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Article: The Ethnic American Woman: Problems, Protests, Lifestyles.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Edith Blicksilver's multicultural anthology first appeared in 1978. Despite the proliferation of such readers since that time, this one, devoted entirely to women, is still useful. The expanded edition, with some 100 pages more than the original volume, adds two new sections and twenty works.
The editor defines ethnicity as "a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, common history, and so forth." Over twenty such ethnic groups are included. By far the two groups with the widest representation are Jewish American and African American women (there are more than twenty works by or about each of these groups). Blicksilver, ...