Due in large part to increased migration from Africa and the Caribbean, black immigrants and their descendants are drastically changing the contours of health disparities among blacks in the United States. While prior studies have examined health variation among black immigrants by region of birth, few have explored the degree of variation in health behaviors, particularly smoking patterns, amo...

In this interview, artistic director and choreographer Thomas Prestø speaks with cultural studies scholar Dr. Gladys M. Francis about his personal journey as a hyper visible Black boy growing up in Norwegian region known hub for neo-Nazi groups. Subjected to various forms of torture, discusses how experiences shaped politics arts when he founded the Tabanka Dance Company promote “a sustainable ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of the metabolic syndrome (MS) among four subpopulations in the United States Virgin Islands and to estimate the risk for the MS that is associated with waist circumference cutpoints among overweight and obese individuals. METHODS In a study undertaken from 1995 to 1999, data on demographic characteristics, anthropometric measurements, blood pressure meas...

Abstract This article focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois’s ambivalent reception of Protestantism, and religion in general. It argues that he rejected institutional Protestantism as characterized by cold formalism, but thought the teaching practices this taking place Negro Churches were still relevant to most American Blacks. As pointed out some secondary literature, Bois maintained religious institution...

Blacks appear, on average, to retain more Na than whites. A higher production rate of mineralocorticoids could explain the greater Na retention in blacks. Although production of aldosterone has been shown to be lower in blacks, the level of another mineralocorticoid may be increased. Plasma levels of deoxycorticosterone and cortisol were measured in young whites (n=23; age=16.4+/-3.1[SD] years)...

According to the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, African Americans have a lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than do Whites. Recent reports in Blacks in other regions have confirmed these observations, but the rates vary. This lower rate of metabolic syndrome in Blacks can be partly ascribed to the lower prevalent rates of some major components of metabolic syndrome,...