Stress and Health, 2020 Research supports that exposure to stressors (e.g., perceived stress, racism) during pregnancy can negatively impact the immune system, which may lead to infection and ultimately increases the risk for having a preterm or low birth weight infant.
B. Chambers +15 more
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The Use of Community Engagement in Implementation: Successes and Challenges From the Implementation and Adaptation of Bundled HIV Interventions for Black Women. [PDF]
Health ExpectSprague Martinez L +9 more
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2020 In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with ...
C. Prescod-Weinstein
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ROSAS NEGRAS E O HORIZONTE: acesso e êxito das estudantes negras cotistas na UNIR
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2021 In order to investigate the contributions made by the quota policy to the construction of a more democratic and plural public university environment, this study aimed to describe and analyze the process of implementing the quota system in the Porto Velho
Arthur Antunes Gomes Queiroz +1 more
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Racial residential segregation, socioeconomic disparities, and the White-Black survival gap. [PDF]
, 2018 ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between racial residential segregation, a prominent manifestation of systemic racism, and the White-Black survival gap in a contemporary cohort of adults, and to assess the extent to which socioeconomic inequality ...
Duffy, Erin +3 more
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Black Arts, Black Women, Black Politics
American Literary History, 2022 Abstract This essay-review examines Emily J. Lordi’s The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (2020), Sharrell D. Luckett’s African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity (2019), and Kimberly Mack’s Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White (2020).
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The impact of COVID-19 among Black women: evaluating perspectives and sources of information
Ethnicity and Health, 2020 Objectives Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has burgeoned into a pandemic that highlights the countless social and health disparities that have existed in Black communities within the United States for centuries.
Rasheeta D. Chandler +6 more
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Parity and body mass index in US women: a prospective 25-year study. [PDF]
, 2013 ObjectiveTo investigate long-term body mass index (BMI) changes associated with childbearing.Design and methodsAdjusted mean BMI changes were estimated by race-ethnicity, baseline BMI, and parity using longitudinal regression models for 3,943 young ...
Abrams, Barbara +3 more
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The Minds of Black Women — Impacts on Mental Health and Well-Being Across Collective Identities and Experience [PDF]
, 2020 Limited research investigates how structural and institutional barriers affect Black women's mental health. Further, stereotypes and tropes such as the Angry Black Woman and Strong Black Woman are impactful. Black women's proximity to wellness is largely
Campbell, Kayla
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Social Sciences, 2021 A growing body of literature highlights how teachers and administrators influence Black girls’ academic and social experiences in school. Yet, less of this work explores how Black undergraduate women understand their earlier school experiences ...
Seanna Leath +5 more
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