A critique of Glazer and Moynihan's second edition of "Beyond the Melting Pot," with specific reference to remarks made about the Puerto Rican community in their introduction. (EH)

A review of four books that examine the historical problem of slave personality and culture. (EH)

Reviews three books about John Coltrane and notes that these three works illustrate that the field of black music biography is marred by an unconscionable trendiness. (Author/AM)

Reviews Martin Duberman's Paul Robeson (Knopf, 1988). Commends its quality and coverage, but questions whether the book meets the challenges of Robeson's opponents. Concludes that Robeson is an American hero. (DM)

This is the author's reply to a critic, who in reviewing this author's work in a previous article, took phrases out of context, ignored materials obviously contradictory to his thesis, and in one case, changed a quotation. (Author/AM)

It is argued in this review that the theoretical framework and argumentation in Orland Patterson's book on ethnicity and ethnic rivalry are basically incorrect. (Author/EB)

Reviews three works on multiculturalism in Canada and notes that all three are valuable contributions to knowledge of important elements of the so-called Canadian "mosaic." (Author/AM)

Notes that two failings of the book are the short comings in historical coverage, and the lack of integration of anthropological knowledge of the Dakota with the historical narrative. (Author/AM)

Reviews the argument presented in Wilson's book "The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions." Points out weaknesses in Wilson's argument and shows that its widespread interpretation to the effect that racism is fading is not supported by the evidence presented in the book. (GC)

After a review of current literature on Mexican immigration to this country, this paper focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of Mark Reisler's "By the Sweat of Their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the United States, 1900-1940." (EB)

The anthropologist notes that the book is flawed by awkward writing and careless recording of native terms, while the Indian observes that the book presents a colorless account of a vibrant people whose adjustment to an invading Caucasian culture still left them with a sense of humor. (Author/AM)

Included in the review is an analysis of two important issues about community organizing raised in the book: organizational maintenance-enhancement needs, and the role of organizers. (Author/AM)

Discusses Theodore Rosengarten's "All God's Dangers" (Knopf, 1974), "an oral memoir of a Black tenant farmer who participated in the Alabama Sharecroppers Union," which is the most celebrated product of the oral history movement that accompanied the rise of the New Left in the United States." (Author/JM)

Notes that Robert Toll's study of American minstrelsy is weakest where it is most important, in his consideration of the characteros of minstrelsy as reflective not of black life but of white images of blacks. (Author/AM)

These books are representative of the new work in Indian history in the sense that they represent the works of a mixed group of scholars, traditionally trained historians, and scholars who do not fit this label. (Author/AM)