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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Black/African American"”.
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The Lived Experience of Retention and Progression of Black/African American Nursing Students
… minority nursing students, especially those of Black/African American descent, have less access to nursing education, poorer retention and progression rates in nursing programs, and are more likely to withdraw from programs. The existence of an increasingly diverse nursing workforce depends upon …
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Octavia Butler's Parables and Black African American Hyper-Empathic Neurodivergent Feminists : On Shame and Solidarity
… Harris-Perry (2011), and Halberstam (2005b) and Black feminist theorists like Crenshaw (1991), hooks (1992), Lorde (1984), Alexander, (2005), Hill-Collins (2017) and many others, I ask what shame does to feminists in solidarity with one another. To try to answer this question, I rely on Black …
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Virginia Counselors' Engagement with Social Issues Advocacy for Black/African American Clients/Students in Various Workplace Settings
… issues advocacy, specifically advocacy for Black/African American clients/students. Racial Identity (Helms, 1993) and Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, and McCullough, 2016) are used as the framework. The researcher examined whether …
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The Influence of Black African American Fathers’ Parenting Styles on Young Adult Children’s Attachment Styles: the Roles of Gender and Fathers’ Residence
<p>Parenting</p> <p>Black African American (BAA) fathers in the United States are frequently mischaracterized as absent or uninvolved, reinforcing deficit-based narratives rooted in historical and systemic racism. Such portrayals obscure the meaningful and sustained roles many BAA fathers play in …
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Babe (Body Appreciation and Better Eating), Just Add a Dash of Self-Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study for Black/African American Teenage Girls
… rates of disordered eating behaviors observed in Black teenagers. Given that self-compassion is found to buffer against eating pathology and body dissatisfaction and is linked to reduced incidences of binge eating and disordered eating behavior. Incorporating the self-compassion construct, …
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Examining Factors Related to Tobacco Treatment Engagement Among Tobacco Dependent Black/African American; Hispanic/Latino Cancer Patients: An Analysis of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Tobacco Treatment Program
… context of high quality cancer care, engaging Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino cancer patients in tobacco treatment programs can be challenging. Prior studies with the general adult population demonstrate that Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino smokers are referred to and …
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Racial Microaggressions, Stress, and Depression in African Americans: Test of a Model
… identity, perceived stress, and depression among Black/African American college students. It was hypothesized that perceived stress would partially mediate the relationships between daily hassle stressors and depression. Racial identity was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between racial …
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White pre-service teachers' reflections on their experiences as tutors in an urban afterschool program : a critical race theory analysis.
… in which all of the enrolled students were Black/African American. The sophomore level pre-service teachers served as tutors to fulfill a required experiential learning component for an introductory multicultural course. This study examined the contents of the reflective journals they kept …
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Pregnant Black/African Americans' Experiences In Prenatal Genetic Counseling
<p>Pregnant Black/African American patients have faced systematic racism in the U.S. healthcare system embodied in the high maternal morbidity and mortality rates. Patients have the desire to feel heard and connected with their healthcare providers. Prenatal genetic counselors are not only trained …
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The Pinnacle of College Readiness Initiatives: An Examination of the Impact Early College High Schools have on Students from Underrepresented Minority Populations in Texas
… school graduates. Research indicates only 20% of Black students are college ready at graduation, and less than that—only 16%—of Hispanic students are college ready at the time of graduation. Early College High Schools (ECHS) strive to support underrepresented students in education by improving …
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Bridge to Student Success?: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the University of Mississippi's JumpStart Summer Bridge Program
… of retention to spring semester; (c) females, Black/African American, Other Minorities, and resident students were retained to spring semester at a significantly higher rate than freshmen who did not participate in JumpStart; and (d) Black/African American JumpStart participants earned a …
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REPARATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY BLACK HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THE FLEXNER REPORT
… of physicians in the United States (U.S.) are Black/African American. This comprehensive analysis explores the significant underrepresentation of Black/African American physicians in the United States, a problem that has persisted for over 100 years. This investigation traces this disparity …
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Measurement Invariance in Math Anxiety Scales Across Race and Gender
… the AMAS is non-invariant across White/European American and Black/African American racial groups as well as secondary level and tertiary level students. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis indicate that race and gender are not predictive of learning math anxiety or math evaluation …
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Exploring Mental Health Screening and Linkage to Care among Young African American Men
Young Black/African American men are at greater risk for trauma compared to young non-Hispanic White males, which increases the risk of mental health concerns and risk behaviors. However, young Black/American men are less likely to seek mental health screening and linkage to care (LTC) services …
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The individual and collective consequences of mass incarceration in the African American community
… the terms of reference (e.g., Negro, Colored, Black, African American, Afrikan) have changed, the degraded cast status of Black people has been an immutable constant. For the purpose of this paper, African American and Black will be used interchangeably. No other minority ethnicity, has …
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Predicting Veteran Entrepreneurial Success with Effectuation
… There was also a higher percentage of female and Black/African American veterans as compared to the U.S. veteran population.</p> <p>The regression analysis showed that there was no significant relationship between experience, education, and entrepreneurial success (what I know). Additionally, …
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The CAR (Confront, Address, Replace) Strategy: An Antiracist Engineering Pedagogy
… those who identify as women and/or Black/African-American—feel uncomfortable, potentially evoking Stereotype Threat (Danowitz, 2020) and/or Curriculum Trauma (Buul, 2020). Indeed, prior research shows that students from a number of backgrounds find non-inclusive terminologies such as …
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Exploring the Academic and Social Transititon Experiences of Ethnic Minority Graduate Students
… analyzed the differences in transition by race (Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native), type of GSPP experience (no program, research-only program, graduate/professional school seminars only, holistic program), and duration of experience (less than six weeks …
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We Must Teach Wisely and Lead Aright': Civic Literacy and Writing Pedagogy In Late Nineteenth Century American Women's Journalism
… white, middle-class journalist Winifred Black, African American journalist Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and Native American journalist Susette La Flesche. Black, Mossell, and La Flesche explicitly situate themselves in a teaching relationship with their readers, using their 'teacherly' ethe …
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