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Table Of Contents Jan 1985

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 8, Issue 1, 1985

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Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1985

Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature, Margaret Bedrosian

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Periodically bolting out of the Boston apartment that keeps her safe in a world unmoved by her existence, clad in the heavy sweaters and thick wool socks that shield her barren spinsterhood, the Auntie of Hapet Kharibian's "Home in Exile" also breaks out of the box that imprisons most portraits of Armenian American women.[1] As Auntie exerts her pittance of domestic authority by shopping for Ajax and picking green beans for an aged father's stew, nurturing insanity through her idle days, the reader briefly glimpses a refreshing truthfulness behind the types and stereotypes that populate much Armenian American literature. Auntie's …

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Contributors Jan 1985

Contributors

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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1985

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Critique [Of Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature By Margaret Bedrosian], Linda M.C. Abbott Jan 1985

Critique [Of Between Shadow And Rock: The Woman In Armenian American Literature By Margaret Bedrosian], Linda M.C. Abbott

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Female characters, drawn from a sampling of Armenian American writing, are examined for clues to the breadth of their individual and group experience in this brief literature review. The author early concludes that the range of experience and personality available for examination in such an overview is extremely limited. The bulk of the review is then given to a presentation of possible historical and cultural explanations for the typical flat, narrow, and slightly negative portrayal.

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Racism And The Canadian State, Daiva K. Stasiulis Jan 1985

Racism And The Canadian State, Daiva K. Stasiulis

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The practices and official discourse of a variety of state institutions in Canada have reflected a new level of "race consciousness" during the past five years. A notable development within the Canadian state has been the emergence at all levels of administrative and parliamentary institutions of new "race relations " and "visible minority" committees, liaison and consultative structures, programs, and commissions. Following a series of racially-motivated attacks within Toronto subways directed principally at South Asians, the Metropolitan Toronto Police and the Toronto Transit Commission jointly established a system designed to intercept attackers and prevent further incidents. A growing number of …

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Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Delo E. Washington Jan 1985

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Delo E. Washington

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Stasiulis has not only entered a great debate but has sought to order it. The interconnections between Canada's recent policies on multiculturalism, immigration, and the efforts to implement the two are the reference points around which that debate is centered. The possibilities for racism, however, need to be made more clear by the author. Scholars can make significant contributions in this regard by investigating what seems to be unrelated programs and practices. Since practices are tied to the same policies, an identifiable theoretical perspective is proposed as the leverage for yielding insights about relationships between people and things that would …

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Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Luis L. Pinto Jan 1985

Critique [Of Racism And The Canadian State By Daiva K. Stasiulis], Luis L. Pinto

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The value of "Racism and the Canadian State" is its tragic reminder that injustice is alive and flourishing in Canada as well as the United States and elsewhere. Stasiulis presents an interesting and perceptive analysis of the practices of official discourse of different Canadian institutions which have brought about a new level of "race onsciousness [consciousness]." She deals effectively with the measures taken by the federal government, within the past five years, to confront the social problems and demands of visible minorities in Canadian society.

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A.K.A. Pablo: Mexican American Images For Television, Norman L. Friedman Jan 1985

A.K.A. Pablo: Mexican American Images For Television, Norman L. Friedman

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The study of "minority group images in mass media" has been of considerable interest both to humanities and social science writers in the ethnic and media fields. Most investigations have focused upon the descriptive content of the minority portrayals, though a few have also dealt with related aspects of minority group reactions to images. Among the large volume of varied writings have been those which have considered minority group images in films, [1] images of Asian Americans in print and electronic media, [2] dissections of single television shows about minorities, [3] and responses of minority audiences and media critics to …

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Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature, Alice A. Deck Jan 1985

Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature, Alice A. Deck

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Portraits of elderly Afroamerican men and women abound in American literature and vary from stories which present a mythic primordial character who symbolizes emotional stability, experiential wisdom and a community's cultural and historical heritage, to works in slice-of-life realistic style which dramatize the social and psychological conditions of aged blacks. Included in this second category are works which show the confrontation between old and new social standards. Coupled with this range of portraits is a variety of attitudes toward elderly blacks.

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[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini Jan 1985

[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini

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Rejoice, students of ethnicity and Italian Americans generally! A body of scholarly literature on the Italian American experience is growing. Richard Alba's book, one of the Ethnic Groups in American Life Series (Milton M. Gordon, editor) is a recent addition to the quality social science writings about this ethnic group.

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[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin Jan 1985

[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin

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The video program Immigrants, Minorities and School raises a number of important issues related to the school experiences of today's racial and ethnic minority groups (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) when compared with the school experiences of the earlier white European ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States within the last century. There are both similarities and differences in the experiences of each racial and ethnic minority group.

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[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner Jan 1985

[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner

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When Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, and Cosmo Pieterse sat as judges for the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award of 1981, they were faced with some 3,000 entries from more than 700 contestants from which they were to award three cash prizes and a number of book prizes. In the introduction to the book which they subsequently edited, consisting of eighty-two poems from forty-five writers from thirteen countries in Africa, they explain that they had told all entrants they were looking for "originality and imagination as well as evidence of technical skill." They state, also, that they "strove to deliberate …

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[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1985

[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen's The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social context of the current work is less benign. Factors implicated in the shift to more contentious racial and ethnic relations include a struggling national economy, separatist moves in Quebec and the West, a rapidly expanding non White immigration, and advancement of natural resource claims by aboriginal groups at a time when federal pressure for energy development in the …

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[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby Jan 1985

[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby

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Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite's purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many …

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[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber Jan 1985

[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber

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This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs.

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[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet Jan 1985

[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet

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Black actors, and more often than not white actors in blackface, appeared in stereotyped roles in American movies from the beginnings of the industry. Such classic directors as D.W. Griffith and John Ford mindlessly exploited blacks to counterpoint white supremacy and to bear the brunt of the focus of social and political change. Blacks, even more than American Indians, were the recipents [recipients] of the darker side of western irrationality. For example, intermarriage, long treated as a subtheme of Indian/white confrontation, met with virulent rejection in films which treated black/white relationships. Because of their growing numbers and because of long-standing …

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[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young Jan 1985

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young

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At the turn of this century, a group of American blacks from the midwest migrated to Canada to become homesteaders in the remote town of Athabasca, Alberta. Hadley Irwin's latest novel for young people focuses on this little-known chapter of American history. The movement of entire towns of blacks north in search of freedom provides Hadley Irwin an ideal setting for a young boy's search for identity. Rap Davis' growth toward maturity, his determination to "be somebody" parallels the growth and determination of a people to be somebody.

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[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson Jan 1985

[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson

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The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the ''invisible immigrants' of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America," never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale's realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence.

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[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts Jan 1985

[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts

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Poetry by American Indians may be traced to the writings of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee who came to California in the early 1850s, edited several northern California newspapers, and helped create the legend of Joaquin Murieta, and to the works of Alexander Posey, a Creek who wrote romantic nature poems and dialect stories in the style of the local colorists. Nonetheless, few Indian poets existed prior to the 1970s. Since then, there has been a tremendous surge in the numbers of Indians writing poetry, and their work has received a great deal of critical acclaim, as evidenced by the …

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Table Of Contents Jan 1985

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 5, Summer, 1985

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[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker Jan 1985

[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker

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Two publications important in the study of women's literature appeared this spring -- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and this anthology of previously published essays on feminist literary theory. These volumes will probably have greatest impact on university courses in women's literature, but one should not overlook their significance for ethnic studies. Like studies in ethnic literatures, feminist criticism has before it the task of defining a tradition outside of the main-stream and establishing a literary canon not previously acknowledged as valid.

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[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman Jan 1985

[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

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A disturbing, extremely important book. The wealth of information provided by the authors illuminates the present circumstances of ethnic minorities in Western Europe, principally West Germany, and points to potential dangers and repercussions in the future. The thesis of Here for Good posits the change in status of the guest worker from that of migrant or temporary resident to that of immigrant or permanent settler in one of seven major host countries in Western Europe. This shift should mark a parallel shift in the political and economic policies which address the needs of the immigrants and their impact upon the …

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[Index, Volume 7,1984] Title Jan 1985

[Index, Volume 7,1984] Title

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 7, 1984

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Critique [Of Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature By Alice A. Deck], Helen Maclam Jan 1985

Critique [Of Depictions Of Elderly Blacks In American Literature By Alice A. Deck], Helen Maclam

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Although Deck concludes that no consistent image of elderly Afroamericans dominates in American literature, she has clearly demonstrated a dichotomy between black and white authors in its portrayal. This dichotomy might well be termed white myth versus black experience, and it is illustrated by the contrast between Uncle Remus and Uncle Julius. In her discussion of both characters, Deck has pointed out that critical distinction between structure, i.e., the "outer frame," and content, i.e., authentic Afroamerican folklore. Deck states that the legends told by Uncle Remus reflect a black world view. They were not, however, perceived as such until recently …

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[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons Jan 1985

[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons

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Community-Based Research has a clear sense of purpose: "This handbook is intended as a practical research guide for an era of self-determination in community development" (xvii). The author seeks to provide the means for research to be planned, designed, and implemented by community members with the research priorities set "by the community that lives the socio-economic conditions, rather than by an outsider who studies the community for informational purposes" (2).

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[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1985

[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies

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Ashton's mid-sized volume about the Welsh in America joins the first, and very short account by David Williams, Wales and America (published in Wales in 1946 as part of a bilingual pamphlet series), and Edward George Hartmann's Americans from Wales (nearly three hundred pages, published in 1967 and reprinted in America in 1978).

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[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch Jan 1985

[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch

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Current trends in Afroamerican history toward local, regional, and quantitative history accentuate the prior preoccupation of historians of the Afroamerican experience with considerations of national significance to the all but total disregard of local black history. This volume is consistent with the present drift. With the exception of the concluding essay, Black Americans in North Carolina and the South is an historiographical exercise. It is a result of a 1981 symposium, of the same title, sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Another historiographical volume on North Carolinian history, also co-edited by Jeffrey Crow, resulted from the …

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[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett Jan 1985

[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett

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Linda Hogan's poetry is of the "world," a word which recurs frequently in Eclipse, her latest book of poems. The poems are personal yet not confessional. She speaks of the earth -- and for the earth -- in the roles of human being, Native American, woman, mother, daughter, and granddaughter. They are not the poems of self absorption, of reduction

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[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso Jan 1985

[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso

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William Oandason, Senior Editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and editor of his own journal, A, a Journal of Contemporary Literature, has published other books of poetry, A Branch of California Redwood (reviewed by Kenneth M. Roemer, Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Summer, 1984) and Moving Inland.

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[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster Jan 1985

[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster

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The current popularity, eminence, and international appreciation of the creativity of American Indian artists are such a viable part of the contemporary art scene that most of us are well aware of this distinguished achievement. But it was not always so. Robert Fay Schrader presents detailed, historic review of the trials, endeavors, and vicissitudes of a small but select group of men and women who sought to gain public recognition of American Indian arts and crafts during the first half ofthe twentieth century. The general focus is on the activities of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an advisory and …

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