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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Linda M.C. Abbott Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Linda M.C. Abbott

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Increased retention of minority undergraduates is a goal that can be supported for a variety of reasons, from the avoidance of human waste, to concern for balanced institutional budgets, to the desirability of turning out larger numbers of minority graduates who will become professional role models for the next generation. The authors have presented a state·of·the·art review of some promising retention programs, together with recommendations for strengthening such programs.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1983

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Helen Maclam Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Helen Maclam

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Jenkins' and Terrell's assessment of factors contributing to the attrition of undergraduate minority students is written in such general terms that it does not make a clear statement of the problem. Further, while their use of Kathleen Burlew's study may have provided some specific insights, to say out of context that "since students may lose interest in educational goals, an occupational end is needed to sustain their motivation to continue" comes perilously close to a rationale for consigning minority students to vocational programs.

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Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education, Verdia Jenkins, Melvin Terrell Jan 1983

Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education, Verdia Jenkins, Melvin Terrell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This article is concerned with the retention of minority undergraduate students, offering recommendations which contribute to a higher rate of student retention in postsecondary institutions. The first section provides a brief introduction to the state-of-the-art concerning attrition and retention. The development of a retention program for minority students comprises the second, more comprehensive section. It provides a listing of resources concerned with the problem. Concluding recommendations are presented which can contribute to the successful retention of minority students.

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Abstracts From The Eleventh Annual Conference On Ethnic Minority Studies, 1983, Ontario, California Jan 1983

Abstracts From The Eleventh Annual Conference On Ethnic Minority Studies, 1983, Ontario, California

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

We asked discussants for the 1983 Conference to summarize their responses to the papers in their sessions, and Stewart Rodnon of Rider College provided a statement which comments specifically on the session for which he was discussant and summarizes the significance of many of the papers delivered at the 1983 Conference. His comments serve as a meaningful preface to these abstracts.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Author And Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982; Supplement To Volume 6, Number 2, (July 1983) Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies Author And Title Index Volumes 1-5 1978-1982; Supplement To Volume 6, Number 2, (July 1983)

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies Author and Title Index Volumes 1-5, 1978-1982

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Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Willie Wright Jan 1983

Critique [Of Retention Of Undergraduate Minority Students In Institutions Of Higher Education], Willie Wright

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"The Retention of Undergraduate Minority Students in Institutions of Higher Education" presents an informative discussion on the retention of minority students. The article comprehensively addresses the problems relevant to retaining minority students in institutions of higher learning. In addition, it represents a clear and fairly precise discussion of what elements a retention effort geared toward black students should contain in order to achieve success.

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A Writer Speaks: An Interview With Lorenz Bell Graham, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

A Writer Speaks: An Interview With Lorenz Bell Graham, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Missionary, teacher, professor, strikebreaker, cook, waiter, and author are embodied in the national treasure interviewed here. Lorenz Graham received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater forty-seven years after receiving the B.A. degree. He is almost as old as the twentieth century in years of age and as young as a college freshman in spirit. Graham is a recognized giant as a writer of literature for young readers. His major works include South Town (Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1958), North Town (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965), Whose Town: (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969), Return …

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The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue, perhaps more than any other, brings together the many concerns of NAIES . The abstracts from the Eleventh Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies demonstrate the wide-ranging interests of NAIES members and the many issues unresolved in our society. Lorenz Bell Graham, a guest lecturer at the Conference, agreed to share with Explorations readers some of his experiences as a writer of adolescent fiction.

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Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note, Graham C. Kinloch Jan 1983

Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note, Graham C. Kinloch

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The islands of Hawaii are well-known for their unique level of racial heterogeneity and admixture, overt norms of racial tolerance and harmony, and temperate climate. Of central interest to the social scientist is the manner in which racial and cultural blending take place in such a complex society, particularly among those of mixed racial origin; Hawaii provides a social laboratory in which to study such processes in depth. This paper, viewing racial identity as an important index of intergroup relations, examines the racial identities and related reasons of forty high school adolescents in Hawaii in order to highlight controlling factors …

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Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians, Gretchen M. Bataille, Charles L.P. Silet Jan 1983

Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians, Gretchen M. Bataille, Charles L.P. Silet

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Two general points can be made about Euroamerican exploitation of American Indians: first, whatever level of exploitation they have experienced by the motion picture industry, it is part of a long tradition which dates back to the earliest contacts between white Europeans and Indians; and second, that the exploitation has taken on two forms-economic and psychic. Just how Indians have been taken advantage of economically is relatively clear. Euroamerican history texts happily record the ways in which the native inhabitants of the American shores were bilked, with the $24 worth of beads, for Manhatten [Manhattan] Island and with equally inequitable …

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Contributors Jan 1983

Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on Contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1983

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Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Terry Simmons Jan 1983

Critique [Of Economic And Psychic Exploitation Of American Indians], Terry Simmons

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

James Joyce once said that history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. This article by Gretchen Bataille and Charles Silet is part of our collective process of awakening. The first portion of this article recounts the psychological and economic consequences to the conquest and domination of American Indians by more recent immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. However, one need not dwell upon the history or the tragic unpleasantness of these post-Columbian events. Instead, the focus here is on present blurry eyed attempts to live in and cope with a multicultural, twentieth century North American society.

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Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Helen G. Chapin Jan 1983

Critique [Of Racial Identity Among Mixed Adolescents In Hawaii: A Research Note], Helen G. Chapin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This modest research note is on solid ground in recognizing that racial identity prevails in the relatively non-racist, pluralist society of Hawaii. Hawaii's peoples are noted for extending respect and tolerance to the diverse racial and ethnic groups in the State, but pluralism has by no means erased all problems.

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Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Jesse Jackson Jan 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Jesse Jackson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Leita Kaldi's "Alternative Education for the Rom" briefly states the plight of Gypsies in the second paragraph: The Rom face an agonizing dilemma today. Either they will persist as urban nomads, in mobile ghettos, in enclaves of poverty and in prisons, or their cultural traditions will have to evolve to enable them to share in the benefits of this society, to develop a better material and social existence. Education is a basic bridge into contemporary U.S. society and a pioneering effort has been made in Seattle, Washington, to encourage the Rom to step onto that bridge.

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Table Of Contents Jan 1983

Table Of Contents

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1983

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Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction, James Robert Payne Jan 1983

Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction, James Robert Payne

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and James D. Corrothers's "A Man They Didn't Know" are two early Afroamerican fictions which suggest a black alliance with foreign powers in the face of unrelenting racial injustice at home.1 Imperium in Imperio, published in 1899, has been described as "the first political novel" by a black American;2 and "A Man They Didn't Know," appearing in 1913, is probably the first Afroamerican fiction to suggest a specific alliance between American blacks, groups in Mexico, and the Japanese. Sutton E. Griggs is currently undergoing rediscovery, and Imperium in Imperio is by now well known …

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Alternative Education For The Rom, Rom Leita Kaldi Jan 1983

Alternative Education For The Rom, Rom Leita Kaldi

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The Rom* in the United States are nearly 100% illiterate. There are very few in any of the professions. The Rom cannot rely on gajo (non-Gypsy) doctors, lawyers, and educators who do not understand their ways or their unique problems.

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Our Own Dogs, Robert N. Zimmerman Jan 1983

Our Own Dogs, Robert N. Zimmerman

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Includes poem by Robert N. Zimmerman: Our Own Dog.

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Explorations In Ethnic Studies Jan 1983

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

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Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Gary Okihiro Jan 1983

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Gary Okihiro

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The foregoing essay by James Robert Payne describes two important pieces of Afroamerican literature and places them within their historical context. Payne offers a tantalizing account of those examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth century black nationalist writing; he fails, however, to explain their historical significance in terms of black nationalist thought around the turn of the century.

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Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Barbara Hiura Jan 1983

Critique [Of Alternative Education For The Rom], Barbara Hiura

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"Alternative Education for the Rom" concerns a little written about ethnic group, the Gypsy, and concentrates on the dilemma of cultural resistance on the part of the Rom and cultural change for their survival in the U.S. Leita Kaldi discusses an educational alternative the Rom in Seattle, Washington find acceptable to bridge the gap between traditional Rom culture and the U.S. social structure.

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Editors Notes, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

Editors Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This issue of the journal is dedicated to each NAIES member, for you have made it possible with your membership dues. After a lengthy delay, our publications are back on schedule. Sigler Printing of Ames, Iowa, has closed our printing-schedule gap and enhanced the quality of our presentation in both Explorations in Ethnic Studies and Explorations in Sights and Sounds.

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Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Alice A. Deck Jan 1983

Critique [Of Griggs And Corrothers: Historical Reality And Black Fiction], Alice A. Deck

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

James Payne's thoughtful and carefully documented essay stresses the importance of evaluating ethnic American, specifically Afroamerican, fiction within its historical context. The historical information he provides in his essay concerning the Afroamerican response to the Spanish-American War and to America's paranoia of a supposed "Yellow Peril" does indeed shed light on how Griggs and Corrothers each imaginatively re-invested a specific social reality with an Afroamerican revolutionary furor-a rage which ironically had the best interest of the country at heart.

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[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson Jan 1983

[Review Of] Wayne S. Wooden, What Price Paradise? Changing Social Patterns In Hawaii, Wayne Patterson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Hawaii provides a unique opportunity to measure social change as it relates to ethnicity and race relations in the United States. This opportunity has been seized by sociologists at the University of Hawaii, using papers by their students to discover the patterns which emerge in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. In this way, researchers such as Romanzo Adams, Bernard Hormann and Andrew Lind have increased our understanding of the social forces at work in Hawaii. The pattern is continued by Wayne S. Wooden, who taught sociology at the Hilo campus of the University of Hawaii.

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[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker Jan 1983

[Review Of] Randall Bennett Woods, A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller And The Promise Of American Life, 1 878-1900, Herbert Aptheker

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book, whose author is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas, is an important contribution to Afro-American and diplomatic history. Its subject was, as the author notes, a "second echelon member of the national Negro leadership" at the turn of the nineteenth century . Mature biographies of such figures are few but are vital if the contours of black history are to be filled.

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[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish Jan 1983

[Review Of] Tom Miller, On The Border, Robert Gish

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Tom Miller's On The Border is a disarmingly straightforward book. At first glance it seems to be a simple travelog-the account of his journey at the dawn of the decade in a 1968 Valiant, accompanied by a photographer companion, Norah Booth, along the entire distance of the United States/Mexico border from Brownsville and Matamoros to Chula Vista and Tijuana. The only photographs in the book, however, are verbal ones.

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[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby Jan 1983

[Review Of] Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope: A History Of Blacks In Oklahoma, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Journey Toward Hope is a welcome volume on blacks west of the Mississippi. The author has effectively demonstrated how Oklahoma's geography, between the West and the South, was responsible for its segregated development; white Oklahomans chose the racial customs, policies, and institutions of the Deep South to “keep Blacks in their place."

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[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia Jan 1983

[Review Of] James Diego Vigil, From Indians To Chicanos: A Sociocultural History, Homer D.C. Garcia

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Historians are typically satisfied with pinpointing dates and describing associated events while minimizing speculation and interpretations which cannot be directly supported with evidence. There is no question that this is a vital and popular methodological approach, and Chicano studies historians have usually complied with this norm--until now.

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Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann Jan 1983

Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann

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The social system of Weimar Germany has always been controversial. From the start 1Weimar society was characterized by a peculiar fluidity: between 1913 and 1933, the German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, was a virtual laboratory of sociocultural experimentation. In the streets of German towns and cities, political armies competed for followers--a process punctuated by assassinations and advertised by street battles embroiling monarchists, imperial militarists, nihilistic war veterans, Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and National Socialists. Parliamentary activity involved about twenty-five political parties whose shifting alliances produced twenty governmental cabinets with an average lifespan of less than nine months.

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