Recently added articles from The Western Journal of Black Studies:
Reassessing the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in U. S. adult mortality.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2006; Kposowa, Augustine J. ... Introduction Although there have been significant declines in US mortality rates in the past thirty years, there remain significant racial/ethnic differentials. For instance, in 2001, overall mortality was 31 percent higher for African Americans than for white Americans. When ...
A new model for developing technology and manufacturing initiatives for Sub-Saharan Africa.(Geographic overview)
Mar 22, 2006; Ebomoyi, William ... Introduction Before colonial incursion and the partitioning of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) into miniaturized states, the kings who served as African rulers were pre-occupied with a commitment to unlock the latent talents and skills of African intellectuals so as to evolve better ...
Quest for identity in Richard Wright's the outsider: an existentialist approach.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; Abdurrahman, Umar ... Technicians of human personality especially sociologists and psychologists define man in their own perceptions and disciplinary studies. To a sociologist, man is defined only in terms of his relationship with others and the social dynamics within which he operates. A psychologist defines ...
International concern for Haitians in the Diaspora.
Mar 22, 2006; Miller, Jake C. ... During the last quarter of the 20th Century, many Haitians left their homeland in search of a better life, elsewhere. Because they left for a variety of reasons--social, economic and political--it is difficult to place them all in a single category. Based upon the "pull" and "push" factors ...
The "art and protest" in Ralph Ellison's "anticommunist rhetoric".(Invisible Man)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; Carreiro, Amy E. ... Ralph Ellison (1955) once said that he "recognized no dichotomy between art and protest" (p.58). Several years later, he added that protest in his novel, Invisible Man (1952), "is there not because I am helpless before my racial condition, but because I put it there" (1964, p. 137). in ...
NAACP support of the Vietnam War: 1963-1969.(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2006; Inghram, Glen ... <Pre>Onward ghetto soldiers, marching as to war,with the goals of freedom, going on before.NAACP'ers lead against the foe,Forward into battle, see our banners go! (Current, 227) </Pre> Introduction Bishop Spottswood must surely have been aware of the ...
Hoodoo: Transforming Arthur Flower's Another Good Loving Blues.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; Montgomery, Bess ... Hoodoo: Transforming Arthur Flower's Another Good Loving Blues AUTHOR: ARTHUR FLOWERS VIKING PRESS, NEW YORK, 1993 PRICE: $20.00 ISBN: 0-6708-4821-2 Arthur Flowers' beautifully-written and lyrically-told novel, Another Good Loving ...