... the best AfricanAmerican baseball players in the country A more plausible account of the birth of the Cuban Giants appeared twenty years earlier in the New York Age, a prominent AfricanAmerican ... successful ten-year run as one of the premier AfricanAmerican teams in the East But by the turn of the century, they no longer dominated AfricanAmerican baseball as they once had That dominance ... maintaining the unique AfricanAmerican heritage that was the root cause of that exclusion In the birth of the Cuban Giants, we witness the emergence of this development in baseball AfricanAmerican baseball...
... were African American, southern, and poor.2 For Smith and others, portrayals of the midwives were linked to a specific set of representations of the AfricanAmerican body and of AfricanAmerican ... Prologue AfricanAmerican women existed alongside moments when they have figured on the national and local stage In this book, I focus on the period from the 1920s to 1950s, when the AfricanAmerican ... that AfricanAmerican presence It is also a requiem to the knowledge, skills, and beliefs that have been lost If, thanks to the classic movie Gone with the Wind, popular imagery has the African American...
... The EPA, led by Lisa P Jackson, an AfricanAmerican mother of two boys, needs to hear that we AfricanAmerican mothers support these rules The truth is, African- American mothers are activists, ... Mom’s Clean Air Force are confident that once African- American moms know the facts — they will want to sign on to our passionate ranks We, African- American mothers are no strangers to activism ... demands have necessitated that we as African- American mothers learn to recognize those dropeverything-and-act moments when they arise When it comes to AfricanAmerican health and air pollution,...
... the legacy of African- American nurses/ by Susan Muaddi Darraj p cm.—(Women in medicine) ISBN 0-7910-8029-3 Mahoney, Mary Eliza, 1845–1926 African- American nurses— History African- American nurses—Biography ... generations of AfricanAmerican women nurses and on the field in general This book will be as much a study of the history of African- American women in nursing as it will be of the first African- American ... the early 1700s, African Americans were permitted to buy their own freedom, and a class of free, workingclass African Americans soon emerged in Boston Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the...
... Studies in AfricanAmerican History and Culture Edited by Graham Hodges Colgate University A Routledge Series Studies in AfricanAmerican History and Culture Graham Hodges, ... General Editor Troubling Beginnings Trans(per)forming AfricanAmerican History and Identity Maurice E Stevens Swinging the Vernacular Jazz and AfricanAmerican Modernist Literature Michael Borshuk The ... Carroll p cm ‑‑ (Studies in AfricanAmerican history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0‑415‑97938‑2 (alk paper) Negro leagues‑‑History AfricanAmerican baseball players‑‑History...
... areas of AfricanAmerican experience (e.g., Davis, 2000; hooks, 1992; Kincheloe & Steinberg, 1998; McIntosh, 1988) they may tend to ignore AfricanAmerican grief Tuning out AfricanAmerican grief ... phenomena in AfricanAmerican grieving and key elements of difference between AfricanAmerican and Euro -American grieving There is much that could conceivably be relevant to AfricanAmerican grief ... difference in life expectancy between African Americans and Euro-Americans, the social class diversity of many AfricanAmerican families, and, for some African Americans, the powerful influence of...
... 25 EARLY AFRICANAMERICAN CHURCHES T he first African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, is the oldest African Ameri- can Church in North America It was established in 1773 The first African ... empower African Americans The Masonic Temple was the focal point for the AfricanAmerican community’s commercial and fraternal activities At the time, Masonic organizations provided insurance for African ... myths about AfricanAmerican wealth One is that the recent celebrity wealth among sports figures and entertainers represents the only path to economic success and riches open to African Americans...
... variables of AfricanAmerican and Caucasian American patients and tumors utilized for BAC-based DNA copy number analysis and gene expression profiling African American( n = 20) Caucasian American( n ... there are no conflicts of interest Abbreviations List PCa: prostate cancer; AA: African American; CA: Caucasian American; RP: radical prostatectomy; CGH: comparative genomic hybridization; aCGH: ... Obese AfricanAmericans with prostate cancer (T1c and a prostate-specific antigen, PSA, level of
... quotations from African Americans, a small number from white and non-Americans are included I use the terms AfricanAmerican and black because it is my perception that today most Americans of African ... and productivity of black Americans have enriched this nation For me, an America without African Americans would be a colder, poorer, duller place I hope that African Americans and people of other ... edition, about AfricanAmerican economic progress, may impress some readers as overly positive To me, the message of the first edition remains valid: the core values that enabled African Americans...
... differences in characteristics between African Americans and Whites A binary logit model was used to evaluate the relationship of standard of care and race (African American versus White), computing ... (SAS, Cary, NC) RESULTS Characteristics of incident AfricanAmerican and White female breast cancer cases from 1996-2002 are shown in Table African Americans were younger at the time of diagnosis, ... ratios were adjusted for all variables in the table †: AA =African American DISCUSSION Breast cancer mortality is higher among African Americans than for Whites; though their breast cancer incidence...
... SLE or PM/DM was seen in three AfricanAmerican cases Racial difference in anti-topo I-positive scleroderma patients Clinical features of Caucasian versus AfricanAmerican patients with anti-topo ... Proximal scleroderma was noted in 87% of Caucasians but only in 38% of African Americans (P = 0.03) Three of eight AfricanAmerican anti-topo I-positive patients did not have sclerodermatous changes, ... overlap with PM/ DM (p = 0.05) were also common in African Americans Lack of skin changes, and overlap with SLE and PM/ DM are common in AfricanAmerican patients with anti-topo I + U1RNP but not...
... different pathogenic mechanisms POAG is more prevalent in Black Americans of AfricanAmerican (AA) ancestry than in Caucasian American (CA) populations of European ancestry (CA), with reported ... normal sets CA in between from indicates Genes (b), Abbreviations AA, African American; AAG, AA donor with glaucoma; CA, Caucasian American; CAG, CA donor with glaucoma; cAMP, cyclic AMP; ECM, extracellular ... racial differences, a positive family history of POAG is a major risk factor for the disease in African Americans [6] The Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study (AGIS), which compared the glaucoma outcomes...
... Patriots in the American Revolution At times, different groups tried to stop African Americans from joining the war American slaveholders insisted that George Washington stop letting African Americans ... Latimer, an African American, invented a way to make a lightbulb last even longer? When people used to write history books, they often skipped over important things done by African Americans But ... researchers show us that African Americans have made amazing discov- Y eries and outstanding accomplishments Through hard work, intelligence, faith, and determination, African Americans helped build...
... education In fact, an AfricanAmerican male has to have at least Alleviating Young AfricanAmerican Unemployment Through Education additional degree is significantly higher for African Americans than ... position.7 African Americans also experience an overall wage gap: In 2012, the median income of a white 18 to 34 year-old was $25,000, compared to $19,800 for an AfricanAmerican millennial.8 Why Do African ... o AfricanAmerican males without a high school diploma are approximately 15 per- together, invincible centage points less likely than white male high school dropouts to have a job o African American...
... shopping enjoyment between African Americans and Caucasian Americans Yankelovich Partners found that among survey results of 1,000 African Americans, out of 10 African Americans said it was fun ... Caucasian Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans Findings from this study indicated that African Americans and Hispanics budgeted more money for clothing than Caucasian Americans ... transportation Findings indicated that African Americans spent more than Caucasian Americans on clothing and that African Americans were not as price sensitive as Caucasian Americans 34 Sexton (1972) surveyed...
... issues are explored by this recent wave of AfricanAmerican films DEFINING AFRICANAMERICAN CINEMA In virtually every class I have taught on AfricanAmerican cinema and every conversation regarding ... reifies long-standing racist ideas about the AfricanAmerican family and the AfricanAmerican community In doing so, it blames the problems of the AfricanAmerican community on single mothers, baby ... of AfricanAmerican voices, communities, or experiences, but in their perpetuation, rationalization, and justification of the silencing of AfricanAmerican voices, the violence inflicted on African...
... poet AfricanAmerican Literature The Harlem Renaissance The artistic and socio-cultural awakening of African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s It was centered around the vibrant AfricanAmerican ... autonomy African American Literature The 1970s to the Present AfricanAmerican literature began to enter the mainstream of publishing and be read by black and white audiences AfricanAmerican ... of the American theater African American Literature The Black Arts Movement Social and political forces in the black community in the 1960s and 1970s sought to change the way African Americans...
... changed to foster the development of biotechnology for African farmers through these channels American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture U.S Foreign Policy on Patents It is ... developing countries alike ı ı ı 14 American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture chapter one Introduction T his report addresses the impact of American patent policy on access ... foster the development of biotechnology for African farmers through these nonprivate channels ı ı ı 24 American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture chapter three The Theory...