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The Souls of Black Folk

, 2018
The voices of African-American thinkers were often systematically and arbitrarily excluded from philosophical discourse for several reasons. The first, and more sinister of these, is similar to the exclusion of women's voices.
W. D. Du Bois
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Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1987
AbstractSocial and historical factors account for much of the variation in European ancestry among different Black American populations, including that of McNary, Arizona. The Black population of McNary is socioculturally and geographically isolated. Admixture estimates based upon reflectometry and serological data suggest that this population has less
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United States: Black/African American

2023
Racism and racial violence characterised the founding of North America and the presumption of white imperialists in exploiting the resources and peoples of other countries. Such an understanding of history is vital in reframing the narratives of white supremacy, a contexutalisation espoused by theologians such as James Cone and others, including ...
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Transthyretin isoleucine-122 mutation in African and American blacks

Amyloid, 2000
The gene frequency of the transthyretin (TTR) mutation (Val122Ile) was studied in African and African-American populations. The African populations analyzed included the Zulu and Xhosa of South Africa, and Yorubas from the city of Ibadan, Nigeria.
I, Afolabi, K, Hamidi Asl, M, Nakamura, P, Jacobs, H, Hendrie, M D, Benson   +5 more
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Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions

, 2010
American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In "Black on Earth," Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and ...
Kimberly N. Ruffin
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The Black Press in the “Nadir” of African Americans

Journalism History, 1994
On January 31, 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a measure to abolish slavery. The next day, the New York Times declared America "is hereafter to be, what it has never been hitherto, thoroughly democratic--resting on human rights as its basis."(1) Similar reactions followed in other leading Northern newspapers and even
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Culture and Beliefs About Time: Comparisons Among Black Americans, Black Africans, and White Americans

The Journal of Psychology, 2000
The authors investigated the extent to which racial factors, cultural factors, or both influence a person's beliefs about physical time, personal time, and experienced and remembered duration. A total of 750 Black American, Black African, and White American students responded to a questionnaire on these beliefs about time.
O W, Hill, R A, Block, S E, Buggie
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A Black American Looks at African Theology

Worldview, 1979
As s a black North American whose theological consciousness was shaped in the historical context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and the subsequent rise of Black Power during the 1960's, I find it difficult to speak about the future of African theology without relating it to the struggle for freedom in the United Stales of America.
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A Comparison of HLA Data of the North American Black with African Black and North American Caucasoid Populations

Tissue Antigens, 1977
For purposes of genetic comparison, the available HLA data on United States and African Black, together with United States Caucasoid populations, are summarized. Antigen frequencies and pairwise linkage disequilibria are presented for the HLA‐A, ‐B and ‐C loci in Black populations typed for the 1975 Histocompatibility Testing Workshop.
R. Payne, M. Feldman, H. Cann, J.G. Bodmer, A. Biegel, R. Duquesnoy, H. Perkins, G. Rodey, J.F. Shaw, P. Stastny, F.E. Ward   +10 more
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An African Views American Black Theology

Worldview, 1974
Black Theology is a painful phenomenon in the history of the Church. Painful not because of what it says—although it certainly does not deal in soft phrases—but because it has emerged in an America that, since the arrival of the Pilgrims in the seventeenth century, has claimed to be a Christian country.
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