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[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim

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Marchetti poignantly mirrors Orientalism as conceived in the eyes of typical Hollywood filmmakers of their Eurocentric discourse, flavored with their own notions of romance, race and sexuality, and the "Yellow Peril," the way they want to entertain the American viewers. The book introduces fifteen major classical films which span over a seventy-year period (1915-1985) with sharp literary as well as cinematographic criticism on Protestant ethics, gender supremacy, and conjugal family structure.

[Review Of] Gretchen M. Bataille, Ed. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Kristin Herzog

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This book is a treasure trove. Normally, dictionaries are not meant to be read from front to back like a novel, but this one is fascinating throughout. The few works that had been available so far on American lndian women were limited in perspective, format, or accuracy. Here for the first time we see the whole breadth and depth of Native women's achievements in an astounding variety of professions, from warriors, healers, fur traders, and jewelers, to educators, attorneys, poets, and professors.

[Review Of] Stanley David Lyman. Wounded Knee, 1973: A Personal Account, Linda Pertusati

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Wounded Knee, 1973: A Personal Account, by Stanley David Lyman, must be taken for what it is. Written in diary form, Lyman's narrative of the seventy-one day armed siege on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota offers an "insider's" view of the events known as Wounded Knee II; albeit an inaccurate account of the facts.

[Review Of] Roger Goodman. Japan's International Youth: The Emergence Of A New Class Of Schoolchildren, Kumiko Takahara

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Japan's rapid expansion in the world of commerce since the 1960's has not only brought economic prosperity to the country but new social phenomena to its isolated monolithic culture. Roger Goodman's book focuses on just one such problem concerning "kikokusijo", or secondary schoolchildren returnees who resided abroad more than one year due to overseas assignments of their parents. The increase of returnee school children from 1,543 (1971) to 10,498 (1986) began to raise concerns in the mid-1970's with the Ministry of Education, mass media, and various public and business communities. The creation of remedial schools and special classes was hastened …

[Review Of] Paul M. Sniderman And Thomas Piazza. The Scar Of Race, David Goldstein-Shirley

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Into the murky, politically-charged waters of contemporary racial politics shines this welcome ray of light. Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, using clever research design and innovative techniques, clarify the changing meaning of race in today’s political landscape and conclusively dismiss many strongly-held, but nonetheless inaccurate, assumptions about whites’ attitudes toward African Americans.

[Review Of] Crawford Young, Ed. The Rising Tide Of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State At Bay. And, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. The State Of The World's Refugees: The Challenge Of Protection, Sudha Ratan

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Interest in ethnic conflict and identity politics has led to an increase in the number of works attempting to understand this phenomena. The two works examined here follow in the same tradition.

[Review Of] Robert Elliot Barkan. Asian And Pacific Islander Migration To The United States: A Model Of New Global Patterns, William L. Winfrey

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Migration in the late 20th century has become increasingly complex. The nature of migration has changed considerably from 1885, when E.G. Ravenstein first enumerated his laws of migration. In contrast to Ravenstein's simple "configurations of internal migration," Dr. Barkan likens modern migration to a jungle gym: If one were to picture an elaborate children's outdoor jungle gym, constructed so that it can be made to undulate gently and gyrate, the analogy would come close to the reality of global migration. As the children decide to climb, several choices confront them in terms of direction and destination, although not all may …

Editor's Note Miguel A. Carranza, Miguel A. Carranza

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This special issue of the journal on the theme of "Race, Class, and Gender" results from papers presented at the Association's 1993 national conference held at Salt Lake City, Utah. Under the able guidance of conference co-organizers, Alberto Pulido and Jennifer Pierce, the meeting was an outstanding success both in attendance and active participation. Fortunately, both Jennifer and Alberto enthusiastically agreed to be co-editors of this special issue.

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Racism And Aids: African Origin Theories Of Hiv-1, Charles W. Hunt

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The AIDS epidemic, first discovered in the United States in 1981, has caused a great deal of speculation with regard to the origins of both the HIV-1 retrovirus and the early pathways for the epidemic itself. The African origins theory is the most widely accepted origin theory for HIV-1 in the West. This theory is based upon six assertions, all of which either lack evidence or, when evidence has been present, these assertions have been contradicted. The African origins theory is unsubstantiated. The African origins theory is based not upon scientific logic but rather upon victim-blaming, the attempt to define …

A Pattern Of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior, Thelma J. Shinn

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Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the many contemporary American novelists of non-European ethnicities and one of many women novelists who have found in mythology and folklore both stories and images which can transform the genre by providing "novel" patterns of order and "meronymic" language. These inclusive patterns and words help expand our perspective as they encompass both the linear and cyclical stories of the individual within the context of communal and social, mythic and historic, truths. In The Woman Warrior, the complex "frog knot" of her female heritage is untied for us not only to open up women's possible …

Introduction, Jennifer L. Pierce, Alberto L. Pulido

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From the margins, we find ourselves well positioned to tell "other stories" -- life histories, traditions, and cultural myths which typically go unheard in dominant society.[2] As illustrated in the lead article, "A Pattern of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior, "by Thelma J. Shinn, such stories are "meronymic" -- mero from the Greek meaning "part" -- because our unique social location allows us to see beyond the dominant mythos and tell "other" parts of "the story." Telling these stories is not only empowering to those whom we name, but it also changes and transforms the official storyline itself. Life …

[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Alex Stepick. City On The Edge: The Transformation Of Miami, Manuel Avalos

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This book should appeal to a wide audience. It should be useful to researchers interested in the politics of race, culture, and class as well as researchers interested in the ”new” urban sociology. Portes and Stepick develop a political economy analysis of the recent transformation of Miami into a Cuban American dominated city, using a variety of research methodologies which emphasize the unique historical development of Miami in an ethnic multicultural context.

[Review Of] E. San Juan, Jr. Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations Of Power In Ethnic And Racial Studies In The United States, Jonathan A. Majak

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Those who have read Racial Formation in the United States (1986) by Michael Omi and Howard Winant will find in E. San Juan, Jr.’s book an interesting, if not provocative, complement. Both books assert the centrality of race and racism in the social formation of the United States; however, Omi and Winant’s book is grounded in social science whereas San Juan, Jr.’s project is from a literary perspective.

[Review Of] Allen G. Noble, Ed. To Build In A New Land: Ethnic Landscapes In North America, Phillips G. Davies

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Like so many works with sections on various subdivisions of a general topic overseen by a general editor, this volume has its ups and downs. The thesis -- that various ethnic groups have provided America with various sorts of architectural styles and modifications of native structures -- is new and fascinating.

[Review Of] Leonore Loeb Adler And Uwe P. Gielen. Cross-Cultural Topics On Psychology, Yueh-Ting Lee

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It has been over forty years since Gordon Allport published The Nature of Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1954). To Allport, sociocultural factors play an important role in our prejudice, especially when we do not understand cultural differences. However, Allport's book dealt little with cross-cultural research. Fortunately, Leonore Loeb Adler and Uwe P. Gielen, two experts in cross-cultural research, have presented us with their recent study on how cultural understanding helps us to be more open-minded.

[Review Of] Howard Brotz, Ed. African-American Social And Political Thought, Jennifer L. Dobson

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African-American Sociol ond Political Thought, originally published in 1966, is back in print-testimony to the durability of the writings it collects. The editor provides a selection of primary works by great African-American thinkers whom he categorizes into four mainstreams: emigrationists, assimilationists, cultural nationalists, and revived political nationalists. The works of such men as Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, W. E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey, stand alone for their brilliance, but brought together, they provide a panoramic view of the diversity of African-American philosophies for Black advancement.

[Review Of] Lynn Brodie Welch, Ed. Perspectives On Minority Women In Higher Education, Judith E. O'Dell

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This book is a compilation of papers presented at various International Conferences for Women in Higher Education sponsored by the University of Texas at El Paso. The chapters focus on the educational experience from very different views including classroom experiences, relations with co-workers, historical aspects, and minority women as leaders. In addition, there are chapters focusing on the experiences of specific ethnic groups, with the content at times being only marginally related to the higher educational experience. Collectively, the chapters provide the reader with a broad perspective on the situations minority women are likely to encounter while working in colleges …

[Review Of] Luci Tapahonso. Saanii Dahataal, The Women Are Singing: Poems And Stories, Elizabeth Mcneil

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Wrapped around the cover of this volume is a painting by Emmi Whitehorse entitled, "White Shell Woman Story 111." This is an implication of Tapahonso’s Navajo origins -- mythical, historical, and persona -- which are evident throughout the book. In this work, Tapahonso seems to be aiming at a mainly non-Navajo audience to teach them about Navajo experience -- historical and present-day, collective and personal.

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An Investigation Of Affirmative Action Policies And Practices Of Recruiting, Hiring, Mentoring And Retention Of African American Teachers And Administrators, U. S. Davidson Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the affirmative action policies and practices of recruiting, hiring, mentoring and retention of African American teachers and administrators throughout the State of Illinois. Since public elementary and secondary school systems provide numerous and varied jobs in virtually every community in the nation, it is assumed that if a quality education is to be attained, students must be exposed to the variety of cultural perspectives that represent the nation at large (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 1990).

This study examined policies and practices of districts throughout the State of Illinois inquiring …

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Perceptions Of Domestic Abuse Among Mexican American And Anglo American Women, Arthur S. Evans Jr., Sara Torres

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This paper examines the role of culture in shaping perceptions, definitions, and interpretations Mexican American and Anglo American women hold of domestic abuse. Two theoretical views concerning perceptions that Mexican Americans may hold of domestic abuse are discussed. The first view suggests that Mexican American women follow a pluralist model and therefore differ significantly in their perceptions of domestic abuse from Anglo American women. The second position holds that Mexican American women are quickly becoming assimilated into the American mainstream and consequently share attitudes toward domestic abuse similar to those of Anglo American women. Interviews were conducted with women living …

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Media Discourse And The Feminization Of Poverty, Carmen L. Manning-Miller

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Source diversity models suggest that by using non-conventional, non-official sources for news content, the prevailing perceptions about poor people and their needs would be undermined in news coverage. This study found that major newspapers are making efforts to diversify the sources quoted in their coverage of poverty issues. However, the portrayals of poor people have not changed, particularly for women and people of color. Results of this study suggest that source diversity research must go further to explore how sources are used to address the problems of the poor and how media influence public perceptions of public policy related to …

Whose Crying Game? One Woman Of Color's Reflection On Representations Of Men Of Color In Contemporary Film, Marian M. Sciachitano

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This film review of The Crying Game critically interrogates the politics of representation and domination which "spectacleize" Black male bodies. Working out of her location as an Asian American woman who is sensitive to the cinematic and everyday politics of exoticization, this cultural critic provides an analysis of the dynamic relations of power at work in the racial and heterosexual production and exploitation of Black gays in contemporary film. Drawing on the work of such critics as bell hooks, Robert Reid-Pharr, Kobena Mercer, and Judith Butler, she challenges us not to simply perpetuate the imperial gaze.

The Creation Of Education By Hispanic Women, Heidi Howarth

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This paper examines the experience of Hispanic females in the public school in relation to how alternative learning, which takes place outside of classroom activities and discussions, generates a distinct method by which to gain an education. Four major frameworks utilized in discussing minority participation in education are presented and a focus on gender differences in education is submitted. This is followed by information obtained through an in-depth interview process. Analysis of the information shows the failure to account for differentiation between male and female Hispanics presents an assimilationist posturing of research. By placing race/ethnicity, class, and gender on equal …

Selected Readings On Race, Class, And Gender, Alberto L. Pulido, Jennifer L. Pierce

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Selected Readings On Race, Class, and Gender

Race, Gender, And The Status-Quo:Asian And African American Relations In A Hollywood Film, Clarence Spigner

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Hollywood films play a significant role in constructing and reinforcing inter-ethnic tensions through negative representations of Asian Americans and African Americans. While white males are most often depicted as smart and romantically desirable, thereby reinforcing an ideology of white male dominance, Asian Americans and Blacks are typically diminished to demeaning and secondary status. Thi[this] article explores these racist steretotypes [stereotypes] in director Michael Cimino's 19985[1985] film Year of the Dragon (as well as a number of other Hollywood films), arguing that such race and gender-specific imagery is functional; for while it promotes race/gender stereotypes, it also serves to rationalize white …

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1994