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Critique [Of The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction], W. Thomas Jamison Jan 1981

Critique [Of The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction], W. Thomas Jamison

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The findings of Professor Reinhardt as they relate to his survey of the image of homosexuals in Chicano prose fiction are interesting and informative, but not surprising given the "macho" mental set often associated with this culture. His first two points, which seem to hold about the homosexual in contemporary society, also seem to be the viewpoint held by most Americans. In other words, a lack of tolerance towards the homosexual is not unique to Chicanos. As for the fact that Chicanos are ignored in writings which have homosexuality as a theme, this probably stems from the tendency for writers …

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The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction, Karl J. Reinhardt Jan 1981

The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction, Karl J. Reinhardt

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

One of the world's best-kept secrets, until recently, was that a sizable proportion of men and women find their most significant relationships, both emotionally and physically, with members of their own sex. For example, the 1971 edition of Brief Lives fails to inform its readers that homosexual relationships were meaningful in the lives of Tchaikovsky, Thoreau, Garcia Lorca or Virginia Wolfe. A most blatant example of this intentional negligence dealing with Chicano writers can be found in Literatura Chicana: texto y contexto, in which a selection of John Rechy is given a fourteen-line introduction which does not mention that Rechy …

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[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor Jan 1981

[Review Of] Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Louise C. Maynor

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This collection of plays is significant because it is the first Native American drama written by a Native American. Hanay Geiogamah, a Kiowa Indian, has been actively involved as a playwright (producing these plays in the 19705), has taught drama at the University of Washington, and has directed Native American theater in recent years (directing his own work, as well as other drama, at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York and directing the Native American Theater Ensemble). This thin volume, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, was readied for publication only after each drama had been performed and …

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[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman Jan 1981

[Review Of] Herman Grey, Tales From The Mohaves, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The author, Shul-ya, a Mohave of the Beaver Clan, originally wrote the tales in this book for his children, later expanding them for the enjoyment of all ages. Born on the Arizona Fort Mohave Reservation, Shul-ya learned these tales from an uncle who had dreamed the character of Swift Lance, the mythological hero of the tales.

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[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright Jan 1981

[Review Of] Kolawole Ogungbesand (Ed.), New West African Literature, Jean Bright

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This brief collection of eleven scholarly and well-documented critical essays, written largely by African university professors of language and literature who hold degrees from European and American universities, is even more restricted than the title suggests. With a half dozen or so notable exceptions, only the poetry, drama, and novels published since 1965 are discussed here. And not all West African countries are represented.

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A Note On Reviews, Helen Maclam Jan 1981

A Note On Reviews, Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue (January 1981) of Explorations In Ethnic Studies is the last in which book reviews will appear. ln March we will publish our first annual review supplement, Explorations in Sights and Sounds. Sights and Sounds will consist entirely of reviews and we plan to include non-print media such as records and films, as well as books, monographs, and new journals.

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Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Zora Devrnja Zimmerman Jan 1981

Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Zora Devrnja Zimmerman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A major point of ambiguity in the essay on ethnic theater, namely the inexact, overly-generalized application of the term ethnic, unwittingly perpetuates a widespread misconception about immigrant groups and unfortunately weakens valuable observations on immigrant culture. The study reinforces the tendency to perceive groups other than one's own as homogeneous and undifferentiated.

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[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman Jan 1981

[Review Of] Miracle Hill: The Story Of A Navaho Boy By Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell And T.D. Allen, Dona Hoilman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A unique experience awaits readers of Miracle Hill, the autobiography of Blackhorse Mitchell, nicknamed “Barney” a young Navaho boy who began his own story as an assignment in his twelfth grade English class in the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Arts under the tutelage of Terry D. Allen. Unlike the other students in the class, who finished their life stories in half an hour or so, Barney found that he had a whole book stored up inside him, just waiting to be put on paper But Barney was still in the process of learning English as a second language, …

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Critique [Of Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions], Barbara Hiura Jan 1981

Critique [Of Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Shirley Vining Brown's “Symbolic Interaction and Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self Conceptions” presents significant and vital information concerning the effects of negative self-concepts on black Americans. The most interesting aspect of the paper is the development of the concept of "negative belief systems."

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Critique [Of What Is Ethnic Pride? A Poem], Alice A. Deck Jan 1981

Critique [Of What Is Ethnic Pride? A Poem], Alice A. Deck

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Judith Lundin's poem successfully conveys both the elusive nature of defining ethnic pride and the certainty that it exists.

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Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Jeffrey F. Huntsman Jan 1981

Critique [Of The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930], Jeffrey F. Huntsman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Seller's broad overview of the functions of ethnic theater in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century provides a useful compilation of information hitherto scattered throughout a variety of often obscure publications. Commenting chiefly on Scandanavian, [Scandinavian] German, and Yiddish theater, she presents a glimpse into a complicated and rich social and cultural life through which American communities of immigrants established and maintained a sense of identity with their place and culture of origin and through which life in Europe was sea-changed into a different but still distinct life in America.

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[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco Jan 1981

[Review Of] Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization And The Story Of The Absentee Shawnees, Elmer R. Rusco

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Thomas Wildcat Alford was born a Shawnee and died a white man. While an oversimplification, this is not an unfair summary of his memoir, ”told to” Florence Drake. A reprint of the 1936 edition, the book has a brief preface by author Angie Debo (which, however, has little information).

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[Review Of] Robert L. Schuyler (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives On Ethnicity In America: Afro-American And Asian American Culture History, Lyle Koehler Jan 1981

[Review Of] Robert L. Schuyler (Ed.), Archaeological Perspectives On Ethnicity In America: Afro-American And Asian American Culture History, Lyle Koehler

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Robert Schuyler, Associate Curator in charge of the American Historical Archaeology Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, believes that archaeologists have too often avoided working with Afro-American and Asian American sites and have not effectively used interdisciplinary sources to interpret patterns in the archaeological record. The fourteen articles in Archaeological Perspectives attempt to remedy such concerns but, perhaps in part because of the newness of this interest, the selections are of uneven quality.

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[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White Jan 1981

[Review Of] Fran Leeper Buss, La Partera: Story Of A Midwife, Caroline White

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

La Partera is the story of Jesusita Aragén, one of the last traditional midwives of northeastern New Mexico, as written from recorded interviews between the author and Jesusita. Before telling Jesusita's account of her own life, the author introduces the reader geographically, historically, and culturally to the area of San Miguel County and its main city of Las Vegas. Buss clearly shows her love and understanding of this region where she and her husband served as United Church of Christ ministers in 1975. She writes, ”the weather is dominated by striking turquoise skies and a brilliant, penetrating sun” (p. 2) …

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[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok Jan 1981

[Review Of] Hadley Irwin, We Are Mesquakie, We Are One, Kathleen Hickok

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin is the simply and sensitively told tale of a Mesquakie Indian girl who comes of age during a turbulent period in the history of her nation. In 1845, after fifteen years of treaties, the Mesquakie (sometimes also called the Fox) Indians were expelled from their lands along the Iowa River and forcibly marched to Kansas, where they were relocated on reservation lands far inferior to their own. The Mesquakies managed to avoid being acculturated into white ways, and over a period of years saved the money they got from the U.S. …

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[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte Jan 1981

[Review Of] John Chester Miller, The Wolf By The Ears: Thomas Jefferson And Slavery, Roland L. Guyotte

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

During the past fifteen years a legion of scholars have turned their attention to the history of slavery and race relations in America. Mentioning such names as David Brion Davis, Eugene Genovese, Winthrop Jordan, Sterling Stuckey, Leon Litwack, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, or Willie Lee Rose simply reminds us of how far scholarhsip [scholarship] has advanced since the early 1960s. A characteristic of this work has been to shift attention back from the mid-nineteenth century to earlier times and to view American slavery in its international setting. One conclusion has been to underscore the depth of North American racism …

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[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli Jan 1981

[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Charles Moskos is a Greek American sociologist involved in teaching one of the few courses dealing with the subject of his book, Greek Americans. His book is a broad overview of this ethnic group, with both an historical and sociological perspective. The topic is interesting, for the Greeks are one of the few ”New Immigrant” groups to achieve rapid upward mobility without vanishing into the melting pot. Since the success of most southern and eastern European groups has been marked by a slow and uneven upward climb, the Greeks offer an instructive contrast.

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[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro Jan 1981

[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Schneider’s The Africans offers a provocative interpretation of African society. Unlike other introductory texts, Schneider is not concerned with an exhaustive or even representative survey of African life; rather, his concern is to put forth a non-Marxist social-cultural-economic theory of African society which would provide a broad analytical framework. He succeeds in sketching, in this comparatively slim volume, a sweeping new view of African society. (Cf., G. P. Murdock, Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History, New York, 1959; James L. Gibbs, Jr., ed., Peoples of Africa, New York, 1965; Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Garden City, …

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[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson Jan 1981

[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book is intended as a footnote to the larger history of the last years of the slave trade in the Atlantic and to the efforts of the British West Indian planters to find labor substitutes for the emancipated slaves. During this period, the Royal Navy recaptured in the Atlantic some of the people exported from Africa as slaves by other colonial powers, and took them to Sierra Leone or to St. Helena. Officials from several West Indian islands tried to induce some of these recaptives to immigrate to the West Indies as indentured laborers. This book is a social …

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[Review Of] Ethnic Studies: The Peoples Of America, David N. Mielke Jan 1981

[Review Of] Ethnic Studies: The Peoples Of America, David N. Mielke

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The market for audiovisual materials on American ethnic experiences is extremely healthy. As with the wide availability of products in any marketable area, one needs to be particularly conscious of quality, price, and usability. In selecting materials in ethnic studies the purchaser must often decide between multiethnic packages to achieve breadth, or singular ethnic packages which present the ethnic experience in some depth. The user then might attempt to creatively integrate the two.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1981

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1981

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Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research, Elisabeth J. Johnson Jan 1981

Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research, Elisabeth J. Johnson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

For some time, social scientists have been concerned with ethics in research. Much of what they have written has focused on research in general, but many of the points they raise are applicable to evaluation research in particular. Included among these concerns are informed consent, the right to treatment, the right to refuse treatment, implicit coercion, powerlessness of subjects, and, perhaps most important, external access to confidential data.

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Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions, Shirley Vining Brown Jan 1981

Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions, Shirley Vining Brown

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The widespread preoccupation with racial identity in the last two decades has been seen not only as a symptom of alienation but also as a move by racial minorities to recapture what has been called a “surrendered identity.” This corrective action has its place in the historical evolution of American race relations but, at the same time, it has a price.

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Critique [Of Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research], Gary Y. Okihiro Jan 1981

Critique [Of Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research], Gary Y. Okihiro

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

“Ethical Problems in Evaluation Research” by Elisabeth J. Johnson summarizes some of the salient ethical concerns in social science research such as the relative positions of power between researcher and subject, confidentiality and privacy, and “political interests” or the use of research findings by sponsors. The author concludes with proposals and cautions; of special relevance to readers of this journal is Kelman’s “participatory research” which enables people being studied to participate in the research design and implementation.

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Critique [Of An Invisible Minority: An Examination Of Migrant Education], Dennis Stewart Jan 1981

Critique [Of An Invisible Minority: An Examination Of Migrant Education], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"An lnvisible Minority” is a well-written. sensitive, and on the whole, accurate article which could have been written a decade ago. | am reminded by it of an astronomer who periodically releases to the press a statement outlining the difference between astronomy and astrology as a professional obligation. So too, people need to be reminded of the terrible toll extracted from migrant worker families.

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The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby Jan 1981

The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

I thank George Carter for his willingness to give advice to the new editorial staff, in his last editorial for Explorations (Vol. 3, No. 2.). concerning the frustrating experiences we would have in attempting to produce a quality journal. This is our premier edition. and we trust that it will improve with age.

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Critique [Of Wiesel's Memoir And God Outside Auschwitz], David M. Gradwohl Jan 1981

Critique [Of Wiesel's Memoir And God Outside Auschwitz], David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

It is not exactly a guarded secret that Jews, for three or four thousand years, have questioned who they were, who they are, and who they are going to be as individuals and as members of the various groups within which they associate. And through those many centuries they have often cried out in anguish and ambivalence to their God. Elie Wiesel, who writes with great power and also great agony, is certainly not the first writer to express these themes. Nor is the German Holocaust with all of its unspeakable and unfathomable horrors the first event to evoke these …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1981

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Comments From The Guest Editor, Gretchen Bataille Jan 1981

Comments From The Guest Editor, Gretchen Bataille

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

I want to take this opportunity to share some thoughts with the readers of Explorations about the association and the journal. The new editorial staff is in the process of making several significant changes in format as well as content of the publications. The first new beginning is a new logo, a logo which has as its central symbol the character meaning "the source."

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[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry Jan 1981

[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Rebels and Victims is a useful contribution to the comparative analysis of ethnic literature. This balanced, thorough presentation on the fiction of Wright and Malamud examines their ethnic literary works. Avery touches on many interdisciplinary factors which make the book of some interest to those discussing Afro-American and Jewish-American ethnic groups functioning in society.

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