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The Black Population: 2000 [PDF]

, 2001
Census 2000 showed that the United States population on April 1, 2000 was 281.4 million. Of the total, 36.4 million, or 12.9 percent, reported Black or African American.
McKinnon, Jesse
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Does School Racial Composition Explain Why High Income Black Youth Perceive More Discrimination? A Gender Analysis

Brain Sciences, 2018
Recent research has documented poor mental health among high socioeconomic status (SES) Blacks, particularly African American males. The literature has also shown a positive link between SES and perceived discrimination, suggesting that perceived ...
Shervin Assari
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A Mixed Methods Study of Health and Social Disparities among Substance-Using African American/Black Men who have Sex with Men [PDF]

, 2014
African American/Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the USA experience health and social disparities at greater rates than MSM of other races/ethnicities, including HIV infection and substance use.
Buttram, Mance E., Kurtz, Steven P.
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Habiter le monde avec des sons

Géographie et Cultures, 2010
In the history of Afro-American culture, music has always occupied a special place. Black writers, artists, philosophers and sociologists etc. have all felt obliged to pay their debt to or set their aesthetic goals based on music’s achievements.
Emmanuel Parent
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Racial differences in the associations between adiposity, placental growth hormone and inflammatory cytokines in pregnant women

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
BackgroundThe prevalence of obesity among women of child-bearing age has contributed to an increased risk of pregnancy complications with a disproportional impact on women of lower socioeconomic status and among certain racial groups.
Camille Y. Williams, Camille Y. Williams, Amanda Wylie, Amanda Wylie, Verina Ghobrial, Christopher L. Coe, Sarah J. Short, Sarah J. Short   +7 more
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Healthcare experiences of patients with Down syndrome who are Black, African American, of African descent, or of mixed race

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 2022
AbstractScant research has explored the healthcare experiences of people with Down syndrome (DS) in the United States who are Black, African American, of African descent, or of mixed race. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the barriers and facilitators that such patients and their caregivers face when accessing healthcare.
Kavita Krell, Albert Pless, Carie Michael, Amy Torres, Jeanhee Chung, Sandra Baker, Jasmine M. Blake, Kelli Caughman, Sarah Cullen, Maureen Gallagher, Roxanne Hoke‐Chandler, Julius Maina, Diana McLuckie, Kate O'Neill, Angeles Peña, Dina Royal, Michelle Slape, Noemi Alice Spinazzi, Carlos G. Torres, Brian G. Skotko   +19 more
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Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in Black and/or African American Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants

Neurobiology of Aging, 2023
Majority of dementia research is conducted in non-Hispanic White participants despite a greater prevalence of dementia in other racial groups. To obtain a better understanding of biomarker presentation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the non-Hispanic White population, this study exclusively examined AD biomarker abnormalities in 85 Black and/or African ...
Groechel, Renée C, Tripodis, Yorghos, Alosco, Michael L, Mez, Jesse, Qiu, Wei Qiao, Goldstein, Lee, Budson, Andrew E, Kowall, Neil W, Shaw, Leslie M, Weiner, Michael, Jack, Clifford R, Killiany, Ronald J, Initiative, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging   +12 more
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Two decades of little change: An analysis of U.S. medical school basic science faculty by sex, race/ethnicity, and academic rank.

PLoS ONE, 2020
To examine changes in U.S. medical school basic science faculty over the last 20 years (1998-2018), we undertook an observational study utilizing data from the American Association of Medical Colleges Faculty Roster. Rank (Instructor, Assistant Professor,
Christopher L Bennett, Raquel Y Salinas, Joseph J Locascio, Edward W Boyer   +3 more
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Let’s Talk: A Study of the Impact of Gendered Racial Socialization on African American Adolescent Girls’ Mental Health [PDF]

, 2020
Internalized racial oppression in African American girls is understudied within research. As people of color are victimized by racism, they may internalize it, developing ideas, beliefs, actions and behaviors that support or collude with racism (Bivens ...
Allen, Keyona, Hope, Ph.D, Elan, Jones, Ph.D, Shawn C. T., Winchester, Lesley   +3 more
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“Black” or “African American”; What’s In a Name?

Explorations in Ethnic Studies, 1990
Within the United States the African American[1] community has again reverted to the problem of ethnic identity and the question, “Who are we −− ‘Blacks’ or ‘African Americans’?” is now being debated. It will be recalled that a similar debate was carried on in the 1960s, and the history of this identity question extends to the 1920s and beyond.
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