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Louis J. Stewart, Jean Wells, Frank Ross
While African American CPAs have experienced some considerable progress in the US public accounting profession over the past thirty years, their level of participation in the profession remains far below their representation in the general US population...
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Derrick Love
Higher Education Institutions are seeing increased retention rates among African-American college students at predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Institutional barriers such as unwelcoming campus climates, racial stereotypes, and faculty relationshi...
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Khayen Prentice,László Kónya,David Prentice
The question of why the Great Migration from the South did not begin before the 1910s remains open. The empirical significance of laws outlawing emigrant agents, who could have helped African Americans migrate, has not previously been considered. We anal...
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Shervin Assari, James Smith, Ritesh Mistry, Mehdi Farokhnia and Mohsen Bazargan
Purpose. This study investigated the effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) indicators on two health behaviors, cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking, among African American older adults. Methods. This community-based study recru...
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Alana Smith, Gregory A. Vidal, Elizabeth Pritchard, Ryan Blue, Michelle Y. Martin, LaShanta J. Rice, Gwendolynn Brown and Athena Starlard-Davenport
African American women are substantially underrepresented in breast cancer genetic research studies and clinical trials, yet they are more likely to die from breast cancer. Lack of trust in the medical community is a major barrier preventing the successf...
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Kaitlyn E. Brodar, Marissa G. Hall, Eboneé N. Butler, Humberto Parada, Al Stein-Seroussi, Sean Hanley and Noel T. Brewer
To help tobacco control research better include vulnerable populations, we sought to identify effective ways to recruit diverse smokers. In 2014?2015, we recruited 2149 adult cigarette smokers in California and North Carolina, United States, to participa...
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Dustin Galer
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In African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, Dea Boster looks at how disability shaped the lived experience of slavery. Boster argues that while all slaves were objectified, disabled bondspeople were pa...
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Danielle Taana Smith
This study examines the participation of African Americans on social networking sites (SNS), and evaluates the degree to which African Americans engage in activities in the online environment to mitigate social capital deficits. Prior literature suggests...
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Roderick Graham and Danielle Taana Smith
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Daria C. Crawley, Charlotte Broaden, Darlene Y. Motley
Employment predictions continue to forecast increasing racial diversity in the American workforce as firms face global competition and strive to grasp the challenges of a global business landscape. As American multinational corporations use expatriate as...
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Allan K. Nkwata, Ming Zhang, Xiao Song, Bruno Giordani and Amara E. Ezeamama
Background: Toxic stress (TS), resiliency-promoting factors (RPFs) and their interactions were investigated in relationship to incident dementia in a nationally representative sample (n = 6516) of American adults =50 years enrolled in the Health and Reti...
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Monique S. White, Clifton C. Addison, Brenda W. Campbell Jenkins, Vanessa Bland, Adrianne Clark and Donna Antoine LaVigne
Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is linked to hypertension among African American youth. Optimistic bias influences behavior of youth causing them to underestimate their susceptibility to negative health outcomes. This study explore...
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Joniqua Ceasar, Marlene H. Peters-Lawrence, Valerie Mitchell and Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley
Little is known about recruitment methods for racial/ethnic minority populations from resource-limited areas for community-based health and needs assessments, particularly assessments that incorporate mobile health (mHealth) technology for characterizing...
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Brenda W. Campbell Jenkins, Clifton Addison, Gregory Wilson, Jiankang Liu, Melody Fortune, Kiana Robinson, Monique White and Daniel Sarpong
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US and in Mississippi. Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women, and the underlying pathophysiology remains unknown, especially among African American (AA) women. The study purpose was to...
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Ephraim Okoro, Peter W. Cardon, Bryan Marshall, Otis Thomas
This article describes research about horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism (HVIC) among African American and European American university students. The survey is based on the work of Harry Triandis (1995), one of the seminal researchers...
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XiaoHang Liu and Alexis Martinez
Areal interpolation is routinely used when spatial data are unavailable at desired geographical units. While many methods are available, few of them were developed specifically for and tested in highly developed urban cores. Even fewer studied subpopulat...
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Zachary W. Taylor
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Although there is a wealth of research to support the notion that the American professoriate is not as racially and ethnically diverse as it could and should be, very little research has focused on the particular academic backgrounds of Higher Education ...
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Jessica Crowe, Constance Lacy and Yolanda Columbus
By analyzing data from focus groups in a poor, mostly African American neighborhood in a large U.S. city, we describe how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how communit...
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Jessica Crowe, Constance Lacy and Yolanda Columbus
By analyzing data from focus groups in a poor, mostly African American neighborhood in a large U.S. city, we describe how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how communit...
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Tiffany Caesar
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â??Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantuâ? translates into a person is a person because of people. There is an idea of unity in this frequently used Zulu proverb that is posted boldly next to the Afrocentric logo on the African Union International School (AUIS) websi...
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