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[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
[Review Of] Bette Woody. Black Women In The Workplace: Impacts Of Structural Change In The Economy, Alfred B. Konuwa Jr
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Bette Woody’s latest book is an incisive attempt to particularize the economic effects of structural changes in American society. As the title suggests, the book explores changes in the work content, job opportunities, and wages of Black women as a result of the trend towards a service economy in America.
[Review Of] John Wrench And John Solomos, Eds. Racism And Migration In Western Europe, Liliane M. Vassberg
[Review Of] John Wrench And John Solomos, Eds. Racism And Migration In Western Europe, Liliane M. Vassberg
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This collection of fifteen essays edited by Wrench and Solomos is derived from the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "Racism and Migration in Europe in the 1990s,” held in England and organized by the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick and the Public Policy Centre of the Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. The purpose of this international meeting was to bring together scholars working on these topics and to examine the European situation today. The proceedings analyze the social and political debates surrounding immigration in European countries, where the …
[Review Of] Doris Davenport. Voodoo Chile -Slight Return: Poems, Opal Palmer Adisa
[Review Of] Doris Davenport. Voodoo Chile -Slight Return: Poems, Opal Palmer Adisa
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doris davenport's poetry collection, Voodoo Chile - Slight Return, firmly connects her to the southern African roots that she embraces. The poems speak from the perspective of a world-traveled feminist as well as a concerned humanist. davenport's poetry moves between being so caustic they singe, to an almost light-hearted, humorous tone. In both extremes, davenport's underlining motive seems to be to expose ills and ridicule contradictions inherent in the society.
[Review Of] Diane Glancy. Claiming Breath, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] Diane Glancy. Claiming Breath, Laurie Lisa
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In her seventh book of poetry, Diane Glancy presents a moving account of the portrait of the artist as Native, woman, and poet. Of German, English, and Cherokee descent, Glancy's prose poetry, as she states in her "Preface," is often "about being in the middle ground between two cultures, not fully a part of either. I write with a split voice, often experimenting with language until the parts equal some sort of a whole." The Sixty-three poems in this volume (with the last composed of eight parts) are a non-linear journey, a physical and psychological traveling through the senses and …
[Review Of] Magdalena Garcia Pinto. Women Writers Of Latin America: Intimate Histories, Kristina Brooks
[Review Of] Magdalena Garcia Pinto. Women Writers Of Latin America: Intimate Histories, Kristina Brooks
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Talking with Mexican writer and critic Margo Glantz, Magdalena Garcia Pinto describes the interview process as "a dialogue with your mirror" (117). The exchanges she has with ten Latin American women are less transparent reflections of these writers, however, than they are guided conversations about their development as writers and their views about the distinctiveness of female literature. As a general introduction to Latin American women writers, Garcia Pinto's interviews do not provide the reader with a coherent or thorough view of how these women fit into (or break free from) Latin American literary movements or feminine/feminist traditions; rather, the …
[Review Of] Americo Paredes. The Hammon And The Beam And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Americo Paredes. The Hammon And The Beam And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
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Américo Paredes is a seminal figure in Mexican-American studies. Professor Emeritus of English and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, he is best known for his work in folklore, principally With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and lts Hero. But after a distinguished career as teacher and scholar, he has turned in recent years to literature (mostly written years ago), with the publication of a novel (George Washington Gomez) in 1990 and a collection of poetry (Between Two Worlds) in 1991. The present accumulation of seventeen stories, combined with Paredes’ novel and poetry, provide a …
[Review Of] Clifton M. Jean. Behind The Eurocentric Veils: The Search For African Realities, Freddie G. Young
[Review Of] Clifton M. Jean. Behind The Eurocentric Veils: The Search For African Realities, Freddie G. Young
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This book represents a thoughtful critique of Eurocentric traditions of social and historical analysis. The principal thesis, advanced in the idea of moving along the same cultural ideals and the same dynamic forces as the west, is an exceptionally brilliant idea. Both the liberal and Marxist systems subsume Third World cultural processes under universalist theories of evolution that do not apply universally.
[Review Of] Chalmers Archer, Jr. Growing Up Black In Rural Mississippi, Aloma Mendoza
[Review Of] Chalmers Archer, Jr. Growing Up Black In Rural Mississippi, Aloma Mendoza
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Archer's book is a non-fictional account of the pain and anguish of one extended family's struggle and fight during the 1930s and 1940s to survive the racist south.
[Review Of] Rafael Castillo. Distant Journeys, Julie Schrader Villegas
[Review Of] Rafael Castillo. Distant Journeys, Julie Schrader Villegas
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Rafael Castillo's collection of short stories takes us to the borders, whether they be geographic or psychic, where ironic humor laced with existential angst always looms. His characters range from academic Chicanos negotiating identities, to gorilla freedom fighters in EI Salvador. Their commonality lies in their struggles to find self-agency and identity within a rearranged world.
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
[Review Of] Genaro M. Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation Of Mexican American Autobiography, Susan L. Rockwell
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Genaro Padilla and University of Wisconsin Press should be commended for the publication of a much needed addition to the study of American autobiography, in general, and ethnic autobiography, in particular. Early Mexican American autobiographies remain largely ignored and forgotten. The importance of these autobiographies should not be ignored, however, especially with regard to the study of the West and Southwest. With this book, Padilla opens the door to the retrieval and study of these important historical documents.
[Review Of] Constance Wall Holt. Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography Of Women In Wales And Women Of Welch Descent In America, Martha A. Davies
[Review Of] Constance Wall Holt. Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography Of Women In Wales And Women Of Welch Descent In America, Martha A. Davies
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To be a Welsh woman, it seems, was to be doubly doomed to obscurity. Not only were women a less-public sector of society, but there was "Welshness" to contend with. It has been a case of Bibliographic Ethnic Discrimination. Too often entries have read: "Women, Welsh, See Women, English." And this occurs in spite of the fact that Welsh, being Celts, are a distinct group with their own language and culture, though they have long been subject to English rule.
Cumulative Index By Author, Nos. 7- 13 (1987-1993)
Cumulative Index By Author, Nos. 7- 13 (1987-1993)
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Cumulative index by author for numbers 7-13, 1987-1993 for Explorations in Sights and Sounds.
Table Of Contents
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Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 13, Summer, 1993
[Review Of] Claude Levi-Strauss And Didier Eribon. Conversations With Claude Levi-Strauss, Harriet Ottenheimer
[Review Of] Claude Levi-Strauss And Didier Eribon. Conversations With Claude Levi-Strauss, Harriet Ottenheimer
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This series of conversations between French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and French journalist Didier Eribon was first published in French in 1988. Happily, it has now been translated into English and can be more widely read in the English-speaking world. It is, in a sense, a guided autobiography, although one gets the impression that Levi-Strauss resists revealing too much of himself to Eribon and his readers. Nonetheless, one gains significant insights into the man and his world in at least two different domains: the personal and the academic. Ethnic studies scholars should find both of interest.
[Review Of] Jose Luis Colon-Santiago. La Primera Vez Que Yo Vi El Paraiso, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Jose Luis Colon-Santiago. La Primera Vez Que Yo Vi El Paraiso, Luis L. Pinto
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Written reminiscences have taken the form of a literary subgenre and are very popular among Puerto Rican writers residing in the United States. This literary form not only is an integral part of a serious body of literature in Puerto Rican letters, but in most cases, constitutes the first step taken by many of our writers. Such is the case of Colon-Santiago's first narrative experiment: La Primera Vez Que Yo Vi El Paraiso (The First Time I Saw Paradise).
[Review Of] James Robert Payne. Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] James Robert Payne. Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives, Laurie Lisa
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In the introduction to this excellent collection of critical essays on multicultural autobiography Payne states that what sets this work apart from most other works on autobiography, is "the attempt in this volume to bring together different critical voices, each speaking from an area of expertise on a particular American cultural tradition." Drawing on concepts developed at the 1982 Reconstructing American Literature Institute at Yale, Payne did not impose any theoretical orientation on the eleven contributors. Consequently, while the contributors have relied upon the current criticism and commentary on the blossoming field of autobiography, each is a recognized scholar in …
[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara
[Review Of] Bill Hosokawa . Nisei-The Quiet Americans, Kumiko Takahara
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Nisei, meaning American-born second-generation Japanese, is an epic scale undertaking of the recording of a brief but eventful history of the Japanese immigration to America by a Japanese American journalist. The book consists of twenty-seven chapters which are divided into three parts. The initial focus is on the settlement of the first generation Japanese immigrants in the 1870s, mainly in California and the Pacific states. Then the topic shifts to the emergence of a substantial Nisei population during the 1930-40 period, followed by their maturation through prewar segregation and the wartime internment experience. The third part accounts for the post-internment …
Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez
Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez
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In April of 1990, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., published an essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "When Ethnic Studies are Un-American."[1] The publication of that article followed, by about eight months, the release of New York State's Department of Education's now controversial report -- "A Curriculum of Inclusion."[2] Interestingly, the publication of The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society also follows, by about seven months, the release of New York State's second and most current Education Department report calling for the development of a new multicultural social studies curriculum -- One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of …
[Review Of] Lucy Thompson (Che-Na-Wah-Weitch-Ah-Wah). To The American Indian: Reminiscences Of A Yurok Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Lucy Thompson (Che-Na-Wah-Weitch-Ah-Wah). To The American Indian: Reminiscences Of A Yurok Woman, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Originally published in 1916, this autobiography of Lucy Thompson was accidentally rediscovered in the 1970s by Peter E. Palmquist when he was doing research on the photographer Emma B. Freeman. Palmquist sought out a copy of the book and what he found was Thompson's attempt to tell about her Yurok life in English, a language difficult for her to use to explain traditional Yurok culture. The original publication was poorly edited and locally printed, and, although this reprint has been edited to make it accessible, serious scholars might wish to compare this version to the original, which is available at …
[Review Of] Juan Suarez. Contra El Viento: Un Historia De Lucha Y Amor, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Juan Suarez. Contra El Viento: Un Historia De Lucha Y Amor, Luis L. Pinto
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Contra El Viento (Against the Wind) is an autobiography that reads like a novel. This biographical narrative is divided into four parts. The novel itself uses the device of a writer-narrator who pieces together the history of his life from the moment of his birth to the most difficult times, now being faced by the Suarez family as they confront the most daily grueling demands and special attention from a beloved member of the family, who suffers from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
[Review Of] William K. Powers. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] William K. Powers. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, David M. Gradwohl
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This book on Plains Indian music and dance goes far beyond its geographically indicated target. It provides an instructive view of musical performances as a paradigm for understanding cultural continuity and change not only among American Indians in general but, I submit, many other ethnic and minority groups. Powers's discussion includes descriptive material pertaining to the movements and costumes involved in Plains Indian tribal and intertribal dances. He also reviews and critiques a number of available audio tapes and records which should be of special interest to readers of Sights and Sounds.
[Review Of] S. Allen Counter. North Pole Legacy: Black, White, And Eskimo, George H. Junne Jr.
[Review Of] S. Allen Counter. North Pole Legacy: Black, White, And Eskimo, George H. Junne Jr.
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According to the Guiness [Guinness] Book of Records, Eskimos Egingwah, Ootah, Ooqueahand Seegloo, along with African American Matthew Henson, became the first humans to stand on the North Pole. The date of their famous journey to "where no one has gone before" was April 6, 1909. However, they were denied the status of "co-discoverer" with Robert E. Perry, who came along about forty-five minutes later. Perry's reward to Henson for reaching the Pole before him was to ignore Henson from that time. The names of the Eskimos were also dropped from history.
[Review Of] Marian Anderson. My Lord, What A Morning, Catherine Udall Turley
[Review Of] Marian Anderson. My Lord, What A Morning, Catherine Udall Turley
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When Marian Anderson passed away in April 1993 at the age of ninety-seven, the distinguished contralto was remembered as a gifted artist of great dignity and as a pioneer who shattered racial barriers in the arts. Indeed, most memorial tributes recounted her triumphant concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. On that occasion, which became one of the earliest symbols of the struggle for civil rights in America, Anderson sang after the Daughters of the American Revolution denied her use of the recital stage at Washington's Constitution Hall. Additionally, in 1955 Anderson became the first …
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[Review Of] Stephen Clingman. The Novels Of Nadine Gordimer: History From The Inside, Martha A. Davies
[Review Of] Stephen Clingman. The Novels Of Nadine Gordimer: History From The Inside, Martha A. Davies
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Nadine Gordimer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1991, celebrating nearly half a century of her writing of her homeland, South Africa. The prize-giving precipitated the reissue of this survey of Gordimer's work by Stephen Clingman, also a South African. His book was written as a doctoral dissertation for Oxford University. The second edition, under review in this article, is unaltered except for a "Prologue" in which Clingman examines Gordimer's two novels that followed changes in South Africa: the release of Nelson Mandela and other African National Party leaders and the apparent breakdown of apartheid.
[Review Of] Robert Rotenburg And Gary Mcdonogh, Eds. The Cultural Meaning Of Urban Space, Douglas D. Brimhall
[Review Of] Robert Rotenburg And Gary Mcdonogh, Eds. The Cultural Meaning Of Urban Space, Douglas D. Brimhall
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So begins The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, a compilation of urban case studies edited by Robert Rotenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the International Studies Program at DePaul University, and Gary W. McDonogh, Visiting Professor and Director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. These twelve very diverse chapters attempt to understand the construction of an urban landscape from the cultural and social perspectives of those groups that experience and manipulate the landscape.
[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa
[Review Of] University Of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian. Women, Race, And Ethnicity: A Bibliography, Laurie Lisa
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Women, Race, and Ethnicity had its origin in a series of reading lists prepared by the office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian in the mid-1980s; this newest edition supersedes an earlier June 1988 release. Containing almost 2500 sources, this volume provides a selective, annotated list of college-level print (including special journal issues and chapters in anthologies) and audiovisual resources, emphasizing recent materials on ethnic women in the United States (only a few Canadian materials are included). References are classified under twenty-eight disciplines and topics -- such as Anthropology, Education, Literature, Poetry, and Psychology -- and further …
[Review Of] Faythe Turner, Ed. Puerto Rican Writers At Home In The Usa: An Anthology, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Faythe Turner, Ed. Puerto Rican Writers At Home In The Usa: An Anthology, Luis L. Pinto
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Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA is the most recent, best edited and most complete anthology of literary texts, written in English, by the superstars of Puerto Rican letters residing in the United States of North America.
[Review Of] Pastora Sanjuan Cafferty And William C. Mcready Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Pastora Sanjuan Cafferty And William C. Mcready Hispanics In The United States: A New Social Agenda, Luis L. Pinto
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This book is an unrevised third printing of eleven inspiring essays written by twelve social scientists who have devoted years of research to their respective fields. The book opens with an enlightening introduction by the editors, Pastora San Juan Cafferty and William McReady.
[Review Of] Arthur S. Evans, Jr. And David Lee. Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, Harriet Ottenheimer
[Review Of] Arthur S. Evans, Jr. And David Lee. Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, Harriet Ottenheimer
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This is a delightful book. Using the words of over two dozen individual residents of Pearl City, Florida, the authors have put together a group autobiography with both historical and sociological significance. A brief introduction provides background and methodology, and two final chapters by Evans and Lee provide analytical insights and theoretical perspectives on questions of history, sociology and social geography.