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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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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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Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson on the Twenty-Dollar Bill: A Monstrous Intimacy
Open 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
Genealogy, 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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Coccidioidomycosis in African Americans [PDF]
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2011 Coccidioidomycosis is caused by Coccidioides species, a fungus endemic to the desert regions of the southwestern United States, and is of particular concern for African Americans. We performed a PubMed search of the English-language medical literature on coccidioidomycosis in African Americans and summarized the pertinent literature.
Barbara E, Ruddy +6 more
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Contemporânea, 2020 O foco do debate são as várias metáforas paradigmáticas que, de acordo com o autor, têm orientado as análises sobre a vida e cultura dos afrodescendentes nas Américas e sobre suas relações com a África.
J. Lorand Matory
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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
Southern 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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The Dodo and the Bear: Stanley Elkin’s Encounters with the Animal
Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Stanley Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show and Searches and Seizures present two human encounters with the animal – the former a dodo, the latter a bear. One encounter is violent, the other sexual, but both provide an interpretation of interspecies encounters ...
Thomas Aiello
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Diabetes in African Americans [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2005 Abstract African Americans have a high risk for type 2 diabetes. Genetic traits, the prevalence of obesity, and insulin resistance all contribute to the risk of diabetes in the African American community. African Americans have a high rate of diabetic complications, because of poor glycaemic control and racial disparities in health care ...
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Apartheid brasileiro: raça e segregação residencial no Rio de Janeiro
Revista de Antropologia, 2005 Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa ...
João H. Costa Vargas
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