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Critique [Of Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined By Chris Ruggiero], Gloria Eive Jan 1986

Critique [Of Reclaiming The Subject: Italian Women Self-Defined By Chris Ruggiero], Gloria Eive

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Ruggiero's stated purpose is ". . . to expose . . . the mythology which surrounds the image of Italian American women . . ." through studies of Italian American women and the Italian American family in a "feminist framework." These new studies would offer "feminist method and content" and new, unconventional methodologies would provide a "female corrective" to the "masculinist bias [found in] traditional ethnic studies scholarship." Ruggiero's motives are laudable, but she fails to clarify either the "masculinist," "sex-typed" view point she criticizes or the new "feminist" methodology she advocates. A "selected review" of "traditional literature" she offers …

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Table Of Contents Jan 1986

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 9, Issue 1, 1986

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Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Lillian H. Jones Jan 1986

Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Lillian H. Jones

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Analyzing the variety of ways in which socio-economic phenomena interact with socio-biological phenomena in women's and men's lives is a complex business. Abbott's essay is to be applauded, therefore, in that it directs attention to a subject often treated superficially, if not more frequently ignored.

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Critique [Of Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students By Keith D. Parker], Lena Solis Jan 1986

Critique [Of Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students By Keith D. Parker], Lena Solis

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Self-Evaluation of Black and White College Students" presents informative results of a study concluding that blacks have higher self-esteem than whites at one Southern university. Although self-esteem in blacks at the university under study may be higher than that of whites, the same is not the case in elementary school districts throughout the Los Angeles Basin in Southern California.

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Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], Albert F. Inclan Jan 1986

Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], Albert F. Inclan

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Vazquez brings to the fore a number of elements which should be of concern to educators as well as counselors today. His article is primarily concerned with the intertwining of cultures in the United States as ethnic minority groups increase in numbers.

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Title Index, Volume 8, 1985 Jan 1986

Title Index, Volume 8, 1985

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 8, 1985

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Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], Russell Endo Jan 1986

Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], Russell Endo

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The main subject of Jesse Vazquez's article is clearly the ethnic matrix, although several related issues are also covered. While any of the latter could be discussed here, my comments will focus on the matrix itself.

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Abstracts From The-Fourteenth Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies, 1986, Fresno, California Jan 1986

Abstracts From The-Fourteenth Annual Conference On Ethnic And Minority Studies, 1986, Fresno, California

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The following abstracts and respondent comments reflect the variety of responses to the Conference theme "Visions and Revisions" and suggest the multiple ways in which participants approached both the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of ethnic studies.

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Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], James H. Williams Jan 1986

Critique [Of The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners By Jesse M. Vazquez], James H. Williams

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Vazquez's psychosocial model for understanding ethnicity and the ethnic process in American society and how this model could be used by practitioners and researchers to further expand their own work is noble. Vazquez fulfilled his purpose. However, the underlying assumption is somewhat misleading, i.e., practitioners and researchers, generally, are not employing the ethnic matrix model. Vazquez states that the absence of ethnic content and concern with ethnic issues in professional training programs was seriously questioned.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1986

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 9, Issue 2, 1986

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1986

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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[Review Of] Mongane Serote. To Every Birth Its Blood, David K. Bruner Jan 1986

[Review Of] Mongane Serote. To Every Birth Its Blood, David K. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Mongane Serote is a poet of considerable merit; this I should have discovered from reading his novel, To Every Birth Its Blood, even had I not heard and seen him read his poetry to an African Literature Association Conference in 1975. The novel, however, is not obtrusively poetic; rather, its physical and psychological insights are apt and genuine parts of an integral whole, not ends in and of themselves. Yet a careful reader will respond most positively to such expression.

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[Review Of] Gina Webster, Producer. The Black Aged: A Diverse Population, Barbara Hiura Jan 1986

[Review Of] Gina Webster, Producer. The Black Aged: A Diverse Population, Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Black Aged: A Diverse Population is an engaging eleven minute videotape documenting various lifestyles of the black elderly in Southern California. Gina Webster skillfully dispells [dispels] the " all black aged are alike" myth as she highlights the current visions and lives of five octogenarians. From immigrant, laborer, writer, missionary, to social worker, each life is as varied as human experiences can be. Each individual carries a vivid past, an enriching present, and an optimistic future.

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[Review Of] Chinua Achebe And C.L. Innes, Eds. African Short Stories, David K. Bruner Jan 1986

[Review Of] Chinua Achebe And C.L. Innes, Eds. African Short Stories, David K. Bruner

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

From time to time, collections of modern African short stories like the collection here noted should be published in order to keep an increasingly aware readership abreast of articulate literary production. When such collections are prepared, their editors would do well to be led by the general principles expressed by Chinua Achebe in a short, but very cogent, introduction: The indebtedness of modern African writing to its wealth of oral traditions is taken for granted by the editors and they see no necessity to demonstrate the link further by including traditional tales in this collection.

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[Review Of] Lloyd W. Brown. West Indian Poetry, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1986

[Review Of] Lloyd W. Brown. West Indian Poetry, Laverne GonzáLez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

From the outset, the reader must be aware of encountering a rarity indeed: a first class scholar who can write objectively and at the same time maintain his involvement with the literature under scrutiny. One would seem to negate the other. But Brown successfully manages each; as a Jamaican, he holds Caribbean literature dear to his literary heart. Yet his claim to scholarship may not be denied, as a perusal of this book will confirm. Brown knows his subject thoroughly, and in scholarly fashion has been able to distance himself sufficiently from the material to present a firm and fair …

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[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner-Champions Of Antebellum Black Education, Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner-Champions Of Antebellum Black Education, Margaret A. Laughlin

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Foner and Pacheco have written biographical sketches of three women who endured personal hardship and suffered persecution because they decided to teach non-slave black children in antebellum America. While the three teachers, Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner, lived and taught in different parts of the country, Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., respectively, they shared similar experiences and provided antislavery proponents with evidence of the many personal hardships and indignities blacks experienced and suffered. In general, most members of the antislavery movement agreed on the importance of education for blacks and worked to establish educational institutions through fundraising efforts …

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[Review Of] Antonio J.A. Pido. The Pilipinos In America: Macro/Micro Dimensions Of Immigration And Integration, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Antonio J.A. Pido. The Pilipinos In America: Macro/Micro Dimensions Of Immigration And Integration, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Pilipinos are currently the second largest American ethnic group of Asian descent and are projected to be the largest by 1990. Yet, despite their size and their seventy-five year history in the U.S., there is relatively little material on Pilipinos, and that which exists is fragmented in its coverage and often in sources which are not readily available.

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[Review Of] Tarharka. Black Manhood: The Building Of Civilization By The Black Man Of The Nile, Delo Washington Jan 1986

[Review Of] Tarharka. Black Manhood: The Building Of Civilization By The Black Man Of The Nile, Delo Washington

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In an ambitious effort to document the positive role that the black man has played throughout history, Tarharka has proposed a nontraditional interpretation of that role on the basis of extensive library research. As a result, he calls the credibility of most western scholars into question. Support of his thesis is offered by first reminding the reader that the earth's original man was of Africa and how that man was responsible for initiating human culture and civilization.

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[Review Of] Margaret B. Blackman. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1986

[Review Of] Margaret B. Blackman. During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille

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This book is a recorded autobiography, but it is also much more. In the preface Blackman traces her connections with the Haida people of the Northwest Coast since 1970 and explains her special relationship with Florence Edenshaw Davidson whom she promised in 1973 that she would someday publish the record of her life. Davidson had accepted Margaret Blackman as a grandchild and the special kinship relationship enabled the two of them in 1977 to record the life story of the eighty-one year old Haida woman. Nani, the Haida equivalent for "grandmother," traces through six chapters the significant events of her …

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[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck Jan 1986

[Review Of] Rene Philombe. Tales From Cameroon, Alice A. Deck

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Tales from Cameroon is Richard Bjornson's translation of two collections of allegories, anecdotes, and short stories by the Cameroonian writer Rene Philombe. Originally composed in French over a twenty year period between the late 1950s and the late 1970s, these fifteen works reveal the human greed, jealousy, and blindness to its own destructive behavior which Philombe believes divides Cameroonians among themselves.

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Contributors Jan 1986

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1986

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Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura Jan 1986

Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Barbara L. Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Race, class and identity -- key ethnic issues of the 1980s -- have been analyzed from various disciplinary perspectives, and Martinez's article is a contribution to the growing number of written assessments concerning racism and classism in the United States. His research explores the psychological and social perceptions of color, race, identity, and class among Puerto Ricans living in the United States and in Puerto Rico.

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The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1986

The Ethnic Matrix: Implications For Human Service Practitioners, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Most human services practitioners at one time or another must confront cultural issues which in many ways have a direct impact on their role and effectiveness as helping professionals. This article links the phenomenon of ethnic identity to problems, practices, and policies encountered in the field of human services. Although most of the theoretical concepts presented here are related to counseling psychology and education, other practitioners with culturally diverse client populations will also find the information applicable to their work. The social scientist, teacher and researcher, who is often the disseminator of theoretical and methodological paradigms, should also find these …

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Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker Jan 1986

Critique [Of Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging By Linda M. C. Abbott], Faye Pauli Whitaker

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Female Power, Ethnicity, and Aging" will surely be of interest to readers of this journal. Scholars in ethnic and women's studies have, no doubt, considered at one time or another the impact of ethnicity and age on the power of women in our culture and have a sense of the negative influence of these factors on women who as a group have marginal status in our power structures. So it is that we are anxious to have our sense of these relationships documented in some way or to have the philosophical implications of the intersections of these factors explored and …

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Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

Female Power, Ethnicity, And Aging, Linda M. C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The standard academic presentation on the topic of power rarely alludes to the elderly, ethnic groups, or to females of any age or race. The cultural history of humankind has been one of gross inequities in the distribution of power, and much of this distributional variance has been attributable to the categories of race, gender, and age. When these categories overlap, the impact on individual access to power has been, and continues to be, the greatest.

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[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] Jo Miles Schuman. Art From Many Hands: Multicultural Art Projects For Home And School, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Jo Miles Schuman's text is designed to help students develop an appreciation for one another's cultural heritage and to expand their knowledge of art. Both objectives are accomplished with considerable grace in this beautifully executed and illustrated celebration of craftsmanship. The author clearly values the creativity of a wide variety of peoples and the potential of art as a language of intercultural understanding.

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[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pastora San Juan Cafferty And William C. Mccready. Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Homer D.C. Garcia

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The editors of this book, associate professors at the University of Chicago, state that their work seeks to promote understanding of and raise questions about Hispanic social issues in the hope that a "collective social agenda" can result.

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Ethnic Image In Modern American Literature 1900-1950, Vols. I And Ii, Brom Weber

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American literary scholarship in the mid-1980s generally seems to be insufficiently sophisticated to give more than perfunctory attention to ethnicity's significant role in American writing from the colonial period to the present. When intellectual maturation finally is achieved, as there is reason to believe it will be even though progress proceeds at a disappointing snail's pace, credit for the event will be due in part to Philip Butcher's unique and impressive The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature: 1900-1950, as well as to his earlier two-volume anthology, The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900 (1977). These are essential books for …

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[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ani Dike Eqwuonwu. Marriage Problems In Africa, Melvin Ray

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ani Dike Egwuonwu is a social scientist and this book is the outcome of several years of observations and interviews about marriage problems in Africa. Egwuonwu intended to show a vivid picture of the problems that have had a deleterious effect on traditional African marriages. The subtlety of his use of the institution of marriage to capture the underlying prejudices and stereotypes that exist among African tribes was certainly a creative venture.

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[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Ethnic Studies Oral History Project And United Okinawan Association Of Hawaii, Eds. Uchinanchu: A History Of Okinawans In Hawaii, Russell Endo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

While the experiences of most ethnic groups are frequently overlooked, this is especially the fate of relatively small groups. Many small groups merit greater attention, for example the Okinawans who migrated to Hawaii from 1900-1924, worked on sugar and pineapple plantations, developed small businesses and community organizations, and achieved a measure of economic and social success. What makes their story of special interest is their ethnic status. At the time of their migration, the homeland of the Okinawans, the Ryukyu archipelago (which includes the island of Okinawa), was part of Japan as it is today. However, the Ryukyus have always …

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