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African Americans, American Africans, and the Idea of an African Homeland

Reviews in American History, 2008
The American image of Africa is at best vague, under-formed, simplified, and more often than not patronizing. White Americans in particular have perpetuated the mythology of Africa as the "Dark Continent," a place apart where wildness and chaos and danger lurk.
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African American Rhinoplasty

Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, 2014
Rhinoplasty in patients of African descent requires a patient-specific approach, because the goals and ideal proportions differ from the white nose. This article discusses approaches to surgical correction of common anatomic variations. In addition, common pitfalls are outlined.
Jennings R, Boyette, Fred J, Stucker
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The African American as African

Diogenes, 1998
One day a newly hatched eagle fell from its mother's clutches as she was flying over a chicken yard. The young eagle grew up in the chicken yard with young chickens and took on the habits, customs, and behavior of chickens. He ate like a chicken, walked like a chicken, and generally performed his daily routine like the birds who surrounded him. One day
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African American rhinoplasty

Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, 2002
This article describes the topographic and surgical anatomy of the African American nose and the surgical techniques used in the authors' practice.
Fred J, Stucker, Timothy, Lian, Kenneth, Sanders   +2 more
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STROKE IN AFRICAN AMERICANS

Neurologic Clinics, 2000
There is an excess burden of cerebrovascular disease in African Americans. This article will define possible reasons for excess stroke risk, review racial differences in stroke subtype and stroke prevention programs in the African American Community, and delineate sequelae of stroke.
G F, Lynch, P B, Gorelick
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Hypertension in African Americans

Current Cardiology Reports, 2017
African Americans are over-burdened with hypertension resulting in excess morbidity and mortality. We highlight the health impact of hypertension in this population, review important observations regarding disease pathogenesis, and outline evidence-based treatment, current treatment guidelines, and management approaches.Hypertension accounts for 50% of
Nomsa, Musemwa, Crystal A, Gadegbeku
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Gout in African Americans

The American Journal of Medicine, 2014
African Americans have a substantially higher prevalence of risk factors for gout than Caucasians. The aim of the present study was to compare the risk for incident gout among African Americans and Caucasians.Incidence rates of physician-diagnosed gout among 11,559 Caucasian men and 931 African American men aged 35 to 57 years and at high ...
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Traditional African American foods and African Americans

Agriculture and Human Values, 1996
Traditional African American foods, also referred to as “soul food,” are often given a blanket label of “poor food choices.” The cultural value of these ethnic foods may be disregarded without sufficient study of their nutrient content. This study showed that of the various foods perceived as traditionally African American by the local sampled ...
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African and African American Literature

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1990
Reply to Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. and introd. “African and African American Literature.” PMLA. 1990 Jan; 105(1): 7-184.
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The Paradoxical Journey of the African American in African American Fiction

New Literary History, 1990
IF THERE is one observation to be made about the African Americans' home search throughout American history it is that theirs is both a painful and a furious passage. Slavery, pogroms, and racism are all too recurrent and pervasive. African Americans, like Native Americans, have suffered from the brutal attempts of the Western world to amputate them of
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