from pre-Meiji times to the present, she points out, has been crucial to the continuation of the ie, that union of the genealogical family and household/property. Marriage establishes the house head as an integral member of the village associations for governance, tax collection, care of the shrines, road building, and mutual aid. Moreover, it brings together Shintoism and Buddhism in a harmonious blending of rituals concerning birth and death.

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[Review Of] Virginia Huffer, The Sweetness Of The Fig: Aboriginal Women In Transition, Lyle Koehler Jan 1983

[Review Of] Virginia Huffer, The Sweetness Of The Fig: Aboriginal Women In Transition, Lyle Koehler

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During 1970 and 1973, University of Maryland professor of psychiatry Virginia Huffer spent some time with the women of the Lardil and Kaiadilt tribes who live on Mornington Island in northern Australia's Gulf of Carpenteria [Carpentaria]. Forced to accommodate increasingly to Western ways, these women struggle to maintain traditional linkages while they undergo modern change. This conflict between the past and the future, as well as the everyday realities of their existence, are presented through Huffer's psychobiographical lens, primarily through the intervention and words of her chief informant, Elsie Roughsey, a "cooperative, friendly, generous, and intelligent" Lardil woman who is, …

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[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Hua-Yuan Li Mowry Jan 1983

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Hua-Yuan Li Mowry

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"There is no history, only fictions of varying degree of plausibility." Although historians may disagree with Voltaire's provocative statement, Ruthanne Lum McCunn's choice of this phrase as an opening for her biographical novel, Thousand Pieces of Gold, is probably in keeping with the general agreement that any fiction which claims literary merits must contain some truth. McCunn, an Amerasian born in San Francisco's Chinatown, grew up in Hong Kong. At the age of sixteen, she returned to San Francisco to attend college and subsequently worked as a librarian, teacher, and bilingual/bicultural specialist. She is the author of An Illustrated History …

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[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson Jan 1983

[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson

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Hawaii provides a unique opportunity to measure social change as it relates to ethnicity and race relations in the United States. This opportunity has been seized by sociologists at the University of Hawaii, using papers by their students to discover the patterns which emerge in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. In this way, researchers such as Romanzo Adams, Bernard Hormann and Andrew Lind have increased our understanding of the social forces at work in Hawaii. The pattern is continued by Wayne S. Wooden, who taught sociology at the Hilo campus of the University of Hawaii.

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[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker Jan 1983

[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker

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This book, whose author is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, is an important contribution to Afro-American and diplomatic history. Its subject was, as the author notes, a "second echelon member of the national Negro leadership" at the turn of the nineteenth century . Mature biographies of such figures are few but are vital if the contours of black history are to be filled.

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[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish Jan 1983

[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish

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Tom Miller's On The Border is a disarmingly straightforward book. At first glance it seems to be a simple travelog-the account of his journey at the dawn of the decade in a 1968 Valiant, accompanied by a photographer companion, Norah Booth, along the entire distance of the United States/Mexico border from Brownsville and Matamoros to Chula Vista and Tijuana. The only photographs in the book, however, are verbal ones.

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[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby

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Journey Toward Hope is a welcome volume on blacks west of the Mississippi. The author has effectively demonstrated how Oklahoma's geography, between the West and the South, was responsible for its segregated development; white Oklahomans chose the racial customs, policies, and institutions of the Deep South to “keep Blacks in their place."

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[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1983

[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia

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Historians are typically satisfied with pinpointing dates and describing associated events while minimizing speculation and interpretations which cannot be directly supported with evidence. There is no question that this is a vital and popular methodological approach, and Chicano studies historians have usually complied with this norm--until now.

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[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna Jan 1982

[Review Of] Harvey E. Goldberg, Ed. And Trans., The Book Of Mordechai: A Study Of The Jews Of Libya, Jonathan D. Sarna

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The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya contains a translation of roughly half of Mordechai Hakohen's Highid Mordekhai, a Hebrew volume describing the history, customs and institutions of the Jews of Tripolitania, completed in Libya in the 1920s but first published by Harvey Goldberg in Jerusalem in 1978. For this English translation, Goldberg has rewritten and expanded his introduction so that it provides both historical background and biographical data on Hakohen. He has also appended a most valuable series of head notes and endnotes which both clarify and supplement the text.

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[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright Jan 1982

[Review Of] R. Baxter Miller, Ed., Black American Literature And Humanism, Jean Bright

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The seven carefully documented essays in literary criticism in this excellent short volume are possibly more lively and provocative than those ordinarily found in scholarly publications. The title,however, might well have been: eight black writers and the human condition. Definitions of humanism are varied though not contradictory, but the book is held together by reassessments of black literature which challenge many of the assumptions of previous critics.

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[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler Jan 1982

[Review Of] Jack O. Waddell And Michael W. Everett, Eds, Drinking Behavior Among Southwestern Lndians: An Anthropological Perspective, Lyle Koehler

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In this compilation of eight essays, anthropologists Jack 0. Waddell and Michael Everett provide a generally refreshing way of looking at drinking behavior among the Papago, Pima, Yaqui, Taos Pueblo, Navajo, and White Mountain Apache of Arizona and New Mexico. The authors realize that much of what has been written about Native American alcohol use has come from an Anglo-Euro set of definitions which emphasizes the adoption of drinking behavior from whites, treating drinking without reference to Indian cultural differences and attributing it to some form of social dislocation caused by white intrusion and oppression.

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[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris Jan 1982

[Review Of] Alice Eichholz And James M. Rose, Eds., Free Black Heads Of Household In The New York State Federal Census,1790-1830, Adlean Harris

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Researching black genealogy is not the same as researching white genealogy, either in methodology or sources. Eichholz and Rose, assistant professors at Queens College, City University of New York, and also co-directors of the Ethnic Genealogy Center, are established authors in the field. Eichholz had published The Linville Family in America (1970) and A Second Visit with the Linvilles (1976). Rose has published Tapestry (1979) and Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900 (1980), Together they co-edited the book Black Genesis (1978), rated as one of the best handbooks on the methodology and sources for black genealogy. One of the most …

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[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1982

[Review Of] David Hamlin, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle, Elmer R. Rusco

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David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a "classic First Amendment case" (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of …

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[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy Jan 1982

[Review Of] Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller, John Purdy

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Storyteller is a collection of traditional stories, imaginative prose, verse, and autobiographical sketches purposefully interwoven with photographs taken over four generations by Silko's family and friends. The recurrent center of the work is Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico where she was raised. However, the book encompasses peoples other than Pueblo-Navaho, Zuni, the Yupik of Alaska-and in the opening pages we find her invocation to all Native peoples of North America.

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[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall Jan 1982

[Review Of] James A. Banks, Multiethnic Education: Theory And Practice, Ramond L. Hall

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Aware of the philosophical disagreement and conceptualconfusion over the proper place of multiethnic education in the American school system, Banks has gone a long way in providing educators with a clear modus operandi in the field. The book is comprised of seventeen chapters divided into six parts; it also includes three useful appendices and an index.

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[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin Jan 1982

[Review Of] John F. Day, Bloody Ground, Helen G. Chapin

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Bloody Ground, in 1941, was the book-length result of a reporter's coverage for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Day's work appeared well ahead of any national concern over Appalachia and was received with admiration by some, outrage by others. It was then eclipsed by the events of the Second World War.

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