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[Review Of] Charles C. Moskos, Jr., Greek Americans, Struggle And Success, Phylis Cancilla Martinelli

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Charles Moskos is a Greek American sociologist involved in teaching one of the few courses dealing with the subject of his book, Greek Americans. His book is a broad overview of this ethnic group, with both an historical and sociological perspective. The topic is interesting, for the Greeks are one of the few ”New Immigrant” groups to achieve rapid upward mobility without vanishing into the melting pot. Since the success of most southern and eastern European groups has been marked by a slow and uneven upward climb, the Greeks offer an instructive contrast.

[Review Of] Harold K. Schneider, The Africans: An Ethnological Account, Gary Y. Okihiro

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Schneider’s The Africans offers a provocative interpretation of African society. Unlike other introductory texts, Schneider is not concerned with an exhaustive or even representative survey of African life; rather, his concern is to put forth a non-Marxist social-cultural-economic theory of African society which would provide a broad analytical framework. He succeeds in sketching, in this comparatively slim volume, a sweeping new view of African society. (Cf., G. P. Murdock, Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History, New York, 1959; James L. Gibbs, Jr., ed., Peoples of Africa, New York, 1965; Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Garden City, …

[Review Of] Monica Schuler, "Alas. Alas. Kongo": A Social History Of Indentured Immigration Into Jamaica. 184l-1865, David M. Johnson

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

This book is intended as a footnote to the larger history of the last years of the slave trade in the Atlantic and to the efforts of the British West Indian planters to find labor substitutes for the emancipated slaves. During this period, the Royal Navy recaptured in the Atlantic some of the people exported from Africa as slaves by other colonial powers, and took them to Sierra Leone or to St. Helena. Officials from several West Indian islands tried to induce some of these recaptives to immigrate to the West Indies as indentured laborers. This book is a social …

[Review Of] Ethnic Studies: The Peoples Of America, David N. Mielke

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

The market for audiovisual materials on American ethnic experiences is extremely healthy. As with the wide availability of products in any marketable area, one needs to be particularly conscious of quality, price, and usability. In selecting materials in ethnic studies the purchaser must often decide between multiethnic packages to achieve breadth, or singular ethnic packages which present the ethnic experience in some depth. The user then might attempt to creatively integrate the two.

The Vanguard (Vol. 28, No. 10), Dec 1981, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Divestment. Namibia. Haitian refugees.

Those are three of the topics acted upon by the Association of Black Lutherans (ABL) at its biennial conference in Fort Worth Texas.

The conference voted to support divestment from financial institutions and companies that continue to engage in business in South Africa. The 1980 LCA convention in Seattle rejected apartheid and all other forms of racial discrimination but did not ask for divestment. Instead it asked for criteria which would help determine whether total divestment or active shareholder objections were "most effective" strategies.

Table Of Contents

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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1981

Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research, Elisabeth J. Johnson

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

For some time, social scientists have been concerned with ethics in research. Much of what they have written has focused on research in general, but many of the points they raise are applicable to evaluation research in particular. Included among these concerns are informed consent, the right to treatment, the right to refuse treatment, implicit coercion, powerlessness of subjects, and, perhaps most important, external access to confidential data.

Symbolic Interaction And Black Mental Health: Understanding Black Self-Conceptions, Shirley Vining Brown

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The widespread preoccupation with racial identity in the last two decades has been seen not only as a symptom of alienation but also as a move by racial minorities to recapture what has been called a “surrendered identity.” This corrective action has its place in the historical evolution of American race relations but, at the same time, it has a price.

Critique [Of Ethical Problems In Evaluation Research], Gary Y. Okihiro

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

“Ethical Problems in Evaluation Research” by Elisabeth J. Johnson summarizes some of the salient ethical concerns in social science research such as the relative positions of power between researcher and subject, confidentiality and privacy, and “political interests” or the use of research findings by sponsors. The author concludes with proposals and cautions; of special relevance to readers of this journal is Kelman’s “participatory research” which enables people being studied to participate in the research design and implementation.

Critique [Of An Invisible Minority: An Examination Of Migrant Education], Dennis Stewart

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

"An lnvisible Minority” is a well-written. sensitive, and on the whole, accurate article which could have been written a decade ago. | am reminded by it of an astronomer who periodically releases to the press a statement outlining the difference between astronomy and astrology as a professional obligation. So too, people need to be reminded of the terrible toll extracted from migrant worker families.

The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

I thank George Carter for his willingness to give advice to the new editorial staff, in his last editorial for Explorations (Vol. 3, No. 2.). concerning the frustrating experiences we would have in attempting to produce a quality journal. This is our premier edition. and we trust that it will improve with age.

Critique [Of Wiesel's Memoir And God Outside Auschwitz], David M. Gradwohl

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

It is not exactly a guarded secret that Jews, for three or four thousand years, have questioned who they were, who they are, and who they are going to be as individuals and as members of the various groups within which they associate. And through those many centuries they have often cried out in anguish and ambivalence to their God. Elie Wiesel, who writes with great power and also great agony, is certainly not the first writer to express these themes. Nor is the German Holocaust with all of its unspeakable and unfathomable horrors the first event to evoke these …

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Comments From The Guest Editor, Gretchen Bataille

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

I want to take this opportunity to share some thoughts with the readers of Explorations about the association and the journal. The new editorial staff is in the process of making several significant changes in format as well as content of the publications. The first new beginning is a new logo, a logo which has as its central symbol the character meaning "the source."

[Review Of] Rebels And Victims By Evelyn Gross Avery, Paula M. Henry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Rebels and Victims is a useful contribution to the comparative analysis of ethnic literature. This balanced, thorough presentation on the fiction of Wright and Malamud examines their ethnic literary works. Avery touches on many interdisciplinary factors which make the book of some interest to those discussing Afro-American and Jewish-American ethnic groups functioning in society.

Wiesel's Memoir And God Outside Auschwitz, Mildred L. Culp

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Night records Elie Wiesel’s internment at Auschwitz, and it raises questions about God’s and humanity’s respective roles in the death camps. Today’s literary critics and theologians, however, highlight Wiesel's gift for story-telling of his theology and miss the quality of the writer’s individual works. Tending to group all of the author's Holocaust stories to illuminate a particular theme, they have failed to recognize that Wiesel’s theology in Night is manifest only when they perceive "that there is meaning in [it, which] comes only when the elements that go up to make that thing" appear in their relatedness. They do not …

What Is Ethnic Pride? A Poem, Judith Lundin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A poem by Judith Lundin: What is Ethnic Pride?

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Table of contents for Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1981

The Roles Of Ethnic Theater In Immigrant Communities In The United States 1850-1930, Maxine S. Seller

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries millions of Europeans left their homes to form immigrant communities in the United States. Much of the literature about those immigrant communities focuses upon problems such as their ecomonic [economic] hardships, prejudices against them, and their difficulties adjusting to an unfamiliar environment. It is equally important, however, to study the strengths of these communities, their rich internal life, and the institutions that expressed and sustained that life. One of the most significant and least studied of these institutions was the foreign language, or ethnic, theater.

List Of Contributors

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1981

Critique [Of God's Silence And The Shrill Of Ethnicity In The Chicano Novel], Neil Nakadate

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Among the most important observations made in the course of Joe Rodriquez‘ essay on the Chicano novel are that 1) an ethnic legacy must be recognized described, and acknowledged in its complexity and contradictions before it can become a viable part of an individual's identity; 2) ethnic legacies and affiliations, as with all relationships into which individuals are born, can be burdensome liabilities as well as touchstones of sustenance and liberation; 3) an ethnic's unquestioning affiliation with the "group" often leads to a diminishment of personal worth. With his focus on dialectical forces within Chicano life and on ethnicity as …

Critique [Of Addressing Gaps In The Delivery Of Community Services: The Case Of One Inner-City Community], Shirla Mcclain

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This study has two major implications for human service professionals. First, it identifies some of the essential ingredients that enable human service agencies to be effective. Second, it provides a basis for further research possibilities among the human service professions.

Addressing Gaps In The Delivery Of Community Services: The Case Of One Inner-City Community, Cecilia E. Dawkins

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The need for more effective approaches to the delivery of health and social services in inner-city communities is well established. Attempts to improve service delivery in such areas as housing, health care and job training usually concentrate on strengthening' community education efforts and other strategies designed to motivate potential users of community services. Little emphasis has been placed on increasing the communication between different community service providers to achieve better coordination among organizations responsible for service delivery in inner-city communities. As a consequence, major service gaps exist including such problems as duplication of services, limited accessiblity [accessibility], and the absence …

Critique [Of Addressing Gaps In The Delivery Of Community Services: The Case Of One Inner-City Community], Minnie T. Bailey

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This descriptive study was completed to assess the demographic characteristics of respondents; the kinds of services provided by twenty-eight social agencies, organizations, and institutions and the perceptions of low-income clients held by providers. The purpose of the survey was to gather baseline data to improve the COALITION‘S ability to coordinate services and planning as well as to avoid duplication of services.

Critique [Of A Proposed Model For Advocacy Services For Mexican Undocumented Aliens With Mental Health Needs], Cliff I. Hooper Sr.

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

With the data we have the evidence of need, with the proposed method, we have been offered a logical approach to difficult conditions, but what we need now is a method for overcoming the extraordinary conditions. Salcido's contribution is both an offering and a projection of one of a number of serious Social problems in the United States. As an offering, this paper provides data sustaining the structure and validity of a model; as a projection, Salcido focuses the phenomena of United States/Mexican border relations as that situation concerns United States nationalism and Mexican aliens who are illegal residents, especially …

Critique [Of The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction], Laverne Gonzalez

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The author speaks truly in stating that gays in literature have remained, for the most part, in the closet. Generally authors have been concerned with presenting a given philosophy, advocating social change, creating aesthetically satisfying literature, not primarily with sexuality, per se.

Critique [Of God's Silence And The Shrill Of Ethnicity In The Chicano Novel], Gladys David Howell

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The concepts of society and culture, so vital in the pursuit of understanding human behavior. its patterns and effects, are ultimately expressed in the lives of individuals. Cultural values are carried, symbolized, and integrated in the minds of human beings Innovative individuals challenge and change culture. The crucial intersection of society, culture, and individual has not always been granted sufficiently high priority in social science research to exploit this rich vein. As sociology and anthropology have moved toward quantitative methods, material is often fractured so that society seems peopled by disembodied fragmented men and women. This is regrettable since the …

Contributors To This Issue

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Notes on contributors to Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1981

The Editor Notes, Charles C. Irby

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The issues affecting ethnics, minorities, and the poor have changed little throughout the years; the primary issue, undergirding all others, however, is social Justice and its attainment. We are hopeful that the membership will share with others the celebration of ethnicity provided in this issue of the Journal, for ethnicity is more than an academic concern.

Critique [Of The Image Of Gays In Chicano Prose Fiction], Sara Bentley

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In "The Image of Gays in Chicano Prose Fiction," Karl J. Reinhardt surveys a variety of outstanding works of contemporary fiction by male Chicano writers which include homosexual references that are often so hidden that they may not even be apparent to heterosexual readers.