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Construction morphology in Yoruba names: Schemas and processes
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2022 This article is an attempt to explore how the framework of construction morphology may apply to the analysis of Yoruba names. Following this approach, we show that each Yoruba name is a unique construction involving semantic, syntactic and phonological ...
Taiwo O. Ehineni
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African-American rhinoplasty [PDF]
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2004 Dr. Guyuron: The first patient is a 25-year-old woman who would like to correct the imperfections in her nose (Figure 1). Dr. Griffin, what flaws do you see in this nose? Bahman Guyuron, MD Figure 1 This 25-year-old woman has voiced no specific complaint but is seeking improvement in the appearance of her nose. Dr.
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International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 2022 This article explores the recent increase in the demand for sugar in Ethiopia, and the ways in which the distribution and sale of sugar have been manipulated for political gain after the country’s demand outstripped production and supply.
Bula S. Wayessa
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Recovering the Irrecoverable: Blackness, Melancholy, and Duplicities That Bind
Religions, 2021 In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery.
Joseph Winters
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Black Feminist Organizing and Caribbean Cyberfeminisms in Puerto Rico
Open Cultural Studies, 2022 This article centers Black feminist organizing in Puerto Rico, highlighting social media as a tool for racial and gender justice. Collaboration between Puerto Rican feminist organizations on social media platforms amplifies their on-the-ground work and ...
Stephens Miari Taina
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African American Artists as Agents of Modernism: A Challenge for American Art
Panorama, 2018 This is to move beyond simply writing a more inclusive history of art to understanding African Americans as active participants in the history of modernism.
John P. Bowles
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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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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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The ethnopragmatics of Yoruba personal names: Language in the context of culture
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2019 While the subject of Yoruba names has been significantly explored by previous studies, this paper discusses extensively the nature of such names from an ethnopragmatic framework, with the aim of explicating how Yoruba names are formed, their various ...
Taiwo Ehineni
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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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