Number 12 Summer, 1992 EXPLORATIONS IN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Annual Reveiw Supplement to Explorations in Ethnic Studies Published by NAES EDITOR: Gretchen M. Bataille Arizona State University ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Phillips G. Davies Iowa State University Barbara L. Hiura University of California, Berkeley MANAGING EDITOR: Catherine Udall Turley Arizona State University EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Laurie O. Lisa Arizona State University Number 12 Summer, 1992 Table of Contents Richard D. Alba. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. reviewed by Phillips G. Davies... ............................................................................................................1 Paula Gunn Allen. Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book. reviewed by Cortland P. Auser........................................................................................ 2 Gretchen M. Bataille and Albert L. McHenry. eds. Living the Dream in Arizona: The Legacy of Martin Luther King. Jr . reviewed by Otis Scott............................... .............3 Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen M. Sands. American Indian Women: A Guide to Research. reviewed by Cynthia R. Kasee........................ .............................................. .4 Kathleen M. Blee. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. reviewed by Noell. Kent............................................................. , ........................................................5 Edith Blicksilver. The Ethnic American Woman: Problems. Protests. Lifestyle. reviewed by Ann Rayson .................................................................................................................. 6 E. Ellis Cashmore. cd. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. 2nd ed .• reviewed by AlbertoPulido . ............................................................................................... ..................7 Ko-lin Chin. Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups in America. reviewed by Evelyn Hu-DeHart.................................. : ....................................... 9 Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. reviewed by Cortland P. Auser.... .............................................................................................................................10 ludith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood. reviewed by Angelo Costanzo.................. ........................................................................... 10 Laura Coltelli. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak. reviewed by Hartwig Isemhagen............ ............................................. .................................................................11 Adelaide M. Cromwell. ed. Dynamics of the African/Afro-American Connection: From Dependency to Self-Reliance.reviewed by Judith 0 ·DeIL ............................ ................13 lulie Cruikshank. in collaboration with Angela Sidney. Kitty Smith. and Annie Ned. Life Lived Like a Story: LifeStories of Three Yukon Native Elders. reviewed by Laurie Lisa ............................................................................................................................................14 Raymond 1. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks. eds. Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation. reviewed by David M. Gradwohl.. ................................................................16 III St. Clair Drake. Black Folk Here and There , vol. I, reviewed by Bamidele J. Bracy and Jean E. Daniels............................................ ...................................................................... 17 Charles A. Eastman. Indian Boyhood, reviewed by Steven R. Price ................................ 19 Charles A. Eastman. Old Indian Days, reviewed by Hartwig Isemhagen..... .................... 20 Margot Edmonds and Ella E. Clark. Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends, reviewed by Cortland P. Auser ....... ......... .................................................................... .....22 Gertrude Ezorsky. Racism and Justice: The Case for AffirmativeAction, reviewed by Brij B. Khare .................. ........................................................ ................................................... 23 Jewelle Taylor Gibbs. Young, Black and Male in America: An Endangered Species, reviewed by Calvin E. Harris.................... ........................................................................24 Susan A. Glenn. Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation, reviewed by Noel J. Kent. ................................................................................................. 25 Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. "Or Does it Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression, reviewed by Steve Gold................................................. ............................................ ........26 Joseph Hobbs. Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness, reviewed by Torrance Stephens ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth. Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, and Letters, reviewed by Phillips G. Davies....................... .................... 28 Peter Hyun. MAN SElf The Making of a Korean American, reviewed by Donald M. Guimary............................. ................................................................................................ 29 Richard Jensen, et. al. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee, reviewed by Cortland P. Auser .......................................................................................................................................... .30 K. Sue Jewell. Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of u.s. Social Policy, reviewed by Cary D. Wintz.................................................................................... 31 Nicolas Kanellos and Jorge A. Huerta, eds. Nuevos Pasos: Chicano and Puerto Rican Drama, reviewed by Phillipa Kafka.................................................................................. 33 Choong Soon Kim. Faithful Endurance: An Ethnography of Korean Family Dispersal, reviewed by Jim Schnell.................................................................................................... 34 Paul Lauter, et aI., eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, reviewed by Laurie Lisa..................................................................................................................................... 35 Richard P. McCormick. The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers, reviewed by Otis Scott ............................................................................................................................ 37 Rosalio Moises, Jane Holden Kelley, and William Curry Holden. A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian, reviewed by Raymond A. Bueko ......................... 38 iv Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California, reviewed by Carlos F. Ortega .................................. ....................................... 39 Toni Morrison. Jazz, reviewed by Cortland P. Auser.. ........................................ ............41 Patricia Morton. DisfiguredImages: The Historical Assault on Afro-American Women, reviewed by TorranceStephens ........................................................................................ .41 Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle and Success, reviewed by Phillips G. Davies................................................................................................................................ 42 Elias Miguel Munoz. Crazy Love, reviewed by Phillipa Kafka........................................ .44 Peter Nabokov, cd. Native American Testimony, reviewed by Cortland P. Auser. .......... 45. Susheila Nasta, cd. Motherlands: Black Women's WritingfromAfrica, the Caribbean and South Asia, reviewed by Opal Palmer Adisa.. .................................................................. .47 Elsie Clews Parsons. American Indian Life,reviewed by Laurie Lisa... .............. .......... .. .48 Roy Harvey Pearce. Sm'agism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. Rev. cd. of The Savages of America, reviewed by D. C. Cole......... ......... .............. 49 Ruth Pelz. Black Heroes of the Wild West, reviewed by George H. Junne, Jr..... ............ 50 Benjamin B. Ringer and Elinor R. Lawless. Race-Etllllicity and Society, reviewed by AlbertoPulido .......................... ...................................................... ....... ; ............................ 51 A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., cds. RedefiningAmerican Literary History, reviewed by Hartwig Isernhagen. ........................................................... ............ 52 Kathleen Mullen Sands, cd. Circle of Motion: Arizona Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Literature, reviewed by Kristin Herzog ................................................54 Leslie Marmon Silko. Almanac of the Dead, reviewed by Cortland P. Auser ..................55 WernerSollors, cd. The Invention ofEthnicity, reviewed by Hartwig Isernhagen...... ......56 Craig Storti. Incident at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, reviewed by Richard R. E. Kania.. ........................................................................ ............. 58 Herman J. Viola. After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of the