Keep on Keeping On : African Americans and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter examines African American efforts to implement the Brown decision in Virginia. While considering how government officials, segregationist organizations, and white supporters influenced the implementation process, this study focuses on how ...
Daugherity, Brian J.
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Addressing Economic Insecurities Can Improve Patient‐Reported Outcomes in Lupus
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Economic insecurities, such as food, housing, transportation, and financial challenges, are modifiable risk factors and influence patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We examined the following: (1) associations between economic insecurities and PROs, and (2) the impact of screening and addressing economic ...
Jay Patel +8 more
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Elevated Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Postincarcerated Young African American Males in the South
American Journal of Men's Health, 2015 The dramatic racial disparities in the rates of HIV/STIs(sexually transmitted infections) among African Americans make understanding broader structural factors that increase the risk for HIV/STIs crucial.
JaNelle M. Ricks DrPH +2 more
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Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
Southern Spaces, 2015 In this blog post, Mary Battle describes the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), an online project hosted by the College of Charleston that features underrepresented histories from the South Carolina Lowcountry, with a particular emphasis on ...
Mary Battle
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Ancestry-Dependent Enrichment of Deleterious Homozygotes in Runs of Homozygosity. [PDF]
, 2019 Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are important genomic features that manifest when an individual inherits two haplotypes that are identical by descent. Their length distributions are informative about population history, and their genomic locations are useful ...
Burchard, Esteban G +6 more
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Retractions in Rheumatology: Trends, Causes, and Implications for Research Integrity
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We aimed to describe the trends and main reasons for study retraction in rheumatology literature. Methods We reviewed the Retraction Watch database to identify retracted articles in rheumatology. We recorded the main study characteristics, authors’ countries, reasons for retraction, time from publication to retraction, and trends over time ...
Anna Maria Vettori, Michele Iudici
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Memory and Landscape in the Sea Islands Series by Carrie Mae Weems
Diffractions, 2014 In her Sea Islands series (1991–1992), photographer and visual artist Carrie Mae Weems visits the Georgia/Carolina coast in the United States, enacting and enlivening the African-American memory in the region.
Rumi Hara
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New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs +15 more
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Interview with Nadia Nurhussein Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism in African America
Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021 In October 2020, Adom Getachew interviewed Nadia Nurhussein about her recent book “Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America” published by Princeton University Press in 2019.
Adom Getachew
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Black Power At Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry [PDF]
, 2010 {Excerpt} As the contributors to this book show, confrontations with the building trades unions became a critical axis for the rise of Black Power and community control politics, and provide a means for us to rethink the history of Black Power through ...
Goldberg, David
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