Ethnic Studies Review back issues from January 1998:
Anthropology and Ethnicity; From Herder to Hermeneutics
Jan 01, 1998; ... For a long time, the central focus of anthropology has been on the study of the so-called traditional societies. However, with the transformation of those societies into "ethnicized" groups within state systems, anthropologists have had to rethink their concepts, theories, and methods. They have ...
Sports and the Politics of Identity and Memory: The Case of Federal Indian Boarding Schools During the 1930s
Jan 01, 1998; ... The federal government of the United States developed a complex System of boarding schools for Native Americans in the 19(th) century. This effort was generally insensitive and often brutal. In spite of such brutality many students managed to negotiate and create new understandings of traditions ...
"Not Another Multiculture Education Workshop" (sigh): Why Teachers Feel Intimidated by More and More Workshops in Multicultural Education.
Jan 01, 1998; ... Many educators consider themselves sensitive to diversity issues in one way or another. However, it is not uncommon for some teachers to feel intimidated by more and more staff development programs in multicultural education that they are urged or compelled to attend. This article suggests ways ...
The Shape of the River: Long-Term consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
Jan 01, 1998 ... William G. Bowen and Derek Bok. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998). 472 pp., $24.95 cloth. The metaphor conveyed in the title, The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions, captures the undercurrents, uncharted ...
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge
Jan 01, 1998 ... Raymond A. Bucko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). 320 pages, $40.00 cloth. This well-researched book presents an excellent anthropological discussion of the "ritual" aspects of the "sweat lodge" as practiced among some Lakota, while posing some very thorny problems in ...
Fighting Words: Black Women & The Search For Justice
Jan 01, 1998 ... Patricia Hill Collins. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). 312 pp., $18.95 paper. Collins' Fighting Words builds on her previous work, Black Feminist Thought, as she explores standpoint theory and "the outsider within" position and their usefulness for Black feminist ...
Race, Place, & the Law
Jan 01, 1998 ... David Delaney. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998). 229 pp., $17.95 paper. David Delaney's work is informative and contributes to an understanding of race relations and the legal system. The central finding is that race relations exist in different spatial contexts at the same ...
Native American Voices: A Reader
Jan 01, 1998 ... Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot, eds. (Reading: Addison Westey Longman, Inc., 1998). 494 pp., $27.00 paper. This valuable collection of readings edited by leading scholars in the field enriches the social science and educational literature for several reasons. First, the book provides a ...
Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians
Jan 01, 1998 ... Devon A. Mihesuah, ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). xi 213 pp. As a white scholar of American Indian autobiographies, I approached this collection of essays edited by Devon A. Mihesuah, Associate Professor of History at Northern Arizona University, with both ...
Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity: Maintaining Language and Heritage
Jan 01, 1998 ... Toyotomi Morimoto. (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1997). xix, 169 pp., $44. Japanese language schools in California are chronicled from the early twentieth century until the eve of World War II based mainly on the UCLA Japanese American Research Project Collections, ...
Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experiences on the North American Frontier
Jan 01, 1998 ... John W. Ravage. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1998). 218 pp., $24.95 cloth. This scholarly study is a welcome effort to broaden the horizon of what many Americans have come to believe are the true westering experiences. It began with the early western images created in dime ...
The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and other Macroaggressions
Jan 01, 1998 ... Katheryn K. Russell. (New York: New York University Press, 1998) 148 pp., $24.95. Is Crime a problem or color or race? What about the question of disproportionality: Do blacks commit more crimes in proportion to their percentage of the total population? Does disproportionality, as one ...
Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
Jan 01, 1998 ... Leland T. Saito. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Part of the Asian American Experience Series edited by Roger Daniels. 250 pp., $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. This book is a testament to the maturity of ethnic studies curricula. They were developed by activist ...
From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the U.S.
Jan 01, 1998 ... E. San Juan, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998). 224 pp., $59.00 cloth. The author has written an excellent summary of the little known events in Filipino history in the Philippines and the history of the Filipino community in the U.S., a history of over four hundred years ...
Teaching about Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity: Exercises and Planned Activities
Jan 01, 1998 ... T. M. Singelis, ed. (Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998). 254, pp., $29.95 paper. Professors and students of teacher education can always appreciate theoretical discussions of multicultural education in books and journal articles. Even more useful are concrete examples such as the ...
Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class
Jan 01, 1998 ... Calvin Winslow, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998). 204 pp., $17.95 paper. Students of race and ethnic relations have used two perspectives to explain the effects of industrialization on dominant and subordinate relations. One view holds that the process of ...
Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism
Jan 01, 1998 ... Magdalena J. Zaborowska, ed. The Dolphin Series 28. ed. Tim Caudery. (Aarhus C, Denmark, Oxford, and Oakville, CT: Aarhus University Press, 1998). 215 pp., $19.95 paper. The editor of this text, Magdalene J. Zaborowska of Aarhus University, is a respected feminist specialist in ethnic ...
A Historical Perspective on the Development of an Ethnic Minority Consciousness in the Spanish-Language Press of the Southwest
Jan 01, 1998; ... Various scholars have treated ethnic newspapers in the United States as if they all have evolved from an immigrant press.(i) While one may accept their analysis of the functions of the ethnic press, there is a substantial and qualitative difference between newspapers that were built on an ...
Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York.
Jan 01, 1998 ... Ray Allen and Lois Wilcken. (New York: New York Folklore Society and The Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, 1998).185 pp., $17.95 paper. In putting together Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York, editors Ray Allen and ...
Afrocentric Ideologies and Gendered Resistance in Daughters of the Dust and Malcolm X: Setting, Scene, and Spectatorship
Jan 01, 1998; ... Introduction This study of scenes from the films Daughters of the Dust and Malcolm X, describes images of myth, gender, and resistance familiar to African-American interpretive communities. Key thematic and technical elements of these films are opposed to familiar Hollywood practices, ...
Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language, and Identity.
Jan 01, 1998 ... Lean'tin L. Bracks. Crosscurrents in African American History, Vol I. (New York: Garland, 1998). xii, 139 pp., $39.00 cloth. In her "Preface" to this study, Lean'tin Bracks describes her purpose as being "to describe a model which may provide for today's black woman a means to take ...
Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race', and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Jan 01, 1998 ... Ramsay Burt. (London and New York: Routledge, 1998). 222 pp., $22.99 paper. In Alien Bodies, Burt uses interdisciplinary methods to consider the issues of modernity and modernism in relation to the work of several makers of early modern dance. In nine chapters, he carefully examines the ...
Print Culture in a Diverse America
Jan 01, 1998 ... James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, eds. The History of Communication Series. (Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1998). 291 pp., $49.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. This volume functions both in illuminating minority perspectives in print culture and describing and furthering the field of "print ...
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
Jan 01, 1998 ... Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, translated by Frederik L. Schodt. (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1998). 152 pp., $12.95 paper. This historically important document is a translation of a humorous comic book published in 1931 based on the experiences of the author, Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, as ...
The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representation
Jan 01, 1998 ... Tracy Mishkin. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998). xv, 127 pp. $49.95. The very title of Tracy Mishkin's The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representation would fill any scholar of either movement with skepticism. To draw parallels among turn of the ...
De Colores Means All Of Us
Jan 01, 1998 ... Elizabeth Martinez. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1998). 266 pp., $18.00. Elizabeth Martinez, well known San Franciscan activist, author and journalist, in her most recent work endeavors to connect the movements of the 90s with the crucible of the 60s. Her narrative of the course of ...
Hollywood's Indians: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film
Jan 01, 1998 ... Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor, eds. (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1998). 226 pp., $15.00 paper. Hollywood inherited conflicting myths of Native Americans: barbaric savages or "Noble Savage." Influenced by the latter romantic view, James Fenimore Cooper in print and George ...
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Jan 01, 1998 ... Stanley Nelson (Producer and Director). California Newsreel, 149th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Video, 86 minutes, 1998. Rental: $95. Purchase price, $195. Shipping: $10. 415-621-6522. www.newsreel.org. One of the most important institutions established in African American ...
Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism
Jan 01, 1998 ... Yanick St. Jean and Joe R. Feagin. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998). 235 pp., $36.95. The women interviewed in Double Burden share personal accounts of what it is like to be black and female in the contemporary United States. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with middle-class, ...
Beyond Post Colonial Theory
Jan 01, 1998 ... E. San Juan, Jr. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). $35.00. This is an important book for many reasons. Much like Michael Omi and Howard Winants' Racial Formation in the United States and San Juan's previous book Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the US, this ...
The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism
Jan 01, 1998 ... Patsy West. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). xvi, 150 pp., $24.95 cloth. Patsy West, long the archivist of photographs for the Seminole and Miccosukee Native nations of Florida, has written an exceptional book in her first full-length work, The Enduring Seminoles: From ...
A Part Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America
Jan 01, 1998 ... Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998). 320 pp., $59.95 cloth. $22.95 paper. In their introduction to this stimulating collection of Asian American voices, editors Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth describe "A Part Yet Apart: ...
Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy: A Comparative Inquiry
Jan 01, 1998 ... Crawford Young. (Great Britain: UNRISD, 1998). 240 pp. As we come to the end of the millennium, contrary to the more democratic and progressive aspirations of earlier decades, ethnicity continues to define political and social alliances in the struggle for power and survival. Ethnic ...