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White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie

open access: yesPráticas da História, 2023
This essay uses Miguel Dores’ documentary Alcindo (2020) to propose a critique of whiteness in Portugal. It is argued that the endorsement of narratives of lusotropicalismo, Portuguese colonial exceptionalism, forms a line of continuity between Portugal’
Patrícia Martins Marcos
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Hella Bars: The Cultural Inclusion of Black Women’s Rap in Insecure

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2022
The musical supervision of HBO’s insecure sonically maps various representations of Black women’s connections to hip-hop music as a site of autonomy, agency, and authenticity. Importantly, the variety of Black female rappers who are featured in seasons 1–
Johnson Adeerya
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Apartheid brasileiro: raça e segregação residencial no Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesRevista de Antropologia, 2005
Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa ...
João H. Costa Vargas
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A Democratic Dilemma: Racial Attitudes, Authoritarianism, and Whites’ Evaluation of Minority Legislators

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The United States prides itself on its immigrant heritage and diversity, yet historically, minority advancements have faced opposition and violence. Little scholarship exists on how whites evaluate minority representation when represented by a minority ...
Emmitt Y. Riley, Clarissa Peterson
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O navio de volta para casa: tropos analíticos como mapas da e para a história cultural da diáspora africana

open access: yesContemporânea, 2020
O foco do debate são as várias metáforas paradigmáticas que, de acordo com o autor, têm orientado as análises sobre a vida e cultura dos afrodescendentes nas Américas e sobre suas relações com a África.
J. Lorand Matory
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Whiteness of A Name: Is “White” the Baseline? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that Whiteness is used as a normative standard when comparing a variety of first names. Design/methodology/approach– Respondents (full- and part-time business students) evaluated names that ...
Cotton, John L.   +2 more
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From Rockstar Researcher to Selfless Mentor: A DaughtersPerspective

open access: yesMathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2013
Carlos Castillo-Chavez's tenure at Cornell University with Simon Levine,also marks the beginning of my life as his daughter. I was nine months old when I arrived to Ithaca, and my recollections of my father in elementary school and middle school were ...
Melissa Castillo-Garsow
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‘Anthropological mutilation’ and the reordering of Cameroonian literature

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016
I argue in this article that the postcolonial existential wound, otherwise referred to by Eboussi Boulaga as the anthropological mutilation, represents the intertextual nexus that bridges the generational gap in Francophone Cameroonian literature.
Cilas Kemedjio
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Effectiveness of CenteringPregnancy on Breast-Feeding Initiation Among African Americans: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
While breastfeeding initiation rates for African American mothers are low, an innovative model of group prenatal care, CenteringPregnancy, holds promise to increase breastfeeding rates.
Garnier-Villarreal, Mauricio   +2 more
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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