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The ethnopragmatics of Yoruba personal names: Language in the context of culture
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2019 While the subject of Yoruba names has been significantly explored by previous studies, this paper discusses extensively the nature of such names from an ethnopragmatic framework, with the aim of explicating how Yoruba names are formed, their various ...
Taiwo Ehineni
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Diabetes in African Americans [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2005 Abstract African Americans have a high risk for type 2 diabetes. Genetic traits, the prevalence of obesity, and insulin resistance all contribute to the risk of diabetes in the African American community. African Americans have a high rate of diabetic complications, because of poor glycaemic control and racial disparities in health care ...
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Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 The controversy surrounding the announcement by the US Treasury, in April 2016, that the portraits of Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson will “share” the twenty-dollar bill-which the latter has embodied for almost a century-highlights a glaring ...
Thompson Sheneese, Barchiesi Franco
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Misconceptions of Depression in African Americans [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 Major depression is a very common disabling disorder. Although the relationship between race and depression is complex, depression affects all races, all ethnic and geographic locations as well as all age groups. The prevalence of depression in African Americans is controversial, due to the paucity of research.
Sohail, Zohaib +2 more
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Phillis Wheatley in American Literary History and African American Literary Criticism [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2018 The paper makes a survey of the life and works by Phillis Wheatley (1753?- 1784), the first African American female poet, analyses critical reception of her poetry during her lifetime and up to nowadays, shows the way her literary reputation has been ...
Olga Yu. Panova
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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
Southern Spaces, 2011 Cover of Gil Scott-Heron's Free Will, 1972. Claudrena N. Harold discusses the importance of the US South in the music and political imaginary of artist Gil Scott-Heron.
Claudrena N. Harold
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Contemporânea, 2020 O foco do debate são as várias metáforas paradigmáticas que, de acordo com o autor, têm orientado as análises sobre a vida e cultura dos afrodescendentes nas Américas e sobre suas relações com a África.
J. Lorand Matory
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Apartheid brasileiro: raça e segregação residencial no Rio de Janeiro
Revista de Antropologia, 2005 Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa ...
João H. Costa Vargas
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‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016 I argue in this article that the postcolonial existential wound, otherwise referred to by Eboussi Boulaga as the anthropological mutilation, represents the intertextual nexus that bridges the generational gap in Francophone Cameroonian literature.
Cilas Kemedjio
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Journal of Language and Literature, 2021 This study seeks to investigate the women’s voice in the world literature depicted by ethnic female authors from African-American and Korean descent. Gaining international recognition in the world literature, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes (1970) and ...
Indiwara Pandu Widyaningrum
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