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verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...