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27636
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Visiting Texas: A Turkish Experience |
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Saim Orhan |
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We spent a day and a night on the road during our brief visit to Texas, so we did everything we could to make good use of our time. We began by snapping photographs after our ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2010
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25109
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Dying With Your Patient: A Shaman’s Message to a Medical Student |
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Patrick Greiffenstein, M.D. |
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The lazy midday breeze brought the smells and sounds of Cartagena from the harbor just a few blocks away as we settled down on mats and tried not to stare too intently at the ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2006
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22741
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Crisis in Leadership |
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James Emery |
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Most Hmong communities in the United States lack the focus and leadership to address important issues, either on the local or national level. "There is no national Hmong leader," ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2002
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22742
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Abuse of Women |
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James Emery |
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A pressing issue for the Hmong community in the United States is the physical abuse of women. "Spousal battering is a problem," says a Fresno-based Hmong counselor. "Nobody knows ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2002
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22743
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The Secret War |
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James Emery |
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Most Americans don''t know who the Hmong are, much less what they sacrificed supporting the United States during the Vietnam War. The Hmong were the primary ethnic hill tribe ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2002
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22744
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Hmong Gangs in America |
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James Emery |
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Criminal gangs in immigrant communities are an American tradition, from the Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the Russian and ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2002
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21497
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To Contact Shelters for South Asian Women |
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California
Asara 800 313 2772
Asara1@aol.com
Asian Women''s Shelter
415 751 7110 (office)
415 751 0880 (crisis)
Maitri 408 730 4049
Narika 800 215 7308 ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2001
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21462
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Becoming American: Vietnamese in Houston, Texas |
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Carolyn Cullinan |
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Twenty-five years ago, Vietnamese refugees began making their
way to America. On April 29, 1975, the day before Saigon fell,
amid the chaos wrought as their country crumbled ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2001
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21463
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A New Tradition |
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On February 14, Americans celebrate St. Valentine''s Day to express their love. Today, this holiday is applied to many gradients of relationships, from casual acquaintances to ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2001
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16878
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To Look the Other Way: Chinese-American Girls Confront a Cultural Tug-of-War |
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Pam Ly-phin Pan |
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The transition from living at home to life in college is a
dramatic yet exciting experience. For Pam and Patty, roommates
in a freshman coed dormitory just a few years ago, ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1998
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15715
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Cuts Both Ways: Part One: How Americans Regard Spam |
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George H. Lewis |
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Spam, the remarkably durable and enduring meat in a can, has
moved way beyond the status of mere luncheon meat. When
Hormel, the maker of Spam, published a small catalog
of ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1997
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16350
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Looking Forward, Looking Back: Hawaiian Cultural Revival on Molokai |
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Eric P. Olsen |
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Eddie Tanaka plunges his arms into the sodden earth. With mud
up to his elbows, he probes with his fingers for the ripened
taro root. As his bare feet skillfully separate the ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1997
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15257
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Welcomed Guests: The Day of the Dead Crosses the Border |
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William Lyell, Jr.; Photographed By Diane Lyell |
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November 2 is the busiest day of the year at San Antonio''s
San
Fernando Cemetery, a burial ground located in a predominately
Hispanic section of the city. Outside, police ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1996
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19610
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Harvest Recess: Maine's Potato Culture Faces the Future |
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Kathryn J. Olmstead |
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Images of Maine usually include rocky coasts and rugged fishermen. Yet there is another, less-familiar Maine, surrounded on three sides by Canada and possessing a character and ...
Issue Date: 10 / 1991
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17149
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To Be Zuni Is to Be Open to Others |
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Keith Cunningham and Kathryan Cunningham |
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The name Zuni refers to a people, their town, and their reservation. The Zuni are a pueblo- or village-dwelling Native American people living in and around the town of Zuni, New ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1990
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17513
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A Fishing Town Survives |
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E. Paul Durrenberger |
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Biloxi is a fishing town. When large shrimp boats come into or out of Back Bay to the north, traffic waits at the drawbridge that breaks the long, low causeway across the bay at ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1990
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17846
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The Blue-Green Water People: The Havasupai of the Grand Canyon |
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Ronald McCoy |
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They call themselves Havsuw'' Baaja, the Blue-Green Water people. Most members of the five-hundred-strong Havasupai tribe live at Supai village in northern Arizona. Supai, one ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1990
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14218
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Haitian Exodus: Refugees in Southern Florida |
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Joan Flocks and Robert Lawless |
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Most North Americans'' knowledge of the Haitian people has been conditioned primarily by three news stories of the 1980s. The most recent focused on the end of the thirty-year ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1988
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13435
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Do They Still Sing 'Amazing Grace' in Dixie? |
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James J. Thompson, Jr. |
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The air crackles with energy and optimism at the Southern Baptist "Vatican" in Nashville, Tennessee. Baptists today boast of their loosely knit denominational structure: ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1987
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10979
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Family and Business |
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Olivia Vlahos |
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Institution'' is a heavy word, burdened with semantic freight and no little confusion. "Our institutions are at risk," we intone solemnly in vague reference to "The American Way ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1986
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