The above examples show that it is important to establish a school dedicated to the teaching of
African music and dance, as a way of preserving culture through
African music and dance for the betterment of the
African people by themselves.
For the past four years, the young West Hills mother, whose English is heavily accented with Afrikaans, has been teaching people of all ages and backgrounds the art of
African folklore embroidery.
Most central in Clarke's development as an intellect, Swanston writes, stood the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile and historian, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, whose huge collection of books, pamphlets, and art work regarding
African (Black) people worldwide laid the foundation for the world-famous Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.
Cree, findings already demonstrate that
African-Americans who have
African DNA at a certain site on chromosome number 1 are more resistant to MS.
Reich and his colleagues analyzed the genomes of nearly 1,600
African Americans who had developed prostate cancer.
Rooks focuses on three magazines published, edited, and written by
African American women: Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion (1891-1894), Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Home and Homemaker (1916-1925), and Tan Confessions (1950-1952).
the average income of
African Canadian women was $20,029, while the average income of all Canadians was $29,769.
The new Africana (Oxford University Press, June 2005) is a five-volume set with more than 1,000 brand-new entries, as well as revised and updated entries accompanying the many biographies, maps and photographs, making this one of the most authoritative reference books ever written on the
African experience.
Several research studies have suggested that the extent to which
African American students employ motivational and cognitive processes in academic situations may relate to the manner in which Black students perceive their ethnicity (Franklin & Boyd-Franklin, 2000).
Ethiopia was the only
African country to rebuff European colonization, repulsing Italian invaders in 1806.
Okoye has had an uncommon opportunity to compare Catholicism in its American and
African contexts, as well as to explore the gifts each church can offer the other.
Dillard (2005) states "our aim in this book is to promote positive mental health among
African Americans" (p.
Favorite
African American Native Sons/ Daughters: Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Thurgood Marshall, Jada Pinkett Smith.
The credibility of published research is heavily dependent upon the peer review process, yet the average
African journal has only a limited number of manuscript reviewers.
Pritchett does not make the point explicitly, but Brownsville, Brooklyn is organized around the complicated interplay of "structure" and "agency" in the lives of
African Americans and Jews.
