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[Review Of] Shirley Goek-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa And Margarita Donnelly, Eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology, Cortland P. Auser

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Forbidden Stitch appears to be one of the better anthologies of the work of Asian American women writers. The editors have worked assiduously to make it comprehensive. It is an exceptionally fine selection of prose, poetry, essays, and reviews. In an introduction it is stressed that the collection underlines the differences among the writers, correcting the error of too many critics who homogenize the term "Asian American women." The writers lack a common history. "The thread they form is 'multi-colored' and 'many layered.''' "The voices are plural."

[Review Of] Americo Paredes. George Washington Gomez, Carl R. Shirley

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Américo Paredes is a figure quite familiar to anyone who has delved even lightly and briefly into Chicano literature, history, and culture. His long and distinguished career as a teacher at the University of Texas and his excellent scholarly publications have insured that his name is among the first encountered as one begins to examine the writings of Mexican Americans. "With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958) is a landmark study, and his collections, A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border (1976) and Folktales of Mexico (1979) are significant contributions to the corpus …

[Review Of] David Pilgrim. Race Relations "Above The Veil": Speeches, Essays, And Other Writings, Angelo Costanzo

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This is mostly a collection of speeches delivered to high school and college students by Pilgrim, who teaches sociology at Saint Mary's College/Notre Dame. A few of the talks were given to community and business groups in several Midwestern states, and thus each selection reflects the appropriate style and content level of the audience being addressed. The content of all the pieces, including the few essays and short stories, focuses on racial prejudice, but also deals with general biases pertaining to gender, ethnic group, and class.

[Review Of] Felicisima C. Serafica, Andrew I. Schwebel, Richard K. Russell, Paul D. Isaac, And Linda B. Myers, Eds. Mental Health Of Ethnic Minorities, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This edited collection is based on papers presented at a conference held at Ohio State University (1986), entitled Minority Mental Health: A Multicultural Knowledge Base for Psychological Providers. The chapters included in the book are expanded versions of the themes covered in the conference. This excellent book is a welcome entry into the ever-expanding field of psychology known variously as minority mental health, cross-cultural counseling, and multicultural counseling and psychotherapy. It is a field that has grown considerably in the last two decades, as counselors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers and researchers have attempted to understand …

[Review Of] Edward H. Spicer. People Of Pascua, Gretchen Harvey

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

On the surface, People of Pascua appears to be a focused anthropological field study limited to a narrow period of time. It should not surprise those who are familiar with Edward Spicer's preeminent scholarship on acculturation, however, that things are not always what they seem to be. It is true that this study concerning the Yaquis, begun in 1941, stems from Spicer's first field experience as a graduate student. Yet, People of Pascua has broader implications that go beyond the lives of the Yaquis who made Pascua Village, Arizona, their home. Spicer's methodology included biography as a means to better …

[Review Of] Dorothy Sterling. Black Foremothers: Three Lives, Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Black Foremothers is a much needed book written about the lives of three important black women: Ellen Craft, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell. The author, Dorothy Sterling, is to be commended for her ability to piece together the lives of these women and present them in such an interesting manner. In the foreword, Margaret Walker states that the author is highly qualified to write biographies of black women because of her intense study of American black people for at least twenty-five years.

[Review Of] Peter M. Whiteley. Deliberate Acts: Changing Hopi Culture Through The Oraibi Split, David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In this volume, Peter Whiteley, an anthropologist, probes into the reasons for the split in Oraibi, largest of the thirteen Hopi Indian communities in northeastern Arizona, early in this century. Oraibi was a thriving village in 1540 at the time of Coronado's entrada into the southwest; archaeological evidence suggests that the village was settled at least four or five centuries earlier. In 1906, one group of villagers angrily left or were forced out of Oraibi and established a settlement known as Bacavi. Previous studies have portrayed the Bacavi Hopi as "hostiles," that is, culturally traditional people who opposed U.S. goverment …

[Review Of] Roland E. Wolsey. The Black Press, U.S.A., Allene Jones

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The Black Press, U.S.A. is an interesting book written about black publications in the United States from a historical perspective. The author, a white professor emeritus of Journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University, is to be commended on his ability to organize the history of the black press in such an organized and interesting manner.

[Review Of] Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ed. 9 Plays By Black Women, Opal Palmer Adisa

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Black women writers, primarily novelists, have taken center stage for the last two decades, but black women playwrights have not been given similar coverage. The explanation, in part, is that plays are often only published after successful productions, and the plays by the majority of black women have only been produced in local, small theaters. Consequently, their works have not been given serious critical attention. Margaret Wilkerson's 9 Plays by Black Women showcases plays by established and well celebrated black female playwrights, like Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Beah Richards as well as less well-known playwrights whose works …

[Review Of] H. David Brumble Iii. American Indian Autobiography, Raymond A. Bucko

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

American Indian Autobiography provides significant insight into the nature and production of Indian autobiographies, past and present. Aware of the heterogeneity of native cultures, H. David Brumble perceptively demonstrates the continuity of these works with both their cultural and literary roots -- oral narrative. He elucidates six genera of oral narrative, convincingly establishing their continuity from the earliest to contemporary works. Stressing the bicultural nature of Indian autobiography, Brumble carefully analyzes both the effect of white editors working within the cultural assumptions of their eras in eliciting and shaping Indian autobiographies and the ramifications of culture contact and adaptation on …

The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role In Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This dissertation explores the critical role played by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper's editor, Lenoir Chambers, in moderating public opinion during Norfolk, Virginia's, 1958/1959 public-school closing.

In 1958 the nation's attention was focused on Norfolk. In an attempt to stymy judicially mandated integration, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., supported by the powerful political organization of United States senator Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., ordered the city to close its public schools.

Norfolk was a major urban area. Over ten thousand students were displaced by the state action; and four months after the closing, three thousand students were still receiving no education. …

Changes In The Black/White Income Ratio, 1939-87, Melvin Keys

Masters Theses

The Black/white income ratio (BWIR) has increased steadily from 1939-87 for families with two incomes. Early-on, the income disparity was greatest for black females compared to black males. Because of race and sex discrimination, black females were lagging far behind society in wage differences. Today, the opposite is true, black males lag far behind black females in income: compared to their white counterparts. One of the reasons for such a large reversal in income differences maybe the opportunities that were available to black females in such occupations as teaching and nursing from 1940-75.

Migration, which looks at regional composition, was …