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Economic, Cultural, Social Determinants of Black Women Obesity [PDF]

open access: yesBusiness Ethics and Leadership
Obesity is a widespread problem in the United States, particularly affecting Black communities. It is a public health problem, a long-term, cumulative issue of economic and social justice and inequality for this demographic group.
Tiffiny Shockley, Darrell Norman Burrell
doaj   +1 more source

Review of "The Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment" by Jillian Hernandez (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2022
"The Aesthetics of Excess" by Jillian Hernandez is a dazzling and provocative book that deploys the aesthetic as a category to grasp with great care the lives and representations of Black and Latina women whose performance of gender exceeds the white ...
Iván Ramos
doaj   +1 more source

Aggressive Encounters & White Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Black women in the United States are the frequent targets of bias-filled interactions in which aggressors: (1) denigrate Black women; and (2) blame those women who elect to challenge the aggressor’s acts and the bias that fuels them.
Jones, Trina, Norwood, Kimberly Jade
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Prevalence of Mental Health Disorder Symptoms and Rates of Help-seeking Among University-Enrolled, Black Men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background. Black men in college represent a subgroup of emerging adults who are at increased risk of developing mental health disorders (MHDs), such as anxiety and depression.
Adkins, Amy   +8 more
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Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Women: A Moderated Mediation Model

open access: yesPsychology of women quarterly, 2019
In the current study, we explored the relations between gendered racial microaggressions, gendered racial identity (intersection of one’s racial and gender identities), coping, and depressive symptoms among Black women.
Marlene G. Williams, Jioni A. Lewis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pathogenic Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene variants in tumors of non‐NF1 patients and role of R1276

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Somatic variants of the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene occur across neoplasms without clinical manifestation of the disease NF1. We identified emerging somatic pathogenic NF1 variants and hotspots, for example, at the arginine finger 1276. Those missense variants provide fundamental information about neurofibromin's role in cancer.
Mareike Selig   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Silence: The Silence of the Oppressed in Maya Angelou’s I Know 'Why the Caged Bird Sings' and Zora Neale Hurston’s 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and 'Jonah’s Gourd Vine'

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2013
The paper explores the meaning of silence in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah’s Gourd Vine.
Anca-Beatrice Matei
doaj   +1 more source

TMC4 localizes to multiple taste cell types in the mouse taste papillae

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Transmembrane channel‐like 4 (TMC4), a voltage‐dependent chloride channel, plays a critical role in amiloride‐insensitive salty taste transduction. TMC4 is broadly expressed in all mature taste cell types, suggesting a possible involvement of multiple cell types in this pathway.
Momo Murata   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of Access to Prenatal Care in the First Trimester of Pregnancy Among Black Women Compared to Other Races/Ethnicities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

open access: yesPublic Health Reviews, 2022
Objective: To analyze the prevalence of access to prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy among black women compared to other races/ethnicities through a systematic review and meta-analysis.Methods: Searches were carried out at PUBMED, LILACS ...
Pedro Henrique Alcântara da Silva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Black Labor Force in the Recovery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
[Excerpt] African-Americans or blacks made up 12 percent of the United States labor force in 2010. Overall, 18 million blacks were employed or looking for work, representing 62.2 percent of all black people.In 2010, about half of blacks aged 16 and older
United States Department of Labor
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