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Oral Care Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Black/African American Caregivers of Autistic Children and Non-Autistic Children

Children, 2022
Oral health is a vital component of overall health. Children from underserved, minoritized populations (i.e., Black/African Americans, autistic children) are at even greater risk for experiencing oral health disparities. This study aims to illuminate the
Dominique H. Como, Lucía I. Floríndez-Cox, Leah I. Stein Duker, Jose C. Polido, Brandi P. Jones, Mary Lawlor, Sharon A. Cermak   +6 more
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“Beholding the Lamb of God”: Jupiter Hammon, the First America’s Black Christian Poet [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2022
The role of Christianity as a factor that exerted a decisive influence over African American social and cultural history, is being debated time and again in the course of African American studies.
Olga Yu. Panova
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Black/African American Communities are at highest risk of COVID-19: spatial modeling of New York City ZIP Code–level testing results

Annals of Epidemiology, 2020
Purpose The population and spatial characteristics of COVID-19 infections are poorly understood, but there is increasing evidence that in addition to individual clinical factors, demographic, socioeconomic, and racial characteristics play an important ...
C. DiMaggio, Michael Klein, Cherisse Berry, S. Frangos   +3 more
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Projected Estimates of African American Medical Graduates of Closed Historically Black Medical Schools

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question What are the projected estimates of the number of African American students who would have graduated from historically Black medical schools that were closed during the period surrounding the publication of the 1910 Flexner report ...
Kendall M. Campbell, Irma Corral, Jhojana L. Infante Linares, D. Tumin   +3 more
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Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among African Americans and Black Caribbeans by Sex and Ethnicity

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
ObjectivePosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating disorder requiring timely diagnosis and treatment, with special attention needed for Black populations in the U.S.
Sophia Maria Gran-Ruaz, Robert Joseph Taylor, Grace Jacob, Monnica T. Williams, Monnica T. Williams   +4 more
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Roots of Lorca’s Black Poetry in Van Vechten’s Vision of the African American Spiritual

Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, 2023
Just as Lorca identified the Andalusian Gypsies (hereafter Roma) with deep song, so he equated New York African Americans with their spirituals, as defined in Carl Van Vechten’s 1925 article, “The Folksongs of the American Negro: The Importance of the ...
Nelson R. Orringer
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Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists

Science Advances, 2019
Topic choice is a previously unappreciated contributor to the lower rate of NIH awards to AA/B scientists. Despite efforts to promote diversity in the biomedical workforce, there remains a lower rate of funding of National Institutes of Health R01 ...
Travis Hoppe, Aviva Litovitz, Kristine A. Willis, Rebecca A. Meseroll, Matthew J. Perkins, B. I. Hutchins, Alison F Davis, M. Lauer, H. Valantine, James M. Anderson, George M. Santangelo   +10 more
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Racial Disparity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in African American Communities

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unveiled unsettling disparities in the outcome of the disease among African Americans. These disparities are not new but are rooted in structural inequities that must be addressed to adequately care ...
Ravina Kullar, Jasmine R. Marcelin, Talia H. Swartz, D. Piggott, Raul Macias Gil, Trini A. Mathew, T. Tan   +6 more
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Islam in the African-American Experience

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1999
African-American Islam, especially as practiced by the Nation oflslam, continues to engage the attention of many scholars. The racial separatist tendency, contrasted against the color blindness of global Islam, has been the focal point of most of these ...
Dawud Abdul-Aziz Agbere
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Structural Racism in the Federal Workplace: An Intersectional Approach to Examining Race-Based Discrimination in Law Enforcement

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration, 2023
Law enforcement has historically been an institution resistant to both women and racial minorities, evident by decades of research on workplace discrimination in local policing.
Helen H. Yu
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