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[Review Of] Robert G. Lake, Jr. Chilula: People From The Ancient Redwoods, Lyle Koehler
[Review Of] Robert G. Lake, Jr. Chilula: People From The Ancient Redwoods, Lyle Koehler
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Since information concerning the northern California Chilula has rarely appeared in print and some observers have maintained that they no longer exist as a tribe, Robert G. Lake, Jr., attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the people. He not only demonstrates that they do, indeed, exist but also that much of their traditional culture remains intact. Using relevant archaeological and ethnographic literature, as well as on-site field study of village and ceremonial locations and the collection of a number of personal interviews from elderly Chilulas, the author draws a relatively detailed picture of hunting practices, fishing techniques, gathering, food …
[Review Of] Arnoldo De Ledn. The Tejano Community, 1836 - 1900, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Arnoldo De Ledn. The Tejano Community, 1836 - 1900, Wolfgang Binder
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De León's pioneering effort is a most welcome volume to Chicano Studies. The historian's findings in the history of the Mexicans in Texas during most of the last century present a major addition to our knowledge of how agrarian Tejanos lived from the Texas Revolution to the turn of the century.
[Review Of] Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Wisconsin Indians, John Heimerl
[Review Of] Nancy Oestreich Lurie. Wisconsin Indians, John Heimerl
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The author, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, is a native of Wisconsin born in Milwaukee, where she is now the Head Curator of Anthropology of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Prior to this position she was the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Lurie is author of The American Indian Today, which received an award for scholarship and has written Mountain Wolf Woman, the autobiography of a Winnebago woman, and numerous articles.
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Thomas C. Maroukis
[Review Of] Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Thomas C. Maroukis
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In December, 1977, one of Africa's most celebrated novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong '0, was arrested by the government of Kenya and imprisoned for a year without being charged, tried or convicted of any crime. Detained is his prison diary.
[Review Of] Sandra Pouchet Paquet. The Novels Of George Lamming, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Sandra Pouchet Paquet. The Novels Of George Lamming, Laverne GonzáLez
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There has been a steady stream of literary output from the Caribbean, much of which has been published first in England, and only later in the U.S. Although such fine writers as V.S. Naipaul, Edgar Mittelholzer, and George Lamming have produced noteworthy novels, relatively little criticism has been written. Therefore, these authors have all too frequently been overlooked in university offerings. That is not to say they have been totally disregarded, but that they have not been given the attention they deserve. For this reason, Sandra Pouchet Paquet's book of criticism The Novels of George Lamming as the first of …
[Review Of] Wilma Rudolph, Wilma, Stewart Rodnon
[Review Of] Wilma Rudolph, Wilma, Stewart Rodnon
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In 1960 at the 18th modern Olympiad in Rome, Wilma Rudolph, twenty-years-old and black from Clarksville, Tennessee, became the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals. Having experienced physical handicaps, racial prejudice, and bitter poverty, she had stretched her natural abilities to become the fastest woman runner of her day. Subsequently she received plenty of promotion but little cash, and her message calls attention to the precarious emotional and financial status of black American women, especially black American women athletes. This autobiography (Martin Ralbovsky, author of the excellent Destiny's Darlings, a boys-of-summer story of Little League baseball, is …
[Review Of] Clifford E. Trafzer. The Kit Carson Campaign: The Last Great Navajo War, Michael D. Green
[Review Of] Clifford E. Trafzer. The Kit Carson Campaign: The Last Great Navajo War, Michael D. Green
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This is Clifford Trafzer's eighth book, the fourth that deals with some aspect of Navajo history. It begins with a brief summary of Navajo history prior to the mid-nineteenth century, covers in some detail the military conflict that culminated in the invasions of the Navajo country in 1863-64 by troops under the command of Colonel Christopher Carson, and concludes with a recounting of the "Long Walk" to the Bosque Redondo, the Navajos' life there, and their return to their homeland in 1868. Trafzer depended on the invaluable federal military and Indian Office records, a number of Navajo accounts and reminiscences, …
[Review Of] Dino Cine!. From Italy To San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience, Jay Avellino
[Review Of] Dino Cine!. From Italy To San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience, Jay Avellino
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Examination of Dino Cinel's From Italy to San Francisco will take the watchful coordination of both eyes. His introductory chapter draws one eye to clear professional "social history," supported by an extensive bibliography, dominated by Italian sources including official provincial and national records and punctuated by a comprehensive bibliographical essay. The other eye is painfully drawn to some questionable scholarship.
[Review Of] Barbara Bryant, Producer. Just An Overnight Guest (Film), Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Barbara Bryant, Producer. Just An Overnight Guest (Film), Gretchen M. Bataille
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Based on Eleanora E. Tate's book, Just An Overnight Guest tells the story of a family faced with an unexpected "guest." Rosalind Cash and Richard Roundtree portray the parents of ten-year old Margie who cannot understand why her mother has brought home a ragged six-year old to live with them. The mother, a teacher, recognizes that little Ethel has been neglected and lacks any semblance of middle-class manners, but her impulse is to help the child. As it turns out, Ethel has not only been neglected but also mistreated as the marks on her back bear out. The two girls …
[Review Of] Brian Swann, Ed. Smoothing The Ground: Essays On Native American Oral Literature, Susan Scarberry-Garcia
[Review Of] Brian Swann, Ed. Smoothing The Ground: Essays On Native American Oral Literature, Susan Scarberry-Garcia
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The red and black Chumash pictograph reproduced on the cover of Smoothing the Ground shows an alert human figure poised amidst a group of animal and bird people, all related by the stars that are their hands and feet. As Ken Roemer, one of the contributors to this collection of essays on Native American ethnopoetics, says: "The constellation tales give listeners relatives in the sky." Stories, like starfeet, reflect this kinship.
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 3, Summer, 1983
[Review Of] Lloyd Fernando, Ed., Malaysian Short Stories; K. S. Maniam, The Return; And Wong Meng Voon, Glimpses Of The Past, Cheng Lok Chua
[Review Of] Lloyd Fernando, Ed., Malaysian Short Stories; K. S. Maniam, The Return; And Wong Meng Voon, Glimpses Of The Past, Cheng Lok Chua
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These three books of fiction are set in the multilingual and multiracial context of Singapore and Malaysia, two Southeast Asian nations once part of the British Empire and now a region peopled by a volatile mix of indigenous Malays (roughly 45%) and immigrant Chinese (43%), Indians (10%), and Europeans (0.4%). Reflecting the diversity of this region, one book is a short story anthology by a Chinese (Wong), another a novel by an Indian (Maniam), and the third a collection of stories edited by an Eurasian ( Fernando). All three books have some astonishing strengths and some unfortunate lapses, with Maniam's …
[Review Of] Rebecca Chua, The Newspaper Editor And Other Stories, Hua-Yuan Li. Mowry
[Review Of] Rebecca Chua, The Newspaper Editor And Other Stories, Hua-Yuan Li. Mowry
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Over the past decade, Sinologists in the West have given much scholarly and critical attention to the study of contemporary Chinese fiction as produced by writers in the People's Republic of China and in Taiwan. In contrast, little scholarly dialogue has concerned fictional works, in Chinese or in any other language, published by writers of Chinese parentage who live outside China or Taiwan and who are known as "overseas Chinese." (A single exception to this is, perhaps, the work of Maxine Hong Kingston.) English language readers interested in contemporary Chinese literature will thus welcome this collection in English of fifteen …
[Review Of] Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge Of Beyond, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge Of Beyond, Wolfgang Binder
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Simone Schwarz-Bart's first novel (1972) makes highly commendable reading for anybody interested in Afro-Caribbean literature. Barbara Bray's translation does remarkably well in capturing the poetic texture of the narrator's (Telumee) account; Bridget Jones' introduction is useful but could have focused more on the novel itself and on its sources.
[Review Of] Thomas Kochman, Black And White Styles In Conflict, Warner R. Traynham
[Review Of] Thomas Kochman, Black And White Styles In Conflict, Warner R. Traynham
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Race, class and culture are the ingredients of black-white relations in America. Thomas Kochman's book attempts to separate out the cultural component of this mix and to examine it because he believes that it is both ignored and the source of much interracial conflict. The author is Professor of Communications and Theatre at the University of Illinois and has taught and researched in the area of black language and behavior. His background has clearly made him sensitive to aspects of black culture, a sensitivity he exploits in his book.
[Review Of] Gloria Kumagai (Project Director), America's Women Of Color: Integrating Cultural Diversity Into Non-Sex-Biased Curricula, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Gloria Kumagai (Project Director), America's Women Of Color: Integrating Cultural Diversity Into Non-Sex-Biased Curricula, Gretchen M. Bataille
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This is an extensive project with multiple uses for the classroom teacher or director of a multi-cultural, non-sexist teaching program. Kumagai has drawn on the resources of a number of persons to help write, test, and evaluate the materials included.
[Review Of] Reuben K. Udo, The Human Geography Of Tropical Africa, Charles C. Irby
[Review Of] Reuben K. Udo, The Human Geography Of Tropical Africa, Charles C. Irby
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The author explains in the preface that his book "is written for students preparing for the General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level)" as well as "students in Advanced Teachers' Colleges, Colleges of Education and undergraduates taking courses on Africa or African Studies."
[Review Of] Charles A. Ward, Philip Shashko, And Donald E. Pienkos, Eds., Studies In Ethnicity: The East European Experience In America, Lyle Koehler
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Studies in Ethnicity is a collection of papers read at the conference "Aspects of the East European Experience in Europe and America" held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 4-5, 1979. The editors have arranged the papers under three headings : "Ethnicity and Language Maintenance in America," "Ethnic Social Organization: Secular and Religious Dimensions," and "Ethnic Writers in America."
[Review Of] Amiri Baraka And Amina Baraka, Eds., Confirmation: An Anthology Of African American Women, Richard L. Herrnstadt
[Review Of] Amiri Baraka And Amina Baraka, Eds., Confirmation: An Anthology Of African American Women, Richard L. Herrnstadt
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In his introduction to Confirmation, Amiri Baraka points out that the anthology is not "intended, in the same way that Black Fire was, to attack the house-negro appropriation of bourgeois aesthetics. Rather the purpose of this volume is to draw attention to the existence and excellence of black women writers." The volume accomplishes that extraordinarily well. Confirmation is a major contribution, for it provides solid illustration of the range of work being produced by an impressive number (an even fifty) of accomplished black women writers.
[Review Of] Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb, Laverne GonzáLez
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Formerly called British Honduras, Belize, an emerging third world country, second smallest in Central America, originally became a part of the British Empire because its coast gave sanctuary to British sailors and pirates. But a thousand years or so before, the land formed a small part of the mighty Mayan civilization. A dozen or more sites-Mayan centers-have been discovered in Belize and have offered up their pyramids and artifacts as silent testimony to the past. Becoming fully self-governing in 1964, the country continues to experience various power struggles; Guatemala claims Belize since, according to its doctrine, a province which successfully …
[Review Of] James Lafayette Glenn, My Work Among The Florida Seminoles, Michael D. Green
[Review Of] James Lafayette Glenn, My Work Among The Florida Seminoles, Michael D. Green
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James Lafayette Glenn's My Work among the Florida Seminoles is a memoir of his five-year tenure (1931-35) as United States agent to the Seminoles. Written in the mid-1940s as a long letter to his daughter, this document remained unpublished in the manuscript holdings of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society until it was discovered and edited by Harry A. Kersey, the leading student of recent Seminole history.
[Review Of] Lance Liebman, Ed., Ethnic Relations In America, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Lance Liebman, Ed., Ethnic Relations In America, Russell Endo
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This small volume contains six background papers prepared under the editorship of Lance Liebman, professor of law at Harvard, for a 1981 meeting on ethnic relations convened by the American Assembly, a well-known policy institution affiliated with Columbia University.
[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo
[Review Of] Marcienne Rocard, Les Fils Du Soleil: La Minorite; Mexicaine A Travers La Litterature Des Etats Unis, Sergio D. Elizondo
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The first major work of its kind published in France by an Americanist, Les Fils du Soleil (The Children of the Sun: The Mexican Minority as Seen Through the Literature of the United States) deserves recognition as a historical landmark and French contribution to the study of the Chicano. Its thorough treatment of the subject surpasses in thematic outreach all previously published works.
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[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry
[Review Of] Arthur Dong (Producer), Sewing Woman, Shawna Lindsey, David Beharry
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Married at thirteen years of age to an unknown husband, and pregnant two months later! How could her parents allow such a horror to happen? Zem Ping Dong would soon understand the Chinese way: to accept fate and do what must be done, regardless of the cost.
[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole
[Review Of] Sebastian Clarke, Jah Music: The Evolution Of The Popular Jamaican Song, William S. Cole
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In Jah Music, Sebastian Clarke has offered a wealth of information on Jamaican popular music especially to this reader who, although a musician and ethnomusicologist, knew very little about the popular music of Jamaica previously. Clarke has provided material on the roots and history of the music: the birth and development of Rastafarianism, then the evolutionary development of Jamaican music, and its three most powerful exponents, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. There is also a chapter on the spoken word, which is the key to all African-derived music. Whether articulated by voice or by another instrument, the word …
[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones
[Review Of] Leo Kanowitz, Equal Rights: The Male Stake, Lillian H. Jones
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Although it may be true that the equal rights movement for women will result in freeing both women and men from social and legal restrictions (and, in fact, it may be a rather convincing practical political argument), as a feminist, I find a book that supports these rights for women on the basis of reciprocally increased rights for men suspect. It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson arguing, in Notes on Virginia, against the continuation of slavery because of its debilitating moral effects on owners and their families. Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of …
[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Anne Curtenius Roosevelt And James G. E. Smith, Eds., The Ancestors: Native Artisans Of The Americas, Gretchen M. Bataille
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The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas is an illustrated catalog produced for a 1979 exhibition of the Museum of the American Indian which had as its purpose the exploration of the interrelationships between the arts and the cultures which produce them. This catlog [catalog] is refreshing in its thoroughness and in the way the artwork is integrated with the text. Exhibition catalogs often begin with a scholarly introduction and follow with hundreds of photographs of museum pieces only briefly identified. By contrast, The Ancestors begins with a series of color plates and follows with seven specific chapters on the …
[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] Ricardo L. Garcia, Teaching In A Pluralistic Society, And Donna M. Gollnick And Philip C. Chinn, Multicultural Education In A Pluralistic Society, Margaret A. Laughlin
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Americans live in a pluralistic society populated by persons of different ethnic backgrounds, languages, socio-economic levels, and religious beliefs. Within our society other personal characteristics are also evident, e.g., age, sex, physical and mental abilities. Too often value-laden, distorted messages and images are conveyed about those who are not viewed as being members of mainstream America. Prejudice becomes manifest and stereotypic misinformation is used to formulate major decisions affecting the lives of human beings.
[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Mothobi Mutloatse, Ed., Africa South: Contemporary Writings, Jean Bright
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The twenty-five selections, mostly short stories, reprinted here make painful reading for anyone sympathetic to the black African who must live under the daily indignities of apartheid. Considering the number of writers in exile, one may at first find those still living in South Africa suspect but, although the murderous violence familiar to newspaper readers is absent, there is still pain enough. For those unfamiliar with past or current events, fiction here is history as well as art.