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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2009
African Origins The modern human originated in Africa and subsequently spread across the globe. However, the genetic relationships among the diverse populations on the African continent have been unclear. Tishkoff et al.
Tishkoff SA   +24 more
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THE BLUES, THE FOLK, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2001
Abstract ON a stifling Saturday in Texas in June 1937 a twenty-six-year-old African-American musician, Robert Johnson, stepped to the microphone in a makeshift recording studio in a disused warehouse atop a Buick showroom. Johnson had grabbed a ride west from his native Mississippi to make it to the recording session in Dallas, one more journey ...
Hamilton, Marybeth
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The Holy Land of Matrimony: The Complex Legacy of the Broomstick Wedding in American History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Many enslaved people in North America married by jumping the broomstick, but following their emancipation in 1865 most newly freed African Americans discarded the tradition.
Parry, Tyler D.
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When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2020
Weaving insightful analysis into a brief biography of gospel icon John P. Kee, Claudrena N. Harold explores gospel music\'s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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Webliography of African-American Champaign-Urbana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This Lab Note reflects one part of a year-long project called eBlackChampaign-Urbana. Our interest here is to provide better access to the dispersed documentation of local African-American history and culture in ChampaignUrbana, using digital technology ...
Lenstra, Noah
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Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2021
Kylie Smith reviews Mab Segrest\'s Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York: The New Press, 2020) and Wendy Gonaver\'s The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry ...
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Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2022
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) being the most powerful statement on the racial issue in the 19th century American literature, succeeded to incorporate and rethink everything that the national tradition had
Olga Yu. Panova
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Joshua McCarter's Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2020
A prophetic Black voice from the mid-nineteenth century calls out present-day presidential hypocrisy.
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Putting Learning into Practice: Integrating Social Media, Crowd Learning, and #ColinKaepernick in an Introductory African American History Class

open access: yesRadical 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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