Search Results - "African Americans"

HIV/AIDS and older adults challenges for individuals, families, and communities /

Table of Contents: “…Nursing home experiences of older African Americans with HIV/AIDS: issues for future research / by Emily J. …”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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Scribbling women & the short story form approaches by American & British women writers /

Table of Contents: “…Scribbling women and the outlaw form of the short story / Ellen Burton Harrington -- A miniaturization of epic proportions : Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" / Robert Coleman -- Sexing the narrator : gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the iron-mills" / Ruth Stoner -- The short story as feminist forum : Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's passion and punishment" / Miriam López-Rodríguez -- The art of (dis)placement : Ruth Stuart and the characterization of African Americans at the turn of the century / Susan Prothro Wright -- The linked excitements of L.T. …”
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Scribbling women & the short story form approaches by American & British women writers /

Table of Contents: “…Scribbling women and the outlaw form of the short story / Ellen Burton Harrington -- A miniaturization of epic proportions : Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" / Robert Coleman -- Sexing the narrator : gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the iron-mills" / Ruth Stoner -- The short story as feminist forum : Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's passion and punishment" / Miriam López-Rodríguez -- The art of (dis)placement : Ruth Stuart and the characterization of African Americans at the turn of the century / Susan Prothro Wright -- The linked excitements of L.T. …”
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Young American Muslims : Dynamics of Identity / by Kabir, Nahid Afrose

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Young American Muslims : Dynamics of Identity / by Kabir, Nahid Afrose

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The lure of the dark side Satan and western demonology in popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…/ Peter Mercer-Taylor -- When demons come calling : dealing with the devil and paradigms of life in African American music / Anthony B. Pinn -- Dark theology : dissident commerce, gothic capitalism, and the spirit of rock 'n' roll / Charlie Blake -- Part II : film -- "Speak of the devil" : the portrayal of satan in the Christ film / William R. …”
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Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

Table of Contents: “…Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. …”
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The lure of the dark side Satan and western demonology in popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…/ Peter Mercer-Taylor -- When demons come calling : dealing with the devil and paradigms of life in African American music / Anthony B. Pinn -- Dark theology : dissident commerce, gothic capitalism, and the spirit of rock 'n' roll / Charlie Blake -- Part II : film -- "Speak of the devil" : the portrayal of satan in the Christ film / William R. …”
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Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

Table of Contents: “…Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. …”
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A matter of faith religion in the 2004 presidential election /

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Where are poor people to live? transforming public housing communities /

Table of Contents: “…Gautreaux and Chicago's public housing crisis: the conflict between achieving integration and providing decent housing for very low-income African Americans / William P. Wilen and Wendy L. Stasell ; Mixed-income communities: designing out poverty or pushing out the poor? …”
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The black-white test score gap

Table of Contents: “…Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Stereotype threat and the test performance of academically successful African Americans / Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson -- Do test scores matter? …”
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A matter of faith religion in the 2004 presidential election /

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Where are poor people to live? transforming public housing communities /

Table of Contents: “…Gautreaux and Chicago's public housing crisis: the conflict between achieving integration and providing decent housing for very low-income African Americans / William P. Wilen and Wendy L. Stasell ; Mixed-income communities: designing out poverty or pushing out the poor? …”
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The black-white test score gap

Table of Contents: “…Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Stereotype threat and the test performance of academically successful African Americans / Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson -- Do test scores matter? …”
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From pews to polling places faith and politics in the American religious mosaic /

Table of Contents: “…Quin Monson -- Liberation to mutual fund : political consequences of differing conceptions of Christ in the African American church / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- Power in the pews? …”
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Apocalypse and the millennium in the American Civil War era /

Table of Contents: “…Dresser -- Emancipation and African American millennialism / Matthew Harper -- A sharecropper's millennium : land and the perils of forgiveness in post Civil War South Carolina / Scott Nesbit -- "Two divisions of the same great army" : ecclesiastical separation by race and the millennium / Charles F. …”
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Apocalypse and the millennium in the American Civil War era /

Table of Contents: “…Dresser -- Emancipation and African American millennialism / Matthew Harper -- A sharecropper's millennium : land and the perils of forgiveness in post Civil War South Carolina / Scott Nesbit -- "Two divisions of the same great army" : ecclesiastical separation by race and the millennium / Charles F. …”
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