Article: Pattern of breast cancer among White-American, ...
Journal of the National Medical Association;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... breast cancer in African-American women differs ... nonimmigrant West-African women. The ... especially among African-American women. History ... cancer," "African American," "black ... African," "West African," "white ...

Article: "Amen" and "Ashe": African American Protestant ...
Cross Currents;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... expressions of ecstatic African American liturgy and its foundation within West African Yoruba tradition ... the one hand, African American Protestantism ... other hand, West African Yoruba religion ... contemporary African American worship. In ... descendants of ...

Article: Tears and blood on a West African slave island ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 25, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... share with the peoples there. I am African-American. And though direct contact between ... separation, reminders of slavery on the West African coast. My wife and I took an afternoon ... a chain of slaving outposts on the West African coast. But its status as a symbol ...

Article: Making connections; For an African-American ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ...So many African-Americans are becoming more Afrocentric, wearing their natural hair in dreadlocks, shortly cropped and in twists and knots. We wear mud cloth and decorate our homes with baskets, beautiful carvings, masks, kente cloth and other African-inspired art. We dress ourselves proudly in

Article: African American Folklore and Folkways
African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience;      700+ words ... ... styles, the African American folk tradition conserves West African philosophical ... many other West African folkways persist in African American culture ... reason, West African religions ... distinctly African American versions ...

Article: Distance Education Course to Explore African And African ...
Black Issues in Higher Education;  April 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... featured in contemporary African American art and traditional West African art. "Twentieth century African American art has its roots in West ... through an examination of West African and African American arts." Hampton, who currently ...

Article: African American Foodways.(African ...
Internet Bookwatch;  July 1, 2007 ;     536 words ... ... 800-545-4703 "African American Foodways: Explorations ... Anne L. Bower covers African American cuisines ranging from West African fare, to Caribbean influences ... anthropology, and African-American studies to illustrate ...