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[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Lesser Evils: Ten Quartets, Carl R. Shirley
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This volume continues in the same vein as Small Faces, but here the poetic voice is more mature, more reflective. There are forty autobiographical essays treating many of the subjects of Faces: Soto’s wife and daughter, his pets (both present and past), friendships, recollections of his childhood and teen years, sex, and the details of his everyday life. There are also two movie reviews and an account of the writing of a review of a bad novel. The essays are grouped in fours, but they are not presented chronologically, and thus can be read in any order. Each of the …
[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) And The Missisauga Indians, Kristin Herzog
[Review Of] Donald B. Smith. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) And The Missisauga Indians, Kristin Herzog
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This excellent historical study will make a contribution in various fields: American Indian missions, Canadian history and Indian policy, history of Methodism, theory of acculturation, and -- in terms of Peter Jones's wife -- women's studies.
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. Small Faces, Carl R. Shirley
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This slim, superb collection is Soto's second foray into the field of prose (Living Up The Street: Narrative Recollections was the 1985 American Book Award winner). The thirty-one vignettes in Small Faces, written in December, 1983, and between June and August, 1984, are imbued with warmth, charm, and nostalgia. They touch subjects such as human nature, human relationships, and love, all from a very personal viewpoint that of the author. During the course of the book, we come to know the poet, his wife and daughter, and his friends. Selections treat the narrator's college days, travel, poetry and philosophy, as …
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
[Review Of] Howard L. Harrod. Renewing The World, Raymond A. Bucko
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Howard Harrod's work provides an interpretation of the religious and moral world of the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne and Blackfeet tribes of the Northwestern Plains. Well aware that the material he is utilizing represents interpretations by early ethnographers, he transcends this hermeneutical problem to provide an idealized reconstruction of this world guided by the theories of Schutz and Geertz and the work of Joseph Brown.
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
[Review Of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott And The Women Who Started It: The Memoirs Of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Keith D. Miller, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing account of the origins of the protest that triggered the entire civil rights movement and launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks.
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 9, Summer, 1989
[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert
[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert
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Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian of the Northern Lushootseed of Western Washington, has collected and edited thirty-three fine examples of Salish oral literature. As an instructor in Lushootseed Salish language and literature at the University of Washington, she has had excellent opportunities to collect material and work out a presentational form in English. This volume collects stories from the Myth Age with special emphasis on Raven, Mink and Coyote stories. These stories, largely "light and humorous," explore the actions of beings with human and animal characteristics who existed before the world was transformed into the world we see today. Hilbert …
[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser
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The editors in attempting to cover Chicano literature written since 1848 by Americans of Mexican descent have done a fine service for all students of American literature whether they are specialists or generalists, tyros or scholars. The work in more than one way provides a comprehensive reference guide.
[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo
[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo
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This book is a long-neglected product of the 1920s negritude movement, in which a new kind of primi ti vis tic in terest concerning the lives of black men and women in the African Diaspora took hold in the literary words of Europe and America. Batouala was written in French by Rene Maran, an Afro-Caribbean writer living in Paris in the 1920s, who had worked for several years in what was then known as French Equatorial Africa. This edition is a reprint of a 1972 English translation that adheres to the lyrical, sensuous style of Maran's prose and that follows …
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[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian
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Reply from Wilderness Island is Peter Balakian's third published collection of poetry. As with his two earlier works, Father Fisheye (1979) and Sad Days of Light (1983), this most recent one brings together the personal and the historical, as the poet further discovers connections between an American identity and an Armenian ancestry. The first section of the volume is a series of poems about the poet's late father.
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr
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It is difficult to know what to make of The Life of Okah Tubbee because it is difficult to know what to make of Okah Tubbee. In the 1840s and 1850s he was a performing musician, a ventriloquist, and an "Indian doctor." He claimed to be a Choctaw chief’s son who, somehow, had begun life as a slave in Natchez, Mississippi. His autobiography, possibly written by his wife (possibly of Delaware and Mohawk extraction), appeared in several formats and editions in 1848 and 1852.
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary
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Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982 is a landmark publication. It is a comprehensive record and holdings list of extant issues of 1,164 historical and current periodicals published for the past 150 years . The scope of this volume is broad, covering literary, political, and historical journals as well as general newspapers and feature magazines.
[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes
[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes
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Homecoming is that eternal and unrealizable dream for expatriated Filipinos, from the migrant workers of the 1930s to the skilled and professional immigrants of the last two decades. Sheer economic hardship or cultural estrangement after relocation consign them to limbo and leave-taking. Homecoming becomes an act to be imagined; a dream pursued by Carlos Bulosan in his village stories and 1950s novella, The Power of the People; a hope nursed by the "hurt men" of Bienvenido Santos's Scent of Apples (1981); an experience textualized by Ninotchka Rosca's account of the 1986 Four-Day Revolt in Endgame: The Fall of Marcos.
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton
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Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts is a collection of previously published material on related issues, different genres and varied circumstances written over many years. If a good book is one that can evoke interest and response in the reader while at the same time relaying some sort of message, this book ranks in that category.
[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton
[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton
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This new edition of Dancing Gods includes a six page foreword by Tony Hillerman, a fourteen page introduction by Erna Fergusson, and twelve pages of black and white illustrations prior to its 273 pages of manuscript. The text is arranged in nine units, with internal subdivisions, and ends with a ten page index.
[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan
[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan
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The past several years have witnessed the publication of a handful of books and articles focusing on Latino politics in the United States. These studies fall into three general categories: the first type of research attempts to shatter the popular myths about the lack of political sophistication among Latinos by discussing institutional obstacles which hinder Latino political aspirations; the second kind of study documents the rich organizational history of Latinos over the past century; the third type of literature promotes a variety of theoretical models as a way to explain the lack of influence of Latinos on the electoral process.
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser
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Gikandi, has added an excellent critical work to his earlier volumes on new African writers. Employing the techniques of modern criticism, he analyzes significant works of eleven African writers including, among others, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ferdinand Oyono, and Ayi Kwei Armah. He is concerned with the form-content relationship in the novels examined, as well as the part played by centers of consciousness of main characters. As he states, he set out to "show how ... life and consciousness" move from external reality of the novel to "interiority."
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez
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Felix M. Padilla's Puerto Rican Chicago is a noteworthy contribution to the ever burgeoning literature on the Puerto Rican community in the United States. While it is clearly a detailed sociological history of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago, it is also a study which positions this community in a broader network of racial, ethnic and class interactions. As more literature documents and analyzes the histories of diverse Puerto Rican settlements (from New York to Hawaii), scholars will begin to form a more complete picture of the impact of migration, race, labor and industry, and culture on the development of …
[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto
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Influenced by the teachings of his mentor and friend Manfred Halpern, David Abalos brings in this book a radically new understanding of the political choices that Hispanics living in the United States must make in their everyday struggle for survival.
[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez
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Lucha Corpi's novel, Delia's Song, operates on several levels which remain basically disparate; that is, we seldom have a sense of complete integration. Perhaps, finally Delia herself, must be seen as symbolic of the Chicana in search of self, although even this falters at times. Finally we cannot be sure if Delia represents all Chicana women, the educated Chicana, or the emerging Chicana. Even her name, "Artemis, the one from Delos .... Delia, the beautiful huntress," compounds the dilemma. Huntress of what? We've witnessed her sexual encounters with various males, Daniel, Mario, Fernando, Roger (the Anglo), Jeff, which suggest that …
[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian
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This work is of interest to any in ethnic studies for it outlines the need and process of establishing a new order of education which would serve the needs of cultural integrity and world unity. This latest version of Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda's description of such an education, published in 1986, is the culmination of decades of thought and observation by the author, who founded the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture in Calcutta. The Swami has also worked closely with UNESCO in furthering the aims of worldwide cultural education which would promote planetary diversity at the same time that it promotes world harmony.
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling
[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling
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With her latest book, Chinese American Portraits, Ruthanne Lum McCunn adds to her growing list of publications about the painful struggle and heroic survival of the Chinese in America. In an engaging novelistic style, accompanied by equally eloquent photographs, she tells detailed stories of seventeen diverse men and women, ranging from Yung Wing, educator and patriot, and the first Chinese to graduate from an American university (Yale, class of 1854), to Ho Yuet Fung, writer and filmmaker, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1970s. Interspersed within these primary narratives are photographs and lengthy captions telling the stories of other …
[Review Of] Sterling Plumpp, Ed. Somehow We Survive: An Anthology Of South African Writing, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Sterling Plumpp, Ed. Somehow We Survive: An Anthology Of South African Writing, David K. Bruner
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Somehow We Survive takes its title from an included poem by Dennis Brutus and is a collection of poems written in English by non-white South Africans. It is not a new book, having been published in 1982, but it still is worth the attention of Western readers, particularly of those who have not already become students of South Africa's shameful history of apartheid and the growing resistance of black and colored persons, both in direct action and literary activity. As the book is now available in paperback, at a modest price, it is worth having, in spite of its limitations.
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig
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The authors' stated purpose for creation of this book was that no work could be found which was appropriate for undergraduate students in an interdisciplinary course which related legal issues in case law to cultural pluralism. The authors stated that they desired to create "a book of readings drawing primarily on case law, but also including a wide variety of social science and humanitarian materials ... [with added] text which described and analyzed the content of these cases." The authors were very successful in this endeavor, in that they have put together an excellent compilation of cases which give a …
[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Gary Soto. The Elements Of San Joaquin, Carl R. Shirley
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California's fertile San Joaquin Valley is the setting of this first published collection of poems by one of Chicano literature's leading voices [other books include The Tale of Sunlight (1978), Father Is a Pillow Tied to a Broom (1980), Where Sparrows Work Hard (1981), and Black Hair (1985)]. Thirty-eight poems comprise the three sections which take the reader through a series of disturbing images of the region. (Critic Bruce-Novoa has compared Elements with T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land). In the first poem, " San Fernando Road," migrants are described in the language of travail as men " Whose arms/Were …
[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
[Review Of] Karl H. Schlesier. The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins, William Willard
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Schlesier has a necessary footnote advisory to readers explaining the way in which he has structured The Wolves of Heaven. In the advisory Schelesier [Schlesier] writes that the book is a slow read on purpose so as to develop the story of how it was that the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), came out of the boreal forest to become hunters of the northern plains, evolving eventually into the 19th century Tsistsistas bison hunting horse nomads.
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Philip E. Webber. Pella Dutch: The Portrait Of A Language And Its Use In One Of Iowa's Ethnic Communities, Phillips G. Davies
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This book does exactly what it says it will, namely to study how language is used by the some two hundred and fifty citizens of Pella who still make use of it. As such it should be useful to those interested in nineteeth [nineteenth] century emigrants from Europe whose descendants are still clinging to part of their ethnic roots.
[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig
[Review Of] Irene I. Blea, Toward A Chicano Social Science, Glen M. Kraig
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The author's stated purpose of this work was to "inform the reader about the Chicano population and its concerns" and "the potential impact of the group on America's future." In that sense the work is a resounding success. The author correctly points out that "those who teach and design policy relevant to Hispanic children are few ... [and thus] the need to understand the Chicano in order not only to be able to provide services but also better race and ethnic relations in the United States" is great.
[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison
[Review Of] Jennifer S.H. Brown And Robert Brightman. "The Orders Of The Dreamed":George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Kenneth M. Morrison
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This text addresses the complex challenge of comprehending religious otherness. Brown and Brightman present a previously unpublished 1823 letter journal of fur trader George Nelson in which he reflects on his struggle to understand the Cree and Ojibwa people he knew at first hand. While he constantly wondered at the strangeness of Algonquian religion, he also expressed his admiration as frequently. The Cree and the Ojibwa were thoroughly religious and, paradoxical as it seemed to Nelson, he did admit that their religion worked.