Ethnic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Proposal

If you will consider the dualistic thinking which undergirds Western philosophical tradition, then it comes as a surprise to no one that the periodization of history is based on white male experiences as the sum of western civilization, especially the glorification of war and the celebration of unbridled raw-power. So, too, it is not surprising that Aristotelian logic and Cartesian metaphysics form the godhead for monocultural and unisexual education in U.S. society, which is at the least bisexual and multicultural. For a decade-and-a-half now, ethnic, minority, and women\u27s studies proponents have suggested that their purposes for existence were to challenge and change the status quo. But ethnic and minority studies people, for the most part, became parties to the evils of the academy rather than revolution aries against them during the past fifteen years

New species and records of Anacis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini) from tropical and temperate Andean South America

Descriptions are given of the new species Anacis ignifera and A. flammigera from Mérida State, Venezuela and of A. umbrifera from Machu Picchu, Perú. These belong to a tropical Andean lineage with strongly projecting propodeal cristae and pictured wings. Anacis hercana Porter, a Chilean species long known only from the holotype taken at El Canelo near Santiago, now is documented by a second specimen from nearby Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) is synonymized under Anacis Porter (1967a). Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), and A. subflava (Porter) are new combinations in Anacis. The South American species of Anacis are keyed.Se describen las especies nuevas Anacis ignifera y A. flammigera, del Estado de Mérida en Venezuela y A. umbrifera de Machu Picchu, Perú. Pertenecen éstas tres a un linaje propio de la pluviselva alto andina tropical, el cual tiene muy grandes y proyectadas las crestas del propodeo, y las alas con extensas manchas oscuras. Anacis hercana Porter, antes conocida sólo del holotipo colectado en El Canelo cerca de Santiago de Chile, se cita ahora de la vecina Reserva Natural de Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) se considera sinónimo de Anacis Porter (1967a), siendo nuevas las combinaciones: Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), y A. subflava (Porter). Se proporciona una clave de las especies sudamericanas de Anacis

Goan Literature from Peter Nazareth: An Interview

Peter Nazareth is an associate professor in the English Department and the Afro american Studies Program at the University of Iowa. His job includes being an advisor to the International Writing Program, which brings published writers from thirty to forty countries to Iowa City each fall. During the fall of 1984, he accompanied Michael Anthony (Trinidad) and Flora Nwapa (Nigeria) to Iowa State University for readings, and it was a golden opportunity to get some insights about the growth and development of both Goan literature and its primary catalytic agent to date

A study of the crab pot as a fishing gear

The crab pot as a fishing gear was introduced in Maryland waters, following some years of greatly expanded use in Virginia, during the 1939 season, and was widely used during 1940. The 1941 session of the Maryland Legislature, however, illegalized the crab pot. Since that time the device has been given up almost entirely by Maryland fishermen, its attempted use in a commercial way having persisted in diminishing numbers in only one region of the state

[Review of] Gilbert C. Fite. Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865-1980

Cotton Fields No More ... should be required reading for all individuals associated with the development of agricultural policies in the U.S. Congress, because their perceptions of farming are probably influenced to a large degree by the ideology of Jeffersonian agrarianism. Although Fite\u27s purpose is to analyze commercial agricultural development in the eleven former Confederate States since the end of the Civil War (stretching from Virginia to Texas), he successfully captures the essence of contemporary agricultural problems throughout the United States: Farming as a way of life died after World War II and agribusiness was the successor, but too many people do not understand the new reality

The Editor Notes

Haudenosaunee, you say? And how do you spell that? I asked. That was my response to Thadodahho at Onondaga in the summer of 1983 as he raised my consciousness about the name Iroquois as used by the French and the name Haudenosaunee as the People name themselves