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The ADRB3 Trp64Arg variant and obesity in African American breast cancer cases
Trends of testicular cancer within the United States by histological subtype amongst Whites and Blacks, 1973--2003
Lake Elsinore: A Southern California African American resort area during the Jim Crow era, 1920s--1960s, and the challenges of historic preservation commemoration
Through targeted public relations awareness campaigns, community based organizations can raise the level of HIV/AIDS awareness among Black women, thereby reducing the rate of HIV/AIDS infections among their demographic sector
The Boondocks cartoon: A social critique of race in America
The role of the parent advocate in education: A grounded theory approach
A cross-case analysis of engagement and reading acquisition among African American boys: Culturally-responsive and culturally-neutral pedagogy in first-grade classrooms
Professional development in high- and low-performing elementary schools serving large numbers of African American, Latino, and low-socioeconomic students
The impact of remedial mathematics on the success of African American and Latino male community college students
The impact of a TRIO Upward Bound program on the academic achievement of African-American male students
A meta-analysis of interventions to modify stereotypes about African Americans
Exploring the effects of media on the self-concepts and achievement of African American high school students
"What is black, white and yellow all over?": An analysis of the racial experiences of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage
Undermining common sense: Racial legislation, comedy, and the family
The impact of family factors on the functioning of African-American consumers living with schizophrenia
The influences of student organizational type on the leadership development of African American students at predominantly White institutions: A case study
Social capital networks of institutional agents and the empowerment of African American youth
The experiences of African American graduate students: A cultural transition
Negotiating racial conflict: The leadership role of the dean of students
"Thinking in the middle": What instructional approaches are employed by urban middle school teachers to effect changes in African American students' learning outcomes and performance?
Describing and mapping the sources of college impact on the identity development of African American college students attending a Predominantly White Institution
"A steady drop will wear a hole in the rock": Feminism, the John Henry myth, and the Black male experience in higher education: A persistence case study
Gendered issues in alcohol abuse and dependence among HIV-positive African Americans
The Successful African American Parenting (SAAP) program: An evaluation of a culturally sensitive parenting intervention
Concept mapping and describing the sources of impact on Black gay college student identity development at 4-year institutions
Therapeutic religion: A portrait of an experimental religious environment for the marginalized, the disenfranchised, and the scarred
The implementation of strategies to minimize the achievement gap for African-Americans, Latinos, English Learners, and Socio-economically Disadvantaged students
The effects of culturally responsive standards based instruction on African American student achievement
Lead man holler: Harry Belafonte and the culture industry
Toward an understanding of the achievement of African American students at a nationally regarded California public high school through the theoretical lenses of acting White, stereotype threat, and critical race theory
The impact of learning communities on the retention and academic integration of African American students at a highly selective four-year private institution
A comparative case study analysis of academically at risk African American male student athletes
The impact of learning communities on the retention and social integration of African American students at a highly selective private four-year institution
The path of involvement: Educational practices of working class parents of African-American college students
Gender, ethnicity, and religion: Social reconstruction and African-American converts to an Islamic ethic
Student engagement experiences of African American males at a California community college
The life cycle of jurisprudential regimes: The Supreme Court and the constitutional law of civil rights
"As shelters against the cold": Women poets of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965--1978
Exploring ethnic and academic identity in resilient African American students: An in-depth analysis of the USC TRIO program
Hanging out on Crenshaw: Examining the role of racial identity on the academic achievement of Black students at a Southern California Community College
The experiences of African American students in a basic skills learning community at a four year public university
Does data-driven decision making matter for African American students?
Factors that promote or inhibit the involvement of African American parents in a community college early childhood education program
Impact of required parental involvement on African American male students and families: A qualitative study of the USC-NAI program
Sampling blackness: Performing African Americanness in hip-hop theater and performance
On speaking terms: Spirituality and sensuality in the tradition of modern black female intellectualism
What is the impact of same-race alumni mentoring on the career development of African American students attending predominantly White universities?
African American engineering students at River City Community College: Factors that improve transfer to four-year engineering degree programs
Experiences of African American males accessing the pipeline of higher education through the Neighborhood Academic Initiative
Year two study of a community, school, and university partnership for urban schools: Identifying resources which support the academic achievement for African American students
The relationship among racial identity, subscription to stereotypic roles, perceived environmental expectations, and academic achievement in adolescent African-American girls
OmegaKondre, and, Horseface minstrelsy in the western
Reducing the risk among the most at-risk: Determining what contributes to African-American males in special education having the highest rates of incarceration and academic failure
The cultural war against Black Intellectualism: Fighting for and dying over knowledge, dope, and hip hop in pursuit of Black liberation
Factors that influence the identification of elementary African American students as potentially gifted learners
Conditions of belonging: Life, historical preservation and tourism development in the making of Pelourinho-Maciel, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 1965--1985
The sources and influences of cultural heterogeneity: Examining the lives of African American and Latino teenagers in a low-income neighborhood
How religious engagement shapes the college experience of African American Christian males at a predominantly White institution: A phenomenological approach