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The Persistence Of Ethnicity In African American Popular Music: A Theology Of Rap Music, Angela M. S. Nelson Jan 1992

The Persistence Of Ethnicity In African American Popular Music: A Theology Of Rap Music, Angela M. S. Nelson

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The racial oppression of black people in many ways has fueled and shaped black musical forms in America. One example is the blues which originated in the rural South among poor, nonliterate, agrarian African Americans.[1] In the North the music became more formalized, and singers such as Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ida Cox, and Sarah Martin became known as the queens of the "classic blues." Another musical genre is jazz, which was largely based on the twelve-bar blues harmonic structure and phrasing. It was more "polished" than the earlier New Orleans jazz at the turn of the …

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Table Of Contents Jan 1992

Table Of Contents

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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 15, Issue 1, 1992

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Narrative Quilts And Quilted Narratives: The Art Of Faith Ringgold And Alice Walker, Margaret M. Dunn, Ann R. Morris Jan 1992

Narrative Quilts And Quilted Narratives: The Art Of Faith Ringgold And Alice Walker, Margaret M. Dunn, Ann R. Morris

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There have been two main streams of influence on Chicano artists aside from the obvious one that is the result of their artistic training, education and development in the United States. The primary influence came from Mexico, first during the colonial period in the form of New Spanish art and architecture, and then in modem times provided by the Mexican muralists through their work and their use of pre-Columbian art. The New Spanish materials formed the nucleus for the second stream of influence composed of the various manifestations of religious folk art found primarily in the Southwest.

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[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle And Success, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1992

[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle And Success, Phillips G. Davies

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This book should be of primary interest to people at the some thirty colleges and universities which offer courses in Greek American literature and culture. First published in 1980, the major strong point of this book is that the two added chapters and appendix deal with very recent developments on the Greek American scene, particularly the candidacy of Michael Dukakis for president.

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[Review Of] Shay Youngblood. The Big Mama Stories, Opal Palmer Adisa Jan 1992

[Review Of] Shay Youngblood. The Big Mama Stories, Opal Palmer Adisa

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Shay Youngblood learns how to tell stories from her many Big Mamas. The tales answer questions about her biological mother who is dead, what it means to be a woman, and how it feels to be black in Princeton, Georgia, prior to the civil rights movement. The voices of Big Mama, Miss Emma Lou, Aunt Mae and others leap off the page, and take readers on a journey into homes, on porches, and down the river fishing. Each story is a piece of a puzzle that adds to form a complete picture of the protagonist.

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[Review Of] Gertrude Ezorsky. Racism And Justice: The Case For Affirmative Action, Brij B. Khare Jan 1992

[Review Of] Gertrude Ezorsky. Racism And Justice: The Case For Affirmative Action, Brij B. Khare

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In this attention-grabbing book, the author addresses issues on affirmative action as an answer to American racism. No doubt, there is a strong penalty for black Americans inside the American social milieu, and a remedy was sought for this through the affirmative action program. The 1960s marked the onset of affirmative action programs which had dwindled by the 1980s, due to an adverse political climate. This book focuses on black Americans as beneficiaries of affirmative action programs because they are the descendants of slaves brought to this country forcibly and subjected to incessant racism. The government not only encouraged the …

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[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Boyhood, Steven R. Price Jan 1992

[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Boyhood, Steven R. Price

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Following his mother's death shortly after his birth, Charles A. Eastman acquired the name Hakadah -- the pitiful last. Not until age four, when his band of the Santee Sioux defeated their friendly rivals in lacrosse, would he he honored with his second name, Ohiyesa -- winner. This name bears importance, for Eastman retains it as the signature to his autobiography, Indian Boyhood. First published in 1902, the work represents one of the earliest examples of Native American biography as it details the life of Eastman from his native birth to his entrance into the white world at the age …

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[Review Of] Patricia Morton. Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault On Afro-American Women, Torrance Stephens Jan 1992

[Review Of] Patricia Morton. Disfigured Images: The Historical Assault On Afro-American Women, Torrance Stephens

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Historical studies with regard to the history of African descendents have recently evinced new efforts to dig deeper into the understanding of African peoples. These concerns are focused generally toward presenting an ethnographic interpretation of the African American community from the viewpoint of men. However, few have been produced that have advanced similar ethnographic perspectives regarding African American women from a female perspective.

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[Review Of] Richard P. Mccormick. The Black Student Protest Movement At Rutgers, Otis L. Scott Jan 1992

[Review Of] Richard P. Mccormick. The Black Student Protest Movement At Rutgers, Otis L. Scott

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The decade of the 1960s was pitched and rolled by the winds of social change. American society was being brought slowly, painfully, but severely face-to-face with its dark side. Both individual and systemic racism were being exposed and challenged.

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[Review Of] Craig Storti. Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Richard R. E. Kania Jan 1992

[Review Of] Craig Storti. Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Richard R. E. Kania

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In September 1885 a petty dispute among Euro-American and Chinese Union Pacific miners in Wyoming exploded into a homicidal spree which left twenty-five confirmed dead Chinese miners, and another twenty-six missing and presumed dead. In the weeks and months which followed, other Chinese miners and laborers were robbed, killed, or hounded out of the United States. Some of the parties responsible for these atrocities were arrested and brought to trial, but juries found no one guilty of these genocidal crimes. Many local, state, territorial, military, and federal government officials made good-faith efforts to protect the Chinese, but their efforts primarily …

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[Review Of] Cecil J. Houston And William J. Smyth. Irish Emigration And Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, And Letters, Phillips G. Davies Jan 1992

[Review Of] Cecil J. Houston And William J. Smyth. Irish Emigration And Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, And Letters, Phillips G. Davies

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This book should be more useful in Canada, where I have some reason to believe that there are more general ethnic studies programs than there are in this country. In this country, the major interest would be perhaps with less academic people who would be intrigued by the differences between the Irish in Canada and the Irish in this country.

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Critique [Of Gong Lum V. Rice: The Convergence Of Law, Race And Ethnicity By Malik Simba], Russell Endo Jan 1992

Critique [Of Gong Lum V. Rice: The Convergence Of Law, Race And Ethnicity By Malik Simba], Russell Endo

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Law in the United States may of course be viewed through a number of different perspectives. Over the past several decades, racial minorities have used litigation and legislation to reform institutional policies and practices, and this has given impetus to perspectives of law as a significant tool of constructive social change. While such frameworks have validity, Malik Simba's paper is a relevant reminder of the ideological and coercive dimensions of law and of its long history as a means of oppressing racial minorities.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1992

Table Of Contents

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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Number 15, Issue 2, 1992

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Critique [Of Strategies To Increase The Number Of Minority Teachers In The Public Schools By Glenn M. Kraig], Jesse M. Vazquez Jan 1992

Critique [Of Strategies To Increase The Number Of Minority Teachers In The Public Schools By Glenn M. Kraig], Jesse M. Vazquez

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In the course of his article, Kraig reviews a number of important ways to assure the recruitment and increase of minority teachers in the public school system. He also discusses specific programs which could stand as exemplary efforts directed at the daunting task of increasing the number of minorities in the educational pipeline, and ultimately, in the public school setting. Before examining these model programs and strategies, Kraig reviews the current and future demographic trends which suggest that the "relative population of the teaching force is not even close to being representative of the composition of the student body in …

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1992

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Contributors Jan 1992

Contributors

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Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1992

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Edna Manley's "The Diaries": Cultural Politics And The Discourse Of Self, Consuelo Lopez Springfield Jan 1992

Edna Manley's "The Diaries": Cultural Politics And The Discourse Of Self, Consuelo Lopez Springfield

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A critic of imperialism, race and class privilege, sculptor Edna Manley contributed to the ascendancy of a West Indian cultural aesthetic. Her productivity in the creative arts and her promotion of indigenous cultural organizations were vital to the growth of a post-colonial identity expressing Jamaican national unity and cultural plurality. The wife of Premier Norman W. Manley and the mother of Michael Manley, Jamaica's former Prime Minister, she drew strength from her cross-cultural heritage as a British-trained artist seeking to express the collective unconsciousness of her people. Her creative work finds its symbols in the subaltern currents of Caribbean life …

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An Art-Historical Paradigm For Investigating Native American Pictographs Of The Lower Pecos Region, Texas, John Antoine Labadie Jan 1992

An Art-Historical Paradigm For Investigating Native American Pictographs Of The Lower Pecos Region, Texas, John Antoine Labadie

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In the shadows of deep canyons in Southwest Texas and Northern Mexico, where the Pecos, Devils, and Rio Grande flow, are thousands of paintings on the walls of hundreds of rockshelters and overhangs. Archaeologists term such works "pictographic rock art." These particular pictographs were created over many centuries by Native American groups known collectively today as the Lower Pecos Region cultures.

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Sources Of Chicano Art: Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Jacinto Quirarte Jan 1992

Sources Of Chicano Art: Our Lady Of Guadalupe, Jacinto Quirarte

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There have been two main streams of influence on Chicano artists aside from the obvious one that is the result of their artistic training, education and development in the United States. The primary influence came from Mexico, first during the colonial period in the form of New Spanish art and architecture, and then in modem times provided by the Mexican muralists through their work and their use of pre-Columbian art. The New Spanish materials formed the nucleus for the second stream of influence composed of the various manifestations of religious folk art found primarily in the Southwest.

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Introduction: New Vistas In Art, Culture, And Ethnicity, Bernard Young Jan 1992

Introduction: New Vistas In Art, Culture, And Ethnicity, Bernard Young

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Last semester at Arizona State University in the School of Art, I offered a course in multicultural issues in art. It is important to note that the state of Arizona is under national scrutiny because of the negative publicity it has received in the past few years on the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and other concerns about racial and cultural issues. I am not going to claim that Arizona does not have a lion's share of problems in this area; what I will claim is that most of my students are middle class, white, receptive, and sensitive to ethnic …

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[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart Jan 1992

[Review Of] Ko-Lin Chin. Chinese Subculture And Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups In America, Evelyn Hu-Dehart

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This is probably the first monographic study to examine in-depth the present criminal subculture of New York Chinatown, focusing on the youth gangs that have plagued the community during the past thirty years. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the fledgling field of Asian American studies, whose scholars have yet to tackle this complex and sensitive topic, as well as to the disciplines of sociology and criminology. It will also help puncture the recently created stereotype of a monolithic, "model minority" Asian population singlemindedly pursuing success in schooling and business.

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[Review Of] Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem In The Great Depression, Steven J. Gold Jan 1992

[Review Of] Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem In The Great Depression, Steven J. Gold

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Or Does it Explode? is a meticulously researched study of the social, economic, and political status of Harlem from the 1920s to the 1940s, with a major emphasis on the Depression years.

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[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko Jan 1992

[Review Of] Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, And William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle Of A Yaqui Indian, Raymond A. Bucko

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The search for an "untouched" Native voice in American Indian autobiography, both experientially and stylistically, has proven as elusive as the search for the "untouched" Native. In the case of A Yaqui Life, it is precisely the of the native author's interaction-personal, literary, military, economic, religious, and familial-that makes the work both fascinating and significant. So, too, the text as a product of the interactions between the various authors enhances its ethnographic and historic significance. In 1954, at the suggestion of the anthropologist W. C. Holden, the core of the work was penned by Rosalio Moises, a Yaqui who lived …

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[Review Of] K. Sue Jewell. Survival Of The Black Family: The Institutional Impact Of U.S. Social Policy, Cary D. Wintz Jan 1992

[Review Of] K. Sue Jewell. Survival Of The Black Family: The Institutional Impact Of U.S. Social Policy, Cary D. Wintz

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The impact and effectiveness of the social programs that emerged during the New Deal and were expanded in the Great Society have become seriously debated questions in the conservative 1980s and 1990s. Liberals accept as an article of faith the necessity of federal welfare programs to counter the economic injustice that seems inherent in American capitalism and to reverse the results of generations of racism and inequality; conservatives, on the other hand, contend that federal welfare programs are at best inefficient, and more likely, destructive of initiative and economic progress among the very groups that they are designed to assist, …

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[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. Grandmothers Of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Paula Gunn Allen. Grandmothers Of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book, Cortland P. Auser

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As Allen points out in her preface, the stories in this collection were gleaned "from the vast oral tradition of North American tribes." Allen adds that they (the stories) have served as her spiritual guides. She feels that in these tales the "great Goddess" has many guises, such as Xmucane, Sky Woman, Thinking Woman, Scomalt, et al.

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[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Albert L. Mchenry. Eds. Living The Dream In Arizona: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King. Jr, Otis L. Scott Jan 1992

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille And Albert L. Mchenry. Eds. Living The Dream In Arizona: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King. Jr, Otis L. Scott

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Living the Dream in Arizona. edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Albert L. McHenry, is at first glance a tidy, unpretentious little book. Subtitled "The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," this work is, in effect, a series of testimonies by a multicultural chorus of Arizonans. Each voice speaks plainly about the meaning of the struggle for dignity, opportunity, and equality. As unpretentious as this work is, it is also informative; the words of the contributors are -- in the spirit of Dr. King's life -- challenging and provocative. There is more than meets the eye in the one hundred …

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[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent Jan 1992

[Review Of] Kathleen M. Blee. Women Of The Klan: Racism And Gender In The 1920s, Noel J. Kent

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We need to know more about why people become racists and what their motivations are for joining racial supremacist groups. Scholarly works dealing with the Ku Klux Klan's meteroic [meteoric] 1920s rise usually emphasize how rapid post-World War urbanization, agricultural depression, and fears of immigrants and cultural changes unsettled traditional-minded citizens in small-town and rural American landscapes and made the Klan attractive. By choosing to concentrate specifically upon women in the Klan, and "the complex ways in which race, religion and gender interact," Kathleen Blee, a sociology professor at the University of Kentucky, has opened up new dimensions here.

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[Review Of] Adelaide M. Cromwell. Ed. Dynamics Of The African/Afro-American Connection: From Dependency To Self-Reliance, Judith E. O'Dell Jan 1992

[Review Of] Adelaide M. Cromwell. Ed. Dynamics Of The African/Afro-American Connection: From Dependency To Self-Reliance, Judith E. O'Dell

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This book is a valuable contribution to African and African American studies in that it brings together and reviews the history of relationships between people of African descent. This book is also important because it details the social, political, and economic issues that affected the development of and communication between Africans and Afro-Americans. The quality, style, and content of the articles vary, but the sequence in which the articles are presented in the book seems logically ordered.

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[Review Of] Margot Edmonds And Ella E. Clark. Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends, Cortland P. Auser Jan 1992

[Review Of] Margot Edmonds And Ella E. Clark. Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends, Cortland P. Auser

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This anthology of Native American legends is a fine supplement to the Erdoes and Ortiz work, American Indian Myths and Legends. Whereas that work was structured around themes such as "Tales of Human Creation," "Tales of World Creation," etc., this work (while including very often the same themes) is organized regionally with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Central Region, Southeast and Northeast.

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[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen Jan 1992

[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, Hartwig Isernhagen

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This book -- a major literary work by one of the more widely read early Native American authors, and an ethnographic "source" of some interest -- is now again available thanks to the University of Nebraska Press's efforts to reprint Native American classics. It comes with a very useful introduction by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, which establishes both historical and aesthetic contexts for Ohiyesa's stories. Ruoff provides information on the family backgrounds, the education, and the lives of both Mr. and Mrs. Eastman, gives an independent (and corrective) sketch of the 1862 Sioux uprising that forms the historical background of …

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