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Showing 1 to 20 of 543 for “"Black Women"”.
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Black Women Superintendents: Leading With Love
… relatives; and expand research to include, all Black women superintendents in the nation, former Black women superintendents, and Black men superintendents.
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Soily healing: Black women, resilience, and houseplants
… potential of reciprocal relationships between Black women and houseplants. Through visual and textual analysis of public Instagram posts, this research examines three key themes: (1) houseplants act as agentic teachers, guiding their caretakers toward deeper self-care and self-awareness; (2) …
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Marital Attitudes of Never Married Black Women
… on mental health of 18-45 year old never married Black women living in the United States. A cross-sectional web survey design using purposive sampling was employed. Four instruments were administered: a sociodemographic questionnaire; Marital Attitude Scale (MAS) to assess marital attitudes; …
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Black women as monuments in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… are often not inscribed within this narrative. Women’s bodies, however, are used to convey these hegemonic, masculine-centered ideologies in the form of monuments. Because this phenomenon is so present in the American (sub)conscious, I argue that such consciousness bleeds into the literary …
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Erythrocyte zinc and dietary zinc in black women
… cross-sectional study, 134 healthy, nonpregnant black women contributed blood and were interviewed to determine usual food consumption during the previous year and sociodemographic characteristics. The primary method of analysis was computation of correlation coefficients between the primary …
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A RHETORICAL INVESTIGATON OF BLACK WOMEN COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
… of communication scholars who have studied Black women’s rhetoric, in addition to Collins’s (2009) theory of Black feminist thought (BFT), to create a nuanced conceptualization of African-American women’s social justice rhetoric. I first identify and explain relevant contextual literatures …
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Spirituality, Religiosity, and Weight Management in Black Women
… is a major concern in the United States and Black Americans are among those with the highest rates of overweight, obesity, and related co- morbidities. While weight loss among Black women has been studied within the context of a faith-based setting, there is little information about the …
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Black women, White campus: Students living through invisibility.
… and availability of support. The experiences of Black female students at PWI's have often been examined through the lens of research on Black as a homogenous group. Exploration of the unique challenges Black women face negotiating their identity, their perceptions of the campus climate as well as …
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Exploring Community Creation: Conversations of Young Black Women
… the significance of the often-trivialised act of women talking to each other, the purpose of this research project was to explore how young black women use talking to create community with each other. The purpose of this research is to explore how young black South African women talking to each …
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Intersectionality and the leadership of Black women superintendents
… research related to the history and evolution of Black women’s role as leaders in education in the United States since the late 1980s, there is a lack of studies that address the perceptions, and duality of the unique barriers and challenges that Black women superintendents are confronted with in …
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SPRING INTO ACTION FOR BLACK WOMEN: EXAMINING THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZATION’S TWITTER COVERAGE OF STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN
… the Twitter rhetoric produced by the Black Lives Matter organization to understand how they discuss and engage state-sanctioned violence against cisgender and transgender black women. Relying upon intersectional theory and virtual public sphere theory for theoretical framing, a textual …
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An Ethnography Study of HIV Positive Midlife Black Women
Black women, ages 45 and older, are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2001, Black women comprised 11% of all older women in the United States; however, they accounted for more than 50% of AIDS cases and more than 65% of HIV cases (Winningham et al., 2004). The literature …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
… on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the …
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Schoolin' women: hip hop pedagogies of black women rappers
… field has much to gain from an analysis of black women rappers’ texts. The knowledge black women rappers offer through their songs is worthy of study in schooling spaces and is too valuable for educators to continue to ignore if they want to become better teachers. Through their lyrics, …
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Digital Diaspora and (Re)mediating Black Women in Britain
… in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 23 Black women in Britain, this research explores how media and online content-sharing is implicated in the development of Black women’s diasporic identities. Such matters are unpacked via an interpretive analytic lens, with Black feminist and social …
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Critical Consciousness Development of Black Women Activists: A Qualitative Examination
… consciousness development among a sample of U.S. Black women involved in social justice work. The study elicited the women’s perceptions of the conditions, influences, and processes that contributed to their conscientization. Such findings afford new insights into Black women’s resistance to …
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The Correlation Between Depression and Gendered Racism Among Black Women
<p>Black women face unique challenges related to intersecting racial and gender-based discrimination, often referred to as gendered racism. Previous research has indicated this form of oppression may significantly affect mental health, particularly depression. However, few studies have examined how …
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