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• "Both joined and separate": English, Mary Antin, and the rhetoric of identification

  Author:Sean ButlerFrom:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 200210,778 words Article When I teach college composition to ESL students, I spend much of my time thinking about linguistic matters. But, since I am a student of rhetoric, I also try to understand the goals my students hope to achieve with...

• Indian play: students, wordplay, and ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans

  Author:Lisa K. NeumanFrom:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20088,892 words Essay In the spring of 1928 Ruth Hopkins, a student at Bacone College, an American Baptist high school and junior college for American Indians in Muskogee, Oklahoma, wrote a poem that cleverly revealed the complex feelings...

• Vietnam revisited for the first time

  Author:Meredith MillerFrom:Iris: A Journal About WomenPeer-Reviewed

  Spring 2002165 words Brief article Stepping out into the crammed streets of Hanoi, I emerge from the flat surface of my western-oriented history books and dive into the reality of Vietnam. Before my arrival in this beautiful, though deeply scarred,...

• Breaking through the glass ceiling. The pursuit of university training among African-Caribbean migrants and their children in Toronto

  Authors:Alan B. Simmons and Dwaine E. PlazaFrom:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 19989,107 words Article Alan Simmons is Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University in Toronto. His current research focuses on international migration in the...

• Key Factors in the Performance and Achievement of Minority Students at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks

  Author:Peggy WilsonFrom:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 19974,569 words Article Minority students failing to achieve may require more social interaction than academic remediation. The quality of student learning often depends on instructional quality, and professors need to understand that...