Browsing by Subject "African American"
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A Solid Black Hyphen: Race, Religion, Identity, and the Black Power Activism of Gayraud S. Wilmore (2020-03-30)Department: ReligionIn 1963 the United Presbyterian Church appointed black minister Gayraud S. Wilmore as head of its new racial justice commission. In that post, as the top racial justice official for one of the largest, wealthiest, most ...
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(2008-08-04)Department: Community Research and ActionCaregiver strain is a complex phenomenon with the potential to have a deleterious effect on caregivers’ ability to perform their caregiving duties. Previous research has suggests that differences in race influence caregivers’ ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that religious and cultural media are socially organized technologies of power that reproduce, maintain, circulate, and exchange historical myths on black womanhood, which black women and girls ...
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(2008-04-22)Department: Teaching and LearningThis micro-ethnographic research project examines discussions of "race" among African American secondary students. More specifically, this project focuses on how "race" is constituted in school settings, and the ways in ...
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(2015-04-01)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySouthern African American middle-aged men have high rates of obesity and premature mortality due to chronic illnesses. Different sources were brought together to perform a critical literature review to better understand ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Human GeneticsCommon age, related eye diseases are a major driving force behind vision disability and blindness. The three most common diseases afflicting Americans today are age-related macular degeneration (AMD), primary open-angle ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: HistoryThis dissertation seeks to throw open the courtroom doors and show how ordinary people—black and white, free and enslaved—shaped the law of manumission at a critical moment in American history. It is a detailed legal, ...