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The Many Faces of Art in Global Africa [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2015
Global Africa comprises all those parts of the world where more than 100,000 individuals of African descent live: the African continent, European countries that had significant colonial interests or trading networks (UK, France, Portugal, Holland), and ...
Jean M. Borgatti
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Mothers of the Movement: Evangelicalism and Religious Experience in Black Women’s Activism

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This article centers Black religious women’s activist memoirs, including Mamie Till Mobley’s Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America (2003) and Rep.
Vaughn A. Booker
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Introduction: Riff: African American Artists and the European Canon

open access: yesPanorama, 2018
This special section of Panorama entitled “Riff: African American Artists and the European Canon” is an outgrowth of an Association for Critical Race Art History panel of the same name that took place at the annual meeting of the College Art Association ...
Adrienne L. Childs
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La ‘mutilation anthropologique’ et le réalignement de la littérature camerounaise Cilas Kemedjio

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016
‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature. 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
Cilas Kemedjio
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Racial Passing off the Record: A Journey in Reconnection and Navigating Shifting Identities

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
Anyone of African descent or with African ancestry who engages in a genealogy project soon learns that the U.S. Census is a helpful yet frustrating tool.
Gabby C. Womack
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A Democratic Dilemma: Racial Attitudes, Authoritarianism, and Whites’ Evaluation of Minority Legislators

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The United States prides itself on its immigrant heritage and diversity, yet historically, minority advancements have faced opposition and violence. Little scholarship exists on how whites evaluate minority representation when represented by a minority ...
Emmitt Y. Riley, Clarissa Peterson
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Looking for Kunta Kinte: Alex Haley's Roots and African American Genealogies

open access: yesIperstoria, 2014
As the 30th anniversary 2006 edition recalls, Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a big popular success: in 1976, the year it was published, “the book sold over one million copies” and in 1977 the miniseries created out of it “was ...
Elisa Bordin
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Designing Transitional Programs to Meet the Needs of Multi-Ethnic First-Year Students

open access: yesJournal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 1999
Colleges and universities often rely on transitional programs to convey a sense of institutional expectations to new students. These programs, however, are often defined and created from a perspective of history and tradition, and do not necessarily ...
Daniel P. Nadler, Michael T. Miller
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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge   +6 more
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