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African American reading comprehension: Performance on expository texts with and without affect	The impact of communalism and testing on recall among African-American elementary school students

The influence of social support on executive functioning in a community-based sample of African Americans	Optimism, hostility, social support, perceived racism, and religiosity as predictors of perceived stress in African-American college students

The Road to Redemption: A Comparative Analysis of Image Repair Step Differentiation Among African-American and White Male Athletes	What is the nature of African American adolescents implicit theories of intelligence?: An Exploratory Study

Examining Media Influences on the Decisions of Sexual Risky Behaviors of College Students who Attend a Historically Black College or University	Perceptions of College Students Regarding Race and Stereotypes of College Football Athletes: Looking Beyond the Obvious

Ghrelin as a Potential Biomarker for Obesity in African-American Adolescents	Skin Color Preferences: Beyond Skin Deep

The Relationships of Overweight/Obesity, Hypertension, and Physical Activity to Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans, Whites and Mexican Americans	Quilting Liberation: Decoding the Geography of Freedom in Breena Clarke's "Stand the Storm" and James McBride's "Song Yet Sung"

A Peer Review Analysis: A Comparative Examination of Selected African-American and Caucasian Female Athletes' Image Restoration	The Effects of Communalism and Popular Culture on the Math Performance of African-American Children

The Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Career Choices Amongst African American High School Students	DNA Variation in FOXP3 and DRD2 and Its Association with C-Reactive Protein

The Southern Negro Youth Congress: Its legacy and impact	Far exceeding expectations: John R. Kinard and the legacy of African-American leadership, 1956--1989

The relationship between self-efficacy, resilience and academic achievement among African-American urban adolescent students	African-American women as a television audience watching "Living Single" (a qualitative study)

A historical materialist analysis of the shifts in African-American family formation, 1960-2008	The continuity and extension of African-American communication dynamics through Black comic strips

Identifying the conflict management styles of African-American women in the workplace: An exploration of the issues	Confronting reproductive health disparities for U.S.-born black women: Infant mortality and the quest for reproductive justice

The relationship of exposure to community violence among parents' psychological distress, satisfaction with life, parental socialization of emotions, & preschoolers' social emotional competence	Differences in self-concept, racial identity, self-efficacy, resilience, and achievement among African-American gifted and non-gifted students: Implications for retention and persistence of African Americans in gifted programs

Stagolees, Superflies, & gangsta rappers: Black masculinity, bad men, and the struggle for power	An exploration into the personality and life of an African-American male incarcerated as an adolescent within an adult correctional facility- A psychobiography

Predictors and correlates associated with the influence of spiritual coping on identity development of African American gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents	African American women, mandatory minimum sentencing, and crack cocaine: Voices unheard with a special focus on Prince George's County, Maryland

Baby Boomers in the Middle: Analysis of Social Supports Among African-American Caregivers	Association Studies of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in ADAM33 and TNFRSF1A Genes with Asthma in African Americans

Black Entertainment Television News and Public Affairs Programming: An Historical-Comparative Analysis Pre- and Post-Ownership Transition (1996-2005)	Give the People What They Want: An Exploratory Analysis of News Satisfaction Levels Among African Americans

Color Blocked: A Rhetorical Analysis of Colorism and its Impact on Rap Lyrics in Hip Hop Music from 2005 to 2010	The Diary of a Black Female Millennial Blogger: A Discourse Analysis of Theybf.com

Assessing the Intention of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men to Receive an HIV Test After Exposure to HIV Testing Public Service Announcements: An Exploratory Study of Phase Two of the Act Against AIDS Campaign	An Investigation of Faculty Relationships as a Source of Motivation for STEM Undergraduates at a Historically Black University

The Evolution of a News Story: An Exploratory Case Study of African-American Audience Reception In the Duke Lacrosse News Story	Characterization of Variation in the Vitamin D Receptor Promoter and Association of Ancestral Haplotype with Prostate Cancer in African Americans

The Obama Effect on African-American Students' Academic Performance	Inflammation, Altruism, Religiousness, and the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Urban African Americans

"I Do Not Mean To Live A Coward or Die A Coward": An Examination of Ellen G. White's Lifelong Relationship to Black People	Toward a Model for Industry Readiness, Preparedness and Leadership of African-American Millennial Media Arts Students

Shared and Unshared Literary Spaces of Women Who Kill Gayl Jones's "Eva's Man" and Bharati Mukherjee's "Jasmine": A Cross-Cultural Feminist Approach	Sexuality on the Beach: Understanding Empowerment and the Fluidity of Power Through the Lived Experiences of African American Women as Tourists in Jamaica

Constructing a Woman's "Reality": Examining Images of African-American Women in Six Selected Reality Television Docusoaps	Identifying the HIV Testing Beliefs Of Healthcare Provider Staff at a University Student Health Center: An Exploratory Study

"Let's Move": Examining First Lady Michelle Obama's Childhood Obesity Campaign in the News Media	We Didn't Expect You To Be So Good At It: Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment in Kansas City, Missouri, 1962--2007

Marital Satisfaction and Social Networks with an Emphasis on African American Culture and Marriage	The Intersection of Race, Culture, and Human Rights Discourses: A Critical Assessment of the Contributions from the African American Freedom Struggle from 1940--1970

A Problem-Solving Intervention: How Spiritually Based iPod Use Can Improve the Health of Faith-Based African American Female Caregivers for Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease and Other Related Dementias: An Exploratory Study	An Ethnographic Investigation of African American Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

From the Margins to the Center: African American English Vernacular in Mainstream America, 1995--2010	The Prospect of Justice: African-American Redress and The Ex-Slave Pension Movement, 1865--1937

Factors Influencing Depression Among Afro-Caribbean Women	Racism-Related Stress, Racial Identity and Its Effect on Eating Behaviors Among African American Women

Relationship Between Family, Personal and Emotional, Social and Environmental, and School Factors and the Academic Success of Black Females in the 8th and 10th Grade	Does State Mindfulness Influence the Effects of Hostility, Cultural Mistrust, and Racial Socialization on Coping Strategy Preference Among African American College Students Across Types of Stressful Situations?