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Postcolonial Studies: Hybridity and the Dominance of Whites over Blacks in American Poetry
Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2021 This study aims to reveal the postcolonial issues contained in poetry I, Too by Langston Hughes and Incident by Countee Cullen. Both authors of these poems are figures from black people in America.
Yuli Wahyuni, Diyah Iis Andriani
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Background Pulmonary hypertension is prevalent in black individuals, especially women. Elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Suvasini Lakshmanan +5 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001 Recent progress in black hole research is illustrated by three examples. We discuss the observational challenges that were met to show that a supermassive black hole exists at the center of our galaxy. Stellar-size black holes have been studied in x-ray binaries and microquasars.
Brügmann, B., Ghez, A., Greiner, J.
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The Priesthood of the Believers: Quakers and the Abolition of Slavery
Religions, 2023 Quakers became the first group in history to develop a consciousness about slavery and spearheaded the early movement in America and Britain that led to its abolition. Why did they develop this consciousness? What was the spiritual matrix that moved them
Stephen Strehle
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PATIENTS AT RISK OF THEIR ETHNIC BACKGROUND [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2009 This article discuss genetic disorders that appear with increased frequency in certain ethnic groups: – Ashkenazi jews: Tay-Sachs disease, adult Gaucher’s disease – type I, Niemann-Pick disease, mucolipidosis (type IV), pentosuria, Bloom syndrome ...
Valeriu Popescu
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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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Brain Sciences, 2019 Background: Although social, behavioral, and health factors correlate with depressive symptoms, less is known about these links among economically disadvantaged African American (AA) older adults.
Meghan C. Evans +4 more
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Economies, 2018 According to the Blacks’ Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for Black compared to White families.
Shervin Assari
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Sleep Characteristics and Measures of Glucose Metabolism in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Background Characterizing associations of sleep characteristics with blood‐glucose–level factors among blacks may clarify the underlying mechanisms of impaired glucose metabolism and help identify treatment targets to prevent diabetes mellitus in blacks.
Yuichiro Yano +9 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018 BackgroundIdeal cardiovascular health metrics (defined by the American Heart Association Life's Simple 7 [LS7]) are suboptimal among blacks, which results in high risk of cardiovascular disease.
LaPrincess C. Brewer +8 more
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