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[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Heroes And Great Chieftains, Terry E. Huffman
[Review Of] Charles A. Eastman. Indian Heroes And Great Chieftains, Terry E. Huffman
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Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains was first published in 1918 and contains short biographical narratives on fifteen American Indian leaders. Included in the vignettes are such well-known individuals as Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, and lesser recognized persons such as Tamahay and Two Strike. Most of the individuals are Lakota/Dakota but Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Dull Knife and Little Wolf of the Northern Cheyenne, Roman Nose of the Southern Cheyenne, and Hole-in-the-Day of the Ojibwa are also included in the volume.
[Review Of] Usha Welaratna. Beyond The Killing Fields: Voices Of Nine Cambodian Survivors In America, Steven J. Gold
[Review Of] Usha Welaratna. Beyond The Killing Fields: Voices Of Nine Cambodian Survivors In America, Steven J. Gold
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Although approximately 150,000 Cambodians now reside in the United States, very little information has been published on this group. When available at all, descriptive and statistical data about Cambodians is generally lumped together with that of Laotians and Vietnamese in the category “Southeast Asian Refugees.” This is a grave shortcoming: first, because the Cambodians’ culture is quite different from that of other Southeast Asians -- making aggregate accounts of their experience inaccurate; and second, and perhaps even more important, is the fact that the Cambodian people have experienced one of the most horrible holocausts in modern history, making their ordeal …
[Review Of] Gina Marchetti. Romance Mid The Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, And Discursive Strategies In Hollywood Fiction, Eugene C. Kim
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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 …
[Review Of] Alejandro Portes And Alex Stepick. City On The Edge: The Transformation Of Miami, Manuel Avalos
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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.
[Review Of] Stewart Culin. Games Of North America Indians, Harald E. L. Prins
[Review Of] Stewart Culin. Games Of North America Indians, Harald E. L. Prins
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About a dozen years ago, I had the opportunity to buy Stewart Culin's classic work, Garnes of tile North American Indians, published in the 1902-1903 annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), Smithsonian Institution. The original edition numbered 9,682 copies, of which almost half went to the United States Congress. Beautifully illustrated with more than one thousand figures (mainly drawings of recreative artifacts, plus 21 photographic plates), the heavy and gold-embossed volume was offered for $175 by an antique dealer in Maine. Because I knew the fellow, he was willing to shave $50 from the price. Although this …
[Review Of] Monroe Lee Billington. New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, George H. Junne Jr
[Review Of] Monroe Lee Billington. New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, George H. Junne Jr
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Buffalo Soldiers guarded the western frontier, winning eighteen Medals of Honor. Formed in 1866, they also served in the Spanish-American War (1898), the War in the Philippines (1899-1901), World War II (1941-1946), and the Korean War (1950-1953) . It might appear that some of those events transpired a long time ago. However, Jones Morgan, the last Buffalo Soldier who served in both the West and the Spanish American War, died at age 110 in August, 1993.
[Review Of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] Patricia A. Turner. I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Rumor In African American Culture, Michael Patrick
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Patricia A. Turner, associate professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California at Davis, published Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture earlier in 1994. Now she has made another valuable contribution to the study of African American culture with I Heard It Through the Grapevine; and in addition, has added to the understanding of how urban legends start and continue to persist. Just as Jan Harold Brunvand's Vanishing Hitchhiker made the general public aware of these legends, Turner's study makes both Black and White readers aware of the significance of …
[Review Of] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
[Review Of] Susan Olzak. The Dynamics Of Ethnic Competition And Conflict, David L. Hood
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Susan Olzak’s work, The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict, is informative and contributes to an understanding of ethnic violence from an historical perspective. The central finding is that ethnic/racial conflict arises from an increase in intergroup competition for social resources. Exploring economic and political competition in the United States from 1877 to 1914, Olzak concludes that violence is most apt to occur when members of a disadvantaged ethnic/racial group experience greater equality of opportunity. This new environment creates a situation whereby members of a formerly segregated group become rivals for social awards. An environment which contains several disadvantaged groups …
[Review Of] Vicki Kopf And Dennis Szacks, Eds. Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Andy Bartlett
[Review Of] Vicki Kopf And Dennis Szacks, Eds. Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic, Andy Bartlett
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This catalogue, named for the 1990 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) exhibition in Winston-Salem, features not only many reproductions from the exhibition but also essays by artist/philosopher Adrian Piper and curator Lowery S. Sims, a panel featuring Richard Powell and Judith Wilson, and two group artist interviews. Also excerpted is a brief segment from a 1990 panel at SCCA which features Piper, Kinshasha Conwill, Coco Fusco, and Leslie King-Hammond. Both panel segments are of value, especially as they broadly contextualize the eighty-one pages of reproductions. Unfortunately, each of the written segments is quite brief, with Powell and Wilson's discussion …
[Review Of] William L. Burton. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] William L. Burton. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments, Michael Patrick
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The title is somewhat misleading if the reader is expecting the author, William L. Burton, to include all ethnic groups in this book. The book is about foreign born ethnic soldiers in the Union Army and excludes Native Americans and Black troops. In fact, the book's major emphasis is on German and Irish soldiers of the Civil War, and largely about the steps taken to organize military units rather than about the battles these groups participated in.
[Review Of] Douglas Henry Daniels. A Social And Cultural History Of Black San Francisco, Michael Patrick
[Review Of] Douglas Henry Daniels. A Social And Cultural History Of Black San Francisco, Michael Patrick
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Pioneer Urbanites focuses on the quality of life and urban identity of Black residents of the San Francisco Bay area from 1850 to World War II. The author has organized the book topically, rather than chronologically. Because Daniels has chosen this organization, the reader has to keep historical chronology constantly in mind while reading in order to avoid confusion.
[Review Of] Michael D'Innocenzo And Joseph P. Sirefman. Immigration And Ethnicity, American Society - "Melting Pot" Or "Salad Bowl?", Daniel Mitchell
[Review Of] Michael D'Innocenzo And Joseph P. Sirefman. Immigration And Ethnicity, American Society - "Melting Pot" Or "Salad Bowl?", Daniel Mitchell
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"Salad Bowl" best describes the American Immigration experience, as the editors of this volume aptly picture it. Like a salad bar, this volume offers a variety of articles for academics and the general public to pick and choose, if interest in immigration concerns them in the least. Overall, this book is divided into three major sections, with a theme underlying each division of essays and research pieces. The offerings include: a select study of ethnic minorities and their history with varieties of social-cultural experiences of ethnic groups; a look at the impact of ethnic challenges to the United States; a …
[Review Of] Juan Flores. Divided Borders: Essays All Puerto Rican Identity, Migdalia Reyes
[Review Of] Juan Flores. Divided Borders: Essays All Puerto Rican Identity, Migdalia Reyes
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Juan Flores makes an important contribution to the literature on the Puerto Rican experience with his new book, Divided Borders: Essays all Puerto Rican Identity. The essays are exemplary of a serious exploration of the Puerto Rican identity as it has been defined and portrayed by a variety of writers, popular movements, and social movements.
[Review Of] Anny Bakalian. Armenian-Americans: From Being To Feeling Armenian, Arlene Avakian
[Review Of] Anny Bakalian. Armenian-Americans: From Being To Feeling Armenian, Arlene Avakian
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Aside from work on the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey and some work on ancient Armenia, there is precious little published work on the Armenian people. Even the Armenian genocide in which 1.5 million of the 2 million Armenians in Turkey were killed has been largely ignored by the world community and was named by one scholar, "the forgotten genocide (Dickran H. Boyajian, Armenia: The Case for a Forgotten Genocide, Westwood, NJ: Educational Book Crafters, 1972). Particularly missing from the scholarship is work about contemporary Armenians in diaspora. Anny Bakalian's book begins to fill that void.
[Review Of] M. Inez Hilger. Chippewa Child Abd Its' Cultural Background, James L. Litwin
[Review Of] M. Inez Hilger. Chippewa Child Abd Its' Cultural Background, James L. Litwin
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Recent movies (e.g., Geronimo, Last of the Mohicans, and Dances with Wolves) have generally shown a sympathetic, if yet still stereotypical view of Native Americans. These cinematic treatments are replete with furious battles, frenetic romances, and the stuff of heroic legends. Hollywood, however, would not know what to do with M. Inez Hilger's Chippewa Child Life and Its' Cultural Background. It is a quiet book, a narrative of the everyday culture of the Chippewa Indians as she observed them on nine Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan reservations between 1932 and 1940.
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Jennifer L. Dobson
[Review Of] Kenneth Robert Janken. Rayford W. Logan And The Dilemma Of The African-American Intellectual, Jennifer L. Dobson
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Rayford W. Logan has been little more than an obscure shadow in African-American historicity leaving, as his biographer notes, "a rich intellectual legacy without, it appears, having left a visible imprint on historic events" (198). Earning a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1932, Logan proceeded to become a trailblazer in the field of African-American history, seeking to use his intellect in the fight against racism.
[Review Of] Brian W. Dippie. George Catlin And His Contemporaries: The Politics Of Patronage, John Antoine Labadie
[Review Of] Brian W. Dippie. George Catlin And His Contemporaries: The Politics Of Patronage, John Antoine Labadie
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Although Americans in the 1990's often argue whether an artist's or researcher's work merits public funding, many agree that we should fund both the arts and scientific inquiry in nearly all their diverse forms. But the basic question of patronage remains. Federal and private funding of arts and science-related work were much in question over a hundred years ago, when the artist George Catlin requested that the United States government purchase his American Indian collection.
[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. African Women's Writing, Larene Despain
[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. African Women's Writing, Larene Despain
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African Women's Writing is a companion volume to Bruner's Unwinding Threads, first published by Heinemann ten years ago. In her "Preface" to this volume, Bruner says that this book came about because "new writers, or hitherto unpublished ones, were not only writing fiction but were recording the New Africa." Thus, only two writers reappear in this volume: Bessie Head of South Africa and Assia Djebar of Algeria, and a good many of the authors were born after 1945.