Whiteness of A Name: Is “White” the Baseline? [PDF]
, 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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Residential Segregation and Overweight/Obesity Among African-American Adults: A Critical Review [PDF]
, 2015 The relationship between residential segregation and overweight/obesity among African-American adults remains unclear. Elucidating that relationship is relevant to efforts to prevent and to reduce racial disparities in obesity.
Bess, Jukelia J. +6 more
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Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
Southern Spaces, 2022 In 1849 a mob of white supremacists eager to seize anti-slavery mailings attacked the US Post Office in Pendleton, South Carolina. They burned leaflets and letters in a bonfire on the village green to make clear their stance against incendiary ideas ...
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A Synthesis of the Literature on the Relationship Between Food Access and Overweight and Obesity in African American Adolescents [PDF]
, 2013 Food access shapes a community’s nutritional environment and impacts the health and physical well-being of its residents. When a community does not have adequate access to outlets that offer healthy options, it is difficult to maintain a healthy diet ...
Smalls, Marquita Noelle Bullock
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Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Southern Spaces, 2015 Natasha Trethewey welcomes the 2014 Callaloo Conference, "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," and Charles Henry Rowell describes the significance of this scholarly gathering hosted at Emory University.
Natasha Trethewey, Charles Henry Rowell
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African American Students\u27 Perceptions of Influential Factors for Attendance in Doctoral Psychology [PDF]
, 2018 This study explores African American undergraduate students’ perceptions of factors influencing their decision to attend doctoral programs in psychology.
Khondker, Samreen +3 more
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Black Religion and Black Power: The Nation of Islam’s Internationalism
Genealogy, 2019 The Nation of Islam’s influence has extended beyond the United States. This Black American Muslim movement has used the intersection of race and religion to construct a blueprint of liberation that has bonded people of African descent throughout ...
Bayyinah S. Jeffries
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A social psychological study of ethnonyms: Cognitive representation of the ingroup and intergroup hostility [PDF]
, 2007 Ethnonyms (M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov, 1964; from the Greek roots meaning "a national group" and "name") are the names an in-group uses to distinguish itself from out-groups.
Calogero, Rachel M. +2 more
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Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Southern Spaces, 2012 Jake Adam York examines artist Radcliffe Bailey\'s representations of African American memory and the Black Atlantic in the exhibition Medicine as Memory at Atlanta\'s High Museum of Art.
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Whose Streets?: A film of screening & conversation with director Damon Davis [PDF]
, 2017 Join us, and other departments and initiatives across Boston University, for a screening of the film Whose Streets? followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Damon Davis, Phillipe Copeland – School of Social Work, Ashley Farmer – History and African ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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