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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"African descent"”.
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The role of grit in the higher educational experiences of women of African descent
… academic literature considers the experiences of African women as they pursue education, the literature tends to focus on barriers and obstacles. This study uses the psychological framework of grit to allow women of African descent to tell the stories of their educational journeys in a more …
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The impact of social media on young adults of African-American or African descent
… gratification to understand and investigate why African-Americans are using online social media sites as a tool to communicate. Researchers focus on questions such as why are African-Americans interested in sharing personal information online, and how do African-Americans use different social …
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Perceptions of Care: Self Reflections of Women Teachers of African Descent Who Teach in Urban Settings
… nurturing. This qualitative study focused on 10 African American female teachers and their perceptions of caring in the classroom and themselves as caring teachers. It is important to collect and share the experiences of African American females and how they define and practice care in their …
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Examining The Relationship between Bicultural Stress, Mental Well-Being, Perceived Social Support, and Education Among People of African Descent
… the bicultural experiences of people of African descent are significantly underrepresented in the literature. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship between experiences of bicultural stress and mental well-being. In investigating this relationship, …
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Analysis of Post-Cranial Traits for the Assessment of Biological Distance among Temporally Distinct New World Populations of African Descent
… in temporally distinct New World populations of African ancestry: Newton Plantation series (17th-19th century Barbados; N = 16); two subsamples from the Hamann-Todd (HT) series (U.S.) based on birth year, 1865-1900 (N = 66) and 1901-1915 (N = 62); and the Forensic Databank Collection (FDB) (20th …
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Unveiling the Challenges and Coping Strategies among Students of African Descent at a Post-1992 University in England: A Narrative-Case Study Approach
… and increase the enrolment of students of African descent in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), many continue to encounter profound challenges, particularly in cultivating a genuine sense of belonging within academic spaces. This thesis explores the lived experiences, structural …
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Towards an understanding of the relationship between sleep and cardiovascular disease risk in adults of African descent living in a low socioeconomic status community
Background: Individuals of African descent, specifically African Americans and those from Sub-Saharan Africa, experience a higher burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its associated risk factors (such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension) as well as shorter, poorer sleep quality, compared to …
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INTEGRATING AFRICAN-CENTERED WORLDVIEW AND ACCULTURATION AS PREDICTORS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES IN AFRICAN AMERICANS
… was to examine potential relationships between African-centered cultural factors and psychological outcomes in adults who are of African descent. Current literature was reviewed in order to provide an understanding of the development and conceptualization of African-centered theories of …
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Historicidade da identidade afrodescendente na educação escolar da Comunidade Quilombola de Paratibe: um estudo de caso sobre o autorreconhecimento e o racismo.
… work proposes an analysis of the historicity of African descent as an important instrument of the self-identity in child in Paratibe‟s Quilombola community in the scholar‟s purview. For a reflection for the importance of the stimulus to self-identity of African descent in the scholar‟s scope, as …
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Is ethnicity a risk for high grade prostate cancer?
… antigen (PSA) and age, and to determine whether Africans of African descent (AAD) have higher grade cancers than other ethnic groups.
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The Home as Refuge: Locating Homeplace Theory Within the Afrocentric Paradigm
… that home has been constructed by persons of African descent, and suggests that homeplace is a form of maroonage that is manifested both physically and psychologically. In addition to conceptually theorizing on homeplace, this project will also introduce Homeplace Theory, a theoretical …
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(Re) Constructing the Subject: A Strategic Model for Acquisition of Africana Liberation Through Children's Books
Children of African descent gather information about the world from various sources such as school, television, toys, and books. This research focuses specifically on books as an educational tool. The dominant focus of this work is to evaluate the ideas communicated to black children in books. …
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Stature estimation: evaluating regression equations for different population groups in South Africa
… method (Fully’s method), in a contemporary South African population. The use of these regression formulae to estimate total skeletal height of South Africans of Mixed Ancestry was investigated as no population-specific standards exist for this group. Additionally, the reliability of the generic …
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Kinship Care: an Afrocentric perspective
… to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers. It examined the meanings each group attached to kinship care and the risk and resilience they saw within it. The research was framed within the culturally distinctive theoretical framework of the Afrocentric …
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The Relationship Between Afrocentric Worldview and Marital Satisfaction in African-American Couples
… that many of the theories attempting to explain African-American culture derive from a Eurocentric framework, and thus paint a negative and pathological picture of the African-American family and community. What is needed is research examining African-American family life which holds Afrocentric …
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"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
… what happens when four middle school boys of African descent (African American and Caribbean American) gather to read a shared text in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present evidence of the importance …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
… during the rising surveillance of people of African descent in the South during the 1830s and the concurrent rise of cotton as a premier crop, two factors that figured greatly into elite white men’s unwillingness to have their relations with women of African descent scrutinized at the …
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Between Here and There: Navigating the Danish Colonial Past and United States Imperial Present through Public Sculpture in the Virgin Islands
… first public sculptures dedicated to people of African descent in Denmark. Utilizing Agency Reduction Formation, Black Cultural Mythology and the Nzuri Model as theoretical frameworks, this study asks the following questions: 1) How is Danish colonization of the Virgin Islands commemorated …
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A stress process model for anxiety symptom severity: comparing racial and ethnic minority adults
… anxiety symptom severity across individuals of African descent, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans are reported in this abstract. Subgroup differences are reported for Aims 2 through 4 in the body of the document. Aim 1 explored the goodness of fit of the SPM across groups (e.g., …
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