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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"African American Communities"”.
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Autism and the Delay of Diagnosis in African American Communities
… likely to be diagnosed with ASD (CDC, 2025). The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends developmental surveillance at every well-child visit and universal screening for autism spectrum at 18 and 24 months of age (Hyman et al., 2020). Despite these guidelines, many pediatric offices fail to …
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Both sides of the story: exploring university relations with local African-American communities
… of this study was to explore the perceptions of African-Americans and university collaborators regarding their experiences with community-university partnerships and to suggest possible strategies to strengthen these working relationships. By drawing on the responses of eighteen community and …
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CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CIVIL WAR SITES WORKING WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
… a Civil War component are connecting or not with African American visitors and non-visitors. In order to meet the overarching objectives, two approaches were used which consisted of direct contact with the NPS sites and administering a site-specific questionnaire. Multiple attempts were made to …
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Comparing health insurance status of Congolese and African American communities of Stone Creek Church in Champaign Urbana
… uninsured across the country (KFF, 2012). Black communities of Champaign County in Illinois are not exempt from this alarming situation. The purpose of this study is to compare the health insurance status of two different minority communities in the Champaign area. The research questions …
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Using Constructivist Grounded Theory to Generate Participatory Research Empowerment Guideposts (PREGs) for African American Communities to Address Racial Health Disparities
<p>Racism has multi-systemic impacts on African Americans resulting in longstanding racial health disparities. Increasingly, researchers use participatory research in their health equity efforts. Participatory research is rooted in the principle of empowerment and centers community lived experience …
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The Voices of Educators and Elders: Examining a Supplemental Educational Program Through a Culturally Responsive Lens in Gullah Geechee and African American Communities
<p>African American students in South Carolina experience historical educational suppression (Anderson, 1988; Bowers et al., 2018; Fabel, 2019). This qualitative case study investigated how the use of African Diaspora and Gullah Geechee culture in supplemental education programs supported the …
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Streets of Justice? Civil Rights Commemorative Boulevards and the Struggle for Revitalization in African American Communities: A Case Study of Central City, New Orleans
… are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable …
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'I Am Only One, but I Am One': *Southern African -American Women Schoolteachers, 1884--1954
African-American women schoolteachers played an important role in African-American communities. They applied innovative methods to relieve the conditions of an inadequate educational system and in the process made enormous contributions to their communities at large. Yet, their efforts met with …
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God Talk: Shifting Religious Rhetoric in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… religious rhetoric in New Orleans has shifted in African American communities from being confined simply to the religious sphere, and how it has taken on more philanthropic overtones in the Protestant African American community and more racist overtones in the Catholic African American community. …
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The Black Church and African -American Youth: The Black Church as a Socializing Institution for African -American Male Youth Living in Low -Income Communities
… the key roles played by the Black church in poor African-American communities. Specifically, the results suggested that the increased involvement of male youth in church-sponsored activities is associated with the number of Educational Definers to whom youth are exposed and that the church affords …
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
… work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke progressive and redemptive models of remembering, as well as foreground the role of spiritual guides in the transformative process from trauma …
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Precedents in African American architecture
As a sub-sets of American culture, African Americans have not been able to offer culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African …
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Relationships between Ethnicity, Attitudes toward Institutional Authority, and Hope in the African American Community
… in an urban community and the individual is African American. In African American communities in the U.S., interactions with authority figures begin in childhood. African Americans have a significantly greater negative attitude toward institutional authority as it relates to the police. In …
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An Examination of the Bachelor's Degree Attainment Experiences of African American Males Post-Incarceration
… than any other industrialized nation. Moreover, African American males are disproportionately targeted for incarceration in a system reminiscent of the system of slavery abolished after the civil war. As the cycle of recidivism plays itself out in this nation, this research examines the …
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A contemporary civil rights issue: the thoughts of African American Christian religious leaders and university professors on seeking public office (a life history method)
… historical evidence abounds with examples of how African Americans sought control and agency in the struggle for freedom throughout American history. More specifically, it is a study of their fight for economic, political, and educational rights from the 1960s to the present day. It critiques how …
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Hybrid cinematics : rethinking the role of filmmakers of color in American cinema
… as those from Latin, Asian, Pacific, Native and African American communities, an amalgam of political, industrial, economic and technological shifts have both facilitated and hindered access to crucial funding and distribution opportunities, which in turn impacts their ability to control and …
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Exploring Environmental Justice Issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho
… explores environmental justice issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. Given the little work focused on environmental justice issues of Latino communities, specifically in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. This thesis aims to, firstly determine whether environmental justice …
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African American Caregivers of Children Affected by Hiv/Aids
… have reached an epidemic proportion in many African American communities. There is a significant amount of stigma and denial associated with HIV/AIDS in these communities, leaving people with minimal knowledge about this disease. Caretakers such as grandparents, other relatives, and foster …
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THE DISPROPORTIONALITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
<p>African American communities have been subject to institutional and societal inequalities for much of our nation’s history. A review of the literature has shown that these families have unequal access to resources and opportunities, especially in the comparison to the rest of the population. …
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The negotiation of language in college settings
… of language for college students that grew up in African American communities and that are speakers of African American English. The study looked at the participants’ everyday talk and how they talked about their language practices and experiences, socially and academically. The purpose of this …
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