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[Review Of] John A. Grim. The Shaman: Patterns Of Siberian And Ojibway Healing, Ronald N. Satz
[Review Of] John A. Grim. The Shaman: Patterns Of Siberian And Ojibway Healing, Ronald N. Satz
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John A. Grim utilizes the methodology of the fields of anthropology, mythology, psychology, and sociology to elucidate the religious meaning of shamanism as exemplified in Siberian and Ojibway societies. Although shamans have long been viewed as primordial religious personalities, a comprehensive interpretation of the shamanic religious experience has been lacking. This book provides important insights that will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in the American Indian religious experience.
[Review Of] Edward D. Beechert. Working In Hawaii: A Labor History, Patricia Grimshaw
[Review Of] Edward D. Beechert. Working In Hawaii: A Labor History, Patricia Grimshaw
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For those interested in ethnic experience, the history of Hawaii offers unique insight. Initially a Polynesian island group, with a population related culturally to inhabitants of islands as far afield as Easter Island, New Zealand and Tahiti, Hawaii from the late eighteenth century onwards became the home of Americans, Europeans, Portuguese, Filipinos, Chinese and Japanese, all drawn there for differing reasons. When to this ethnic and racial variation, the complex permutations of class and gender are added, observers of Hawaii's past are witness to a rich range of inter-cultural encounters. In Working in Hawaii, Edward Beechert's particular focus is the …
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., Ed. A Sender Of Words: Essays In Memory Of John G. Neihardt, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Vine Deloria, Jr., Ed. A Sender Of Words: Essays In Memory Of John G. Neihardt, Helen Jaskoski
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John Neihardt was like James Boswell: each man's genius -- and it is a rare one -- lay in recognizing, respecting and calling forth the greater genius of another. Neihardt’s task was easier; he was nearly the sole arbiter of Black Elk's communication, with little to fear from comparison with other accounts, but also harder. He faced barriers in personal knowledge, tastes, values and language, as well as a public unprepared to accept his mentor's worth. This book pays tribute to Neihardt and appropriately is not a "balanced" appraisal but an appreciation of his best. However, despite claims for his …
[Review Of] Joanne V. Gabbin. Sterling A. Brown: Building The Black Aesthetic Tradition, Jean Walker
[Review Of] Joanne V. Gabbin. Sterling A. Brown: Building The Black Aesthetic Tradition, Jean Walker
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Numerous and diverse agendas have competed for consideration in attempts to establish and set the parameters of the black aesthetic tradition. W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson are only two of several prominent Americans who have participated in this continuing and frequently intense dialogue. Yet perhaps no voice has been more consistently consulted and valued than that of Sterling A. Brown, distinguished teacher, scholar, poet, and critic. Despite the general acknowledgement of Brown's contributions to American literature in general and black American literature in particular, comprehensive scholarly analyses of his unique contributions have been limited. Joanne V. Gabbin addresses this …
[Review Of] Rayna Green, Ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry And Fiction By Native American Women, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Rayna Green, Ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry And Fiction By Native American Women, Helen Jaskoski
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This book begins to meet a significant need; ignorance of writings by women of color prevails throughout the American academic/literary establishment, most instructors being unacquainted even with writers like Leslie Silko and Louise Erdrich. Rayna Green's most important accomplishment may be that her anthology introduces serious readers to Native American women's writing. The collection comprises generous samplings from seventeen contemporary authors writing in English: seven pieces of fiction and almost 200 poems. Silko's work is absent, apparently because of copyright problems; writers represented include Erdrich, Paula Gunn Allen, Wendy Rose, Shirley Hill Witt, Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo, Carol Lee Sanchez.
[Review Of] Jerrald Asao Hiura, Ed. The Hawk's Well, Victor Okada
[Review Of] Jerrald Asao Hiura, Ed. The Hawk's Well, Victor Okada
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Given the paucity of Japanese·American art and literature in print, one can only welcome this collection of poetry, short fiction, black-and-white prints and drawings, and calligraphy. The reader should be advised, however, that the title may seem to promise more than the book delivers; only five artists and five authors (poems by four and a short story by another) are included here. The volume thus does not provide a wide sampling of art or literature.
[Review Of] Lenwood G. Davis, With The Assistance Of Marsha L. Moore. Malcolm X: A Selected Bibliography, James Gray
[Review Of] Lenwood G. Davis, With The Assistance Of Marsha L. Moore. Malcolm X: A Selected Bibliography, James Gray
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Malcolm X's central role in contemporary black thought and life means that students of history, sociology, religion, politics, and literature (to begin a list) must study him carefully. This volume provides a useful starting place, and every reasonable public collection should have a copy. Unfortunately, the cost and several shortcomings limit its use for personal libraries.
[Review Of] David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer, Phillips G. Davies
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Greenslade' s rather mod title underlines his main thesis -- namely, that ethnic consciousness among Welsh descendants in North America is very high indeed. Both his own evidence and my own observations convince me that he is perfectly justified in his assertion. The one thing he does not really address is "why?"
[Review Of] Paul J. Strand And Woodrow Jones, Jr. Indochinese Refugees In America: Problems Of Adaptation And Assimilation, Russell Endo
[Review Of] Paul J. Strand And Woodrow Jones, Jr. Indochinese Refugees In America: Problems Of Adaptation And Assimilation, Russell Endo
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Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, over three-quarters of a million Indochinese refugees have come to the United States. Numerous studies have been conducted on their adjustment to American society and on resettlement policies and programs. This book covers these very topics and is organized into three sections. The first part provides some background on the cultures and political histories of the major Indochinese groups and on federal and state policies and programs. The second investigates problems experienced by the Indochinese, particularly with regard to their health, education, language abilities, and employment and is based on a 1981 needs …
[Review Of] Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith Mcdaniel, Eds. The Stories We Hold Secret-Tales Of Women's Spiritual Development, Nancy K. Herzberg
[Review Of] Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith Mcdaniel, Eds. The Stories We Hold Secret-Tales Of Women's Spiritual Development, Nancy K. Herzberg
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The Stories We Hold Secret -- Tales of Women's Spiritual Development is an anthology of thirty-one short fiction pieces written by and about women in America. These are not stories about extraterrestrial visits, enlightenment through gurus, or dramatic religious conversion; rather, these are stories of inner knowing, of our "holy dailiness," as Linda Hogan says in the preface. The stories are as varied as women's experience, from the quietness of a Native American woman cooking beans and cornbread in her kitchen to the tumult of a woman who for the first time becomes involved with a workers' strike.
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Felix M. Padilla. Latino Ethnic Consciousness, Luis L. Pinto
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An analysis of the concept of Hispanic or Latino as a form of an ethnic conscious identity and behavior separate from the individual ethnic identity of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and another Spanish speaking groups is the subject of Latino Ethnic Consciousness. Its focus is Chicago Mexican American and Puerto Rican populations.
[Review Of] Peter Najarian. Daughters Of Memory, Margaret Bedrosian
[Review Of] Peter Najarian. Daughters Of Memory, Margaret Bedrosian
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Daughters of Memory is Peter Najarian's third work of fiction. The first, Voyages (1971) is a classic story of a young man born to immigrant Armenians beginning to come to terms with his family and communal past against the New Jersey backdrop. Written with lyricism and simplicity, it is one of the finest novels by an Armenian American writer. Najarian continued to explore the various parts of his psyche in the less accomplished second book, Wash Me On Home, Mama (1978). But it is only in this latest work that his growing maturity as a writer combined with his developing …
[Review Of] Mark Naison. Communists In Harlem During The Depression, W. A. Jordan Iii
[Review Of] Mark Naison. Communists In Harlem During The Depression, W. A. Jordan Iii
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The Communist Party and its relationship to blacks in the United States is a difficult subject to fully research. Necessary critical information must lie in still secret vaults in Washington and in Moscow. Naison's former dissertation is a praise-worthy effort to unravel fact from fantasy as it applied to Black Harlem and the Party.
[Review Of] Paul A. Scanlon, Ed. Stories From Central And Southern Africa, W. A. Jordan Iii
[Review Of] Paul A. Scanlon, Ed. Stories From Central And Southern Africa, W. A. Jordan Iii
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Any work in the prestigious paperback African Writers Series commands immediate attention and respect. As policy makers and policy breakers wrestle about the South African question -- newly discovering the horrors of an inequality that has existed for more than 300 years -- it is refreshing to look at this collection of twenty-two short narratives. They provide a proper cultural baseline for the current struggle. Like it or not, what lies underneath the political turmoil are cultural values.
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters . The Sun Is Not Merciful, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Anna Lee Walters . The Sun Is Not Merciful, Helen Jaskoski
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Anna Lee Walters' first collection of short stories has already won two awards, the Virginia McCormick Scully Literary Award for "the best published work during 1985 reflecting the life, history or heritage of the Western Indians" and the 1985 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
[Review Of] Gilbert Ware. William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure, Allene Jonse
[Review Of] Gilbert Ware. William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure, Allene Jonse
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William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure is a book written about the life and works of William H. Hastie, the first black federal judge. Gilbert Ware, who was a professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia at the time of the publication of this book, is to be commended for his ability to capture and convey the essence of the person and leadership of William Hastie.
[Review Of] Monte Piliawsky. Exit 1 3: Oppression And Racism In Academia, David B. Bills
[Review Of] Monte Piliawsky. Exit 1 3: Oppression And Racism In Academia, David B. Bills
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The first half of Exit 13: Oppression and Racism in Academia presents a case study of the University of Southern Mississippi. (The title refers to the I-59 exit leading to Hattiesburg.) Monte Piliawsky concentrates on the early 1970s, during part of which time he held an appointment in the Department of Political Science at USM. He portrays a university controlled by a bigoted administration and describes in great detail the arbitrary and decentralized authority exercised there. His depiction of the University's leadership reveals it as comical if insensitive at one extreme and viciously racist and vindictive on the other. USM …
[Review Of] Joel Williamson. The Crucible Of Race, Orville W. Taylor
[Review Of] Joel Williamson. The Crucible Of Race, Orville W. Taylor
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Almost twenty years ago Joel Williamson, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began work on this book, envisioned as the definitive history and reinterpretation of black-white relationships in our time. Along the way he modified his conceptions many times and detoured in 1977-78 to write New People, a study of the physical and cultural mixing of blacks and whites.
[Review Of] Mary Dougherty Bartlett. The New Native American Novel, Helen Jaskoski
[Review Of] Mary Dougherty Bartlett. The New Native American Novel, Helen Jaskoski
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This volume collects work-in-progress of nine contemporary Native American authors, some already widely published and some less well known as writers of fiction, although all have published poetry, journalism, or scholarship.
[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Estrangement, James H. Bracy
[Review Of] Elechi Amadi. Estrangement, James H. Bracy
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Elechi Amadi's new novel concerns the disruption of lives, traditions, and institutions caused by the Nigerian Civil War and modern society's emphasis on individualism. The novel opens in Port Harcout [Harcourt] - Amadi's own native surroundings-in 1970, at the end of the Biafran conflict. The principal character, Alekiri, has had a child by her Hausa soldier lover, Major Sule Dansuku, who had rescued her from the war front, where she had become separated from her husband, Ibekwe, and daughter. This imminent return of her husband to whom she remains married and the impending conflict of custom (Ibekwe' s duty to …
[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce
[Review Of] Ranjit Arora And Carlton Duncan, Eds. Multicultural Education : Towards Good Practice, Jonathan Pearce
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The volume is a collection of loosely-coupled essays, several coupled somewhat more loosely than the others, and all relating to government provided elementary and secondary multicultural education and to teacher training in Britain. A good many British-education-bureaucracy abbreviations are used and these tend to slow the flow of the otherwise splendid cross-cultural transfer potential to American and other readers.
[Review Of] Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Frank D. Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, And Rodolfo Alvarez, Eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, Cary D. Wintz
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Mexican-Americans comprise the second largest minority group in the United States and one of the most rapidly growing elements in the population. Their history in the American southwest goes back almost four hundred years, they have interacted with Anglo·Americans in that region since the early nineteenth century, and have been the most numerous immigrant group coming to the United States since the middle of the twentieth century. Despite this clear evidence of their significance and their impact on this country, scholars in the social sciences have often neglected this ethnic group in their research and writing. This volume makes an …
[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
[Review Of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, And Douglass L. Brownstone. Island Of Hope, Island Of Tears, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
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The most compelling aspect of this dramatic history of immigration to the United States via Ellis Island is its vivid documentation of actual human experiences. Personal testimonies from dozens of immigrants form a living tissue that connects the detailed, fully-researched historical data on immigration history. These oral descriptions recreate the journey for us, illustrate the conditions in the homeland being left behind, and give us an insider's view of the bureaucratic tribulations each immigrant faced on Ellis Island. The result is a powerful, inspiring testimonial to the courage, ingenuity, determination, and strength of the human spirit. These accounts, often expressed …
[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre
[Review Of] Richard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau And John Muir Among The Indians, Robert F. Sayre
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The idea behind this book, a comparative study of Henry David Thoreau's and John Muir's attitudes toward American Indians, is excellent. Muir, born in 1838, was twenty one years younger than Thoreau. He first read Walden and A Week at the University of Wisconsin in 1862, the year of Thoreau's death. His early writings, although not published until much later, contained generally pro-Indian sentiments similar to Thoreau's , while he also had a Thoreau-like squeamishness about Indians being dirty, lazy, superstitious, and demoralized by contact with whites. "Perhaps if I knew them better, I should like them better," he wrote …
[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii
[Review Of] Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, W. A. Jordan Iii
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This "revised" biography of Franz Fanon (first published in 1973) is a welcome event for those who either missed feeling the impact of his work in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s or were so blinded by the period's turmoil that Fanon's life and work could not be critically evaluated. Grove Press must be congratulated for re-issuing Gendzier's study, particularly since the political fervor for radical political action has passed (for now) and little profit can be expected from this book. In this day of corporate mergers and greed, a commitment to publish what is in the public interest is meritorious.
[Review Of] Alex Harris And Margaret Sartor, Eds. Gertrude Blom - Bearing Witness, Ruth Sundheim
[Review Of] Alex Harris And Margaret Sartor, Eds. Gertrude Blom - Bearing Witness, Ruth Sundheim
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"This jungle filled me with a sense of wonder that has never left me. It has cast a spell over me, and I always return to it ... I have seen all this perish. It started almost imperceptibly." Gertrude Blom, a political activist and refugee from Europe, arrived in Mexico in the 1940s. In 1943 while working as a journalist she joined an expedition sent to observe the Lacandon Maya in the dense rainforests of Chiapas bordering Guatemala. She encountered these people at the pivotal point when they were still self-sufficient and worshipping Mayan gods but beginning to feel the …
[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky
[Review Of] Ira A. Glazier And Luigi De Rosa, Eds. Migration Across Time And Nations: Population Mobility In Historical Contexts, Laverne Lewycky
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This book is a collection of papers originally presented at the 1982 Eighth International Economic History Conference held in Budapest. As the title suggests, the volume incorporates a wide range of geographical areas and historical time periods. This multidisciplinary study represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and thus highlights issues and concerns from various disciplinary perspectives. The twenty-two essays in the volume include macro and micro case studies on several continents with authors from several countries. It makes information from many languages available to the English reader. In a sense there is almost an encyclopedic treatment of various …
[Review Of] Alfredo Mirande'. The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective, Albert F. Inclan
[Review Of] Alfredo Mirande'. The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective, Albert F. Inclan
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Developed as a way to clarify and distinguish between Mexican-Americans and Chicanos, The Chicano Experience is a narrative of the history and struggles of the Chicanos living in the United States.
[Review Of] Wyatt Macgaffey. Religion And Society In Central Africa: The Bakongo Of Lower Zaire, Dennis M. Warren
[Review Of] Wyatt Macgaffey. Religion And Society In Central Africa: The Bakongo Of Lower Zaire, Dennis M. Warren
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MacGaffey, professor of anthropology at Haverford College, has based this carefully crafted book on twenty years of fieldwork and archival research. This is the first systematic study of BaKongo religion. But the study is far more than an analysis of the religion, as MacGaffey demonstrates how BaKongo social structure and power relationships are embedded in its very fabric. Dividing the study into three parts, MacGaffey first focuses on a discussion of BaKongo cosmology, then describes BaKongo ritual and power, and finally deals with issues of change in the BaKongo religion and society. Taking the perspective of the BaKongo themselves, MacGaffey …
[Review Of] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell
[Review Of] Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, David M. Johnson, Yolanda Burwell
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This is a book that is important for what it begins and for what will follow it, as well as for what it is. It demonstrates that there have been hundreds of black women photographers, working almost from the time the camera was invented, whose contributions, and even existence, have not been documented. Mainstream histories of photography have included few black photographers and no black female photographers. I expect this book to stimulate others to research the many women photographers mentioned here, as well as those who are missing, and I hope they do this research before the materials are …