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Started by TANAKA Tomoyuki
Tue, 17 May 1994 00:36
FTP-site for book reviews?
Author: TANAKA Tomoyuki
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:36
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:36
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i think this RAMR is really great.
(it's an FTP-site for rec.arts.movies.reviews at ftp.uu.net)
recently i read a review of "farewell my concubine" written by a
communist organization (called MIM) which was very interesting.
i have a question.
is there a similar FTP site for book reviews?
(if there is, i want to see the reviews of the book
entitled "the beauty myth" by naomi wolf.)
i'd be grateful if you could answer me by e-mail.
i'm leaving on a vacation tomorrow (see below).
so if your reply comes after tomorrow,
it may take several days before i can thank you.
tomoyuki
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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 15:16:51 GMT
From: tanaka@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (TANAKA Tomoyuki)
Subject: media bias against Asians (and Blacks)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,soc.co
***uples.intercultural,soc.culture.african.american
i was thinking ...
i believe that what we see in the media influences our attitude
and behavior greatly (as i argued in my 800-line USENET article
on interracial dating).
for one thing, we can discuss the negative stereotypes in the
media: in TV shows (Kung Fu,...) and films (Joy Luck Club,
Rising Sun, Gung Ho).
another point is that what we see in movies, TV, and magazine
advertisements shape our aesthetics of what we consider
fashionable, attractive, or desirable; that when we are
presented with overwhelmingly white (Caucasian) images, the
sheer quantity and predominance of it is significant.
just to check, i looked at 3 magazine-type things:
--- ELLE (Jan 1993) some black females and one BM appear.
all others WFs and WMs.
--- COSMOPOLITAN (Feb 1993) out of the hundreds of photos and
drawings, there are 4 or so BFs. all others WFs and WMs.
--- J. Crew catalog (Spring 1994) there is 1 small photo of a BM.
all others WFs and WMs.
as i suspected, there were no photos or drawings of Asians at
all. (actually i expected a few Asian females.) i would guess
that there may be occasional Asian females in this type of
magazines, but Asians males are almost nonexistent.
this brings up a question: in terms of numbers, what would be
a "fair" representation? to reflect the current racial makeup
of the USA, 12% black and 3% Asian? (affirmative action?)
perhaps someone can do a class project or something on this.
(please let me know if you do.)
maybe it is the case that such studies have been done already
and some are well-known (perhaps for Blacks).
only relevant thing i've seen is the following paper discussing
changes in Asian stereotypes in the USA.
Stanly Sue and Harry H.L. Kitano.
"Stereotypes as a measure of success".
Journal of Social Issues. Vol 29, No 2 (1973).
(In a few days I'm leaving on a two-month vacation (in California,
Japan, and China). I'll be checking e-mail once every other week
or so, but I won't be reading USENET news.
If you post an article in response, please send me a copy too.)
;;; (Mr.) TANAKA Tomoyuki (Tanaka is my family name.)
;;;
;;; E-mail address: <tanaka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
;;; or: <tanaka@indiana.edu>
Re: FTP-site for book reviews?
Author: Jonathan Grobe
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 06:09
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 06:09
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In article <Cpx8Cv.2EL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, tanaka@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (TANAKA Tomoyuki) writes: >is there a similar FTP site for book reviews? You may find the following of interest: About the Internet Book Information Center (IBIC) (under construction; most recently revised April 28, 1994) Frederick Zimmerman 2626 Braeburn Circle Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2604 313/741-4657 E-mail (preferred): ibic@sunsite.unc.edu 1. IBIC's purpose is to serve as an Internet clearinghouse for useful and interesting information about books. 2. IBIC operates a WorldWideWeb (WWW) server (URL http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html). The IBIC server can be accessed using free, public-domain software called NCSA Mosaic. The best way to get a copy of Mosaic is to ask your local system administrator or a commercial Internet access provider. Alternately, you can telnet into sunsite.unc.edu and login as lynx, which enables you to use a text-only WWW browser. 3. Server space for IBIC is provided courtesy of SunSITE, a joint project of Sun Microsystems and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 4. The IBIC WWW server is currently averaging approximately 2300 users/month. 5. Resources available via IBIC include: % IBIC Reviews of Recently Released and Forthcoming Books % The Commonplace Book (n.): an edited collection of striking passages noted in a single place for future reference. The idea of this experimental Commonplace Book home page is to test the concept of an Internet Commonplace Book built by and available to a wide variety of users. and links to Internet resources such as: % alt.books.reviews archive % Library of Congress Information Publishers' Catalogs and Electronic Bookstores % Library of Congress Services to Libraries and Publishers % Library of Congress (LC) Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library (MARVEL) % Biblio Mailing List for Rare Books and Book Collectors % WEB online book reviews of Children's Books by Wendy E. Betts % Science Fiction Resource Guide % Project Gutenberg % CMU Books Online page % The Online Archive of Electronic Texts (University of Virginia) % Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text % U. Maryland Reading Room/Fiction % CERN Overview of Literature and Arts resources 6. Book reviews posted to the IBIC Gopher server are also posted to selected Internet newsgroups. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Grobe grobe@ins.infonet.net
Re: FTP-site for book reviews?
Author: Cameron Laird
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 14:37
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 14:37
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In article <2rphav$9m8@insosf1.infonet.net>, Jonathan Grobe <grobe@ins.infonet.net> wrote: >In article <Cpx8Cv.2EL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, tanaka@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (TANAKA Tomoyuki) writes: > >>is there a similar FTP site for book reviews? . . . >% alt.books.reviews archive . . . Note, though, that this archive at csn.org has been snafu-ed for several months, and, as of this writing, is entirely off- line. Steve Brock is working to resuscitate it, but I don't think he's yet been able to generate a particular schedule. For the foreseeable future, then, there is no known public archive of alt.books.reviews (more's the pity!). -- Cameron Laird claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546
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