Reflections in Place: Connected Lives of Navajo Women

摘要: Woven together in Donna Deyhle's ethnohistory are three generations and twenty-five years of friendship, interviews, rich experience with Navajo women. Through a skillful blending sources, Deyhle illuminates the devastating cultural consequences racial stereotyping context education. Longstanding tension southeastern Utah frames this cross-generational set portraits that depict all aspects specifically American Indian struggle. cites lefthanded compliment, Navajos work well their hands, which she indicates represents limiting all-too-common appraisal learning potential vehemently disputes seeks to disprove. As recognized authority on subject, qualified by multiple degrees studies, is able chronicle lives 'survivance? women way simultaneously ethnographic moving. Her critique U.S. education system's underlying yet very real tendency toward structural discrimination takes shape elegant prose moves freely into out time place. The combination substantive sources touching personal forms profound enduring narrative critical current importance. While book stands as powerful contribution its compelling human elements will extend appeal anyone concerned ongoing plight Indians system.