Recently added articles from Ethnic Studies Review:
Editor's Notes
Jul 01, 2008; ... In this opening issue of volume 31 we are presented with both nuanced and bold entry into several long enduring issues and topics stitching together the interdisciplinary fabric comprising ethnic studies. The authors of these articles bring to our attention social, cultural and economic issues ...
Artisans and the Marketing of Ethnicity: Globalization, Indigenous Identity, and Nobility Principles in Micro-Enterprise Development
Jul 01, 2008; ... Ethnicity 2007 As a constructed category of human difference, 'ethnicity' has given way to 'culture' in its shared genealogy in the new millennium. Public knowledge about such phenomena as 'ethnic cleansing', debates on immigration, and the use of ethnicity as both a dependent and ...
"I'll Rise": Rememory, Hope and the Creation of a New Public Sphere in Ben Harper's Music
Jul 01, 2008; ... Recent studies about resistance music in the United States primarily focus on the hip-hop movement. However, it does not offer the only musical discourse contesting contemporary injustices. Even though the debate about hip-hop is a crucial one that deserves full attention, it seems necessary to ...
"A Shplit Ticket, Half Irish, Half Chinay": Representations of Mixed-Race and Hybridity In Turn-of-the-Century Theater
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction1 Charles Townsend's 1889 adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin features white actors playing light- and dark-skinned African-American characters, changing degrees of make-up as the script, stage business, or number of available players demands. Thomas ...
RIFTON FINNS: AN ETHNIC ENCLAVE IN ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK
Jul 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION When you begin to consider the Finns of New York State, there are two obvious foci that have received the majority of attention in the ethnic literature. The presence of some estimated 20,000 Finns in New York City during the 1920s provided a large population with its myriad ...
Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin in Arab American Literature
Jul 01, 2008; ... In an urban neighborhood with a large Jewish population near my home, there is an Arabic restaurant. Name, menu and ownership mark its ethnic identification, yet its politics are otherwise obscured. An American flag, permanently placed in the restaurant's window since 9/11, greets American ...
Editor's Notes
Dec 01, 2007; ... This double issue features a range of articles which explore topics, issues and subject matter important to ethnic studies scholars, students, and the general public. In an important interdisciplinary way, these articles are each interdisciplinary explorations into the multi varied ethnic group ...
PETIT APARTHEID AND THE "TB" SYNDROME: POLICE RACIAL PROFILING OF CHICANA/O YOUTHS IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
Dec 01, 2007; ... I like to go out on Friday nights and Saturday nights and join up with my homies and walk around the hot spots and get some food. I like to check out the girls and see if I can get something going with them. But every weekend the cops stop me. What the fuck for? I go to school everyday and get ...
Diversity as an Orientalist Discourse
Dec 01, 2007; ... The goal of promoting diversity is deep-rooted in the post-civil rights activities of U.S. educational institutions. Universities across the country attempt to foster diversity by seeking a diverse student body, creating initiatives that promote diversity, institutionalizing committees and ...
Canadian Multiculturalism Ideology: mere tolerance or full acceptance
Dec 01, 2007; ... Introduction September 11, 2001 will forever be etched in the memory of Canadians who were deeply affected by the events of that day. This cataclysmic occurrence had a pivotal place not only upon the private troubles of those directly related but also upon the public issues and the ...
Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Compelling Need and a Compelling Warning
Dec 01, 2007; ... Introduction. Higher education has been historically recognized as the very door to opportunity and success for our nation's youths and future leaders. Following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the cry and pressure for access to America's college campuses have intensified, ...
The Ties that Bind: Asian American Communities without "Ethnic Spaces" in Southeast Michigan
Dec 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION According to the 2000 census, over 12 million Asian Americans, almost 70 percent of them either immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1970 or their children, comprised an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population that was more regionally dispersed throughout the ...
"For a few days we would be residents in Africa": Jessie Redmon Fauset's "Dark Algiers the White"
Dec 01, 2007; ... "The battle ground of the race is no longer-bounded by America's shores. Today, It is the world" from "The American Negro and Foreign Opinion", William S. Nelson The Crisis, August 1923 American scholarship on the Harlem Renaissance has, until recently, been strongly ...
Signing and Signifyin': Negotiating Deaf and African American Identities1
Dec 01, 2007; ... For individuals who are both African American and Deaf finding a place to belong is a process of navigating their many cultural identities. In this paper I explore the following questions: where do individuals who are African American and Deaf find and make community? To which communities do ...
Chinese Americans and the Borderland Experience on Golden Mountain: The Development of a Chinese American Identity in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Dec 01, 2007; ... In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her immigrant family and their efforts to rise above their working-class status in America, which optimistic Chinese regard as the Golden Mountain. The Hongs' experience is not unlike that of other ...
"Their Sleep is to Be Desecrated": The Central Valley Project and the Wintu People of Northern California, 1938-1943
Dec 01, 2007; ... O, white man, take the land of ours, Guard well its hills, streams, and bowers, Guard well the Mounds where Wintoons sleep, Guard well these canyons wild and deep. Alfred C. Gillis, "To The Wenem Mame River" Excerpt1 The morning of July 14, 1944, was ...
EDITOR'S NOTES
Jul 01, 2006; ... The articles in this volume focus our attention on an ever important and defining part of the ethnic studies project. That is, the continuing quest to seek out information and to form perspectives which better - more completely and accurately - inform the multilayered experiences of ethnic ...
TONGUES UNTIED: POLYPHONIC IDENTITIES AND THE HISPANIC FAMILY
Jul 01, 2006; ... 1. Toward a Polyphonic View of Cultural Identity In this paper I will use the Bakhtinian notion of polyphony,1 of a choral dialogue of multiple and heterogeneous voices, to elaborate a pluralistic account of cultural identity in general and of Hispanic identity in particular. I will ...
W.E.B. DUBOIS'S "THE COMET" AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN ESSAY ON BLACK RADICAL POLITICS AND ANTI-RACIST SOCIAL ETHICS
Jul 01, 2006; ... Critical Race Theory and the Riddle(s) of (Anti-)Race(ism) No longer considered the exclusive domain of legal studies scholars and radical civil rights lawyers and law professors, critical race theory has blossomed and currently encompasses and includes a wide range of theory and ...
"NO OPPORTUNITY FOR SONG:" A SLOVAK IMMIGRANT'S SILENCING ANALYZED THROUGH HER PRONOUN CHOICE
Jul 01, 2006; ... "[In Slovakia], A field of agricultural laborers would sing folk songs together as they worked, songs in a minor key, breathing in patience and resignation. [In American factories there is] no opportunity for song" (Ledbetter 1918, 30-31). Introduction I can't tell the most ...