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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED125799 AUTHOR: Carter, George E.; And Others
TITLE: Essays on Minority Cultures. Selected Proceedings of
the Annual Conference on Minority Studies (3rd, April
1975).
Volume 2.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 243 p.; Published by the Institute for Minority
Studies
AVAILABILITY: Institute for Minority Studies, University of
Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 ($5.00)
ABSTRACT: The volume consists of 23 essays which examine
interdisciplinary perspectives, grouped by academic areas
or
viewpoints on various minority issues. Topics include: the
existence of a black literary tradition, the international
need to develop an analysis of minority conflict and
intergroup tension, the conditions faced by migrant
workers,
origins and attraction to "la causa" in the Southwest
embodied in the National Farm Workers Organization,
Chicago's experimental Quality of Life Center founded in
1974, Federal and city efforts to improve economic
opportunity for blacks in Chicago, dilemmas faced by
minority administrators in the 1970's, affirmative action
as
a model for social change, distortions of the Latin
American's history in elementary and junior high school
texts, the vision and articulation in Scott Momaday's
"House
Made of Dawn", the Chicano novel's emergence, Tomas
Rivera's
"... and the earth did not part" and Raymond Barrio's The
Plum Plum Pickers", the interpretation of slavery, whether
or not Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt improved or
retarded race relations within their respective eras, the
relationship of whites and Chinese Americans from 1870 to
the present, the damage done by whites to American Indian
culture due to a combination of their ethnocentrism and
ignorance, and the French Canadians in the United States.
(NQ)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Acculturation-; Black-History; Black
Literature; Characterization-; Childrens-Literature;
Chinese
Americans; Conference-Reports; Culture-Conflict; Ethnic
Groups; Literature-; Migrant-Workers; Puerto-Ricans;
Quality
of-Life; Slavery-; Social-Change
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *American-Indians; *Essays-; *Literary
Perspective; *Mexican-Americans; *Minority-Groups;
*Socioeconomic-Influences
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