Browsing by Subject "African American"
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Building a New Aesthetic for the Black Church Funeral: “Hello Black Church, I Am the Green Funeral”
(2022)The care of creation is the responsibility of all Christians. Consequently, the Black Church has a role to play and must attend to its responsibilities seriously. In this thesis, I take a comprehensive look into rituals ... -
Factors Affecting the Likely Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Young African American Men Who Have Sex with Men
(2018)African-American young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are seven and three times more likely than their White and Hispanic counterparts, respectively, to be infected with HIV. Once-daily oral co-formulated tenofovir disoproxil ... -
Protecting and Serving: What Actually Matters to Young, Black Men in Durham, North Carolina
(2021)Young Black men in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty and intensive policing have a greater risk of violent death—both at the hands of civilians and police—than any other demographic group in the United States. Yet, ... -
Relational Hermeneutics: A Womanist's Approach for Renewing the Reader's Self-Understanding, Commitments, and Practices
(2021)How do readers regain their enthusiasm for reading Scripture when what they are reading does not relate to their life’s circumstances? With all the competing voices in the world today, readers find it challenging to ... -
Relational Hermeneutics: A Womanist's Approach for Renewing the Reader's Self-Understanding, Commitments, and Practices
(2021)How do readers regain their enthusiasm for reading Scripture when what they are reading does not relate to their life’s circumstances? With all the competing voices in the world today, readers find it challenging to ... -
The Excess Burden of Cytomegalovirus in African American Communities: A Geospatial Analysis.
(Open Forum Infect Dis, 2015-12)Background. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common cause of birth defects and hearing loss in infants and opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised. Previous studies have found higher CMV seroprevalence rates among minorities ... -
The Munus Triplex: Pastoral Leadership Paradigm for HIV Prevention Ministry in the African American Context
(2023)Pastoral leaders in African American contexts often play a critical role in conveying messages about what is vital to black and brown people. Pastoral leadership has always been the driving force behind change within the ... -
The Social Determinants of Health for African American Mothers Living with HIV
(2015)Problem: The disparate health outcomes of African American mothers living with HIV functions at the intersection of gender-, race-, and class-inequality; HIV-related stigma; and motherhood, requiring multidimensional approaches ... -
Ventricular conduction and long-term heart failure outcomes and mortality in African Americans: insights from the Jackson Heart Study.
(Circ Heart Fail, 2015-03)BACKGROUND: QRS prolongation is associated with adverse outcomes in mostly white populations, but its clinical significance is not well established for other groups. We investigated the association between QRS duration and ... -
Wildcat of the Streets: Race, Class and the Punitive Turn in 1970s Detroit
(2015)This dissertation is a social history of the city of Detroit in the 1970s. Using archives official and unofficial - oral histories and archived document collections, self-published memoirs and legal documents, personal papers ...
