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Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Anthony J. Cortese
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Historically, scientific racism has provided reinforcement for maintaining the status quo. Researchers who sought to discover and explain racial difference in intelligence generally operated from a functionalist or social facts paradigm. Gilbert Gonzalez shows that “Racism was essentially an ideological explanation for the social structure, and did not affect the distribution of property, but rationalized that distribution.“ In sum, scientific racism indicated that the social structure was based on the genetic make-up of racial categories.
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Richard Santillan
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Gilbert Gonzalez’s “Racial Intelligence Testing and the Mexican People" is a major contribution in analyzing the educational factors which result in social inequality among the Mexican population in the US. For decades, the power elite has espoused the myth that educational achievement for minorities is the key to social upward mobility. Instead, Gonzalez views education as a system which perpetuates and maintains racial and class divisions in our society.
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Unraveling the tangle of theses that shape the Skovira essay, “Some Symbols of Identity of Byzantine Catholics," exposes not only the intersecting dimensions of ethnicity but also the complex nature of semiotics. Before we can accept the author’s concluding remarks on symbols, we need to consider the ramifications of these various theses. It so happens that the two major theses clash: one suggests ethnic assimilation; the other implies a strengthening of national identity. Perhaps some clarity can be achieved if we consider these themes separately.
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart
Critique [Of African And Pac!Fic Literature: A Comparative Study], R. Dennis Stewart
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Kristine Martin’s study makes available the relatively little-known literature of the southern Pacific basin islands. Her article has merit because it is compared with the more widely-read African literature, and she makes a significant contribution with the comparisions [comparison]. Both the Pacific selections, a recent phenomena, and the older African works are transitional literatures — striving to connect the colonized past with a post-colonial synthesis which is relevant to the author of the intended audience. As Martin shows. the audience is composed of compatriots.
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Wolfgang Binder
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Wolfgang Binder
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Professor Forbes’ article represents a timely and important contribution. It should, if need be, serve as a means of raising the readers’ historical consciousnesses during a period in which dramatic changes in U.S. economic and social policies are under way, in a time when unabashed power politics seem to be imposed on half the globe by the ruling classes of both great imperial powers.
Institutional Racism, Vine Deloria Jr
Institutional Racism, Vine Deloria Jr
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Much of the activity in the 1960s revolving about civil rights reflected the belief that racism was a personal flaw which could be corrected by the proper adjustment of federal laws to give substance to the promises of citizenship. George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Bull Connor all personified racism with their determined efforts to prevent blacks from achieving full citizenship rights and their excesses spurred them to action when it was believed that with the power of the federal government curbing the activities of a few die-hard racists discrimination would finally be conquered. The emphasis on personal attitudes obscured the …
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 1982
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Shirley Vining Brown
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Shirley Vining Brown
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Forbes’s analysis of fascism reveals that fascist tendencies are dormant seeds of exploitation that resurface and flourish under conditions of greed or when exploitive systems are threatened and opposed by those they oppress. Because fascism is more than politics and shares a symbiotic relationship with supportive and enduring cultural values, he is correct in directing our attention to those historical and cultural antecedents that give rise to omnifarious forms of fascism in this country and elsewhere. Cultural values and their symbiotic connectedness with political decisions are perhaps the single-most important feature of fascism considered in this timely and cogently discussed …
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1982
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Frank J. Cavaioli
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Frank J. Cavaioli
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Writing from the vantage point of the 1980s, white historians have questioned the earlier simplistic interpretations of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy. Certainly that “democracy” excluded blacks, Indians, women, and the poor, since it was modeled on the ancient Athenian system. It is clear that these and other evils were compromised and were not resolved to the complete satisfaction of the masses. For example, though the Civil War produced the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments white Americans devised other systems to keep blacks in an inferior position.
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Olivia Mercado
Critique [Of Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People], Olivia Mercado
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Educational institutions are representative microcosms of the society. If the society segregates, exploits, and excludes racial groups, then it can be expected that educational institutions will follow suit. The intelligence testing of the 1920s and 1930s was an academic response to eugenics theories and to contemporary political-economic policies related to immigration, miscegenation, and segregation. As Gonzalez concludes, the creation of intelligence tests and their application were not only an apologia but also a means to maintain the status quo in the society.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Barbara F. Luebke
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Barbara F. Luebke
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
“The complex of concepts which western peoples use to process data and make decisions are the ultimate enemy of minorities. . . .” As an educator, and especially as one involved in educating journalists, I found myself drawn to Deloria’s statement.
Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People, Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Racial Intelligence Testing And The Mexican People, Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In the 1920s and 1930s the Mexican school age population increasingly participated in the educational system of the US. Meanwhile, many first experiences of these children with the state came in the form of educational research. The intelligence testing movement had a brief history before then, one which was gathering much momentum and greatly encouraged by corporate foundations and the cooperation of university administrations. The rapid immigration in the 1920s and settlement of Mexicans into colonias of the Southwest coincided with the rise of academic research and publications on racial intelligence as well as with the combination of mass compulsory …
Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas, Jack D. Forbes
Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas, Jack D. Forbes
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The Italians may have given us the word “fascismo,” but whether we use that word or the Spanish ”falangismo” or the German “National Socialism” (Naziism) we are talking about a form of social organization which has a complex history. Indeed, many persons wrongly believe that fascism as a political system first achieved state power in Italy in the 1920s. However, fascism in modern times first achieved independent (sovereign) power in the Americas -- in the Argentina of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1830s) and in the Confederate States of America (1860-1865).
Introduction, Charles C. Irby
Introduction, Charles C. Irby
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This issue of Explorations in Ethnic Studies brings into focus the vision NAIES has had from the onset, i.e., the pursuit of ”explorations and solutions” to problems within the context of oppression as they relate to the coloured ethnic minority experience in the US. and other places. In two separate essays, lack Forbes and Vine Deloria present issues which ethnic studies proponents must address if such study is to be viable. These writers recognize ethnic studies as being about the business of empowering individuals to be creatively involved in their futures. Forbes and Deloria present varying perspectives, recognizing the history …
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Anthony J. Cortese
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Anthony J. Cortese
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
As Deloria indicates in the opening lines of his essay, the dominant paradigm of racism in the 1960s reflected the popularly held belief that racism was an individual phenomena. Consequently. if racist individuals were confronted and curtailed or converted, the argument concluded, then discrimination would come to an end. However, history has shown us that we can have racist institutions without having racist individuals. For instance, our education institutions perpetuate racial, as well as sex, inequality. Yet it is possible for every member of such an institution to be non-racist, as well as non-sexist.
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], David M. Johnson
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], David M. Johnson
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
To quote the cartoon character Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." The key strength in Forbes' analysis of fascism is his wide-ranging historical sweep and the way he shows that many elements in American character, such as prejudice against immigrants and eagerness for the spread of American ideas overseas, are related to fascistic tendencies throughout American history.
The Editor Notes
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The importance of this issue is that it provides the kind of germinal and topical issues which move the ethnic studies process in the directions which make a difference in educational institutions.
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Marvin J. Happle
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Marvin J. Happle
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In the sixties, the scattered attacks against various manifestations of racism briefly coalesced into a broad based movement. Some gains were made, chiefly in the areas of voting rights, consumer discrimination, and education. However, the movement failed to significantly alter the wealth distribution system through the achievement of employment equity, this could only have resulted from affirmative action in all sectors and at all levels of the economy. But in the employment struggle, the confrontation was much closer to the heart of capitalist institutions and was perceived as a greater threat to the stability of those institutions.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 5, no.1, 1982
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Kathleen Hickok
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Kathleen Hickok
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Vine Deloria’s incisive analysis of institutional racism in western culture applies equally well to the related problem of institutional sexism. Both women, and minorities especially individual members of minority racial groups who are immediately recognizable by members of the dominant white culture - belong to a caste rather than a class in western society. As such, we are all subjected by the traditions of white male philosophical. and intellectual processes as much as by existing socio-political institutions to the different varieties of exclusion, co-optation and disempowerment that Deloria outlines. In the past decade particularly, women’s situation in American political and …
Explorations In Ethnic Studies
Caneburning, Sheila Rosecrans
Caneburning, Sheila Rosecrans
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Includes poem by Shelia Rosecrans: Caneburning.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 5, no.2, 1982
The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby
The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In keeping with the format of Explorations in Ethnic Studies, this issue includes articles with critiques of each. Although the articles are referred before acceptance, the editors believe that additional responses provide both the writer and the reader with ideas to continue research in the same area or to apply the concepts to yet new projects. We invite readers to respond to the articles included in this issue and to indicate their own willingness to write critiques of future articles.
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Robert J. Skovira
Some Symbols Of Identity Of Byzantine Catholics, Robert J. Skovira
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This essay is a description of some of an ethnic group’s symbols of identity”, its aim is to explore the meanings of the following statement: [Byzantine Catholics] are no longer an immigrant and ethnic group. Byzantine Catholics are American in every sense of the word, that the rite itself is American as opposed to foreign, and that both the rite and its adherents have become part and parcel of the American scene.”
Blind Man's Point Of View, J. L. Rooff
Blind Man's Point Of View, J. L. Rooff
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Includes poem by J.L. Rooff: Blind Man's Point of View
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
[Review Of] The Immigrants Speak: Italian Immigrants Tell Their Story By Salvatore J. Lagumina, Frank J. Cavaioli
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In The Immigrants Speak, Italian Americans Tell Their Story LaGumina has fashioned fourteen personal life histories that include miners, shoemakers, a poet, an artist, theater people, a social worker, a soldier, a lawyer and an entrepreneur. Through their recollections they have increased our understanding of the Italian American experience. Their stories. told in the first person, both dramatize and illuminate the role of ethnicity in the twentieth century. As LaGumina states, “These stories detail the lives of a people bridging two cultures in modern history.”
Critique [Of A Proposed Model For Advocacy Services For Mexican Undocumented Aliens With Mental Health Needs], Helen G. Chapin
Critique [Of A Proposed Model For Advocacy Services For Mexican Undocumented Aliens With Mental Health Needs], Helen G. Chapin
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Mexican undocumented aliens are and will continue to be a presence in the United States. This Proposal cites a 1972 study of an estimated eight million illegal aliens in this country, a figure that has climbed sharply since that date. Positive contributions toward improving the living and working situations of this population are, therefore, necessary and important.