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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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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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African American Turnout and African American Candidates

Political Science Research and Methods, 2018
Do minority voters respond to co-racial or co-ethnic candidates? That is does the increased chance of substantive representation translate into increased participation? Here, we focus on this question among African American voters. While much of the empirical literature on this question has produced conflicting answers, recent studies suggest that ...
Luke J. Keele, Ismail K. White
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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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Obama, African Americans, and Africans

2017
This chapter examines how the election (and reelection) of President Obama fits into the larger historical narrative that was the focus of earlier chapters. It asks: Has the Obama presidency represented fundamental change or, in many consequential ways, foreign policy continuity?
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Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Angela N Giaquinto, Kimberly D Miller, Robert A Winn   +2 more
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