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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in African American and Latinx Adults: Clinical Course and the Role of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

open access: yesAmerican Psychologist, 2019
Research has suggested that African American and Latinx adults may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at higher rates than White adults, and that the clinical course of PTSD in these minority groups is poor.
Nicholas J. Sibrava   +5 more
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African American Artists as Agents of Modernism: A Challenge for American Art

open access: yesPanorama, 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

open access: yesRSF: 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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Mothers of the Movement: Evangelicalism and Religious Experience in Black Women’s Activism

open access: yesReligions, 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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Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Evidence and Implications for Health Equity

open access: yesHealth Equity, 2018
Background: The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare practices from slavery through the post-Civil Rights era.
Cynthia Prather   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The ethnopragmatics of Yoruba personal names: Language in the context of culture

open access: yesStudies 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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Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy

open access: yesOpen 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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Racial Passing off the Record: A Journey in Reconnection and Navigating Shifting Identities

open access: yesGenealogy, 2022
Anyone of African descent or with African ancestry who engages in a genealogy project soon learns that the U.S. Census is a helpful yet frustrating tool.
Gabby C. Womack
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Ancestral origin of ApoE ε4 Alzheimer disease risk in Puerto Rican and African American populations

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2018
The ApoE ε4 allele is the most significant genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease. The risk conferred by ε4, however, differs across populations, with populations of African ancestry showing lower ε4 risk compared to those of European or ...
F. Rajabli   +27 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

open access: yesSouthern 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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