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Putting Learning into Practice: Integrating Social Media, Crowd Learning, and #ColinKaepernick in an Introductory African American History Class

Radical Teacher, 2017
African American history is indeed a dynamic discipline that can be used as a framework to understand the present lives of African Americans as well as the broader American society.
Travis Boyce
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“The time loop nightmare of being a black man in the US” African American Cultural Memory in the Short Film Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2023
This paper is concerned with African American cultural memory and the translation of historical experiences into contemporary narratives. To discuss this, I will analyze the American short film Two Distant Strangers“ (2020), which takes up contemporary ...
Jana Rosebrock
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Freedom Courts: An Analysis of Black Women’s Divorce in Attala County During Mississippi’s Anti-Divorce Campaign, 1890–1940

USAbroad, 2021
The essay argues that divorce, as a legal maneuver, provided Black women with the opportunity to challenge oppression within the household while simultaneously pushing back against broader efforts to curtail access to divorce. Framed within the New Negro
Evan Howard Ashford
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African American voices in Atlanta [PDF]

, 2015
Survey research in Atlanta suggests that the usual national generalizations about race and language need to be examined in the light of local evidence.
Kretzschmar Jr., William A.
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In Slavery’s Wake: Making a Globally Collaborative Exhibition

International Public History
In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World is a first-of-its-kind exhibition developed by a group of international curators, historians, and cultural practitioners, and is the product of a multi-year collective called the Global Curatorial ...
Morrison Aaryan, McMahon Kate
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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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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich, Manali Zope, Peter M. Fantozzi, Cassie N. Kline, Iris Paltin, Matthew C. Hocking   +5 more
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The State Data Center of Iowa and the Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans in Iowa: 2008 [PDF]

, 2008
To recall and celebrate the positive contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week beginning on Feb. 12, 1926.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Low-Income, Predominantly African American Women With PTSD and a History of Intimate Partner Violence

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2011
In this article, we consider the use of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) (Kabat-Zinn, 1991) as a community-based intervention to reduce health disparities for low-income, predominantly African American women with a history of intimate partner ...
M. Dutton, D. Bermudez, A. Matas, Haseeb M. Majid, N. Myers   +4 more
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