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Becoming Aggrieved: An Alternative Framework of Care in Black Chicago
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2015 Centering on “Eastwood,” a low-income, African American community on the West Side of Chicago in which I have conducted ethnographic research since 2007, I examine the coping mechanisms developed by residents after Mrs. Lana suffers what her doctors view
Laurence Ralph
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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.
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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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Differences in Graduation and Persistence Rates over Time for African-American Students at Texas 4-Year Universities [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2020 In this study, the graduation and persistence rates of African-American students at Texas 4-year universities were examined for the 2003-2004 academic year, the 2009-2010 academic year, and the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jerrell Sherman, John R. Slate
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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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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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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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Mothers of the Movement: Evangelicalism and Religious Experience in Black Women’s Activism
Religions, 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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