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[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish Jan 1988

[Review Of] Rodney Frey. The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, Robert Gish

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Ethnographic studies have long been plagued by questions of credibility. Can the ethnographer believe his or her sources? And, in turn, can readers believe the ethnographer? Ronald Frey knows full well that such issues of "believability" plague anyone attempting to understand a culture's otherness from the outside. He is determined to explain general historical, religious, and cultural aspects of "the world of the Crow Indians" from as close to the inside as he possibly can tell them.

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[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman Jan 1988

[Review Of] William L. Andrews. To Tell A Free Story: The First Century Of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865, Suzanne Stutman

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William L. Andrews' To Tell a Free Story is a fine study of the history and development of the Afro-American narrative in its first century. Andrews presents the narrative in the hands of its creators as a dynamic form which, when studied for its process of telling, expresses the movement of its writers from an absence of self to a celebration of both self and community. It follows in the footsteps of Andrew's' other important contributions to the field of black studies, and promises to serve as a resource to which other studies of the genre can look.

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[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Klayman. A Generation Of Hope: 1929-1941, Hannah Kliger

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There would be little disagreement among students of American Jewry that we know relatively little about the experience of Jews living in the smaller cities and towns of this country. In recent years, the number of community studies has grown. Typically, however, the research site is a larger metropolis, or else a circumscribed neighborhood of Jewish settlement in a major urban center.

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[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz Jan 1988

[Review Of] Dirk Hoerder, Ed. The Immigrant Labor Press In North America, 1840s-70s (Three Volumes), Cary D. Wintz

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Dirk Hoerder has undertaken a truly mammoth task -- the identification, analysis, and the location of surviving collections of the immigrant labor press published in the United States and Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. For the most part his efforts have been successful. Without question he has provided researchers interested in the American immigrant experience or American labor history with a valuable research tool.

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[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan Jan 1988

[Review Of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans Of The Pacific Coast, William Oandasan

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In the introduction to Native Americans of the Pacific Coast, Vinson Brown presents many admirable ambitions for any scholar writing on human existence. Brown proclaims that he will attempt to make the first Americans "live" in the style of the 1500s to 1700s during the "days of old" and of "glory and independence." He then proceeds to assert that, in order to accomplish this goal, antiquated concepts used to "justify" the conquest of tribal Peoples must be "put aside." He urges us, "instead," to be inquisitive and open so that we can "see and hear" what indigenous life was like …

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[Review Of] Barry T. Klein. Reference Encyclopedia Of The American Indian, Douglas Kachel Jan 1988

[Review Of] Barry T. Klein. Reference Encyclopedia Of The American Indian, Douglas Kachel

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First published in 1967, this is an indispensable resource for information about the current Indian population and its affairs. The title may be misleading since information about the Canadian Indian population is also provided. It does not offer any chronological history of the North American Indian complete with pictures and maps, such as Carl Waldman's classical work, Atlas of the North American Indians, but instead provides a basic reference directory of current (1986) Indian activities, organizations, resources, and a "who's who" in the Indian culture.

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[Review Of] Jane Campbell. Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation Of History, Abby H. P. Werlock Jan 1988

[Review Of] Jane Campbell. Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation Of History, Abby H. P. Werlock

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Jane Campbell's timely study -- a revision of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation -- appears as an early and sustained response to Afro-American mythmaking, one of the central concerns of current black scholarship. Campbell posits that, to counter the dehumanized experience of blacks in America, Afro-American writers from 1853 to the present have utilized the romance genre to infuse history "with a mythic dimension," thereby transforming their characters from victims into actors who can change history. Beginning with William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853) and ending with David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident 1981), Campbell's exploration of the transcendent nature of black writing …

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[Review Of] David Montejano. Anglos And Mexicans In The Making Of Texas, 1836-1986, Helen M. Castillo Jan 1988

[Review Of] David Montejano. Anglos And Mexicans In The Making Of Texas, 1836-1986, Helen M. Castillo

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Montejano presents an organized historical perspective of Anglos and Mexicans in the making of Texas. Four major time periods of incorporation, reconstruction, segregation and integration are used effectively to compartmentalize major historical events, serve as accurate sociopolitical descriptors and facilitate reader comprehension of these events. This approach is particularly helpful to the novice historian in conjunction with the tables and maps used to illustrate the content discussed. Sensitive ethnic cultural issues are discussed objectively with inflammatory or emotion laden terms avoided. Though subtle, subjectivity is present in the author's interpretative comments of Texas-Mexico history; the reader gains a sense of …

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[Review Of] S. Frank Miyamoto. Social Solidarity Among The Japanese In Seattle, Neil Nakadate Jan 1988

[Review Of] S. Frank Miyamoto. Social Solidarity Among The Japanese In Seattle, Neil Nakadate

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Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle is a rare and irreplaceable study of Japanese American life prior to World War II. Its focus is "the social relational network of the Japanese community" as dominated by the immigrant, first generation Issei -- the intimate fusion of expectations, obligations, and reciprocity that prevailed in the years between immigration and internment. First published in 1939, Miyamoto's monograph was reprinted in 1981 and 1984 by the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Washington, each time with a new introduction by the author.

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[Review Of] Stow Persons. Ethnic Studies At Chicago, 1905-1945, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli Jan 1988

[Review Of] Stow Persons. Ethnic Studies At Chicago, 1905-1945, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

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The University of Chicago rose out of the marshes on the southside of Chicago in the 1890s to win recognition as one of the world's leading research institutes. The multiethnic city of Chicago, teeming with immigrants and displaced rural blacks, offered its sociologists an immediate challenge. These scholars were to directly influence the study of racial and ethnic groups and the field of sociology for many decades. However influential the work of the "Chicago School" was, their hold on American sociology was broken in the post World War II period as activists and intellectuals dealt with America's unfulfilled promise for …

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[Review Of] Ronald Takaki, Ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives On Race And Ethnicity In America, Ernest A. Champion Jan 1988

[Review Of] Ronald Takaki, Ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives On Race And Ethnicity In America, Ernest A. Champion

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From Different Shores is surely a very welcome addition to the growing body of research and serious study of ethnicity in America. Ronald Takaki has marshalled the expertise and scholarship of the more well-known scholars in the field and has produced a book which should be useful to serious students of ethnic studies.

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Title Index, Volume 10, 1987 Jan 1988

Title Index, Volume 10, 1987

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Titles index of Explorations in Ethnic Studies vol. 10, 1987

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The Co-Opting Of Ethnic Studies In The American University: A Critical View, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1988

The Co-Opting Of Ethnic Studies In The American University: A Critical View, Jesse M. Vazquez

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The birth of ethnic studies in the American university was accompanied by the politics and pedagogy of rage, pride, and mistrust for the then prevailing curricular academic structures and its tradition-bound, academically conservative gatekeepers. The campus take-overs, student demands, and confrontations were a common expression of the times, and concomitantly these were also shapers of the changing times. The presence or absence of ethnic minority faculty and students in our universities was and continues to be one of many indices by which we measure the willingness of this society to live up to its responsibility and promise to guarantee expanding …

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Ethnic Studies In The Twenty-First Century: A Proposal, Charles C. Irby Jan 1988

Ethnic Studies In The Twenty-First Century: A Proposal, Charles C. Irby

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If you will consider the dualistic thinking which undergirds Western philosophical tradition, then it comes as a surprise to no one that the periodization of history is based on white male experiences as the sum of western civilization, especially the glorification of war and the celebration of unbridled "raw-power." So, too, it is not surprising that Aristotelian logic and Cartesian metaphysics form the godhead for monocultural and unisexual education in U.S. society, which is at the least bisexual and multicultural. For a decade-and-a-half now, ethnic, minority, and women's studies proponents have suggested that their purposes for existence were to challenge …

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Contributors Jan 1988

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1988

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Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott Jan 1988

Ethnic Studies Past And Present: Towards Shaping The Future, Otis L. Scott

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Ethnic Studies as a curriculum at predominantly white colleges and universities remains a relatively new phenomenon in academe. The recent history of these formations can be traced back to the several social change movements of the 1960s. These changes, spearheaded by the civil rights movement and the black student protests in the South in early 1960s, provided the impetus for the social change spillover which many college and university campuses were to experience in earnest beginning with the mid-1960s.[1]

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[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez Jan 1988

[Review Of] Susan E. Keefe And Amado M. Padilla. Chicano Ethnicity, Joe Rodriguez

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Chicano Ethnicity is a valuable contribution to ethnic scholarship and the question of why people of Mexican descent in the U.S. choose different names. Chicano, Mexican-American, American of Mexican descent, and Mexicano are distinct. Since this population is heterogeneous, Keefe and Padilla study how three primary factors, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Loyalty, and Assimilation/Acculturation account for such diversity. These three primary factors shape unique expressions of group identity and an extended sense of the self.

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[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Minrose C. Gwin. Black And White Women Of The Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood In American Literature, Louise Mayo

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In this book, Minrose Gwin explores the interrelationships between women as a model of Southern racial experiences. In order to understand "this volatile, often violent connection between black and white women of the Old South," she examines a wide variety of books including proslavery and abolitionist fiction of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives, diaries, and modern fictional versions of the Southern slave experience by Faulkner, Cather and Margaret Walker.

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[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo Jan 1988

[Review Of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper Of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer And American Racism, Russell Endo

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While American history is replete with outrageous and tragic examples of racism, two of the most prominent in recent memory are the government's World War II removal and internment of Japanese Americans and its postwar attack on the tribal rights and consequently the services, reservations, and cultural integrity of Native Americans through a policy known as "termination." Ironically, these two episodes intersect in the person of Dillon Meyer. Meyer ran the vast archipelago of Japanese American concentration camps as the Director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) from 1942-46 and then administered a larger system of lndian reservations as the …

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[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada Jan 1988

[Review Of] Hyung-Chan Kim, Ed. Dictionary Of Asian American History, Victor N. Okada

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A result of the collaboration of several dozen specialists, this new reference work provides a wealth of information about the largest groups of immigrants who went east to settle in the United States: the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and Southeast Asians. It includes brief historical sketches of each of these groups and essays on a number of topics such as Asian-American literature, immigration law, and educational issues that affect Asian Americans. It also includes alphabetically arranged entries on hundreds of topics, a chronology of Asian-American history, and a bibliography.

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[Review Of] Donald M. Taylor And Fathali M. Moghaddam. Theories Of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, Linda Gonzalves Jan 1988

[Review Of] Donald M. Taylor And Fathali M. Moghaddam. Theories Of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, Linda Gonzalves

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This ambitious book comes at a time when the resurgence of intergroup conflict sounds a despairing note to those of us who have spent more years than we care to count struggling for a united front against an oppressive ruling class. To keep heart we need to periodically focus on the progress that has been made and, in Mao's words, review our accomplishments and transgressions in order to "make the past serve the present." For those of us working in the academic enterprise, this means that the tools of our trade, our theories and our methods, must be criticized and …

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[Review Of] Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Editor; Miklos Pinther, Cartographer. Atlas Of Great Lakes Indian History, Elizabeth Whalley Jan 1988

[Review Of] Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Editor; Miklos Pinther, Cartographer. Atlas Of Great Lakes Indian History, Elizabeth Whalley

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Surprising as it may be, this is the first atlas of Great Lakes Indian history. Originally, Helen Hornbeck Tanner was involved in a research assignment which caused her to collect information on Great Lakes Indians at the time of the Revolution. After finding that maps of the Great Lakes Region were erroneous or deceptive, and that Ohio maps were marked with "little known area" or "insufficient information," she carefully developed this atlas. A bibliographic essay at the end of the atlas describes the enormous research that went into mapping these ethnic groups' histories. A noteworthy variety of sources were analyzed: …

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[Review Of] Carlos Bulosan. America Is In The Heart: A Personal History, S. E. Solberg Jan 1988

[Review Of] Carlos Bulosan. America Is In The Heart: A Personal History, S. E. Solberg

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First published in 1946, America Is in the Heart has reached a seventh printing (1986). Carlos Bulosan's "personal history" has evidenced remarkable staying power, and that mainly in the Asian American ethnic communities and the academic programs which describe and support them. This is all the more remarkable in a book that has been damned by Philippine critics for giving a distorted view of the Philippines, and by American critics for distorting the history of the Filipino in America. Despite all this, the popularity, and the sense of "rightness" that surrounds the book can be explained rather easily once certain …

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[Review Of] D. H. Melhem. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry And The Heroic Voice, William H. Hansell Jan 1988

[Review Of] D. H. Melhem. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry And The Heroic Voice, William H. Hansell

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This book might have worked out as an article, but it was a gross mistake in book form. That is to say, on the development of what Melhem calls the "heroic voice" there might have been an intelligent and informative study of about article length. I can't be certain, however, that Melhem had a definite sense of her subject, because "voice" sometimes means "prosody," sometimes "form," sometimes "subject" (or "theme"), most often (possibly!), "style."

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[Review Of] Alexandru Moscu (Director/Co-Producer) And Joel Geyer (Writer/Co-Producer). In Search Of Freedom: Nebraskans From Latvia, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1988

[Review Of] Alexandru Moscu (Director/Co-Producer) And Joel Geyer (Writer/Co-Producer). In Search Of Freedom: Nebraskans From Latvia, David M. Gradwohl

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Alexandru Moscu and Joel Geyer have produced a program which provides many penetrating insights into the dimensions of ethnicity in the United States. Furthermore they packaged the program in a manner which is not only instructive but also emotionally moving and aesthetically pleasing. The result is a scholarly and artistic gem.

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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1988

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] William K. Powers. Beyond The Vision: Essays On American Indian Culture, Richard F. Fleck Jan 1988

[Review Of] William K. Powers. Beyond The Vision: Essays On American Indian Culture, Richard F. Fleck

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Powers' collection of seven essays (mostly about Lakota culture) is of great value to students of Native American Studies. They vary in approach and topic from ethnomusicology to art, religion, and psychology. In his preface Powers pays tribute to Levi-Strauss' structuralist theory and its usefulness to American Indian cultural studies. But Powers qualifies his tribute by suggesting that because structuralism has its limitations, eclecticism is more appropriate for his purposes.

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[Review Of] James North. Freedom Rising, Judith E. O'Dell Jan 1988

[Review Of] James North. Freedom Rising, Judith E. O'Dell

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Freedom Rising seeks to personalize for the reader the dehumanizing effects of apartheid, the political and economic system in South Africa which is based on race. This is accomplished by providing the reader with an understanding of the nature of apartheid, by showing how it affects the lives of the people who live within its reach, and by providing a history of the resistance to apartheid. The book itself is a chronicle of the people North encountered and the places he visited during his four and one half years of traveling in South Africa and its neighboring countries. For the …

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[Review Of] John J. Bukowczyk. And My Children Do Not Know Me: A History Of The Polish Americans, Joseph T. Makarewicz Jan 1988

[Review Of] John J. Bukowczyk. And My Children Do Not Know Me: A History Of The Polish Americans, Joseph T. Makarewicz

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Bukowczyk provides us with an easily readable and brief general history of Polish Americans. Unfortunately, there is nothing new in it. The works of Helena Z. Lopata, Victor Greene, Ewa Morawaka, and John Bodnar give a more intimate understanding of Polonia.

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[Review Of] Beryl Gilroy. Frangipani House, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1988

[Review Of] Beryl Gilroy. Frangipani House, Charlotte H. Bruner

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Frangipani House is basically a portrait of Mama King, a patient in a Caribbean nursing home. She reveals much of her past in her reveries as she watches out her window from her hospital room. "Matron think I do nothing ... but thinking is hard work .... And everybody think my mind empty, my head empty, and my heart empty. I see people, dead and gone, walking and talking and young. And out of my old worn out body, a young woman walk out and life is like roll of new cloth waiting to roll out." She interacts intermittently with …

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