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DALA, The Database of African American and Predominantly White American Literature Anthologies
Journal of Open Humanities DataDALA collects over 100 years of American and African American literature anthology data. Focusing on author inclusion, the data includes gender and race designations of authors and their inclusion in literary anthologies to chart the shifting literary ...
Amy E. Earhart
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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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TRAUMA AND POSSIBLE PATHWAYS TO HEALING IN THE BLUEST EYE: PECOLA’S STORY AND CLAUDIA’S NARRATION
Revista Criação & Crítica, 2020 The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a black little girl who undergoes different forms of discrimination and abuse because of the color of her skin.
Rosana Ruas Machado Gomes
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Témoigner des minorités pour réécrire l’altérité chez James Baldwin?
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2019 Baldwin (James) Bearing witness is an aesthetic that has structured African American literature at the very least since the slave narrative – a genre usually associated with the abolitionist movement which gained momentum in the 18th century and almost ...
Ève Portal
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Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature
Acta Neophilologica, 2007 The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of ...
Darja Marinšek
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[Review of] H. Nigel Thomas. From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel [PDF]
, 1990 The complex and important relationship between African American folklore and African American literature is the focus of this thoughtful, well-written book.
Ottenheimer, Harriet
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Correlation of the differential expression of PIK3R1 and its spliced variant, p55α, in pan‐cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.PIK3R1 undergoes alternative splicing to generate the isoforms, p85α and p55α. By combining large patient datasets with laboratory experiments, we show that PIK3R1 spliced variants shape cancer behavior. While tumors lose the protective p85α isoform, p55α is overexpressed, changes linked to poorer survival and more pronounced in African American ...
Ishita Gupta +10 more
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A Synthesis of the Literature on the Relationship Between Food Access and Overweight and Obesity in African American Adolescents [PDF]
, 2013 Food access shapes a community’s nutritional environment and impacts the health and physical well-being of its residents. When a community does not have adequate access to outlets that offer healthy options, it is difficult to maintain a healthy diet ...
Smalls, Marquita Noelle Bullock
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To determine the concentration of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma in Alexander disease (AxD) and whether GFAP levels are predictive of disease phenotypes. Methods CSF and plasma were collected (longitudinally when available) from AxD participants and non‐AxD controls.
Amy T. Waldman +9 more
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LiteratureKaren Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997) and Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle (1996) evoke the act of listening to music as a way to dismantle stereotypical representations of urban resistance and to paint a diverse picture of how communities ...
Brandy E. Underwood
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