... successful ten-year run as oneof the premier AfricanAmerican teams in the East.But by the turn of the century, they no longer dominated African American baseball as they once had. That dominance ... the unique African American heritage that was the root cause of that exclusion. In the birthof the Cuban Giants, we witness the emergence of this development inbaseball. African American baseball ... the April dayin 1947 when Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field, ending a banthat had extended back to 1882 prohibiting African Americans from fullyparticipating in the National Pastime....
... were African American, southern,and poor.2 For Smith and others, portrayals of the midwives were linkedto a specific set of representations of the AfricanAmerican body and of African American ... practitioners and practices. Most current authors allude to the ways in which the AfricanAmerican midwife has beenignored. For example, Rene Reeb describes AfricanAmerican midwivesin rural Mississippi ... birthing in this African American community. It is part of the dialogue listened to andintiated.Methods and SettingThe people I spoke with on the preceding topics were African American men and...
... be finalized in November 2011. Wehave four months to fight to keep the rule strong. TheEPA, led by Lisa P. Jackson, an AfricanAmerican motherof two boys, needs to hear that we African American mothers ... joined Mom’s Clean Air Forceare confident that once African- American moms know thefacts — they will want to sign on to our passionate ranks.We, African- American mothers are no strangers toactivism. ... major contributors to African- American diseases. The pollution that coal-firedpower plants emit is a concern for the generalpopulation; but it is a critical issue for African Americansbecause...
... old.Tension existed between African Americans and whites,especially between African- American and Irish -American Bostonians. In Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1845–1926: America’sFirst Black Professional ... skills.”16Although the Irish had trouble findingjobs, the unemployment rate among African Americans wasquite low, leading to accusations that African Americans were“stealing” jobs from the ... MAHONEY The conflict between Boston’s African- American and Irish- American communities would characterize the atmospherein which Mahoney grew up—where African Americans wereaccepted by some, but...
... people deal with a death: the AfricanAmerican church,gospel music as it is in AfricanAmerican culture(s), AfricanAmerican funeraldirectors, and AfricanAmerican cemeteries. These cultural ... defining and dealing with the death.The AfricanAmerican Church and ClergyHistorically, the AfricanAmerican church has been of vital importance inmeeting the spiritual needs of African Americans ... difference in life expectancybetween African Americans and Euro-Americans, the social class diversityof many AfricanAmerican families, and, for some African Americans, thepowerful influence of...
... million in her day. She fought for the equality of African Americans and supported the fight for the abolition of slavery. Heradvocacy led to African Americans gaining the right to testify at tri-als ... severalmyths about AfricanAmerican wealth. One is that the recent celebritywealth among sports figures and entertainers represents the only pathto economic success and riches open to African Americans. ... contribution that fills in somegaps in AfricanAmerican history. It not only educates, it entertainsand inspires. Susan Anderson, writing on black wealth, stated, AfricanAmerican entrepreneurs have a...
... were significantly altered in both groups butin different directions. We did not observe any significantTable 1: Baseline clinicopathologic variables of African American and Caucasian American ... differences.DisclosuresThe authors confirm that there are no conflicts ofinterest.Abbreviations ListPCa: prostate cancer; AA: African American; CA: Cauca-sian American; RP: radical prostatectomy; ... 244K).Results: BAC-based array identified 27 chromosomal regions with significantly different copy number changes between the AA and CA tumors in the first cohort (Fisher's exact test, P <...
... the necessary technologies available for adaptation in developing coun-34 American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture The TRIPs Agreement explicitly recognizes in its preamble ... public-sector researchers. Yet private companies are able to use their patents to32 American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture Article 27.3(b) to exclude plants from patentability, ... fromthe limited aspects of flexibility stipulated in the TRIPs Agreement.”15044 American Patent Policy, Biotechnology, and African Agriculture tion and dissemination objectives of the patent system...
... writers on American theatre, will be of interest to studentsand scholars of American drama, literature and culture, as well asto general theatre-goers.C B is Professor of American ... craft, the nature of American experience and the politics of gender and sexuality. Inthis study Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences often contemporary American playwrights: ... CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTSBeginning in the cafés, lofts and small spaces of Off-Off-Broadway,and continuing in the Off-Broadway and regional theatres of thes, s and s, new American...
... from William Bradley Otis, who argued that early American verse was to be appreciated not because it lacked American traits, but The American Puritan elegy mission as a precondition ... Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, –. Blacks and Jews in Literary Dialogue. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc.. ... acquaintedonly with melodic music can often derive no pleasure from the oldcontrapuntal music” (First Century ). Fifteen years later Roy HarveyPearce argued for a “baroque decorum” in New England’s...