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[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
In recent years, educators concerned with issues of access and equity have supported a variety of bilingual educational delivery systems. Similarly, feminists seeking representation and recognition have advocated inclusive language and nonsexist job titles. From these and other arenas, the relationship of language and power has surfaced as an issue of national importance. In this timely collection of essays, Kamarae and her associates have legitimated and extended the discussion.
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee
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Lydon's history of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay region is a monument to the Chinese who immigrated to North America everywhere. The title Chinese Gold refers to a metaphor Lydon uses throughout his account of how "through their particular form of alchemy (insight plus ingenuity plus energy), the Chinese turned what they found into gold" (p. 504). The Chinese were able to see the resources of the Monterey Bay region where others could not and developed them "to the lasting benefit of the Monterey Bay region." But there are very few Chinese Americans in the region today and there …
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille
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Herzog examines literary works of the mid-nineteenth century which reverse values, transcend stereotypes, and demand a reevaluation of the roles of "women, ethnics, and exotics" in fiction as well as reality. The ethnics are blacks and Indians; the exotics Herzog defines as " strikingly out of the orindary [ordinary]" or " excitingly strange" characters. Images of women are similar to the images of the "Noble Savages" and other non-white people in that all are considered "natural," more innocent or more demonic, more devine [divine] and more terrifying than white males . So too are they viewed as more passive, less …
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner
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Beverley Ormerod displays real expertise in An Introduction to the French Caribbean Novel. She is a West Indian herself, and she knows the background and culture of the Caribbean: its African slave origins and the present quest for pan-Caribbean identity. After post-graduate research at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris , she earned her doctorate in French at Cambridge University. When necessary, she translates the French originals into English. She also knows various creoles of the islands and appreciates the linguistic variety there. She has taught Caribbean literature for twenty years.
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright
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The sub-title of this enigmatic book is "A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing." The first of the two parts of the books deals primarily with definitions of Marxist aesthetics. For a serious work, not only are the cliches and terminology tiresome but the choice of quotations is unfortunate. Ngara quotes Marx's and Engel's opinion that Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte and Gaskell wrote novels "whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together." Ngara adds a pronouncement …
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington
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Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow is an account of maturation or, put another way, of a black woman's willingness to confront her emergent self. Tastefully groomed, sixty-four year old Avatarra " Avey" Johnson leaves her suburban New York home to vacation with two friends on a West Indies cruise. Her decision to interrupt her plans, shortly after arriving at one of the destinations, is a surprise to everyone. Avey is compelled to discount the material investment she has made in the trip in order to follow a mind that has been haunted by dreams of her great aunt Cuney.
[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig
[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig
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Tiryakian and Rogowski have edited a strong and useful collection of nine theoretical and seven comparative articles on nationalism in advanced industrial societies in the West. What is new in the presentations in this work is the systematic comparison of a number of nationalist movements that have been treated hitherto as separate cases. The writers are focusing on nationalism in advanced capitalist economies rather than in developing nations or socialist industrial states, so examples are drawn from Quebec and Western Europe. A great strength of the collection lies in the richness of the analysis produced by contributors drawn from a …
[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder
[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder
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This first comprehensive history of the Jicarilla Apaches proves an indispensible [indispensable] tool for understanding this tribe, government and Indian relations, and the history of the state of New Mexico. Veronica Tiller was, despite being part of a prominent Jicarilla family, able to strike a balance between giving the reader a wealth of detailed facts pertaining to the tribe and its smaller organizational units and placing them within the larger context of government or New Mexico state policies. The author, who used an impressive number of government documents, is modest and clear sighted enough not to claim an Indian point …
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker
[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker
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Paul G. Zolbrod's Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story is a revision of Washington Matthews' "The Navaho Origin Legend" published in Navaho Legends (Boston: American Folklore Society) in 1897. Zolbrod justly describes Matthews' version of this narative [narrative] as "one of the world's significant literary works," and his rewriting of it makes it accessible as never before to English speaking readers. The narrative is essentially sacred in nature, dealing with the emergence of precursors to human beings through successive primal worlds and with male and female deities who must achieve harmony, peace, and balance between themselves and throughout the world …
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini
[Review Of] Richard D. Alba. Italian Americans: Into The Twilight Of Ethnicity, Rose Scherini
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Rejoice, students of ethnicity and Italian Americans generally! A body of scholarly literature on the Italian American experience is growing. Richard Alba's book, one of the Ethnic Groups in American Life Series (Milton M. Gordon, editor) is a recent addition to the quality social science writings about this ethnic group.
[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
[Review Of] John Buenker, Ron Podeschi, And Paul Sendry. Immigrants, Minorities And School (Video), Margaret A. Laughlin
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The video program Immigrants, Minorities and School raises a number of important issues related to the school experiences of today's racial and ethnic minority groups (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) when compared with the school experiences of the earlier white European ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States within the last century. There are both similarities and differences in the experiences of each racial and ethnic minority group.
[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner
[Review Of] Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, And Cosmo Pieterse, Eds. Summer Fires, New Poetry Of Africa, David K. Bruner
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When Angus Calder, Jack Mapanje, and Cosmo Pieterse sat as judges for the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award of 1981, they were faced with some 3,000 entries from more than 700 contestants from which they were to award three cash prizes and a number of book prizes. In the introduction to the book which they subsequently edited, consisting of eighty-two poems from forty-five writers from thirteen countries in Africa, they explain that they had told all entrants they were looking for "originality and imagination as well as evidence of technical skill." They state, also, that they "strove to deliberate …
[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott
[Review Of] Evelyn Kallen. Ethnicity And Human Rights In Canada, Linda M. C. Abbott
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Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada is a sequel to Kallen's The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. Whereas her earlier work sought to clarify the concepts of race and ethnicity as they applied to a neutral, if not tolerant, nation, the social context of the current work is less benign. Factors implicated in the shift to more contentious racial and ethnic relations include a struggling national economy, separatist moves in Quebec and the West, a rapidly expanding non White immigration, and advancement of natural resource claims by aboriginal groups at a time when federal pressure for energy development in the …
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby
[Review Of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980, Charles C. Irby
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Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite's purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many …
[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber
[Review Of] Anthony D. Brown, Et Al. New Directions In Federal Indian Policy, George W. Sieber
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This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs.
[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet
[Review Of] Charles C. Irby. The Celluloid Black: History Of Blacks In Film (Slide-Tape), Charles L. P. Silet
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Black actors, and more often than not white actors in blackface, appeared in stereotyped roles in American movies from the beginnings of the industry. Such classic directors as D.W. Griffith and John Ford mindlessly exploited blacks to counterpoint white supremacy and to bear the brunt of the focus of social and political change. Blacks, even more than American Indians, were the recipents [recipients] of the darker side of western irrationality. For example, intermarriage, long treated as a subtheme of Indian/white confrontation, met with virulent rejection in films which treated black/white relationships. Because of their growing numbers and because of long-standing …
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young
[Review Of] Hadley Irwin. I Be Somebody, Linda P. Young
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At the turn of this century, a group of American blacks from the midwest migrated to Canada to become homesteaders in the remote town of Athabasca, Alberta. Hadley Irwin's latest novel for young people focuses on this little-known chapter of American history. The movement of entire towns of blacks north in search of freedom provides Hadley Irwin an ideal setting for a young boy's search for identity. Rap Davis' growth toward maturity, his determination to "be somebody" parallels the growth and determination of a people to be somebody.
[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson
[Review Of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes In Wisconsin, Susan Carlson
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The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the ''invisible immigrants' of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America," never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale's realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence.
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts
[Review Of] Joseph Bruchac, Ed. Songs From This Earth On Turtle's Back, Charles E. Roberts
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Poetry by American Indians may be traced to the writings of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee who came to California in the early 1850s, edited several northern California newspapers, and helped create the legend of Joaquin Murieta, and to the works of Alexander Posey, a Creek who wrote romantic nature poems and dialect stories in the style of the local colorists. Nonetheless, few Indian poets existed prior to the 1970s. Since then, there has been a tremendous surge in the numbers of Indians writing poetry, and their work has received a great deal of critical acclaim, as evidenced by the …
[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker
[Review Of] Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature And Theory, Faye Pauli Whitaker
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Two publications important in the study of women's literature appeared this spring -- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, and this anthology of previously published essays on feminist literary theory. These volumes will probably have greatest impact on university courses in women's literature, but one should not overlook their significance for ethnic studies. Like studies in ethnic literatures, feminist criticism has before it the task of defining a tradition outside of the main-stream and establishing a literary canon not previously acknowledged as valid.
[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
[Review Of] Stephen Castles. Here For Good: Western Europe's New Ethnic Minorities, Zora Devrnja Zimmerman
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A disturbing, extremely important book. The wealth of information provided by the authors illuminates the present circumstances of ethnic minorities in Western Europe, principally West Germany, and points to potential dangers and repercussions in the future. The thesis of Here for Good posits the change in status of the guest worker from that of migrant or temporary resident to that of immigrant or permanent settler in one of seven major host countries in Western Europe. This shift should mark a parallel shift in the political and economic policies which address the needs of the immigrants and their impact upon the …
[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons
[Review Of] Susan Guyette. Community-Based Research: A Handbook For Native Americans, Terry Simmons
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Community-Based Research has a clear sense of purpose: "This handbook is intended as a practical research guide for an era of self-determination in community development" (xvii). The author seeks to provide the means for research to be planned, designed, and implemented by community members with the research priorities set "by the community that lives the socio-economic conditions, rather than by an outsider who studies the community for informational purposes" (2).
[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies
[Review Of] Elwyn T. Ashton. The Welsh In The United States, Phillips G. Davies
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Ashton's mid-sized volume about the Welsh in America joins the first, and very short account by David Williams, Wales and America (published in Wales in 1946 as part of a bilingual pamphlet series), and Edward George Hartmann's Americans from Wales (nearly three hundred pages, published in 1967 and reprinted in America in 1978).
[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch
[Review Of] Jeffrey J. Crow And Flora J. Hatley, Eds. Black Americans In North Carolina And The South, Ashton Wesley Welch
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Current trends in Afroamerican history toward local, regional, and quantitative history accentuate the prior preoccupation of historians of the Afroamerican experience with considerations of national significance to the all but total disregard of local black history. This volume is consistent with the present drift. With the exception of the concluding essay, Black Americans in North Carolina and the South is an historiographical exercise. It is a result of a 1981 symposium, of the same title, sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Another historiographical volume on North Carolinian history, also co-edited by Jeffrey Crow, resulted from the …
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett
[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Eclipse, Steve Pett
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Linda Hogan's poetry is of the "world," a word which recurs frequently in Eclipse, her latest book of poems. The poems are personal yet not confessional. She speaks of the earth -- and for the earth -- in the roles of human being, Native American, woman, mother, daughter, and granddaughter. They are not the poems of self absorption, of reduction
[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso
[Review Of] William Oandasan. Round Valley Songs, Victor Macaruso
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William Oandason, Senior Editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and editor of his own journal, A, a Journal of Contemporary Literature, has published other books of poetry, A Branch of California Redwood (reviewed by Kenneth M. Roemer, Explorations in Sights and Sounds, Summer, 1984) and Moving Inland.
[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster
[Review Of] Robert Fay Schrader. The Indian Arts And Crafts Board, Helen Schuster
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The current popularity, eminence, and international appreciation of the creativity of American Indian artists are such a viable part of the contemporary art scene that most of us are well aware of this distinguished achievement. But it was not always so. Robert Fay Schrader presents detailed, historic review of the trials, endeavors, and vicissitudes of a small but select group of men and women who sought to gain public recognition of American Indian arts and crafts during the first half ofthe twentieth century. The general focus is on the activities of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, an advisory and …
[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez
[Review Of] Samuel Selvon. Moses Ascending, Laverne GonzáLez
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Sam Selvon's fifth novel Moses Ascending addresses the ethnic experience with dual prongs: linguistic and racial. Although the situation of the novel is not new -- the plight of the subject come to the motherland -- having been treated by George Lamming and others, this handling of the basic theme is: all the sacred cows fall before Selvon's iconoclastic pen. Moses, the "I" protagonist, is but a faintly veiled, highly disillusioned Selvon who dares look at the present world situation: the emperor has no clothes.
[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto
[Review Of] Edward Rivera. Family Installments: Memories Of Growing Up Hispanic, Luis L. Pinto
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Puerto Ricans have been writing about their experiences in the mainland for a very long time. At the beginning, the majority of the texts were written in Spanish by Puerto Rican writers residing in this country or by Puerto Rican writers who lived here for periods of time. A careful study of the works published about the life of Puerto Ricans in the mainland shows that they were written in prose.
[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker
[Review Of] Eddie Iroh. The Siren In The Night, Robbie Jean Walker
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The historical novel presents many of the same problems of interpretation posed by the docudrama, both genres possessing an ambiguity attributable to the absence of clearly defined distinctions between fact and fiction. Eddie Iroh, author of The Siren in the Night, obviates the reader's task of inferring these distinctions by announcing in the "Author's Note" the fidelity of his presentation to both the nature and sequence of actual events and admitting the liberty taken in his creation of a military post that did not exist during the time period covered in the novel. The Siren in the Night, the third …