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African American Rhinoplasty

Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, 2014
Rhinoplasty in patients of African descent requires a patient-specific approach, because the goals and ideal proportions differ from the white nose. This article discusses approaches to surgical correction of common anatomic variations. In addition, common pitfalls are outlined.
Jennings R, Boyette, Fred J, Stucker
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African American Turnout and African American Candidates

Political Science Research and Methods, 2018
Do minority voters respond to co-racial or co-ethnic candidates? That is does the increased chance of substantive representation translate into increased participation? Here, we focus on this question among African American voters. While much of the empirical literature on this question has produced conflicting answers, recent studies suggest that ...
Luke J. Keele, Ismail K. White
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Hypertension in African Americans

Current Cardiology Reports, 2017
African Americans are over-burdened with hypertension resulting in excess morbidity and mortality. We highlight the health impact of hypertension in this population, review important observations regarding disease pathogenesis, and outline evidence-based treatment, current treatment guidelines, and management approaches.Hypertension accounts for 50% of
Nomsa, Musemwa, Crystal A, Gadegbeku
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Gout in African Americans

The American Journal of Medicine, 2014
African Americans have a substantially higher prevalence of risk factors for gout than Caucasians. The aim of the present study was to compare the risk for incident gout among African Americans and Caucasians.Incidence rates of physician-diagnosed gout among 11,559 Caucasian men and 931 African American men aged 35 to 57 years and at high ...
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Traditional African American foods and African Americans

Agriculture and Human Values, 1996
Traditional African American foods, also referred to as “soul food,” are often given a blanket label of “poor food choices.” The cultural value of these ethnic foods may be disregarded without sufficient study of their nutrient content. This study showed that of the various foods perceived as traditionally African American by the local sampled ...
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The Paradoxical Journey of the African American in African American Fiction

New Literary History, 1990
IF THERE is one observation to be made about the African Americans' home search throughout American history it is that theirs is both a painful and a furious passage. Slavery, pogroms, and racism are all too recurrent and pervasive. African Americans, like Native Americans, have suffered from the brutal attempts of the Western world to amputate them of
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African Americans

2016
This chapter discusses the dilemma of African Americans: whether to support a war to make America safe for democracy, even though they were often denied civil rights and democratic freedoms such as the right to vote. Louisville African American resident and newspaperman Roscoe Conklin Simmons supported the US entry into the war and tried to rally ...
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African American

1999
Abstract African folklore and mythology, like that of Native Americans, is heavily populated by animal figures who are fabulous and some times monster like in that they combine animal agility and power with human wile and trickery. The slaves who were brought to America from Africa naturally carried these animal tales in their memories ...
David Leeming, Jake Page
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Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
, Ahmedin Jemal, Kimberly Miller
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African American History and African American Theology

2014
Anthony B. Pinn, Katie G. Cannon, Stephen C. Finley   +2 more
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