Background & Aims - Through pregnancy, women are strongly encouraged to breastfeed. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that breastfeeding begins within the first hour …
Objective: High psychological distress is prevalent in the African American (AA) community with potential adverse health consequences. Findings are mixed regarding the relationship between anger …
As antebellum slavery’s organizing logic was spatial discipline, the elasticity of “geographies of containment” mapped the daily understanding of the institution of racial slavery in …
Education scholars have long noted a positive relationship between concerted cultivation and test scores. Yet, few studies have found variation by race, a factor Black …
Background: A growing gap in exclusive breastfeeding across racial/ethnic groups in the United States includes a very low proportion of African American/Black women, with only …
"Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
A motley mix of poor Black and white voters, the Readjusters were a biracial electoral coalition that transformed Virginia politics between 1879 and 1883. In …
Thousands of formerly enslaved men serving in the army deserted and orchestrated mutinies during the U.S. Civil War. They were tried, convicted, and either incarcerated …
Located at the nexus of African American history, critical geography,urban history, and cultural studies, this dissertation explores the racial operations of gentrification in Brooklyn, New …
Abstract of Diabetes Screening and Diagnosis in African Americans: The role of hemoglobin A1c, by Mary E. Lacy, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2018. African Americans …
The United States of America has witnessed a tremendous increase in the percentage of its population incarcerated. With only five percent of the world's population …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
My dissertation, "Venceremos Means We Shall Overcome: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1979," explores the transnational convergences between the African American …
Using official reports, academic studies, journalistic and literary sources, and original maps from census data, this study investigates Chicago's "riot zone" where most of the …