Recently added articles from The Western Journal of Black Studies:
Confronting the crisis: organ transplantation in the African American Community.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Organ and tissue transplantation is increasingly successful as biomedicine and surgical techniques have advanced and multiplied since the 1960s. Recent televised appeals for organ and bone marrow donation have increased the public's awareness of these advances. Survival rates have risen ...
Not even a Blue Box: Afro-Indian relations in Black History textbooks.
Jun 22, 2008; ... In Common with most senior professors I now readily and comfortably concede that I learn as much from my undergraduates as I do from colleagues and from research. When I was a junior professor, of course, I admitted no such thing as I regularly reminded myself that I (replete even surfeit ...
What's race got to do with it? Looking for the racial dimensions of gentrification.
Jun 22, 2008; ... "White people walking their dogs." This simple sight has eyebrows raised and heads turning, in a predominantly black area of Nashville, Tennessee, which is said to be in the early stages of gentrification. The spotting of white dogwalkers--along with spanking new condos squeezed in between ...
Instructional technologies designed by and for African Americans: an examination of several works.
Jun 22, 2008; ... When society has failed to properly educate black people, African Americans have created instructional products, using the available technologies, to better educate themselves. These instructional technologies exemplify products that are culture specific or specialized to a particular ...
Afros and elephants: Black Republican candidates running statewide in 2006.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Introduction For a variety of reasons, some Republican Party strategists and activists have long advocated that the party increase its efforts to win more African American votes. Increased outreach is of paramount importance, as the party struggles to maintain its position in ...
From Black Power to Black Studies: How A Radical Social Movement Became An Academic Discipline.
Jun 22, 2008; ... From Black Power to Black Studies: How A Radical Social Movement Became An Academic Discipline AUTHOR: FABIO ROJAS JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007 PRICE: $45.00 ISBN: 0-8018861-98 CLOTH In From Black Power to Black Studies: How A ...
Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking their Minds.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking their Minds AUTHORS: KRISTIN WATERS AND CAROL B. CONAWAY UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT PRESS, BOSTON 2007 PRICE: $35.00 ISBN: 1584656340 In this collection called Black Women's Intellectual ...
Colonial gazing: the production of the body as "other".
Mar 22, 2008; ... My turn to state an equation: colonization = "thingification." --Aime Cesaire Colonial power produces the colonized as a fixed reality which is at once an "other" and yet entirely knowable and visible. --Homi K. Bhabha The European has only ...
Subverting the history of slavery and colonization in the poetry of M. Al-Fayturi and Langston Hughes.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Introduction While the painful ordeal of slavery and colonization turned the black people of Africa into a nation of exiles and outcasts, the same experience brings about enormous consequences which bind the black people together triggering literary interaction between black ...
The civil death of Mrs. Hedges and the dilemma of double consciousness.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Toni Morrison's landmark Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination provided scholars with a mandate to re-investigate a number of topics, from the genealogy of American literature to the foundations of white literary identity. Indeed, in arguing for the concept of ...
Environmental justice and Katrina: a senseless environmental disaster.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Introduction It has been six years since 9/11 and one would think that our federal medical disaster plan for dealing with large-scale disasters would be top-notch. Think again, Hurricane Katrina proved that our government has failed us again in reducing fatalities and collateral ...
Has the revolution been specified? A critical assessment of the status of research on the Voting Rights Act and black politics.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Below Macon [Georgia] the worm grows darker; for now we approach the Black Belt,--that strange land of shadows, at which even slaves paled in the past, and whence come now only faint and half-intelligible murmurs to the worm beyond. W.E.B. Dubois (1989, 79) Dubois's comments ...
The changing roles of African American grandmothers raising grandchildren: an exploratory study in the piedmont region of North Carolina.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Demographic and social trends have drastically influenced the structure of African American families. Along with structural changes, there have also occured transitions in the roles of grandmother caregivers. Historically, the African American grandmother has played important roles within ...
Black Power in the Belly of the Beast.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Black Power in the Belly of the Beast AUTHOR: JUDSON L. JEFFRIES UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2006 PRICE: $25.00 ISBN: 0-2520739-40 PAPERBACK Black Power in the Belly of the Beast edited by Judson L Jeffries is an eleven-chapter ...
White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education.
Mar 22, 2008; ... White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education AUTHOR: NOLIWE ROOKS BEACON PRESS, BOSTON 2006 PRICE: $29.00 ISBN: 0807032700 Noliwe Rooks' White Money/Black ...
Black on Black Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Black on Black Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience AUTHOR: CELESTE A. FISHER SCARECROW PRESS, MARYLAND 2006 PRICE: $25.95 ISBN-13: 978-0810857223 Directors, including John Singleton, Allen and Albert Hughes, and Ernest ...
In the shadow of Barack Obama: two African American senatorial candidates in Georgia's 2004 elections: Republican Herman Cain and Democrat Denise Majette.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Many will remember that, during the presidential election of 2004, incumbent President George W. Bush won reelection over Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry (D-Mass). Others will remember that African American Barack Obama (D-III) won a Senate seat in the state of Illinois. Still ...
The effects of race on college selectivity.
Mar 22, 2007; ... In 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case that has since influenced (either indirectly or directly) all local, state, as well as national educational policy decisions impacting the educational opportunity ...
Is there a racial/ethnic hierarchy in health status and care.(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Introduction An important marker of a nation's level of social, economic, and even political development is the well-being of its population. Health determines longevity, life expectancy, economic productivity, and both the mental and physical quality of life. Accordingly, ...
Affirmative action: why we should consider reform.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Drawing into sharp relief the negative impacts of racial preferences on motivation, several conservative scholars such as Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele have argued that terminating affirmative action will give African Americans fresh impetus to develop the skills required to enter into ...