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Barriers to Physical Activity Among African American Women: An Integrative Review of the Literature

Women and Health, 2015
A key aspect for researchers to consider when developing culturally appropriate physical activity (PA) interventions for African American (AA) women are the specific barriers AA women face that limit their participation in PA. Identification and critical
Rodney Joseph, Colleen Keller Pn, Barbara Ainsworth   +2 more
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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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Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature

Humanities, 2023
From 1970 until 1974, the Council on Interracial Children’s Books (CIBC) ran the Arts and Storytelling in the Streets program throughout New York City. This program involved African American and Puerto Rican artists and storytellers bringing children’s ...
Nick Batho
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Caught in the Crossroad: An Intersectional Examination of African American Women Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Help Seeking

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2021
Objectives: African American women are disproportionately impacted by intimate partner violence (IPV)-related homicide. They reflect the second highest prevalence rates and experience the highest rates of murder resulting from IPV victimization. Although
Bernadine Y. Waller, Jalana Harris, Camille R. Quinn   +2 more
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James Baldwin’s Quest for Ethics Echoing Leo Tolstoy [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2022
The paper deals with the ethical principles of James Arthur Baldwin, an outstanding US writer of the mid-20th century, which echo the moral imperatives of Leo Tolstoy. African American writers traditionally displayed great interest in Russian literature,
Yuri V. Stulov
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Reading the Harlem Renaissance one hundred years later: context, names, and influence

Anuário de Literatura, 2023
The Harlem Renaissance was a modernist movement of self-affirmation of black identity in the arts that, in dialogue with anticolonial articulations, reached its peak in the 1920s, in the United States.
Giovane Alves de Souza
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An Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) reincarnates in Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown) and becomes Shadows of Your Black Memory (Donato Ndongo)

Altre Modernità, 2011
Ralph Ellison’s allegorical journey in Invisible Man (1994) launched a new era in African-American culture and Black literacy for the entire world in 1952.
Rosetta Codling
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Ascertaining differences between farmer and non-farmer African American forest landowners in Georgia, United States

Trees, Forests and People, 2021
Despite the importance of farming to rural African Americans (Gilbert et al., 2002) and the role of farmers in forestland ownership, very little literature addresses the role of African American farmers in forestry.
Noah Goyke, Puneet Dwivedi
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Looking for Kunta Kinte: Alex Haley's Roots and African American Genealogies

Iperstoria, 2014
As the 30th anniversary 2006 edition recalls, Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a big popular success: in 1976, the year it was published, “the book sold over one million copies” and in 1977 the miniseries created out of it “was ...
Elisa Bordin
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Young Adult Literature for Black Lives: Critical and Storytelling Traditions from the African Diaspora

International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2020
Academic criticism of Black African and African diaspora literature, media, and culture for youth and young adults has heretofore been largely out of the hands of scholars of African descent.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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