The best way to preserve and share
African music and dance is to create a school dedicated to teaching of
African music and dance.
Why There Should Be a School Dedicated to the Teaching of African Music and Dance
During his gradual rise to fame as a noted historian of what he called "
African world history," Clarke traveled extensively across the continent of Africa, gaining first-hand knowledge about its people, its culture, and its past and present status in the world.
Dr. John Henrik Clarke: His Life, His Words, His Works
Says Andre Shearer, chief executive of wine importing company Cape Classics, "The 'old' industry in the South
African context represented oppressive control, poor market awareness due to the sanctions, grape-grower dominance, an emphasis on quantity production and payment for tonnage instead of quality production and payment for quality ...
Cape time: South African wine in perspective
In contrast, genetic studies may reveal something that we can actually do something about." An ongoing genetics study at UCSF and Harvard University is closing in on why MS is comparatively rare in African-Americans, and even rarer in
Africans.
The African-American experience of MS
When the team tested nearly 900 cancer-free
African American men,
African ancestry of DNA turned up no more frequently in the implicated portion of chromosome 8 than elsewhere in their genomes.
Risky legacy: African DNA linked to prostate cancer
According to the 2000 Census, however, only 6% of those are
African American and 9% are Hispanic.
The 40 best companies for diversity: our second annual listing reveals the top performers in supplier, workforce, management, and board diversity. A bonus: We identify the leaders in marketing spending to reach black consumers
Rooks argues that the sensationalistic narratives of sexuality long attributed to
African American women motivated the magazines' writers to "write back" to a history of oppression by creating new definitions of
African American womanhood.
Noliwe M. Rooks. Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them
* the average wage of
African Canadian women was 79% of what
African Canadian men earned and only 57% of what all Canadian men earned.
African-Canadian women among poorest of poor, CASW report
The second phase of Harlequin's double-barreled seduction of
African American readers was the company's November 2005 purchase of BET Books, the publishing arm of Black Entertainment Television that includes the Arabesque, New Spirit and Sepia imprints.
The color of love: Harlequin courts African American women with its own new lines and elopes with BET/Arabesque imprint
Researchers have further suggested that
African American students may selectively devalue performance dimensions that are perceived to be incompatible with expected group behaviors (Steele & Aronson, 1995; Osborne, 1997).
Self-regulatory beliefs, values and achievement
com/library/bl/blessentials-Independence.htm provides a brief, easy-to-read history of each
African country.
1960: independence takes root across Africa: in one momentous year, 17 nations were freed from European colonial rule
Because God's grace is mediated through culture, many also think it is because traditional
African religion is close to Catholicism.
Out of Africa
Dillard (2005) states "our aim in this book is to promote positive mental health among
African Americans" (p.
Contemporary Mental Health Issues Among African Americans
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.
Global collaboration gives greater voice to African journals
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.
Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto