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[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert Jan 1989

[Review Of] Vi Hilbert, Tr. And Ed. Haboo: Native American Stories From Puget Sound, James Ruppert

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Julio A. Martinez And Francisco A. Lomeli. Chicano Literature: A Reference Guide, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Rene Maran. Batouala, Angelo Costanzo Jan 1989

[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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Explorations In Sights And Sounds Jan 1989

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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[Review Of] Peter Balakian. Reply From Wilderness Island, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Okah Tubbee. The Life Of Okah Tubbee, William A. Bloodworth Jr Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1989

[Review Of] James P. Danky And Maureen E. Hady, Eds. Native American Periodicals And Newspapers, 1828·1982, Donald L. Guimary

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons Jan 1989

Critique [Of Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic? By Howard Adelman], Victoria Aarons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Adelman's historical account of the rise and development of Jewish studies in European and American universities has implications not only for the current debate regarding the appropriateness and place of Jewish studies programs in the academy but also for the place of ethnic studies in university curricula in general. I believe the most compelling argument against ethnic studies programs in higher education charges them with institutionalizing specific ideologies and thus undermining the self-critical investigation of divergent positions within a traditional discipline. But this charge raises an equally troublesome presupposition : that courses of study can and should be compartmentalized into …

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Critique [Of Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas By Alan Spector], Steve Gold Jan 1989

Critique [Of Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas By Alan Spector], Steve Gold

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In reading Alan Spector's paper, I was reminded of British sociologist Christie Davies' cross-national analysis of ethnic jokes. In it, she argues that majority members of a society stereotype others in order to reduce their own anxiety about social position. Davies found that such jokes tend to fall into either one of two catagories [categories]. The first and most common type of ethnic joke addresses those groups who live below one's own station in life.[1] By referring to them, one can elevate his/her own status and hence feel a bit more secure. A second type of joke ridicules groups who …

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Critique [Of Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas By Alan Spector], Barbara L. Hiura Jan 1989

Critique [Of Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas By Alan Spector], Barbara L. Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The author of "Asians, Jews, and the Legacy of Midas" presents a provocative comparative analysis of Asians and Jews. Spector utilizes both a cultural and economic basis for understanding the function of Asian stereotyping and applies his analysis to the Jewish situation. While the American context provides the locus of his research, he does present his argument in an international context. Spector illustrates how the categorization of Asians and Jews as the "model" for economic success is dehumanizing as such a perception "drain(s) the life out of human beings and concretizes them into non-human statues." The conclusion of this author's …

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Equity And Excellence In Education--Compatible Concepts Or Hostile Abstractions?, Theresa E. Mccormick Jan 1989

Equity And Excellence In Education--Compatible Concepts Or Hostile Abstractions?, Theresa E. Mccormick

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Since 1983, with the publication of five well-known national reports calling for reform in education,[2] the later release of other reports by prestigious groups (such as the Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession and the Holmes Group), and the enactment of approximately 700 state statutes focused on school reform,[3] the push for excellence has overshadowed earlier commitments to equity in schools. As Orlich writes, "In at least one instance, implementing the proposals of these two groups [Carnegie and Holmes] would have the same undesirable effect: reducing the number of minority teachers from few to virtually none."[4] This movement …

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Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas, Alan Spector Jan 1989

Asians, Jews, And The Legacy Of Midas, Alan Spector

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In much of the U.S. media today, Asian-Americans are being hailed as the new "wonder group." Local newspapers seem to be filled with articles about how this student from Pakistan won the spelling bee and that student from Japan won the math contest. Weekly news magazines carry articles extolling this phenomenon, and many liberals and conservatives alike enthusiastically promote the stereotype: liberals because it combats the racist myth that people of color are intellectually inferior to Euro-Americans ("whites") and conservatives because it can be used to promote the idea that any ethnic group can make it if only they work …

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The Merging Of Traditional Chinese Medicine And Western Medicine In China: Old Ideas Cross-Culturally Communicated Through New Perspectives, James A. Schnell Jan 1989

The Merging Of Traditional Chinese Medicine And Western Medicine In China: Old Ideas Cross-Culturally Communicated Through New Perspectives, James A. Schnell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The People's Republic of China is engaged in reforms which involve development of its economic, cultural, educational, and political processes. The need for reform has been realized as China has fallen behind the development of the western world in many areas. China closed its doors to the outside world in 1949, and it experienced limited interaction with the outside world until reform began in 1979.

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National Newspaper Analysis Of The Press Coverage Of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: The Confirmation Of The Candidate, J. Gregory Payne, Scott C. Ratzan, Robert A. Baukus Jan 1989

National Newspaper Analysis Of The Press Coverage Of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign: The Confirmation Of The Candidate, J. Gregory Payne, Scott C. Ratzan, Robert A. Baukus

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns have motivated thousands of citizens throughout America to take a more active role in politics. The 1984 campaign witnessed many previously unregistered Americans actively participating in Jackson's call to join the "Rainbow Coalition." Four years later, Jackson once again hit a responsive chord within the American electorate, broadening his support base in his second run for the White House. His vibrant campaigns presented challenges not only to the American system of government, but also to accepted journalistic traditions in campaign reporting. Specifically, the dilemma has been a difficult one for journalists responsible for …

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[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes Jan 1989

[Review Of] Michelle Maria Cruz Skinner. Balikbayan / A Filipino Homecoming, Oscar V. Campomanes

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Michael Thelwell. Duties, Pleasures, And Conflicts: Essays In Struggle, Samuel Hinton Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Erna Fergusson. Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials Of New Mexico And Arizona, Charline L. Burton Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan Jan 1989

[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Ed. Ignored Voices: Public Opinion Polls And The Latino Community, Richard Santillan

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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.

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[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1989

[Review Of] Simon Gikandi. Reading The African Novel, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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."

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A House Divided Against Itself: A Comment On "Mastery, Slavery, And Emancipation", Kendall Thomas Jan 1989

A House Divided Against Itself: A Comment On "Mastery, Slavery, And Emancipation", Kendall Thomas

Faculty Scholarship

Hegel argues in the preface to the Philosophy of Right that "every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts." "It is just as absurd," he maintains, "to fancy [the German word is einbilden: imagine, presume] that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes." This is a hard saying. It suggests that " '[t]here is not one of our ideas or one of our reflexions which does not carry a date.' " The fact that …

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[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Puerto Rican Chicago, Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1989

[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 …

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[Review Of] David Abalos. Latinos In The United States, Luis L. Pinto Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Lucha Corpi. Delia's Song, Laverne GonzáLez Jan 1989

[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 …

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[Review Of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education For Human Unity And World Civilization, Margaret Bedrosian Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling Jan 1989

[Review Of] Ruthanne Lum Mccunn, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories, 1828·1988, Amy Ling

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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[Review Of] Sterling Plumpp, Ed. Somehow We Survive: An Anthology Of South African Writing, David K. Bruner Jan 1989

[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.

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[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig Jan 1989

[Review Of] Jill Norgren And Serena Nanda. American Cultural Pluralism And The Law, Glen M. Kraig

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

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 …

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Critique [Of Pica: Consideration Of A Historical And Current Problem With Racial Ethnic/ Cultural Overtones By Ella P. Lacey], Phyllis Gray-Ray Jan 1989

Critique [Of Pica: Consideration Of A Historical And Current Problem With Racial Ethnic/ Cultural Overtones By Ella P. Lacey], Phyllis Gray-Ray

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Pica, an eating disorder that is very prevalent among blacks, particularly southern, rural, pregnant women, is a serious problem that has received inadequate attention among researchers. Lacey's analysis of the importance of this disorder is made clear in her article.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1989

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 12, Issue 1, 1989

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Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic?, Howard Adelman Jan 1989

Jewish Studies: Are They Ethnic?, Howard Adelman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The history of Jewish studies has not yet been written. Scholars engaged in this field, however, are beginning to subject it to searching analysis. Pertinent articles have appeared that offer two extreme positions on the development of Jewish studies: one sees the increase in Jewish studies as the result of heightened Jewish self-awareness during the late 1960s because of the Six Day War, growing interest in the Holocaust, and the influence of rising black and ethnic consciousnesses that resulted in the establishment of academic programs. The other, usually a reaction to the first view, argues that the study of Hebraica …

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