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[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo Jan 1986

[Review Of] Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Et Al. Hanahana, An Oral History Anthology Of Hawaii's Working People, Russell Endo

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Oral history is unquestionably an important method for recovering the history of ethnic groups, particularly of ethnic working people who leave few written accounts of their own and whose lives are often ignored or else inadequately described by outsiders because of their apparent routineness and unimportance. Unfortunately, many oral history materials remain unknown and unused except by occasional researchers. In 1976, the Hawaii State Legislature established the Oral History Project (OHP, formerly the Ethnic Studies Oral History Project) at the University of Hawaii to record the recollections of ethnic working men and women. Since then, OHP has interviewed over 250 …

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[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1986

[Review Of] Pat Ferrero, Producer. Hopi: Songs Of The Fourth World, David M. Gradwohl

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Viewers of this film can anticipate a pleasing aesthetic experience as well as an instructive lesson in American Indian cultural continuity and change. The production is holistic in its conception and execution. From that base there are almost endless interdisciplinary uses for the film in the classroom and for lay audiences beyond academe.

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[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen Jan 1986

[Review Of] Fred W. Riggs, Ed. Ethnicity: Intercocta Glossary-Concepts And Terms Used In Ethnicity Research, Vol. 1, Vagn K. Hansen

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An unconventional reference work, the planned International Conceptual Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences should prove useful to persons conducting research in the social sciences or information science. Ethnicity specialists will have an opportunity to make first use of the results of the effort to produce such an encyclopedia because of the early publication of this pilot edition of the ethnicity volume.

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[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford Jan 1986

[Review Of] Raymond T. Smith, Ed. Kinship Ideology And Practice In Latin America, Michael B. Whiteford

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Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The conferences brought together historians, sociologists and anthropologists who were charged with infusing " sophisticated social theory" into research on the family in Latin America.

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[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] William A. Schultze. Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Two significant historical events have created a receptive climate for this scholarly look at the American city. In the global context, the advent of multinational capitalism has transformed the city, along with other segments of the American economy. On the domestic front, increasing numbers of American cities have faced fiscal crisis, and in some cases, insolvency, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate Jan 1986

[Review Of] Sylvia Junko Yanagisako. Transforming The Past: Tradition And Kinship Among Japanese Americans, Neil Nakadate

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Transforming the Past is a major contribution to our understanding of Japanese American experience specifically and to our sense of ethnic experience generally. Yanagisako's study transcends its anthropological base to offer crucial insights previously precluded by both facile “understanding" and methological [methodological] limitations.

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[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon Jan 1986

[Review Of] William C. Crain. Theories Of Development: Concepts And Applications, W. Gary Cannon

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Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications provides an excellent overview of developmental thinking throughout history and across several theoretical disciplines from Rousseau, the father of the developmental tradition, and Locke, the father of environmentalism, to the behaviorists and psycholinguists, Skinner and Chomsky. Crain then extends his coverage to the humanistic movement of Maslow and others. As Crain traces developmental theory, he draws parallels between early developmentalists and the modern humanists, suggesting that learning theorists and other environmentalists, by placing their focus on controlling and shaping behavior, provide an orientation that is too one sided. Modern humanists, suggests Crain, seek environments …

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[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck Jan 1986

[Review Of] Philip Butcher, Ed. The Minority Presence In American Literature: 1600-1900, Vols. I And Ii, Alice A. Deck

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The Minority Presence in American Literature: 1600-1900, volumes I and II, is the first publication of the Morgan State University Series in Afroamerican Studies. The series is intended to provide a basis for examining the cultural, religious and social experiences of Afroamericans. Each title in the series is intended to serve as a guide, outline, or syllabus for college courses in Afroamerican studies, American ethnic studies, history and culture, American literature, and American studies. In keeping with these aims, Philip Butcher has compiled two anthologies of major and minor American writings that can be used as readers and course guides. …

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[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach Jan 1986

[Review Of] V. Lynn Tyler, Ed. Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us; Vol. 1, North And South America, Western And Eastern Europe, Rebecca Roach

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Ten years ago Brigham Young University conceived of and began to produce "Culturgrams." "Culturgrams" appeared singly as four page cultural summaries of nearly eighty different countries. A "Culturgram" on a country is "a briefing to aid understanding of, feeling for, and communication with other people." A "Culturgram" begins with an enlarged map of the country addressed, noting major cities and with a key in kilometres and miles. To the side of the large map is a smaller map placing the addressed country in relation to surrounding countries on its continent. The " Culturgram" then presents in narrative style some combination …

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[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig Jan 1986

[Review Of] Gill Bottomley And Marie De Lepervanche, Eds. Ethnicity, Class And Gender In Australia, Mary A. Ludwig

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North American social scientists can benefit from comparing immigration in their own countries to immigration in Australia, another former English colony bordering on the Pacific Ocean. Bottomley and de Lepervanche have assembled a very useful set of theoretical discussions and data-based studies which provide a starting point for such comparisons. The collection focuses on the relationship of immigrants to the institutions and ideologies of the dominant culture in Australia. The underlying perspective is Marxist, although this is not made explicit by every contributor. In addition to a historical review of immigration policies, the authors present critiques of policies and the …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Jonathan Majak Jan 1986

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

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

To be human is to have an identity. Indeed, it is what ethnicity is about. However, as a theoretical or methodological prescription for ethnic studies, as advocated by Hatfield, identity is inadequate even within the categories he has specified. Hatfield seems to be asking theoretical analysts to do what artists, novelists, and philosophers do best because they explore the existential and phenomenological aspects of ethnic identity in depth and usually with greater authenticity. This does not mean that there is no need for self-discovery and understanding in ethnic studies. There are equally pressing non-identity issues with which ethnic studies must …

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Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield Jan 1986

Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies, John Hatfield

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The question of identity is fundamental to human life. "Who am I," as a biological and psychological being; as a member of a human group with a particular style and history; as a participant in the common human values, perceptions, and processes which transcend any particular group? Ethnic studies should have as its focus the whole human being, articulated in the biological, socio/cultural, and psycho/personal categories, and the methodology for ethnic studies should reflect the process by which people live and move within the named categories. The interaction of people who are self-consciously engaged in exploring their lives biologically, culturally, …

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Critique [Of Identity As Theory And Method For Ethnic Studies By John Hatfield], Neil Nakadate Jan 1986

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

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

John Hatfield's discussion of identity and ethnicity in an increasingly wider, abstract, and problematical context is an extended definition of the current dilemma. I suspect Hatfield intends to offer an essentially optimistic statement, but for many readers questions and doubts may remain, if not predominate.

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

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

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The results of the 1980 United States census indicate that about twelve million persons were reported as being partly or solely of Italian ancestry. One in twenty people in the United States or 5.4 percent of the total U.S. population claims Italian descent, representing the sixth largest group in the United States.

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

Critique [Of Self-Evaluation Of Black And White College Students By Keith D. Parker], Homer D.C. Garcia

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The article by Keith D. Parker raises interesting theoretical and methodological questions, but this review focuses on the latter. The author is correct in his critical assessment of black self-esteem research (BSER) methodology. Projective measures have been used in most cases and questions have been raised regarding the validity of such self-esteem measures and therefore about the believability of BSER findings.[1] In addition, blacks and whites tested have not been representative of the general black or white communities of the United States, yet inferences to and comparisons of the populations have been made. Finally, studies have employed non-multivariate statistical techniques …

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

Critique [Of Puerto Ricans: White Or Non- White? By Robert A. Martinez], Terry Simmons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

When the first Dutch missionaries reached the far shores of Java, they heard rumors of a recently captured large white monkey being held in a remote village. By the time the missionaries reached the village, however, the mysterious monkey had vanished. They found only the post where it had been tied. Chiseled in stone nearby in Latin, English and Dutch were these words: "Help! I am a Dutch sailor."

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[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1986

[Review Of] William E. Unrau And H. Craig Miner. Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud, Elmer R. Rusco

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Described by historians William E. Unrau and H. Craig Miner as "a case study of manipulation and fraud," this book tells the story of the loss of an entire reservation belonging to the Ottawa Indians by a series of events which led eventually to the dissolution of the tribe itself in the 1950s. Several bands of Ottawa Indians living in what is now Michigan and Ohio were deprived of their lands there by a series of treaties forcing land cessions and by allotment of their lands. Three bands of Ottawa Indians were relocated to a reservation in northeastern Kansas in …

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers Jan 1986

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. The Light From Another Country: Poetry From American Prisons, Neal Bowers

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In recent years, poetry anthologists have strayed from the literary field into the terrain of sociology, where they have collected an odd assortment of scriblings [scribblings]: poems focusing on female athletes, the children of alcoholics, Vietnam War veterans, gays and lesbians, scuba divers, and numerous other ethnic, social, and occupational groups. In fact, the proliferation of such anthologies has been so great that absurdity long ago set in and one expects shortly to see collections devoted to hangnail sufferers and carpet layers.

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[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1986

[Review Of] Frank J. Cavaioli And Salvatore J. Lagumina. The Peripheral Americans, Phillips G. Davies

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This book is primarily a discussion of foreign ethnic groups who have come to the United States. Perhaps the most striking thing about it is that it is a revision of The Ethnic Dimension in American Society (Holbrook Press, Boston, 1974) with the authors' names reversed.

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[Review Of] Keith A. Murray. The Modocs And Their War, Lyle Koehler Jan 1986

[Review Of] Keith A. Murray. The Modocs And Their War, Lyle Koehler

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In late 1872 and early 1873 the lava beds along northern California's Tule Lake became an arena of conflict between 160-odd Modoc Indians and a thousand U.S. soldiers, civilians, and their Warm Springs Apache scouts. Thread-bare clothing, a lack of water, internecine friction, and a general demoralization ultimately forced those Modocs to surrender, but not before they had inflicted great damage on the pursuing military. Keith Murray's account of the Modoc War is a quick-moving, dynamic, highly detailed narrative which reads like an action-novel. It is an intricately researched chronicle of events and includes actual conversation from participants on both …

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[Review Of] James E. Blackwell And Philip Hart. Cities, Suburbs And Blacks, James H. Williams Jan 1986

[Review Of] James E. Blackwell And Philip Hart. Cities, Suburbs And Blacks, James H. Williams

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Because blacks who reside in cities and suburbs are a popular subject among urban specialists, critics must constantly ask the question, to what extent does a recent publication break new ground in terms of creativity and scholarship? Inhabitants have known for many decades that cities and suburbs are not only physical environments in which smoke, dust, heat, noise, filth, and darkness threaten the human organism, they are also social systems in which the circulation of goods and people is a central function. Cities and suburbs can grow and change only if the circulatory system also changes.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1986

Table Of Contents

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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 6, Summer, 1986

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[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick Jan 1986

[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick

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Twenty two poems shimmer with irridescence [iridescence] in Looking Through a Squared Off Circle. The interaction of shifting colors and tones in Silvester Brito's poems flood the reader's mind with the bittersweet pain and beauty of the American Indian experience.

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[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen Jan 1986

[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen

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Looking at the map of Africa locating contributors to this collection of women writers, one is struck by the seeming over-representation from some countries -- Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Republic of South Africa -- and the vast stretch of lands that have, apparently, produced no female with a story to tell. In her Preface, Charlotte Bruner details some of the obstacles confronting women who defy the traditions of formerly nonliterate societies, where the rigidity and permanence of the written word itself confounds a view of art as something fluid and circumstantial, where community takes precedence over the individual, where the act …

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[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe Jan 1986

[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe

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Jayne Cortez in Coagulations just comes right out and says all the things that need to be said, things that might only be thought about momentarily if at all. Not only does she say them, but Jayne Cortez speaks with such force and clarity that the reader is right there on the scene with her. And the scene is not pretty; there are no beautiful flowers growing in the country in the picture Cortez paints.

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[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton Jan 1986

[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton

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Bertha P. Dutton has updated her 1975 publication titled Indians of the American Southwest and states in the preface her objective to make this book generally readable for students, teachers, and travelers who desire knowledge, understanding, and authoritative information regarding the Southwestern Indians. She admits changes are occurring at such a rapid pace that the information with which she has updated her publication may well be out of date by the time we read it.

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[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon Jan 1986

[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon

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Love Medicine brings together the stories of the Kashpaws and Lamartines, two Chippewa families of North Dakota. Two major themes, love and death, produce both the continuity of the novel and of family traditions that are the foundation of each character's life. As different individuals tell their stories, the reader is given a multifaceted perspective of the events that influence the families over a fifty-year period.

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[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson Jan 1986

[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson

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Like marine life washed up on a beach, most Caribbean peoples have been brought where they are by powerful forces outside their control. These forces include colonialism, slavery, and revolution, processes in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that convulsed Europe and whose effects spread to much of the rest of the world. Just as tidepools a few feet apart can have completely different sets of animal and plant life, Caribbean islands just a few miles apart can have completely different histories and mixtures of peoples. Mirroring the complexity of the life in these tidepools, there are myriad interpretations of the …

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[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Created to respond to an issue before art educators in this country since the early 1970s, this well-referenced work, complete with index and illustrations, accomplishes that task with reasonable success. Teachers of art have struggled for decades with curriculum materials that restrict the discussion of art history to the European tradition, labeling art of any other origin as "folk art" unworthy of academic attention.

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[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso Jan 1986

[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso

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A Chickasaw of mixed blood who grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Minnesota, Linda Hogan writes spare poems pulled skin tight over the bones and blood and flesh they contain. She does not exploit her Native American experience to make poems; she does not need to. Her references to "the old sky woman," "black corn dolls," and "evicted grandmothers," who walk " wrapped in trade cloth," are integrated into the sense of life which fills her poems; yet the tensions which come from having inherited two distinct traditions are not ignored: In my left pocket a Chickasaw hand …

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