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Risk and Protective Factor specific to African American Youth and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Journal of Family Strengths, 2020
Although existing suicide literature proposes that simply being African American protects against suicide (Nguyen et al., 2017; Street et al., 2012), few studies offer practical insights at mitigating suicidal ideations among African American children ...
Darius Reed, Raymond Dewayne Adams
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Témoigner des minorités pour réécrire l’altérité chez James Baldwin?

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2019
Baldwin (James) Bearing witness is an aesthetic that has structured African American literature at the very least since the slave narrative – a genre usually associated with the abolitionist movement which gained momentum in the 18th century and almost ...
Ève Portal
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TRAUMA AND POSSIBLE PATHWAYS TO HEALING IN THE BLUEST EYE: PECOLA’S STORY AND CLAUDIA’S NARRATION

Revista Criação & Crítica, 2020
The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a black little girl who undergoes different forms of discrimination and abuse because of the color of her skin.
Rosana Ruas Machado Gomes
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Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature

Acta Neophilologica, 2007
The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of ...
Darja Marinšek
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African American Literature, Racial Vulnerability, and the Anthropocene

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2022
This article discusses W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), in the context of the broader debate on the role of race in the Anthropocene and in relation to Judith Butler's theory on corporeal vulnerability. Specifically,
Matthias Klestil
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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
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Peripheral Neutrophil Activation and Extracellular Trap Formation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Markers of neutrophil activation are increased in plasma during ALS, and markers of NET formation associate with ALS survival. ABSTRACT Objectives Peripheral neutrophil levels in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) inversely correlate with survival, suggesting a role for neutrophils in disease progression.
Lillia A. Baird, Haley McQuown, Jihyun Park, Samuel J. Teener, Ian F. Webber‐Davis, Andrew D. Carter, Dae‐Gyu Jang, Eva L. Feldman, Stephen A. Goutman, Benjamin J. Murdock   +9 more
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African and African American Studies Newsletter, Fall Quarter 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
This four page newsletter created by the Wright State University African and African American Studies Program documenting course offerings and participating faculty.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/aafs_news/1005/thumbnail ...
African and African American Studies
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Listening to Resistance: The Walkman, Portable Music Technology, and the Soundscape of Urban Unrest in Post-1992 Los Angeles Literature

Literature
Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997) and Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle (1996) evoke the act of listening to music as a way to dismantle stereotypical representations of urban resistance and to paint a diverse picture of how communities ...
Brandy E. Underwood
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A Two‐Stage Questionnaire and Actigraphy Screening for iRBD in a Multicenter Retrospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Isolated rapid‐eye‐movement sleep behavior disorder is a prodromal marker of synucleinopathies. However, most cases remain undiagnosed due to the insufficient predictive value of questionnaires and limited access to confirmatory video‐polysomnography. We assessed a two‐stage screening strategy combining a brief questionnaire on rapid‐
Caleb A. Massimi, Giorgio Ricciardiello Mejia, Andre Metzger, Kang Hyun Ryu, Salonee Marwaha, Eva Grzegorczyk, Li Zhou, Eliana Jacobs, Boris Gilyadov, Claudia Kunney, Liqhwa Ncube, Ankit Parekh, Emmanuel Mignot, Fanny M. Elahi, Joseph Winer, Kathleen Poston, Andreas Brink‐Kjaer, Emmanuel H. During   +17 more
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