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Critique [Of Strategies To Increase The Number Of Minority Teachers In The Public Schools By Glenn M. Kraig], Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1992

Critique [Of Strategies To Increase The Number Of Minority Teachers In The Public Schools By Glenn M. Kraig], Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In the course of his article, Kraig reviews a number of important ways to assure the recruitment and increase of minority teachers in the public school system. He also discusses specific programs which could stand as exemplary efforts directed at the daunting task of increasing the number of minorities in the educational pipeline, and ultimately, in the public school setting. Before examining these model programs and strategies, Kraig reviews the current and future demographic trends which suggest that the "relative population of the teaching force is not even close to being representative of the composition of the student body in …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1992

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Contributors Jan 1992

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1992

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Edna Manley's "The Diaries": Cultural Politics And The Discourse Of Self, Consuelo Lopez Springfield Jan 1992

Edna Manley's "The Diaries": Cultural Politics And The Discourse Of Self, Consuelo Lopez Springfield

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A critic of imperialism, race and class privilege, sculptor Edna Manley contributed to the ascendancy of a West Indian cultural aesthetic. Her productivity in the creative arts and her promotion of indigenous cultural organizations were vital to the growth of a post-colonial identity expressing Jamaican national unity and cultural plurality. The wife of Premier Norman W. Manley and the mother of Michael Manley, Jamaica's former Prime Minister, she drew strength from her cross-cultural heritage as a British-trained artist seeking to express the collective unconsciousness of her people. Her creative work finds its symbols in the subaltern currents of Caribbean life …

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An Art-Historical Paradigm For Investigating Native American Pictographs Of The Lower Pecos Region, Texas, John Antoine Labadie Jan 1992

An Art-Historical Paradigm For Investigating Native American Pictographs Of The Lower Pecos Region, Texas, John Antoine Labadie

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In the shadows of deep canyons in Southwest Texas and Northern Mexico, where the Pecos, Devils, and Rio Grande flow, are thousands of paintings on the walls of hundreds of rockshelters and overhangs. Archaeologists term such works "pictographic rock art." These particular pictographs were created over many centuries by Native American groups known collectively today as the Lower Pecos Region cultures.

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Sources Of Chicano Art: Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Jacinto Quirarte Jan 1992

Sources Of Chicano Art: Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Jacinto Quirarte

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There have been two main streams of influence on Chicano artists aside from the obvious one that is the result of their artistic training, education and development in the United States. The primary influence came from Mexico, first during the colonial period in the form of New Spanish art and architecture, and then in modem times provided by the Mexican muralists through their work and their use of pre-Columbian art. The New Spanish materials formed the nucleus for the second stream of influence composed of the various manifestations of religious folk art found primarily in the Southwest.

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Introduction: New Vistas In Art, Culture, And Ethnicity, Bernard Young Jan 1992

Introduction: New Vistas In Art, Culture, And Ethnicity, Bernard Young

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Last semester at Arizona State University in the School of Art, I offered a course in multicultural issues in art. It is important to note that the state of Arizona is under national scrutiny because of the negative publicity it has received in the past few years on the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and other concerns about racial and cultural issues. I am not going to claim that Arizona does not have a lion's share of problems in this area; what I will claim is that most of my students are middle class, white, receptive, and sensitive to ethnic …

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[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart Jan 1992

[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart

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This is probably the first monographic study to examine in-depth the present criminal subculture of New York Chinatown, focusing on the youth gangs that have plagued the community during the past thirty years. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the fledgling field of Asian American studies, whose scholars have yet to tackle this complex and sensitive topic, as well as to the disciplines of sociology and criminology. It will also help puncture the recently created stereotype of a monolithic, "model minority" Asian population singlemindedly pursuing success in schooling and business.

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[Review Of] Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem In The Great Depression, Steven J. Gold Jan 1992

[Review Of] Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem In The Great Depression, Steven J. Gold

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Or Does it Explode? is a meticulously researched study of the social, economic, and political status of Harlem from the 1920s to the 1940s, with a major emphasis on the Depression years.

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[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko Jan 1992

[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko

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The search for an "untouched" Native voice in American Indian autobiography, both experientially and stylistically, has proven as elusive as the search for the "untouched" Native. In the case of A Yaqui Life, it is precisely the of the native author's interaction-personal, literary, military, economic, religious, and familial-that makes the work both fascinating and significant. So, too, the text as a product of the interactions between the various authors enhances its ethnographic and historic significance. In 1954, at the suggestion of the anthropologist W. C. Holden, the core of the work was penned by Rosalio Moises, a Yaqui who lived …

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[Review Of] K. Sue Jewell. Survival Of The Black Family: The Institutional Impact Of U.S. Social Policy, Cary D. Wintz Jan 1992

[Review Of] K. Sue Jewell. Survival Of The Black Family: The Institutional Impact Of U.S. Social Policy, Cary D. Wintz

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The impact and effectiveness of the social programs that emerged during the New Deal and were expanded in the Great Society have become seriously debated questions in the conservative 1980s and 1990s. Liberals accept as an article of faith the necessity of federal welfare programs to counter the economic injustice that seems inherent in American capitalism and to reverse the results of generations of racism and inequality; conservatives, on the other hand, contend that federal welfare programs are at best inefficient, and more likely, destructive of initiative and economic progress among the very groups that they are designed to assist, …

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[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. Grandmothers Of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. Grandmothers Of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book, Cortland P. Auser

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As Allen points out in her preface, the stories in this collection were gleaned "from the vast oral tradition of North American tribes." Allen adds that they (the stories) have served as her spiritual guides. She feels that in these tales the "great Goddess" has many guises, such as Xmucane, Sky Woman, Thinking Woman, Scomalt, et al.

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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Albert L. Mchenry. Eds. Living The Dream In Arizona: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King. Jr, Otis L. Scott Jan 1992

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Albert L. Mchenry. Eds. Living The Dream In Arizona: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King. Jr, Otis L. Scott

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Living the Dream in Arizona. edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Albert L. McHenry, is at first glance a tidy, unpretentious little book. Subtitled "The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," this work is, in effect, a series of testimonies by a multicultural chorus of Arizonans. Each voice speaks plainly about the meaning of the struggle for dignity, opportunity, and equality. As unpretentious as this work is, it is also informative; the words of the contributors are -- in the spirit of Dr. King's life -- challenging and provocative. There is more than meets the eye in the one hundred …

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[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent Jan 1992

[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent

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We need to know more about why people become racists and what their motivations are for joining racial supremacist groups. Scholarly works dealing with the Ku Klux Klan's meteroic [meteoric] 1920s rise usually emphasize how rapid post-World War urbanization, agricultural depression, and fears of immigrants and cultural changes unsettled traditional-minded citizens in small-town and rural American landscapes and made the Klan attractive. By choosing to concentrate specifically upon women in the Klan, and "the complex ways in which race, religion and gender interact," Kathleen Blee, a sociology professor at the University of Kentucky, has opened up new dimensions here.

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[Review Of] Adelaide M. Cromwell. Ed. Dynamics Of The African/Afro-American Connection: From Dependency To Self-Reliance, Judith E. O'Dell Jan 1992

[Review Of] Adelaide M. Cromwell. Ed. Dynamics Of The African/Afro-American Connection: From Dependency To Self-Reliance, Judith E. O'Dell

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This book is a valuable contribution to African and African American studies in that it brings together and reviews the history of relationships between people of African descent. This book is also important because it details the social, political, and economic issues that affected the development of and communication between Africans and Afro-Americans. The quality, style, and content of the articles vary, but the sequence in which the articles are presented in the book seems logically ordered.

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[Review Of] Margot Edmonds And Ella E. Clark. Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Margot Edmonds And Ella E. Clark. Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends, Cortland P. Auser

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This anthology of Native American legends is a fine supplement to the Erdoes and Ortiz work, American Indian Myths and Legends. Whereas that work was structured around themes such as "Tales of Human Creation," "Tales of World Creation," etc., this work (while including very often the same themes) is organized regionally with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Central Region, Southeast and Northeast.

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[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen Jan 1992

[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen

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This book -- a major literary work by one of the more widely read early Native American authors, and an ethnographic "source" of some interest -- is now again available thanks to the University of Nebraska Press's efforts to reprint Native American classics. It comes with a very useful introduction by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, which establishes both historical and aesthetic contexts for Ohiyesa's stories. Ruoff provides information on the family backgrounds, the education, and the lives of both Mr. and Mrs. Eastman, gives an independent (and corrective) sketch of the 1862 Sioux uprising that forms the historical background of …

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[Review Of] Susan A. Glenn. Daughters Of The Shtetl: Life And Labor In The Immigrant Generation, Noel J. Kent Jan 1992

[Review Of] Susan A. Glenn. Daughters Of The Shtetl: Life And Labor In The Immigrant Generation, Noel J. Kent

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In this meticulously researched and highly readable work, Susan A. Glenn "examines the experiences of a particular group of Jewish immigrants, European-born daughters who, early in this century, went to work in the American garment industry." The author is attempting here no less than to make sense of the intersecting linkages between eastern European Jewish culture, the immigration experience, working class life, the labor movement, and gender identity.

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[Review Of] Peter Hyun. Man Sei! The Making Of A Korean American, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1992

[Review Of] Peter Hyun. Man Sei! The Making Of A Korean American, Donald L. Guimary

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This book offers a history of Korea from the tum of the century through the end of World War II. But it is more than that: It is an autobiographical account of Peter Hyun, who with his family, witnessed and participated in the making of modern Korean history. Hyun, born in 1907, was one of eight children who lived and went to school under Japanese rule. In 1919 he witnessed a massive demonstration in which thousands of Koreans shouted "MAN SEI!"-- Long Live Korea -- and watched as Japanese police and military killed countless demonstrators, hence the title of this …

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[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai., Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Laurie Lisa Jan 1992

[Review Of] Paul Lauter, Et Ai., Eds. The Heath Anthology Of American Literature, Laurie Lisa

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In the notes to the reader in this two-volume Heath Anthology, Lauter emphasizes that a major principle of selection for authors and works included is to represent as fully as possible the varied cultures of the United States. The process of compilation -- the solicitation from thousands of faculty members teaching American literature to suggest what authors and works should be considered for a "reconstructed" American literature text -- reflects this commitment. With the inclusion of works by 109 women of all races, twenty-five Native Americans (including seventeen texts from tribal origins), fifty-three African Americans, thirteen Hispanics (as well as …

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[Review Of] Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making Of Mexican Culture In Frontier California, Carlos F. Ortega Jan 1992

[Review Of] Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making Of Mexican Culture In Frontier California, Carlos F. Ortega

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As one drives through the state of California, the legacy of Indian, Spanish, and Mexican cultures is obvious everywhere. In school, children learn how this land fell into the hands of the Spanish Crown with its mission system starting to bring Christianity to the Indians, how California became Mexican via the independence movement, and finally in the nineteenth century, how the United States came to control California. Yet little is known or understood about what the transfer of power meant or how it occurred.

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[Review Of] Elsie Clews Parsons. American Indian Life, Laurie Lisa Jan 1992

[Review Of] Elsie Clews Parsons. American Indian Life, Laurie Lisa

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In Joan Mark's introduction to the Bison edition of this classic work, she offers a good analysis of the impact of these twenty-seven fictional stories written by anthropologists and first published in 1922. Anthropology's radical change in methodology at the turn of the century -- of which Parsons and Franz Boas (twenty of these stories can be identified with Boasian anthropology) were noticeable figures in the transformation -- led Parsons to attempt to tackle the problem of the relation of the individual to the culture. Consequently, she asked her fellow anthropologists to write fictions about Native Americans in which they …

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[Review Of] Peter Nabokov, Ed. Native American Testimony, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Peter Nabokov, Ed. Native American Testimony, Cortland P. Auser

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This book's publication would be welcome at any time, but for readers to be able to read and study it in the quincentennial year (five hundred years after "discovery") underlies the importance of the subject -- Native Americans testifying of the consequences of the Columbian voyage. It appears to this reader that this is a fine supplement to Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

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[Review Of] Kathleen Mullen Sands, Cd. Circle Of Motion: Arizona Anthology Of Contemporary American Indian Literature, Kristin Herzog Jan 1992

[Review Of] Kathleen Mullen Sands, Cd. Circle Of Motion: Arizona Anthology Of Contemporary American Indian Literature, Kristin Herzog

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The subtitle of this collection raises a question: Is it wise to mix various genres and also authors from very different tribes and then to limit this mixture by the arbitrary geographical borders of a state?

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[Review Of] Herman J. Viola. After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle Of The North American Indians, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Herman J. Viola. After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle Of The North American Indians, Cortland P. Auser

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In a factual but impassioned introduction, George P. Horse Capture writes a fitting foreword to this work on the history of Native Americans through the last five hundred years. Through the growing number of non-Indians honestly writing about the indigenous peoples, a mass audience is finally learning about the tragic history and the depressed conditions of the tribes. He praises the work of Dee Brown and of Alvin Josephy, Jr., as well as the author of the present work, Herman Viola.

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[Review Of] Sylvia Watanabe And Carol Bruchac. Home To Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction, Mary Young Jan 1992

[Review Of] Sylvia Watanabe And Carol Bruchac. Home To Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction, Mary Young

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Frank Chin, a Chinese American playwright and essayist has written, "no one . . . was going to tell them [Asian Americans] that America not Asia was their home, that English was their language . . . ." The women writers collected in this volume are claiming America as their home and English as their language. These writers fashion and refashion the American experience from their ethnic perspective. This publication brings together many Asian American women writers in one volume. The contributors are not only of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino ancestry, but also of Malaysian, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, and Pakistani …

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[Review Of] Derek Walcott. Omeros, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Derek Walcott. Omeros, Cortland P. Auser

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Omeros is indeed a poetic epic and as such stands foremost in Walcott's outstanding writing career. The quality of the poetry in this volume reveals why he is a great practitioner of poetry writing in the English-speaking world.

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[Review Of] Jack Weatherford. Native Roots: How The Indians Enriched America, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1992

[Review Of] Jack Weatherford. Native Roots: How The Indians Enriched America, David M. Gradwohl

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This volume and Weatherford's penultimate book (Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988) discuss in detail the contributions of Native American populations to the Old World and to the culture of the invaders who ultimately conquered the New World. Both books are timely in terms of the current hoopla concerning the quincentennial of Christopher Columbus's arrival on Caribbean shores. They both put the lie to the idea that acculturation is a one-way street. Native Roots additionally indicates the tenacity of many American Indian traditions in surviving centuries of attempts at forced …

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[Review Of] Vernon J. Williams. From A Caste To A Minority: Changing Attitudes Of American Sociologists Towards Afro-Americans, Cary D. Wintz Jan 1992

[Review Of] Vernon J. Williams. From A Caste To A Minority: Changing Attitudes Of American Sociologists Towards Afro-Americans, Cary D. Wintz

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Attitudes towards specific racial minorities have been central to the history of the United States. These attitudes have influenced the development of social and cultural institutions, they have determined the structure of our communities, and they have affected our laws and our politics. Given the centrality of race in American culture, it is surprising that until the second half of the twentieth century there was little effort to examine systematically the role of race in US history, or to examine changing attitudes towards race; and the efforts that were made rarely made it into the mainstream of American historiography.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1992

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 12, Summer, 1992

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