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Construction morphology in Yoruba names: Schemas and processes
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2022 This article is an attempt to explore how the framework of construction morphology may apply to the analysis of Yoruba names. Following this approach, we show that each Yoruba name is a unique construction involving semantic, syntactic and phonological ...
Taiwo O. Ehineni
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Recovering the Irrecoverable: Blackness, Melancholy, and Duplicities That Bind
Religions, 2021 In this article, I critically engage Stephen Best’s provocative text, None Like Us. The article agrees with Best’s general concerns regarding longings for a unified black community or a We before the collective crime of slavery.
Joseph Winters
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International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 2022 This article explores the recent increase in the demand for sugar in Ethiopia, and the ways in which the distribution and sale of sugar have been manipulated for political gain after the country’s demand outstripped production and supply.
Bula S. Wayessa
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Black Feminist Organizing and Caribbean Cyberfeminisms in Puerto Rico
Open Cultural Studies, 2022 This article centers Black feminist organizing in Puerto Rico, highlighting social media as a tool for racial and gender justice. Collaboration between Puerto Rican feminist organizations on social media platforms amplifies their on-the-ground work and ...
Stephens Miari Taina
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Efficacy of HIV/STI behavioral interventions for heterosexual African American men in the United States: a meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2012 This meta-analysis estimates the overall efficacy of HIV prevention interventions to reduce HIV sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among heterosexual African American men.
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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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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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The ethnopragmatics of Yoruba personal names: Language in the context of culture
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2019 While the subject of Yoruba names has been significantly explored by previous studies, this paper discusses extensively the nature of such names from an ethnopragmatic framework, with the aim of explicating how Yoruba names are formed, their various ...
Taiwo Ehineni
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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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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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