No.7 Summer, 1987

Table of Contents

Roger D . Abrahams, ed. Stories from Black Traditions in the New World,

reviewed by Itibari M. Zulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Elechi Amadi. Estrangement, reviewed by J ames H. Bracy . . . . . . . . . 2

Ranjit Arora and C arlton Duncan, eds . Multicultural Education:

Towards Good Practice, reviewed by Jonathan Pearce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Mary Dougherty Bartlett. The New Native American Novel, reviewed by

Helen J askoski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Edward D . Beechert. Working in Hawaii: A Labor History, reviewed by

Patricia Grimshaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, and Douglass L. Brownstone. Is land of Hope, Is land of Tear s , revi e w e d by Z o r a D evrnj a

Zimmerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Carol Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Judith McDaniel , eds. The Stories We Hold

Secret- Tales of Women's Spiritual Development, reviewed by N ancy K.

Herzberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Michelle Cliff. The Land of Look Behind, reviewed by Aisha Eshe . . 9

James D . Cockcroft. Outlaws in the Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant

Workers and America's Future, reviewed by Arthur Ramirez . . . . . . . 1 0

Roger Daniels , Sandra C . Taylor, a n d H arry H . L. Kitano, eds. Japanese

Americans: From Relocation to Redres s , reviewed by Victor N .

Okada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2

Lenwood G . Davis , with the assistance o f Marsha L . Moore. Malcolm

X: A Selected Bibliography, reviewed by James Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3

Rodolfo O . De La Garza, Frank D . Bean, Charles M. Bonjean, Ricardo Romo, and Rodolfo Alvarez, eds. The Mexican American Experience: An

Interdisciplinary Anthology, reviewed by Cary D . Wintz . . . . . . . . . . 14

Vine Deloria, Jr . , ed. A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G.

Neihardt, reviewed by H elen Jaskoski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6

Raymond J . DeMallie. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings

Given to John G. Neihardt, reviewed by Gretchen M. Bataille . . . . . . 17

Hugh A. Dempsey. Big Bear: The End of Freedom, reviewed by Robert

Gish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Michael N. Dobkowski, ed. Jewish American Voluntary Organizations,

reviewed by David M. Gradwohl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Frederick J . Dockstader . The Kachina and the White Man: The

In fluen ces of White Culture on the Hopi Kachina Cult, reviewed by Nancy M. Osborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Leslie W. Dunbar, ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened to Blacks,

Hispan ics. Am erican Indians, and Other Minorities in the Eighties,

reviewed by Carlos Ortega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Paul E spinoza, producer. The Lemon Grove Incident, reviewed by Freddy Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin. Discrimination American

Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism, 2nd ed., reviewed by Margaret La ughlin . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Joseph P. Fitzpatrick. Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning of Migra­

tion to the Mainland ( 2 n d E d i t i o n ) , r e v i e w e d b y J e s s e M . Vazquez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Rich ard F. Fleck. Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians,

reviewed by Robert F. Sayre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Joanne V . Gabbin. Sterling A. BrolL'll: Building the Bla ck Aesthetic

Tradition, reviewed by Robbie Jean Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Irene L. Gendzier. Franz Fanon: A Critical Study, reviewed by W. A. Jordan III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Ir a A . Glazier and Luigi De Rosa, eds. Migration Across Time a nd

Natiulls: Popula tion Mobility in Histurical Cuntexts, reviewed by Laverne Lewycky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :33

Rayna Green, ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and

F i c t i o n b y N a t i v e A m e r i c a n W o m e n , r e v i e w e d b y H e l e n J askoski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

David Greenslade. Welsh Feuer, reviewed by Phillips G. Davies . . . . 36

John A. Grim. The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing,

reviewed by Ronald N . Satz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor, eds. Gertrude Blom-Bearing Witness,

reviewed by Ruth Sundheim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Gerri Hirshey. Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, reviewed by Gloria Eive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

J e r r a l d A s a o H i u r a , ed. The Haw k's Well, reviewed by V i c t o r Okada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2

J u n e J ordan. O n Call: Political Ess ays, reviewed by Linda M . C . Abbott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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Wyatt MacGaffey. Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo

of Lower Zaire, reviewed by Dennis M . Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

R u t h a n n e L u m M c C u n n . Sole Survivor, r e v i e w e d b y R u s s e l l

Endo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Alfredo Mirande' . The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective,

reviewed by Albert F. Inclan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Nicholasa Mohr. Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, reviewed by

Luis L. Pinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Jamshid A. Momeni, ed. Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Housing in the

United States, reviewed by Vagn K. H ansen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

T o s h i o M o r i o . Yo k o h a m a , C a l i f o r n i a , r e v i e w e d b y N e i l

N akadate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Alan Takeo Moriyama. Imingaisha: Japanese Emigration Companies

and Hawaii 1 894- 1 908, reviewed by Donald L. Guimary . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers,

reviewed by David M. Johnson with Yolanda Burwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Mark Naison. Communists in Harlem During the Depression, reviewed

by W. A. Jordan III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Peter N aj a ri a n . Daughters of Memory, reviewed b y M a r g a r e t

Bedrosian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

R. Carlos Nakai. Changes: Native American Flute Music and Cycles:

Native American Flute Music, reviewed by D avid M. Gradwohl . . . . 60

Robert J. Norrel l . Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement

in Tuskegee, reviewed by Floyd W. H ayes, III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Felix M. Padilla . Latino Ethnic Consciousness, reviewed by Luis L .

Pinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3

Pepetela (Artur Pestana). Mayombe: A Novel o f the Angolan Struggle,

reviewed by Charlotte H. Bruner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Kenneth R. Philp, ed. Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts of Indian·

White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan, reviewed by E lm e r

Rusco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

M onte Piliawsky. Exit 1 3 : Oppress ion and Racism in Academia,

reviewed by D avid B. Bills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women,

Fiction, and Literary Traditions, reviewed by Cortland Auser . . . . . . 70

Maria Estes Sanchez . Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an

Emerging Literature, reviewed by Glen M. Kraig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Paul A. Scanlon, ed. Stories from Central and Southern Africa, reviewed

by W. A. Jordan III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

B o SchOler, ed. Coyote Was Here: Essays on Contemporary Native

American Literary and Political Mobilization, reviewed by Gretchen M.

B ataille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Ian Smart. Central American Writers of West Indian Origin: A New

Hispanic Literature, reviewed by La Verne Gonzalez' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

D ennis J. Starr. The Italians of New Jersey: A Historical Introduction

and Bibliography, reviewed by Lucia C . Birnbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Paul J . Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Indochinese Refugees lit

America: Problems of Adaptation and Assimilation, reviewed by Russell E ndo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

S. J. Tambiah. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of

Democracy, reviewed by Proshanta K. Nandi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

N gugi wa Thiong'o . Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in

African Literature, reviewed by David K. Bruner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Lydio F. Tomasi, ed. Italian Americans: New Perspectives in Italian

Immigration and Ethnicity, reviewed by Gloria Lothrop . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Wen-Shing Tseng and David Y. H . Wu, eds. Chinese Culture and Mental

Health, reviewed by Ella P. Lacey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Jules Tygiel . Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His

Legacy, reviewed by Stewart Rodnon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Anna Lee W alters . The Sun Is Not Merciful, reviewed by Helen

J askoski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Gilbert Ware. William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure, reviewed by Allene Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

J oel Wil l i a m s o n . The Crucible of Race, reviewed by O rvil le W . Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1

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