Perceived Racial Discrimination and Nonadherence to Screening Mammography
, 2007 Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought
Dailey, Amy B. +3 more
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Tamiah N. McCoy - African American Women’s Birth Stories as Told To African American Women Interviewers [PDF]
, 2013 Background: A woman’s birth story allows each woman to tell her own perspectives about her experience of bringing a child into the world. As healthcare providers, it is always important to value listening to and learning from our clients.
McCoy, Tamiah N.
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Whose Streets?: A film of screening & conversation with director Damon Davis [PDF]
, 2017 Join us, and other departments and initiatives across Boston University, for a screening of the film Whose Streets? followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Damon Davis, Phillipe Copeland – School of Social Work, Ashley Farmer – History and African ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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, 2015 Linguists have long been aware that the language scripted for ethnic roles in the media has been manipulated for a variety of purposes ranging from the construction of character authenticity to flagrant ridicule.
Bloomquist, Jennifer
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Elevating Students’ Oral and Written Language: Empowering African American Students Through Language
Education SciencesA consistent pattern emerges where African American students’ scores lag behind their counterparts on both national and state literacy assessments. One possible explanation is rooted in the fact that approximately 80% of African American students speak ...
Ramona T. Pittman +3 more
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All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave [PDF]
, 2019 In 1982, African American feminists, writers, and educators Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith co-edited a foundational volume of essays designed to map a program for African American women’s studies and research on issues ranging ...
Lenhardt, R.A., Paul-Emile, Kimani
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African American Male Achievement Initiative: A Closer Look At Suspensions Of African American Males In OUSD [PDF]
, 2012 This report examines the data, literature, and policy around suspensions of African American male students to uncover and better understand the disparities between this group and all other ethnic and gender groups.
Alison Feldman +6 more
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Effectiveness of CenteringPregnancy on Breast-Feeding Initiation Among African Americans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2018 While breastfeeding initiation rates for African American mothers are low, an innovative model of group prenatal care, CenteringPregnancy, holds promise to increase breastfeeding rates.
Garnier-Villarreal, Mauricio +2 more
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Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture, 2019 America is a country with Christianity as the major religion. It is the fact that Moses in Christian myth has an important role to the religion of this country. The United States President Harry Truman wrote in 1950 that the fundamental basis of the laws
Ike Alit Triana, Henrikus Joko Yulianto
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Anthony\u27s Silence: The Intersection of Sex, Gender and Race in \u3cem\u3eDesigning Women\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 1996 Editor\u27s Note: Lynn H. Turner and Helen Sterk examine one small part of the Designing Women script, a short speech by Anthony (one of the series\u27 regulars).
Sterk, Helen M., Turner, Lynn H.
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