YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr
Essays 451 - 480
beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...
social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...
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...
state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...
can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...
future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...
diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...
p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background...
American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...
relatively minor misunderstanding that in the context of his rough neighborhood might have happened to anyone else. Because it is ...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...
to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...
African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...
and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...
headed" when faced with stress, while people with a "poorly differentiated self" are largely dependent on what others think of the...
(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...