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[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner
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A New Book of African Verse, edited by John Reed and Clive Wake, is actually a new edition of A Book of African Verse, which appeared in 1964 just as black literature of Africa and of the United States was gaining recognition, particularly in academic circles. The authors' intention has been consistently modest. From the first, the authors chose works from contemporary poets of French or English expression from Africa south of the Sahara. Certainly in 1964 their first volume brought attention to almost unknown poetry and was useful as " an introduction to new readers of African poetry."
[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe
[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe
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homegirls & handgrenades is a book of poetry and prose pieced together with a multitude of colors and a variety of shapes that form a large blanket that covers many aspects of life in this country, of people in general, and of black people specifically.
[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Political scientist Virginia Sapiro's introductory-level women's studies text is unusual in the ease with which it integrates the data bases which form the foundation for its multidisciplinary approach. Although it assumes no background in the social sciences, the book is nevertheless demanding in the rigor and complexity of its analysis. Striking a balance between societal and individual concerns, the work moves easily from one framework to another, drawing content and methodology from fields as diverse as biology and religion.
[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez
[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez
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At a time when social psychology as a field of study has reached a new high and journals and textbooks have proliferated to meet the new demands of social psychologists and students alike, the publication of the fifth edition of a basic social psychology text says something not only about the book's endurance but also about its basic soundness. Over the years, this volume has been used by thousands of students and in many ways has set the standard for other social psychology texts which attempt to give an introduction to the field. With this edition the high standard set …
[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl
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In this volume, insights into American Indian ethnicity are presented through synopses of the lives of eight individuals. Analyses of these lives exhibit dimensions of family and kinship ties, cultural traditions, acculturation vis-a-vis the dominant society, and personal choices. The eight lives selected provide some balance in terms of geography, tribal affiliation, and gender (five men and three women). Five of the individuals were born in the 1850s and 1860s and died between 1915 and 1947; one person lived from 1811 to 1875; another from 1880 to 1949; the eighth, still living, was born in 1937.
[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster
[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster
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This annotated bibliography on black Americans in various media formats came at a time when I was searching for bibliographic information on black women. As a result, I was able to locate several titles of articles from the Bibliography that were appropriate and timely. The entries reflect variety in source content, and the use of media fields helps to catalog the publication materials.
[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts
[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts
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This volume consists of twelve essays that address the history of black newspapers in the states that constituted the Confederacy. The intent of this collection, explains its editor, is to examine the southern black press "not only as an instrument of social change but as black enterprise, black crusade, and black artistic expression" (vii).
[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Fighters and Singers is a collection of fifteen essays written about Aboriginal women of Australia. The authors, mostly anthropologists and all women, wrote of their "sisters," "mothers," and "aunts." The pieces are all informative about tribal life, but they are also warm reminiscences of relationships across cultural boundaries. Among the contributors is Pearl Duncan, the first Aborigine to become a trained teacher in Australia and a former member of the National Aboriginal Education Committee.
[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
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In recent years, educators concerned with issues of access and equity have supported a variety of bilingual educational delivery systems. Similarly, feminists seeking representation and recognition have advocated inclusive language and nonsexist job titles. From these and other arenas, the relationship of language and power has surfaced as an issue of national importance. In this timely collection of essays, Kamarae and her associates have legitimated and extended the discussion.
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
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Lydon's history of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay region is a monument to the Chinese who immigrated to North America everywhere. The title Chinese Gold refers to a metaphor Lydon uses throughout his account of how "through their particular form of alchemy (insight plus ingenuity plus energy), the Chinese turned what they found into gold" (p. 504). The Chinese were able to see the resources of the Monterey Bay region where others could not and developed them "to the lasting benefit of the Monterey Bay region." But there are very few Chinese Americans in the region today and there …
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Herzog examines literary works of the mid-nineteenth century which reverse values, transcend stereotypes, and demand a reevaluation of the roles of "women, ethnics, and exotics" in fiction as well as reality. The ethnics are blacks and Indians; the exotics Herzog defines as " strikingly out of the orindary [ordinary]" or " excitingly strange" characters. Images of women are similar to the images of the "Noble Savages" and other non-white people in that all are considered "natural," more innocent or more demonic, more devine [divine] and more terrifying than white males . So too are they viewed as more passive, less …
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
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Beverley Ormerod displays real expertise in An Introduction to the French Caribbean Novel. She is a West Indian herself, and she knows the background and culture of the Caribbean: its African slave origins and the present quest for pan-Caribbean identity. After post-graduate research at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris , she earned her doctorate in French at Cambridge University. When necessary, she translates the French originals into English. She also knows various creoles of the islands and appreciates the linguistic variety there. She has taught Caribbean literature for twenty years.
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
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The sub-title of this enigmatic book is "A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing." The first of the two parts of the books deals primarily with definitions of Marxist aesthetics. For a serious work, not only are the cliches and terminology tiresome but the choice of quotations is unfortunate. Ngara quotes Marx's and Engel's opinion that Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte and Gaskell wrote novels "whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together." Ngara adds a pronouncement …
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
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Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow is an account of maturation or, put another way, of a black woman's willingness to confront her emergent self. Tastefully groomed, sixty-four year old Avatarra " Avey" Johnson leaves her suburban New York home to vacation with two friends on a West Indies cruise. Her decision to interrupt her plans, shortly after arriving at one of the destinations, is a surprise to everyone. Avey is compelled to discount the material investment she has made in the trip in order to follow a mind that has been haunted by dreams of her great aunt Cuney.
[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig
[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig
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Tiryakian and Rogowski have edited a strong and useful collection of nine theoretical and seven comparative articles on nationalism in advanced industrial societies in the West. What is new in the presentations in this work is the systematic comparison of a number of nationalist movements that have been treated hitherto as separate cases. The writers are focusing on nationalism in advanced capitalist economies rather than in developing nations or socialist industrial states, so examples are drawn from Quebec and Western Europe. A great strength of the collection lies in the richness of the analysis produced by contributors drawn from a …
[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder
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This first comprehensive history of the Jicarilla Apaches proves an indispensible [indispensable] tool for understanding this tribe, government and Indian relations, and the history of the state of New Mexico. Veronica Tiller was, despite being part of a prominent Jicarilla family, able to strike a balance between giving the reader a wealth of detailed facts pertaining to the tribe and its smaller organizational units and placing them within the larger context of government or New Mexico state policies. The author, who used an impressive number of government documents, is modest and clear sighted enough not to claim an Indian point …
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker
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Paul G. Zolbrod's Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story is a revision of Washington Matthews' "The Navaho Origin Legend" published in Navaho Legends (Boston: American Folklore Society) in 1897. Zolbrod justly describes Matthews' version of this narative [narrative] as "one of the world's significant literary works," and his rewriting of it makes it accessible as never before to English speaking readers. The narrative is essentially sacred in nature, dealing with the emergence of precursors to human beings through successive primal worlds and with male and female deities who must achieve harmony, peace, and balance between themselves and throughout the world …
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini
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Rejoice, students of ethnicity and Italian Americans generally! A body of scholarly literature on the Italian American experience is growing. Richard Alba's book, one of the Ethnic Groups in American Life Series (Milton M. Gordon, editor) is a recent addition to the quality social science writings about this ethnic group.
[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
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The video program Immigrants, Minorities and School raises a number of important issues related to the school experiences of today's racial and ethnic minority groups (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) when compared with the school experiences of the earlier white European ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States within the last century. There are both similarities and differences in the experiences of each racial and ethnic minority group.
[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner
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When Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, and Cosmo Pieterse sat as judges for the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award of 1981, they were faced with some 3,000 entries from more than 700 contestants from which they were to award three cash prizes and a number of book prizes. In the introduction to the book which they subsequently edited, consisting of eighty-two poems from forty-five writers from thirteen countries in Africa, they explain that they had told all entrants they were looking for "originality and imagination as well as evidence of technical skill." They state, also, that they "strove to deliberate …
[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen's The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social context of the current work is less benign. Factors implicated in the shift to more contentious racial and ethnic relations include a struggling national economy, separatist moves in Quebec and the West, a rapidly expanding non White immigration, and advancement of natural resource claims by aboriginal groups at a time when federal pressure for energy development in the …
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby
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Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite's purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many …
[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber
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This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs.
[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet
[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet
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Black actors, and more often than not white actors in blackface, appeared in stereotyped roles in American movies from the beginnings of the industry. Such classic directors as D.W. Griffith and John Ford mindlessly exploited blacks to counterpoint white supremacy and to bear the brunt of the focus of social and political change. Blacks, even more than American Indians, were the recipents [recipients] of the darker side of western irrationality. For example, intermarriage, long treated as a subtheme of Indian/white confrontation, met with virulent rejection in films which treated black/white relationships. Because of their growing numbers and because of long-standing …
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young
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At the turn of this century, a group of American blacks from the midwest migrated to Canada to become homesteaders in the remote town of Athabasca, Alberta. Hadley Irwin's latest novel for young people focuses on this little-known chapter of American history. The movement of entire towns of blacks north in search of freedom provides Hadley Irwin an ideal setting for a young boy's search for identity. Rap Davis' growth toward maturity, his determination to "be somebody" parallels the growth and determination of a people to be somebody.
[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson
[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson
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The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the ''invisible immigrants' of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America," never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale's realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence.
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts
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Poetry by American Indians may be traced to the writings of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee who came to California in the early 1850s, edited several northern California newspapers, and helped create the legend of Joaquin Murieta, and to the works of Alexander Posey, a Creek who wrote romantic nature poems and dialect stories in the style of the local colorists. Nonetheless, few Indian poets existed prior to the 1970s. Since then, there has been a tremendous surge in the numbers of Indians writing poetry, and their work has received a great deal of critical acclaim, as evidenced by the …
Table Of Contents
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 5, Summer, 1985
[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker
[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker
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Two publications important in the study of women's literature appeared this spring -- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and this anthology of previously published essays on feminist literary theory. These volumes will probably have greatest impact on university courses in women's literature, but one should not overlook their significance for ethnic studies. Like studies in ethnic literatures, feminist criticism has before it the task of defining a tradition outside of the main-stream and establishing a literary canon not previously acknowledged as valid.
[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
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A disturbing, extremely important book. The wealth of information provided by the authors illuminates the present circumstances of ethnic minorities in Western Europe, principally West Germany, and points to potential dangers and repercussions in the future. The thesis of Here for Good posits the change in status of the guest worker from that of migrant or temporary resident to that of immigrant or permanent settler in one of seven major host countries in Western Europe. This shift should mark a parallel shift in the political and economic policies which address the needs of the immigrants and their impact upon the …