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although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

relatively minor misunderstanding that in the context of his rough neighborhood might have happened to anyone else. Because it is ...

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...

to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...

was not always community, this change in political regime occurred following the Second World War the communist party took over th...

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

deeper understanding of their capabilities and strengths, as well as the obstacles that they typically face in terms of background...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

to the whites blatant disregard for such legal safeguards. Fear resided at the crux of this indifference toward the law, inasmuch...

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

and Davis vii). Here, it is assumed that the student has cursory knowledge of English and for example, it would not be appropriate...

5. Poor INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE CODING Inductive coding, which is represented most by the more open questions regarding t...

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...