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[Review Of] Mary Dougherty Bartlett. The New Native American Novel, Helen Jaskoski

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This volume collects work-in-progress of nine contemporary Native American authors, some already widely published and some less well known as writers of fiction, although all have published poetry, journalism, or scholarship.

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[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Estrangement, James H. Bracy

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Elechi Amadi's new novel concerns the disruption of lives, traditions, and institutions caused by the Nigerian Civil War and modern society's emphasis on individualism. The novel opens in Port Harcout [Harcourt] - Amadi's own native surroundings-in 1970, at the end of the Biafran conflict. The principal character, Alekiri, has had a child by her Hausa soldier lover, Major Sule Dansuku, who had rescued her from the war front, where she had become separated from her husband, Ibekwe, and daughter. This imminent return of her husband to whom she remains married and the impending conflict of custom (Ibekwe' s duty to …

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[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce

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The volume is a collection of loosely-coupled essays, several coupled somewhat more loosely than the others, and all relating to government provided elementary and secondary multicultural education and to teacher training in Britain. A good many British-education-bureaucracy abbreviations are used and these tend to slow the flow of the otherwise splendid cross-cultural transfer potential to American and other readers.

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[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Frank D. Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, And Rodolfo Alvarez, Eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Cary D. Wintz

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Mexican-Americans comprise the second largest minority group in the United States and one of the most rapidly growing elements in the population. Their history in the American southwest goes back almost four hundred years, they have interacted with Anglo·Americans in that region since the early nineteenth century, and have been the most numerous immigrant group coming to the United States since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite this clear evidence of their significance and their impact on this country, scholars in the social sciences have often neglected this ethnic group in their research and writing. This volume makes an …

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[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

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The most compelling aspect of this dramatic history of immigration to the United States via Ellis Island is its vivid documentation of actual human experiences. Personal testimonies from dozens of immigrants form a living tissue that connects the detailed, fully-researched historical data on immigration history. These oral descriptions recreate the journey for us, illustrate the conditions in the homeland being left behind, and give us an insider's view of the bureaucratic tribulations each immigrant faced on Ellis Island. The result is a powerful, inspiring testimonial to the courage, ingenuity, determination, and strength of the human spirit. These accounts, often expressed …

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[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre

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The idea behind this book, a comparative study of Henry David Thoreau's and John Muir's attitudes toward American Indians, is excellent. Muir, born in 1838, was twenty one years younger than Thoreau. He first read Walden and A Week at the University of Wisconsin in 1862, the year of Thoreau's death. His early writings, although not published until much later, contained generally pro-Indian sentiments similar to Thoreau's , while he also had a Thoreau-like squeamishness about Indians being dirty, lazy, superstitious, and demoralized by contact with whites. "Perhaps if I knew them better, I should like them better," he wrote …

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[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii

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This "revised" biography of Franz Fanon (first published in 1973) is a welcome event for those who either missed feeling the impact of his work in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s or were so blinded by the period's turmoil that Fanon's life and work could not be critically evaluated. Grove Press must be congratulated for re-issuing Gendzier's study, particularly since the political fervor for radical political action has passed (for now) and little profit can be expected from this book. In this day of corporate mergers and greed, a commitment to publish what is in the public interest is meritorious.

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[Review Of] Alex Harris And Margaret Sartor, Eds. Gertrude Blom - Bearing Witness, Ruth Sundheim

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"This jungle filled me with a sense of wonder that has never left me. It has cast a spell over me, and I always return to it ... I have seen all this perish. It started almost imperceptibly." Gertrude Blom, a political activist and refugee from Europe, arrived in Mexico in the 1940s. In 1943 while working as a journalist she joined an expedition sent to observe the Lacandon Maya in the dense rainforests of Chiapas bordering Guatemala. She encountered these people at the pivotal point when they were still self-sufficient and worshipping Mayan gods but beginning to feel the …

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[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky

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This book is a collection of papers originally presented at the 1982 Eighth International Economic History Conference held in Budapest. As the title suggests, the volume incorporates a wide range of geographical areas and historical time periods. This multidisciplinary study represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and thus highlights issues and concerns from various disciplinary perspectives. The twenty-two essays in the volume include macro and micro case studies on several continents with authors from several countries. It makes information from many languages available to the English reader. In a sense there is almost an encyclopedic treatment of various …

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[Review Of] Alfredo Mirande'. The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective, Albert F. Inclan

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Developed as a way to clarify and distinguish between Mexican-Americans and Chicanos, The Chicano Experience is a narrative of the history and struggles of the Chicanos living in the United States.

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[Review Of] Wyatt Macgaffey. Religion And Society In Central Africa: The Bakongo Of Lower Zaire, Dennis M. Warren

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MacGaffey, professor of anthropology at Haverford College, has based this carefully crafted book on twenty years of fieldwork and archival research. This is the first systematic study of BaKongo religion. But the study is far more than an analysis of the religion, as MacGaffey demonstrates how BaKongo social structure and power relationships are embedded in its very fabric. Dividing the study into three parts, MacGaffey first focuses on a discussion of BaKongo cosmology, then describes BaKongo ritual and power, and finally deals with issues of change in the BaKongo religion and society. Taking the perspective of the BaKongo themselves, MacGaffey …

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[Review Of] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell

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This is a book that is important for what it begins and for what will follow it, as well as for what it is. It demonstrates that there have been hundreds of black women photographers, working almost from the time the camera was invented, whose contributions, and even existence, have not been documented. Mainstream histories of photography have included few black photographers and no black female photographers. I expect this book to stimulate others to research the many women photographers mentioned here, as well as those who are missing, and I hope they do this research before the materials are …

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[Review Of] Leslie W. Dunbar, Ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened To Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, And Other Minorities In The Eighties, Carlos F. Ortega

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Six years since President Reagan took office, public policies related to the needs of the poor have been established which set back the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Although gains have been made, at least on the surface, the current administration's policies have widened the gap between those who have and those who have not. Policies such as affirmative action, education programs, and public welfare are being eroded, sacrificed in favor of escalating military budgets and "constructive engagement" in Central America.

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[Review Of] Frederick J. Dockstader. The Kachina And The White Man: The Influences Of White Culture On The Hopi Kachina Cult, Nancy M. Osborn

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To the delight of scholars of Native American studies and all other readers with even a passing interest in traditional Puebloan cultures of the American Southwest, Frederick Dockstader' s classic study, The Kachina and the White Man, now has been published in a revised and expanded version. This historical narrative of Hopi life, using spirit beings known as kachinas as its central focus, traces the changes and adaptations the Hopi have made in response to pressures placed upon that Indian culture by the seemingly -- inevitable contact with white society. In addition, the author describes in infinite detail the ceremonialism, …

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[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn. Sole Survivor, Russell Endo

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In November, 1942, the British freighter Benlomond was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of South America with the loss of its entire crew except for a young Chinese steward named Poon Lim. Through his resourcefulness and determination, Lim survived on a wooden raft for 133 days before being picked up by a Brazilian fisherman. Sole Survivor is a fictionalized account of Lim's experience, the longest such ordeal at sea, based largely on interviews with Lim, military and maritime documents, and magazine and newpaper [newspaper] stories.

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[Review Of] Toshio Morio. Yokohama, California, Neil Nakadate

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The reprinting of this book makes accessible to a new generation of readers the pioneering short fiction of the man William Saroyan called "the first real Japanese-American writer" (Introduction to first edition). First announced by the Caxton Printers for publication in 1942 and finally published in 1949, Yokohama, California suffered a vexed debut and a short life of obscurity and neglect. Given but scant notice by reviewers, Mori's slim collection was received even by his ethnic peers more out of loyal curiosity than any shock of recognition. A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades …

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[Review Of] Nicholasa Mohr. Rituals Of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, Luis L. Pinto

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Rituals of Survival: A Woman 's Portfolio is a collection of six short stories written by the New York born Puerto Rican female writer, Nicholasa Mohr. Mohr has written a very effective myth-breaking account about six Puerto Rican women who defy all odds and survive in the asphalt jungle, best known as New York City.

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[Review Of] Kenneth R. Philp, Ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts Of Indian-White Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan, Elmer R. Rusco

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This book is a summary of a truly historic conference held at Sun Valley, Idaho, from August 17 to 20, 1983. Organized by the Institute of the American West, under the leadership of E. Richard Hart, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., and Vine Deloria, Jr., the conference brought together over 400 persons interested in Indian affairs from around the country; included were most of the people who do research and write on contemporary Indian affairs and many of the participants in past and present Indian affairs. For example, present were four past Commissioners of Indian Affairs -- Robert L. Bennett, Alexander …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic Studies is generally viewed as a minor program in the academy, lacking research philosophy and methodology. Consequently, scholars who attempt research concerning peoples of color focus on the "group": their social history, migration patterns, political and economic development, educational attainment, and lifestyle. Social science disciplinary guidelines are the usual framework. John Hatfield's "Identity as Theory and Method for Ethnic Studies" provides a basis for truly understanding ethnicity.

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Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White?, Robert A. Martinez

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The question of race and racial identity among Puerto Ricans has been one of great confusion and misunderstanding. The confusion and misunderstanding exist both among Puerto Ricans and Anglo-Americans. This is a study of the paradox of race perceptions among mainland-bred and island-bred Puerto Ricans. This study was undertaken to look at several related issues: What are the racial perceptions and attitudes held by Puerto Ricans, both on the island and the continental mainland? Further, to what extent has Americanization of Puerto Ricans affected those perceptions and attitudes? Likewise, what role does class consciousness and class mobility play? How do …

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Contributors

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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1986

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[Review Of] A. William Hoglund. Immigrants And Their Children In The United States: A Bibliography Of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

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All disciplines dealing with immigrants and their children in the continental United States since 1789 are represented in this compilation of titles of doctoral dissertations. This bibliography will prove invaluable for most scholars in ethnic studies. The title, unfortunately, may be misleading. It refers to the subject matter of dissertations, and, as such, the volume attests to and illustrates in a concrete way, the historical development of research in ethnic studies. A simple reference to ethnic studies in the title would have been less ambiguous.

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[Review Of] Marie M. De Lepervanche. Indians In A White Australia: An Account Of Race, Class And Indian Immigration To Eastern Australia, Patricia Grimshaw

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Within recent years the migrant experience in Australia, particularly of non-European peoples, has attracted increasing attention from historians and social scientists, under the strong influence of the American scholarly tradition. The Chinese, among Asian groups, have received the most attention. In Indians in White Australia, the Sydney anthropologist Marie de Lepervanche contributes substantially to our understanding of the experience of another Asian group, Indians, whose fortunes over a century or more have been previously neglected. First the writer establishes, briefly but lucidly, an historical context for understanding the situation in which Indians find themselves in contemporary Australia; she examines the …

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[Review Of] Jean Price-Mars. So Spoke The Uncle (Ainsi Parla L'Oncle), Adlean Harris

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Jean Price-Mars was a Haitian-born diplomat, intellectual, educator, novelist, biographer, critic, editor. He was the author and founder of Philosophy of Haitianism and the Spiritual Father of Negritude. During his lifetime he served as Education Director-General of Haiti and Ambassador to the Republic of San Domingo, the United Nations and France. He was also distinguished as the Secretary of the Haitian U.S. delegation to the Berlin Embassy and Commissioner of the Missouri Exhibition.

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[Review Of] Janet Moursund. The Process Of Counseling And Therapy, Wesley T. Forbes

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In The Process of Counseling and Therapy Moursund encapsulates the principles and concepts of counseling and therapy that transcend sexism and ethnic barriers. The book can be identified as a therapeutic dictionary, guide, or much needed tool for the counselor and therapist, a basic guide that is tantamount to a carpenter's tool box or a chef’s cook-book. It provides guidelines and helpful hints which aid in finding resolutions to roadblocks and confusion that often occur in the process of counseling and therapy.

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Author And Title Index Volume 8, 1985

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Author and title index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 8, 1985

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Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined, Chris Ruggiero

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In the last twenty years there have been a number of historical and sociocultural studies of Italian Americans. Few, however, have seriously addressed the female experience in the Italian American culture.[1] Indeed, Italian American literature is so deeply immersed in a masculinist view of the Italian American culture that a female corrective to this asymmetry is not enough. Upon critically reviewing the literature, the necessity for a feminist perspective becomes obvious. Consequently, the purpose of this article is two-fold: 1 ) to expose some of the mythology which surrounds the image of Italian American women; and 2) to suggest a …

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The Editor Notes ...

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Executive Council is challenging members to become more involved on a continuing basis with the revised newsletter, which changes its name to The Ethnic Reporter with Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1986). The recognition that this publication is more than a newsletter is significant in that it provides yet another avenue of publication for members who have information to share which does not fit the format of a research journal. The first issue of The Ethnic Reporter includes an index of the first ten years; the index will be useful to those who want some historical perspective on what …

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Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students, Keith D. Parker

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A major issue in the social psychology of race relations has been the axiom that blacks tend to manifest lower self-esteem than whites.[1] Much of the empirical support for this hypothesis came from studies demonstrating that blacks are stigmatized and subjected to a variety of unpleasant and derogatory experiences.[2] However, these studies are limited in two respects: first, by their use of small, nonrepresentative samples (primarily nursery school and kindergarten children) and second, by their reliance upon inferential (semi-projective) measures of self-esteem.[3]

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Full-Text Articles in Race and Ethnicity

[Review Of] Mary Dougherty Bartlett. The New Native American Novel, Helen Jaskoski

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Estrangement, James H. Bracy

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Frank D. Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, And Rodolfo Alvarez, Eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Cary D. Wintz

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Alex Harris And Margaret Sartor, Eds. Gertrude Blom - Bearing Witness, Ruth Sundheim

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Alfredo Mirande'. The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective, Albert F. Inclan

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Wyatt Macgaffey. Religion And Society In Central Africa: The Bakongo Of Lower Zaire, Dennis M. Warren

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Leslie W. Dunbar, Ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened To Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, And Other Minorities In The Eighties, Carlos F. Ortega

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Frederick J. Dockstader. The Kachina And The White Man: The Influences Of White Culture On The Hopi Kachina Cult, Nancy M. Osborn

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn. Sole Survivor, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Toshio Morio. Yokohama, California, Neil Nakadate

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Nicholasa Mohr. Rituals Of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, Luis L. Pinto

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Kenneth R. Philp, Ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts Of Indian-White Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White?, Robert A. Martinez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

[Review Of] A. William Hoglund. Immigrants And Their Children In The United States: A Bibliography Of Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1982, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Marie M. De Lepervanche. Indians In A White Australia: An Account Of Race, Class And Indian Immigration To Eastern Australia, Patricia Grimshaw

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Jean Price-Mars. So Spoke The Uncle (Ainsi Parla L'Oncle), Adlean Harris

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

[Review Of] Janet Moursund. The Process Of Counseling And Therapy, Wesley T. Forbes

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Author And Title Index Volume 8, 1985

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined, Chris Ruggiero

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Editor Notes ...

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

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Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students, Keith D. Parker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies