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Full-Text Articles in Race and Ethnicity
The Pan-African Movement And American Black Political Fiction, 1920s To 1950s: Themes Of Alienation, Calvin E. Harris
The Pan-African Movement And American Black Political Fiction, 1920s To 1950s: Themes Of Alienation, Calvin E. Harris
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper focuses on the role of the writer as a social activist. Accordingly, I examine novelist/essayists who published during the Harlem Renaissance period 1920 to 1930 and in some cases beyond. I am interested in part in the Pan-African movement as it impacted on this era of Afro-American history. The central question explored is what are some of the dynamics that exist between the writer, movement elites, movement rank-in-file, and the broader Afro-American community? The central focus is on the kind of interactions that take place between the writer as a political activist, movement elites, and movement activists. The …
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Elizabeth Ammons And Annette White-Parks, Eds. Tricksterism In Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Opening the volume is a brief introduction by Elizabeth Ammons in which she discusses the major premise around which this book is organized -- namely, that “tricksterism” is a phenomenon in turn-of-the-century literature that, through tricks in authorship and narrative intention, disrupts the “master narrative” of the dominant racist Anglo culture. The articles concern works from a range of cultural backgrounds: Chinese American, Mexican American, Native American, European American, and African American. Each article includes endnotes and a list of works cited. The volume also offers contributors’ notes and an index.
[Review Of] Lewis R. Gordon. Bad Faith And Antiblack Racism, David Goldstein-Shirley
[Review Of] Lewis R. Gordon. Bad Faith And Antiblack Racism, David Goldstein-Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this challenging book, Lewis R. Gordon applies Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of bad faith to anti-Black racism. Gordon argues that bad faith -- an individual's attempt to escape personal anguish by choosing to ignore evidence that runs counter to his cherished beliefs -- underlies the phenomenon of anti-Black racism. "The Sartrean position raises the question of racism as a form of bad faith since it is a form of evasion of human reality," Gordon writes (92).
[Review Of] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
[Review Of] Janet D. Spector. What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village, David M. Gradwohl
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Janet Spector has written a book which is enjoyable, enlightening, and though-provoking reading. Those involved in anthropology, history, gender studies, and ethnic studies would do well to read this small volume carefully and ponder its issues. As she promises in the book’s subtitle, Spector presents archaeological evidence pertaining to the Wahpeton Dakota (Eastern Sioux) within a framework which lacks the Eurocentric and androcentric perspectives which too often characterize the study of American Indian pasts.
[Review Of] Marcyliena Morgan , Ed. Language And The Social Construction Of Identity In Creole Situations, Anita Herzfeld
[Review Of] Marcyliena Morgan , Ed. Language And The Social Construction Of Identity In Creole Situations, Anita Herzfeld
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
The result of a 1990 conference on "The Social Significance of Creole Language Studies" sponsored by Pomona and Pitzer of the Claremont Colleges and the University of California, Los Angeles, this stimulating collection of six papers enriches the field of pidgin and creole studies by "exploring the manner in which language and language choice reflect and mediate the social landscape.”
[Review Of] Basil Johnston. Ojibway Tales, Vanessa Holford Diana
[Review Of] Basil Johnston. Ojibway Tales, Vanessa Holford Diana
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve is the home of about seven hundred Ojibway in Canada. Intended as "an amusing account of Indian-white man relationships," Basil Johnston's Ojibway Tales presents twenty-two true stories of mishaps and confusion resulting from Ojibway and white people's inexperience with or misunderstanding of each other's culture. Indeed many of the tales are quite amusing, poking gentle fun at Ojibway and white man alike, but often the humor is that of slapstick comedy -- the foolishness of the characters is the reason we laugh at rather than with them. On the back cover, it is suggested that …
Table Of Contents
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Table of contents for Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Number 15, Summer, 1995
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Archibald Grimke: Portrait Of A Black Independent, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In this superb work which is the first full-scale biography of a man who played a major role in the drama that is African American history, Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. emerges as both a master of archival detective work and story-telling. This professor of history at the University of California at Irvine depicts lucidly why Grimké, though not of the stature of Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois, ”was a major figure of his time" and that "his thought and actions were considered of great significance by his contemporaries." "His life,” Bruce sums up quite aptly, ”was a testimony to …
[Review Of] Adela De La Torre And Beatriz M. Pesquera, Eds. Building With Our Hands, C. Alejandra Elenes
[Review Of] Adela De La Torre And Beatriz M. Pesquera, Eds. Building With Our Hands, C. Alejandra Elenes
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Building With Our Hands is a milestone in the development of Chicana Studies and its possibilities. This multidisciplinary anthology critiques the cultural, political and economic conditions of Chicanas in the US. by voicing their struggles against race, class, gender, and sexual oppression.
Missing Links In The Study Of Puerto Rican Poverty In The United States, James Jennings
Missing Links In The Study Of Puerto Rican Poverty In The United States, James Jennings
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
This Occasional Paper, based on a presentation to the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, DC, in 1992, proposes some limitations in "quantitative-only" research focusing on Puerto Rican poverty in the United States. An overreliance on quantitative-based analysis, as well as overlooking historical and comparative data, may not allow for a full understanding and awareness of the nature and maintenance of poverty in Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While the presentation acknowledges the importance of sophisticated quantitative research, it implies that joined together with historical and comparative analysis, investigations of Puerto Rican poverty would be vastly improved. An …
From Tribal To Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of Ethnic Ideologies, Sudha Ratan
From Tribal To Ethnic Identity: The Transformation Of Ethnic Ideologies, Sudha Ratan
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
This paper examines the political mobilization of tribal identities in north-eastern India. Using examples from Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh, the paper suggests that more attention needs to be paid to domestic politics within the Indian state which have contributed to the mobilization of tribal peoples into highly politicized ethnic groups. The paper will explore the impact of government policies in these hill states and the role of political elites in such mobilization.
Cemetery Squatting And Anti-Chinese Tensions: Insights From Central Java, Daniel Garr
Cemetery Squatting And Anti-Chinese Tensions: Insights From Central Java, Daniel Garr
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Over the centuries, the Chinese minority in Indonesia has lived in an environment characterized by social tensions. This paper will explore Chinese-Javanese relations in the microcosm of a Javanese squatter settlement that has invaded a Chinese cemetery. Four issues will be considered which will illustrate the nature of long-standing tensions between these two ethnic groups: 1) the manner in which informal sector housing is developed; 2) economic attitudes of the Javanese with respect to the Chinese; 3) the relationship of the Chinese to law and authority and how conflict resolution is approached ; and 4) the linguistic context of Chinese-Javanese …
Language And Identity: Limonese Creole And The Black Minority Of Costa Rica, Anita Herzfeld
Language And Identity: Limonese Creole And The Black Minority Of Costa Rica, Anita Herzfeld
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Given the general connection between the development of nationalism and linguistic uniformity, the existence of multilingualism and ethnic diversity in a country is a complex problem. Limonese Creole is the language spoken by a Black minority of approximately 30,000 people who have lived in predominantly white and Spanish-speaking Costa Rica for over 400 years. The Limon Province, where this group resides, is markedly distinguishable from the rest in terms of its geography, history, population, economy, language, and culture. This paper seeks to present the development of ethnic relations and language in that area. History shows that either harmonious bilingualism or …
Eating Attitudes Of Native American And African American Women: Differences By Race And Acculturation, Lise L. Osvold, Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky
Eating Attitudes Of Native American And African American Women: Differences By Race And Acculturation, Lise L. Osvold, Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Thirty-tour Native American and twenty-eight African American women responded to eating disorders and acculturation measures. African Americans appeared to have greater concern about their body weight and shape than Native Americans. Among all, those who were more acculturated to the U.S. white culture reported more concerns than those who were less acculturated. Also, normal weight women tended to have higher anorexia scores than overweight women as well as a diagnosed anorexic group. Open-ended questions elicited feelings about U.S. symbols of beauty, one's physical self, and usage of standard English. The conceptualization of acculturation to white society and acculturative stress is …
"No Certain Way To Tell Japanese From Chinese": Racist Statements And The Marking Of Difference, M.K. Johnson
"No Certain Way To Tell Japanese From Chinese": Racist Statements And The Marking Of Difference, M.K. Johnson
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
After the 1941 Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, a series of articles appeared simultaneously in American magazines. A 22 December 1941 article in Time gives advice to its Caucasian readers on "How To Tell Your Friends From the Japs," as does an article in Life magazine entitled "How To Tell Japs From the Chinese." From the perspective of the late twentieth century, the racism of these texts seems obvious. At the time of their appearance, how did this racism remain unmarked? This paper has two purposes: the first, examining the way racist statements about people …
Introduction, Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Introduction, Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The papers in this volume represent some of the best current scholarship on questions of ethnicity. All of them were first presented at the 1994 annual meeting of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, held in Kansas City, Missouri. With the announced theme of Ethnicity: Global Perspectives, the conference attracted scholars from many disciplines and many countries. Presentations were selected to reflect both global perspectives on ethnicity, and examples of emerging ethnic identities around the globe. The interdependence of local and global issues emerged repeatedly and became a foundational theme in many of the sessions.
Contributors
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1995
[Review Of] Rita Dove, Foreword. Multicultural Voices, Michael Elliott
[Review Of] Rita Dove, Foreword. Multicultural Voices, Michael Elliott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Multicultural Voices gathers together an impressive array of writers and writings in a textbook aimed at secondary school readers. The book not only includes several of the more obvious and well-known authors -- Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Amy Tan, to name a few -- but also anthologizes a number of younger and less widely known writers whose contributions are equally provocative. While the bulk of the selections are either short stories or excerpts from novels (Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima are among those excerpted), the editors have also selected poetry, …
[Review Of] George M. Fredrickson. Black Liberation: A Comparative History Of Black Ideologies In The United States And South Africa, Vernon J. Williams Jr
[Review Of] George M. Fredrickson. Black Liberation: A Comparative History Of Black Ideologies In The United States And South Africa, Vernon J. Williams Jr
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
George M. Fredrickson, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University, has written a magisterial volume that complements his earlier explorations in his highly acclaimed White Supremacy and in some of his major essays in a collection, entitled The Arrogance of Race. Yet, unlike the earlier works, which compare the predominant white racism and ethnocentrism in race relations in the United States and the Union of South Africa, Black Liberation focuses on the political ideologies of “organic” African American and Black South African intellectuals. Fredrickson, to my mind, demonstrates convincingly that historically the ideology of “color-blind universalism” …
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
[Review Of] Sidner J. Larson. Catch Colt. American Indian Lives, Dorie S. Goldman
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Catch Colt describes Gros Ventre writer Sidner J. Larson's experience as a mixed-blood Native American looking for his heritage, identity, and personal direction. Although minority fiction writers (such as Rudolfo A. Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko) have addressed this theme, non-fiction discussions of mixed-blood Native American lives are lacking. Larson's autobiography, however, is only moderately successful because he fails to make readers identify with his struggle as a member of “two different worlds at the same time...with a degree of non-acceptance by both."
[Review Of] Eileen H. Tamura. Americanization, Acculturation, And Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation In Hawaii, Ann Rayson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Eileen Tamura's new book on the first American-born generation of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii is a well-researched and readable study of the period in the early twentieth century, largely between the world wars, when Japanese immigrants to Hawaii realized they were not going to return home and that they would have generational conflicts with their children, entitled to U.S. citizenship as their parents were not until 1952. An outgrowth of Tamura's 1990 dissertation, "The Americanization Campaign and the Assimilation of the Nisei in Hawaii, 1920 to 1940,” Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity develops the original topic and works back to …
[Review Of] Jesus Salvador Trevino. The Fabulous Sinkhole And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
[Review Of] Jesus Salvador Trevino. The Fabulous Sinkhole And Other Stories, Carl R. Shirley
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
This collection is aptly titled, for it is fabulous and a pure delight to read. Film director and writer Jesus Salvador Trevino is a worthy successor to such Chicano luminaries as Mario Suarez and Rolando Hinojosa with his creation of microcosm of a Mexican American community -- Arroyo Grande, Texas. His blending of the real with the magical and the surreal along with a whimsical tone also links him to Ron Arias. The title story gives the reader an introduction to the collection of six interrelated tales since main characters in all the stories are observers of the sinkhole, and …
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] Sherman Alexie. The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Hershman John, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
A member of the Spokane tribe, Alexie writes the heart of a community that is joined through hardship, hope, land, and story. On and off the reservation, from the storytelling of Thomas Builds-the-Fire to Norma's fancydancing, a drumbeat of home follows everyone.
[Review Of] Laura Uba. Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, And Mental Health, Linda Gonzalves
[Review Of] Laura Uba. Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, And Mental Health, Linda Gonzalves
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
When looking at issues of ethnicity and mental health we are constantly reminded that there is, at present, no unified paradigm to guide either the practitioner or the research scholar. What we do know is that the human organism is a socially constructed being. We also know that there are species-specific human needs that play out in the formation of mental well being; there does exist a common denominator, if you will, of optimum conditions and relational situations that underly all human development. Mental health is an arena where the universality of human needs meets the specificity or relativity of …
[Review Of] Philip S. Foner And Daniel Rosenberg , Eds. Racism, Dissent, And Asian Americans From 1850 To The Present: A Documentary History, Russell Endo
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Numerous historical studies discuss racism against Asian Americans as well as their resistance to racist policies, practices, and thought. While this scholarship correctly stresses the predominance of racism, it contains passing references to non-Asian individuals and organizations who supported better treatment and the rights of Asians. Foner and Rosenberg argue that these small numbers of supporters were dissenters from prevailing anti-Asian racism and that they deserve greater attention because they represent the existence of more than one perspective of Asian Americans.
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
[Review Of] William Bright. A Coyote Reader, Elizabeth Mcneil
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
An anthropological linguist specializing in the language and texts of the Karuk people of northwestern California, and editor of the bilingual collection Coyote Stories (1978), William Bright has made his latest volume of "Coyoteana" and "Coyoterotica" accessible to anyone interested in the Coyote Trickster. Bright has lived a long time with Coyote stories and in A Coyote Reader approaches his subject with care and respect . The volume includes references and an index.
[Review Of] Ronald T. Takai . Violence In The Black Imagination: Essays And Documents. Expanded Editions, Jennifer L. Dobson
[Review Of] Ronald T. Takai . Violence In The Black Imagination: Essays And Documents. Expanded Editions, Jennifer L. Dobson
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Originally published in 1972 and re-issued in 1993, Violence in the Black Imagination was an early attempt to overcome the pitfalls of what some academicians have termed disjunctive scholarship. Ronald Takaki reminds us that too often fiction is analyzed narrowly as an art rather than as social documents that might be useful not only to those studying literature but also to those examining history. Reviewing three fictional works, Takaki makes a case or their use as historical sources. He asserts that “black fiction not only adds to our already limited number of ante-bellum black written documents, but also represents a …
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Reading The Voice: Native American Oral Poetry On The Page, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Reading The Voice: Native American Oral Poetry On The Page, Gretchen M. Bataille
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Paul Zolbrod is known well by scholars of Native American studies for his work on the Navajo and for his commitment to the understanding of Native literature. In this book he takes bold steps to redefine much of what scholars have taken for granted about criticism and definition of the writings and performance literature of Native peoples. He is to be both commended for his approach and questioned.
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
[Review Of] A. A. Carr. Eye Killers. American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series, Vol. 13, Michael Elliott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Melissa Roanhorse is having a tough day. Her mother has a drinking problem, her fish keep dying, and she has to contend with the everyday pressures of being a high school sophomore which, by themselves, are enough to keep most of us from remembering those teenage years too nostalgically. So when Falke, an ancient vampire who's been sleeping off a coma for the last hundred-odd years, shows up offering immortality and a ticket out of Albuquerque, there‘s no wonder that Melissa takes the offer and runs. What's a little blood-sucking compared to algebra?
[Review Of] Jewell Parker Rhodes. Voodoo Dreams, Opal Palmer Adisa
[Review Of] Jewell Parker Rhodes. Voodoo Dreams, Opal Palmer Adisa
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Until I read Jewell Parker Rhodes very finely crafted novel, Voodoo Dreams, Marie Laveau, the New Orleans voodoo queen loomed invincible, beyond the reaches of anyone: man, woman, Black, or white. But in this novel Rhodes skillfully humanizes Laveau by presenting the majority of characters, including our heroine, as soared people motivated by their insecurities and fears. Those who are bold enough to seize the opportunities presented to them, such as John, Marie Laveau’s vicious lover, exploit their power and manipulate others for their own glory. The Marie Laveau that we meet in this novel is the third in a …