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Leading off this volume, three undergraduate Asian American students share their experiences in college. In subsequent chapters, authors highlight the diversity of Asian American college students, analyze the "model minority" myth and the stereotype of the "perfidious foreigner," and point out the need to consider the racial identity and racial consciousness of Asian American students. Various authors propose a model of Asian American student development, address issues of Asian Americans who are at educational risk, discuss the importance of integration and collaboration between student affairs and Asian American studies programs, and offer strategies for developing socially conscious Asian American student leaders. Two authors who wrote about Asian American college students in 1987 reflect on the preceding chapters and provide suggestions for more effective work with Asian American students. With an extensive list of resources, ranging from associations and media to policy reports and landmark scholarly works, this volume is a valuable guide to student services practitioners and researchers alike.

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Title: Getting to know the Asian American Hotel Owners Association: with AAHOA's 8,700 members whose ownership is made up of almost 65 percent franchises, and the International Franchise Association comprised of both franchisees and franchisors, it is important that continued dialogue for a healthy franchise system be paramount to both organizations.(Associations)
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Chapters: Tong, Bing Kong Tong, Lung Kong Tin Yee Association, on Leong Chinese Merchants Association, Hip Sing Association, Ying on Association, Suey Sing Association, Hop Sing Tong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In the United States, a tong (Chinese: ; Cantonese Yale: tong4; Pinyin: táng; literal: hall) is the term used for a type of secret society found among Chinese American (or other countries) immigrants. In the nineteenth century, when the tongs originated, few Chinese workers wished to emigrate to the USA. Although many stayed, most came with hopes of return to China. Although tongs were originally created for mutual support and protection, especially from other local ethnic groups hostile to the rapid Chinese immigration, their activities often flouted the law or became outright criminal. Tongs are descended from the Tiandihui, a secret society established to overthrow the Qing dynasty in China in the 18th century, and are similar to other groups worldwide that were also descended from the Tiandihui, known as hui, hongmen, triads, and tongs as well. Some of the first tongs formed in the second half of the 19th century among the earliest immigrant Chinese American communities. Many were outcasts or lacked the clan or family ties to join more prestigious Chinese surname associations, business guilds, or legitimate enterprises. As a result, they banded together to form their own secret societies for protection. These first tongs followed the same patterns as the triads. The triad societies were underground organizations in British controlled areas that also existed for self help of members, but spoke of the overthrow of the Qing missionaries, prostitution was on the decline. Since the Chinatowns had become a major tourist attraction, th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=164151 ... Read more

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Thoroughly up-to-date, with a section containing e-mail and on-line information, this reference provides readers with more than five thousand names of organizations and individuals in the African-American community, ranging from business organizations to entertainment professionals. ... Read more

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A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. ... Read more

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We know a great deal about civil rights organizationsduring the 1960s, but relatively little about black politicalorganizations since that decade. Questions of focus, accountability,structure, and relevance have surrounded these groups since the modernCivil Rights Movement ended in 1968. Political scientists OllieA. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford have assembled a group ofscholars who examine the leadership, membership, structure, goals,ideology, activities, accountability, and impact of contemporary blackpolitical organizations and their leaders. Questions considered are:How have these organizations adapted to the changing sociopoliticaland economic environment? What ideological shifts, if any, haveoccurred within each one? What issues are considered important toblack political groups and what strategies are used to implement theiragendas? The contributors also investigate how these organizationshave adapted to changes within the black community and Americansociety as a whole.

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"... carefully researched and clearly written... Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and across contexts." -- American Ethnologist

"I recommend the book highly."  -- John Haviland, American Anthropologist

"Goodwin's thoughtful interpretation of these examples [of children's conversation] is replete with wise insights, challenging critical darts, and well-referenced links to a wide literature." -- Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography

"Intellectual breadth shines through this book." -- Barrie Thorne "By combining Goffman's approach to ethnography with in-depth conversational analysis, Goodwin provides important and novel insights into the interactive processes through which culture is created and maintained. The results should be of interest to any social scientist." -- John J. Gumperz

"... required reading for linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators." -- Language and Acquisition

"This book is clearly a significant addition to the study of the range and power of children's voices at play... " -- Harvard Educational Review

"He-Said-She-Said provides fascinating insight into the importance of social context in the organization of gender." -- Signs

"A rare and wonderful combination of ethnography and conversational analysis. Goodwin gives both a sensitive account of African American adolescent street talk and a careful approach to the study of language in use." -- Ray McDermott

"Marjorie Harness Goodwin's study of children's talk provides the best and most comprehensive analysis of gender differences in interaction, situated in the broader context of children's social organization. She didn't set up experiments; she didn't just take field notes. She hung around with the children in her neighborhood until they trusted her, then tape-recorded their natural conversations as they played together. This is Goodwin's long-awaited compilation of years of painstaking analysis of the transcripts of those tapes. It is not only one of the best sources, if not the best source, for anyone interested in how boys and girls use language in their daily lives -- indeed, to constitute their daily lives; it is also a model ethnographic study of language in its natural setting." -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

This groundbreaking study describes in detail the complexities of children's communication. By integrating the analysis of conversation with ethnography, Marjorie Harness Goodwin systematically and empirically reveals how a group of urban black children constitute their social world through talk.

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African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African American fraternities and sororities have strong traditions of fostering brotherhood and sisterhood among their members, exerting considerable influence in the African American community, and being on the forefront of civic action, community service, and philanthropy. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, Arthur Ashe, Carol Moseley Braun, Bill Cosby, Sarah Vaughan, George Washington Carver, Hattie McDaniel, and Bobby Rush are among the many trailblazing members of these organizations. The rolls of African American fraternities and sororities serve as a veritable who's who among African American leadership in the United States and abroad. African American Fraternities and Sororities places the history of these organizations in context, linking them to other movements and organizations that predated them and tying their history to one of the most important eras of United States history -- the Civil Rights struggle. African American Fraternities and Sororities explores various cultural aspects of these organizations such as auxilliary groups, branding, calls, stepping, and the unique role of African American sororities. It also explores such contemporary issues as sexual aggression and alcohol use, college adjustment, and pledging, and provides a critique of Spike Lee's film School Daze, the only major motion picture to portray African American fraternities and sororities as a central theme. The year 2006 will mark the centennial anniversary of the intercollegiate African American fraternity and sorority movement. Yet, to date, little scholarly attention has been paid to these organizations and the men and women who founded and perpetuated them. African American Fraternities and Sororities reveals the vital social and political functions of these organizations and places them within the history of not only the African American community but the nation as a whole.

Customer Reviews (9)

Excellent History
This book has an excellent history of BGLOS. While it was not exactly what I was looking for, I was looking for something more basic (ie, these are the organinations, these are their colors, etc) I'm glad that I picked this book as it's given me a more complete understanding.

BEST in the WOLRD
This book is the resourceful literature on BGLO's and beyond ever written. It explores ancient significances and practices that, until now, were "secret!" It's a little more pricey than the rest, but DAMN, ITS WORTH EVERY PENNY!!! If im lying, IM DEAD!

Good, but unbalanced.Worth the read.
Good book for what its worth.

Not necessarily original in its approach nor is the writing spectacular in quality, but a worthy effort.However, the reviews given thus far ring slightly cult-like thus making the subject text be even more like propaganda.

Take for example a text authored by a Liberterian touting the triumphs and general good points of a political administration/era and its policies.Then, display positive reviews from other like-minded indiviguals.Right or wrong they believe in their world view, tactics and 'cultural' norms.No one would accept however that they give an unbiased opinion of the book and its subject matter.It is believed that the reviews presented thus far on this text are in the same vein. Biased and lacking the true objectivity that history/sociology/anthropology/the social sciences demand.

Speaking as a member of Omega Psi Phi (SP88), I know that my group is not perfect and neither are the others.This text presents an overall history that focuses on the positive for the most part without equally addressing what needs to be done to keep these organizations relevant, safe and non-elitist.

Also, the claim that "Africa" has been preserved and perpetuated in the rituals, public accounts, and service projects of BGLOs is a little far fetched.Yes, we can draw similarities to any 'tribal' group's rituals.The same things that are reported to be of African tradition can be found in the traditions of Native American groups in North and South America.Ask any real African (especially a scholar/ professor of African History from any of the various countries of West Africa) about your group's rituals and the possible relationship to "Mother Africa" and they will most likely laugh as these groups have been approximating at best or truly making it up at the worst as they go along post Emancipation Proclamation.But this can be further studied and confirmed at a good University Library or even at a facility like Moorland Spingarn reading room at Howard University.

If you are thinking of joining (pledging is illegal in BGLOs!)

1. Read this book, but make sure you also:

2. Learn and get your intended group's history directly from the National Offices of these great groups.Member's as well.

3. Intake is the law of the land.M.I.P.(Membership Intake Process.'Skating' is a term of the past.Pledging, hazing and the like are all illegal [Note-I pledged under and above ground and hard.No one has to anymore.Anyone who tells you different is weak and a traitor to the rules/laws and spirit of the BGLO].Each hazing incident places our organizations in jeopardy as each incident is a potential law suit.So, if hazed:

"Hazing" refers to any activity expected of someone joining a group (or to maintain full status in a group) that humiliates, degrades or risks emotional and/or physical harm, regardless of the person's willingness to participate. Go to stophazing.org for more.

Then sue our groups(they are worth millions ???,$$$,$$$.00) until the lesson is learned and all members and chapters conduct themselves with honor and live up to their potential.

4.Read the following to receive a more objective, perhaps not complete picture of BGLOs:

Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities by Walter M. Kimbrough

Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities (African American Studies) by Ricky L. Jones

Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking (Library Binding)
by Hank Nuwer

Best Non-Fiction Book about AA Fraternities and Sororities
I plan to write a more in depth review at a later date but I must mention immediately how very impressed I was with "African American Fraternities And Sororities: The Legacy And The Vision."This is a hardcover book that I plan to keep in my family for years to come.The authors did great research for the book and it's very detailed.I'm pleased and impressed. One day I will write much more, but being that it's summer I am very busy.I did want to share with the world just how great I think this book is.It's worth every penny and then some.

Dorrie Williams-Wheeler
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Author of Be My Sorority Sister

A piece for every black greek
This is the most extensive work I have ever read on Black Greek-Letter Organizations. There are other works out there, but this book has managed to capture the true essence of us and our significance. The contributors to this book touched on just about every topic imaginable, so to me, anyone from old-school greeks, to new-school ones can relate. The authors do an exceptional job of tracing the origins of BGLOs back to Africa with the customs, rituals, dances, etc. They also do a remarkable job explaining what issues were facing not only BGLO's, but black people in general at the time. There was some information in the book I already knew, but there was so much more that I never knew existed, and seeing it for the first time is indeed a blessing. There was so much knowledge gained from this book from start to finish, for one, because the authors did their research, and because they touched on issues rarely touched. It shows much of an influence BGLOs have and will continue to have in the future.

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The collapse of the weaving industry in eighteenth-century Bengal has been the subject of considerable controversy. Drawing on newly discovered eighteenth-century Bengali manuscripts that contain the East India Company's correspondence, account books, and deeds of agreement with weavers, Hossain here suggests that the decline of the weaving industry was largely a result of the Company's attempt to enforce lower wages and maintain strict control over the weavers. ... Read more

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Something Better for Our Children examines the critical role blacks played in organizing the Chicago school reform in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. Although many people focus on the current Chicago school reform efforts, there must be a clear understanding of the roots of that effort which took place in the 1960s, and this title provides just that. ... Read more

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Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause of the 1924 U.S. immigration law.

It is well known that this clause caused great indignation among the Japanese, and scholars have long regarded it as a major contributing factor in the final collapse of U.S.-Japan relations in 1941. Not generally known, however, is that beginning immediately after the enactment of the law, private individuals sought to modify the exclusion clause in an effort to stabilize relations between the two countries. The issue was considered by American and Japanese delegates at almost all subsequent U.S.-Japan diplomatic negotiations, including the 1930 London naval talks and the last-minute attempts to prevent war in 1941.

However, neither the U.S. State Department nor the Japanese Foreign Office was able to take concrete measures to resolve the issue. The State Department wanted to avoid appearing to meddle with Congressional prerogatives, and the Foreign Office did not want to be seen as intruding in American domestic affairs. This official reluctance to take action opened the way for major efforts in the private sector to modify the exclusion clause.

The book reveals how a number of citizens in the United States-mainly clergy and business people-persevered in their efforts despite the obstacles presented by anti-Japanese feeling and the economic dislocations of the Depression. One of the notable disclosures in the book is that this determined private push for improved relations continued even after the 1931 Manchurian Incident. ... Read more

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In spite of the ever-growing popularity of Kwanzaa, the story of the influential Black nationalist organization behind the holiday has never been told. Fighting for Us explores the fascinating history of the Us Organization, a Black nationalist group based in California that played a leading role in Black Power politics and culture during the late 1960s and early '70s whose influence is still felt today. Advocates of Afrocentric renewal, Us unleashed creative and intellectual passions that continue to fuel debate and controversy among scholars and students of the Black Power movement.

Founded in 1965 by Maulana Karenga, Us established an extensive network of alliances with a diverse body of activists, artists and organizations throughout the United States for the purpose of bringing about an African American cultural revolution. Fighting for Us presents the first historical examination of Us' philosophy, internal dynamics, political activism and influence on African American art, making an elaborate use of oral history interviews, organizational archives, Federal Bureau of Investigation files, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources of the period.

This book also sheds light on factors contributing to the organization's decline in the early '70s--government repression, authoritarianism, sexism, and elitist vanguard politics. Previous scholarship about Us has been shaped by a war of words associated with a feud between Us and the Black Panther Party that gave way to a series of violent and deadly clashes in Los Angeles. Venturing beyond the lingering rhetoric of rivalry, this book illuminates the ideological similarities and differences between Us's "cultural" nationalism and the Black Panther Party's "revolutionary" nationalism. Today, Us's emphasis on culture has endured as evidenced by the popularity of Kwanzaa and the Afrocentrism in Black art and popular media. Engaging and original, Fighting for Us will be the definitive work on Maulana Karenga, the Us organization, and Black cultural nationalism in America. ... Read more

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Studies the educational and social lives of African American males. The book pays attention to educational attainment, job procurement, and quality of life, discussed against the backdrop of student background and schooling. Its aim is to improve the academic and social outcomes of this population. ... Read more

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Education and Black Males
This anthology covers a diverse array of topics on black males and their education, including computer classes, gifted program selection, special education courses, etc.It roughly covers elementary school to the university level.

This books mixes academic summaries with personal anecdotes.This may frustrate academics who want something more rigorous or everyday people that want something more chatty.Also, many chapters start with theory and past studies and end with bullet-pointed recommendations.Again, this may frustrate the two opposing types of readers.

There is a very noticeable absence here.The authors NEVER state that black male students would benefit from having more black teachers.The book quotes many black male students who can name black and non-black instructors that they admire.I am sure the contributors did not want to be essentialist and argue that like must teach like.However, I also wonder if there is a resignation here that assumes the teaching pool will remain predominantly white even as public school student populations become moreand more black.

This book is fair-minded in its criticism.It does suggest that institutional racism and the racism of teachers may hurt black male students.However, it also covers black male students that do not take rigorous courses, drop out of school voluntarily, start fights or conduct gang activities that get them expelled, etc..Many will appreciate the coverage of push and pull dynamics that have created this educational crisis.

This book is sure to be helpful for many undergraduate education majors that must write papers.I am almost sure one of the photos on the cover comes from another book on black males and education. ... Read more