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[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan
[Review Of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos In Louisiana, William Oandasan
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Marina E. Espina's Filipinos in Louisiana is her long awaited, first collection; it is also an announcement of her book on eighteenth-century Filipino settlement in Louisiana and the United States, Manilamen in the New World. The chapters of Filipinos in Louisiana are Espina's articles in chronological order covering two decades of research, all of which were published between 1976 and 1981 in Philippine News, New Orleans Ethnic Cultures and Perspectives on Ethnicity in New Orleans. Filipinos in Louisiana opens a little-known compartment in the history of the Filipino-American community. Espina, as a professional librarian, has had access to archival resources …
[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell
[Review Of] Peter Kwong. The New Chinatown, Jim Schnell
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Peter Kwong presents a provocative portrait of Chinese-Americans in The New Chinatown. This book describes aspects which have been the basis for the development of Chinese-American culture. However, the book does not (as the title indicates) clearly differentiate between a "new" Chinatown and an "old" Chinatown. Thus, an initial review left this reader wondering why the book is titled as such.
[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] William N. Fenton. The False Faces Of The Iroquois, David M. Gradwohl
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This scientific and artistic tome on Iroquois Indian masks, literally a "coffee table book," has been a long time in production. It is the culmination of over sixty years of interest and study by William N. Fenton, deservedly acknowledged as the dean of Iroquois studies. The author's interest in the subject began during his childhood when he spent summers at his family's farm in up-state New York. His grandfather, W.T. Fenton, had obtained two masks from Amos Snow, an Iroquois friend and neighbor, during the mid-nineteenth century. His father, J. W. Fenton, acquired more than a dozen additional masks as …
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
[Review Of] James S. Frideres, Ed. Multiculturalism And Intergroup Relations, Hartwig Isernhagen
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A volume of the policy and concept of multiculturalism is particularly welcome at a moment when the issue of minority vs. majority rights is once again flaring up in academics and politics. Canada is at the center of this discussion; but comparisons with the US (and Israel) are frequently made, and the US-American situation is explored at length in two essays by Rose. Also, the editor's introduction, though dealing explicitly only with Canada, raises basic issues of the ambivalent view of ethnic difference in liberal thought that transcend national boundaries.
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
[Review Of] Paul C. P. Siu. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study Of Social Isolation, Susie Ling
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There are two tales behind Paul Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation. It is his detailed insider's description and analysis of the Chinese Americans who were commonly tracked into this occupation prior to World War II. The immigrant laundrymen of Chinatown worked long hours for low wages and predominantly remained isolated from mainstream Anglo society. This recent publication of Siu's 1953 dissertation is also the story of a son of a Chinese laundryman who immigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a student of Ernest Burgess at the University of Chicago School of Sociology dominated …
[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
[Review Of] Aurora Levins Morales And Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive, Margarita Tavera Rivera
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How does one get home when being home is not safe? Or how does one get home alive when the spirit can be killed in the journey there? Getting home alive means searching for the sacred place from which all life emanates. This search is an all consuming passion for both Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales.
[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch
[Review Of] Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy, Mary Ann Busch
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Few middle and upper class Americans, whether they are black or white, can fathom the extent of humiliation, suffering, and brutality that black people are currently enduring as a result of the South African apartheid policy. Mark Mathabane's autobiographical book Kaffir Boy documents the inhumane treatment of blacks in that society and relates the "meaning of this policy in human terms." The book gives the reader insight into the daily life of a black family struggling to survive in the midst of hatred and bigotry.
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
[Review Of] Bernard W. Bell. The Afro-American Novel And Its Tradition, Doris J. Davenport
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According to Bell, his book is "a comprehensive sociopsychological, sociocultural interpretive history of the Afro-American novel. It seeks to unearth, identify, describe, and analyze some of the major thematic, stylistic, and structural characteristics of the Afro-American novel from its beginning in 1853 to 1983." This quotation about the book's scope and intention, as well as its title, are indicative of the strengths and weaknesses (mainly the latter) of the entire study. For one thing, it is an understood fact that just as there are African-American experiences, there are also literary traditions. Whereas one study of one tradition (such as Barbara …
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Kristin Herzog
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It is risky for an editor to compose a book of twenty-one interviews , each being centered in the same type of questions: What started you writing? Who were your models? What role does your tradition play in your work? How do you relate to mainstream poetry? The amazing result of reading this book is the recognition that it is neither repetitious nor dull, but highly informative and a pleasure to read. The reason for this outcome lies not only in the poetic sensibility, literary knowledge, and psychological skill of the interviewer, but in the quality of the poets selected …
[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Kofi Awoonor. Until The Morning After: Collected Poems, 1963-1985, Charlotte H. Bruner
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Until the Morning After represents a large share of the poetry and the life of Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor. The poems are grouped by sections, titles of earlier volumes arranged sequentially. Much of Awoonor's rather stormy life, including his political protest, strategic self-exile, and incarceration is reflected in this collection. But there are central themes: a love of land, an ethnic pride, a desire to perpetuate local expressions and natural beauties. Despite his years abroad and extensive travels, Awoonor's poetry is very African. In fact, it is a celebration of Africanness. Characteristically, although he signed his earlier work as George …
[Review Of] E. Jane Gay. With The Nez Perces: A Lice Fletcher In The Field, 1889-92, Gretchen Harvey
[Review Of] E. Jane Gay. With The Nez Perces: A Lice Fletcher In The Field, 1889-92, Gretchen Harvey
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Persons interested in Indian history will not want to overlook this collection of E. Jane Gay's letters written from Nez Perce (Nimipu) country between 1889-1892. On four separate trips to the West, Gay accompanied her friend, special agent and anthropologist Alice Fletcher, whose job it was to coordinate the allotment of the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho. While "Her Majesty" (Gay's endearment for Fletcher) figures prominently in the correspondence, the letters tell us less about Fletcher than the subtitle suggests. What they do provide, however, is an insightful account of the allotment process at the local level, and herein lies …
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
[Review Of] Ivan Light And Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans In Los Angeles, 1965-1982, Evelyn Hu-Dehart
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This latest study of immigrant entrepreneurs to come out of the collaborative efforts of sociologists Light and Bonacich is another significant contribution to Asian American Studies specifically, but also to ethnic studies, immigrant studies, urban studies , and business-economic studies in general. It contributes to our understanding of the history of Los Angeles, and it constitutes an important companion piece to existing studies of Korean Americans, such as Illsoo Kim's work on Koreans in New York City. As a case study, it also elaborates on the related theoretical models of "middlemen minorities" and "immigrant entrepreneurs," and how, in this case, …
[Review Of] Ruth Kirk. Tradition And Change On The Northwest Coast: The Makah,Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, And Nuxalt, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Ruth Kirk. Tradition And Change On The Northwest Coast: The Makah,Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, And Nuxalt, David M. Gradwohl
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Much has been written about the traditional social organization, art, and technology of the Northwest Coast Indians whose settlements stretch from the state of Washington, through British Columbia, and into southern Alaska. In this volume, writer-photographer Ruth Kirk summarizes the historic and present-day culture of four native groups in the southern part of this region: the Makah, Southern Kwakiutl, and people who call themselves Nuu-chah-nulth and Nuxalk. Until recently, the latter two groups were referred to, respectively, as the Nootka and the Bella Coola. Kirk's task, undertaken with the sponsorship of the Royal British Columbia Museum, was to update information …
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
[Review Of] August Wilson. Fences, Robert L. Gilbert
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At the turn of the century, playwrights wrestled with realism and wrought a new theater capable of great poetic and symbolic force. It was an exciting time because artists turned their talents to subjects which had never been deemed fit for the stage. The classic requirements of rank and verse were swept aside as audiences learned that even illiterates could make music with their tongues, and that eloquent, serious exploration of the human condition extended well beyond the provinces of kings and queens.
[Review Of] Russell Thornton. American Indian Holocaust And Survival: A Population History Since 1492, Elmer R. Rusco
[Review Of] Russell Thornton. American Indian Holocaust And Survival: A Population History Since 1492, Elmer R. Rusco
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A sociologist, Thornton has written a thorough and balanced demographic account of Native American societies in what became the United States from before the arrival of Europeans to the present.
[Review Of] D.C. Poole. Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Julian Rice
[Review Of] D.C. Poole. Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Julian Rice
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From 1869 to 1870 many Oglala and Brule Sioux lived together on their first reservation, the Whetstone Agency, on the Missouri river near Fort Randall, South Dakota. Poole was the reservation agent from 1869-70, and his memoir of that period (published in 1881) introduces the drama of cultural conflict that persists to the present day. The agent had been ordered to use persuasion of every possible kind to induce the Lakota to abandon their way of life and to turn to farming. He had been instructed to regard his wards as children, but he often expresses admiration in many of …
[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey
[Review Of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians, Gretchen Harvey
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Over time the Kalispel Indians of northeastern Washington resisted all federal attempts to remove them from their original homelands. Their tenacious attachment to the land eventually enabled them to gain title to a small reservation on the Pend Oreille River. Never fully satisfied with the size of their reservation (4,269.27 acres) and determined to ensure their cultural survival, the Kalispels initiated a land claims case in 1950. Thirteen long and politically difficult years later the tribe settled for three million dollars. Thereafter, they used the settlement to secure their economic future.
[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride
[Review Of] W. Grant Dalstrom, David Lachar, And Leona E. Dahlstrom. Mmpi Patterns Of American Minorities, David Mcbride
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This anthology bobs out of the stormy sea of psychological research centered on minorities. The relationship between psychometrics and American minorities such as blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics, is a long and troubled one. Prior to World War II standardized psychologic instruments were used mostly to assess and compare educational performance or "temperament" of whites and blacks or other racial minorities. But criticism emerged which questioned the reliability of such psychological tests. The tests seemed to find that, first, blacks and other minorities were inferior educational achievers compared to whites; and, second, severe psychosocial deficiencies of these minority group populations …
[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Beth Brant. Mohawk Trail, Helen Jaskoski
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This is Beth Brant's first collection of her own work (she also edited A Gathering of Spirit, a collection of writings by American Indian women, for Sinister Wisdom). Length, genre and approach are mixed: poetry, short story, vignette, ritual, coyote tale. Thematic unity emerges in the book through Brant's focus on integrating and synthesizing her Mohawk family heritage with her current situation as writer, urban mother, and lesbian lover. The piece titled "A Long Story" brings the three themes together in the alternating soliloquies of a nineteenth-century Indian mother whose children have been wrenched a way to boarding school and …
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
[Review Of] D. L. Crockett-Smith. Cow Boy Amok, Alan Spector
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Politically-oriented poetry is difficult to do well. Many politically oriented writers resist displaying a certain type of passion, the type of intense commitment that helps a writer convey ideas without being didactic, because displaying such intensity may make the writer feel vulnerable or weak in public. Conversely, many poets and artists use their art to grasp and convey what they see as profound dichotomy need not hold firm, however. Art, including poetry, has shown itself to be an effective way to convey important ideas, and the political struggles that surround issues of racial violence, oppression, war, famine, and the destruction …
[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker
[Review Of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory Of Fire: Genesis, Kathleen Danker
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The first volume of a trilogy by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire: Genesis has been called remarkable, fascinating, vivid, passionate, angry, celebratory, and triumphant. It could also be called a history of Latin America to 1700, though that gives little sense of its style or scope. In his introduction, the author describes himself as "not a historian," but as "a writer who would like to contribute to the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America, that despised and beloved land." To do this he has created a great mosaic of stories, most of …
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Ronald D. Dennis. The Call Of Zion: The Story Of The First Welsh Mormon Emigration, Phillips G. Davies
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Like so many accounts of immigration, this has both a dark side and a light side. The latter is primarily a story of courage and determination and final success. The former is one of persecution and of propaganda, both pro- and anti-Mormon.
[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua
[Review Of] Marilyn Chin. Dwarf Bamboo, Cheng Lok Chua
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This is a more than capable first book by a Chinese American woman poet whose work evinces great potential. Marilyn Chin is a San Franciscan born in Hong Kong, raised in Oregon, and schooled in the U.S. (Chinese at Massachusetts and creative writing at Iowa). Many of her poems gathered here first saw light in journals like Bridge, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Kayak and others.
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
[Review Of] Major J. Jones. The Color Of God: The Concept Of God In Afro-American Religious Thought, Ivan Ainyette
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Covering the period from the beginning of slavery in America and up to the present, this important and powerful book demonstrates the necessity for a black theology. Major Jones provides an incisive analysis of each entity of the Godhead-God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and relates it to the oppressed African-American. Drawing on his own impressions and the findings of many other theologians, Major Jones has provided an informed up-to-date basis for black Christianity. This book is an excellent synthesis of the paucity of research on African-American theology. However, the book does not appear to meet one of its …
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Adam Fairclough. To Redeem The Soul Of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference And Martin Luther King, Jr., Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Following David J. Garrow's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Bearing the Cross, Adam Fairclough makes extensive use of information gleaned from FBI wiretaps as well as other sources in an effort to peruse the soul of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Fairclough's subtitle is no accident, for he focuses at least as much on the SCLC as he does on King. Significantly, this emphasis causes him to add a chapter about the SCLC after King's death, a postscript not available in other books about King.
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Leoncio P. Deriada. The Dog Eaters And Other Plays, Glen M. Kraig
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In this work Deriada portrays through a series of seven plays an accurate portrayal of life in the Philippine Islands. The images presented could only be developed by someone who has lived and experienced the culture first hand.
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Richard E. Meyer, Ed. Cemeteries And Gravemarkers: Voices Of American Culture, David M. Gradwohl
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The twelve individual essays contained in this volume were originally presented as papers in the Cemeteries and Gravestones Section at a conference of the American Culture Association. A short foreword by James Deetz, an early leader in the anthropological study of New England cemeteries from the colonial period, provides some instructive initial insights into the wealth of cultural information which can be derived from the study of mortuary behavior in the United States. Meyer's thoughtful introduction and his topical bibliography, though not exhaustive, will be of considerable utility for those wishing to pursue the research topic further. An index along …
[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz
[Review Of] Gail H. Landsman, Sovereignty And Symbol: Indian-White Conflict At Ganienkeh, Ronald N. Satz
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Anthropologist Landsman has written a fascinating study about the events surrounding the seizure of a 612-acre abandoned girls' camp in upstate New York in May 1974 by a group of Mohawks who named their settlement Ganienkeh. The ensuing Indian-white land dispute eventually culminated in the relocation of the Indians to parkland near the Canadian border in 1978 as a result of a unique arrangement, the Turtle Island Trust Agreement, which for "charitable, religious and educational purposes" under New York State law established "a permanent, non-reservation settlement of Indians claiming sovereign status."
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
[Review Of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body, S. E. Solberg
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In little over a decade this short novel has become a classic, developing a dedicated following, not only in Asian American communities and literature programs, but also in traditional literature programs alongside books such as Huckleberry Finn where the strategies are the same: the view of the world through the clear eye of youth, the puncturing of both pretense and pretension by the view from the bottom up.
[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones
[Review Of] Carolyn Martindale. The White Press And Black America, Allene Jones
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The White Press and Black America chronicles the many deficiencies of press coverage of black America. Martindale, an assistant professor of journalism at Youngstown State University, has worked as a newspaper reporter and section editor and has published articles in several scholarly journals. She is to be commended for her compelling and informative book.