The persistence of African cultural traits among Black Americans has long been recognized. Elements of present-day Afro-American speech, music, dance, and diet have been identified as African in origin (e.g ., Blassingame 1972; Garrett 1966; Lomax 1970). It is likely that during the 18th and 19th centuries such elements were more pronounced than today. As Blassingame writes: "The most remarkabl...

EDITOR,—Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterised by defective DNA repair leading to clinical and cellular hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, manifesting mainly as intolerance of skin and eyes to light, has been described in all races, but is exceedingly rare in the negroid race, although some cases have been reported in both the American and African ...

Hypertension among black Americans “occurs with greater frequency, severity, and at an earlier age compared with whites” (Sica et al., 1998). Black Americans “eat more fried and high fat foods” (Patterson et al., 1995). African American families “offer long-standing cultural models . . . whereby multiple caregivers comprise . . . a kin network and mutual aid system . . . to dependent and needy ...

Using a decolonial and Black-feminist-inspired analytical lens, this paper explores the dilemmas challenges that Black academics face in trying to bring about change universities within British higher education system. Higher education-focused campaigns such as “Why Isn’t My Professor Black?” Is Curriculum White?” “Rhodes Must Fall” have positioned site of struggle for empowerment liberation co...

Population history and positive assortative mating directs gene flow in such a way that biological differences are recognized among groups. In turn, forensic anthropologists quantify biological differences to estimate ancestry. Some anthropologists argue that highly admixed population groups, such as South African coloureds, cannot achieve acceptable accuracies because within group variance is ...

Introduction: Although cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders are linked, it is not yet known if such links are independent of comorbid medical diseases and if these associations depend on race and ethnicity. This study aimed to determine if the associations between cardiovascular diseases with general anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive episode (MDE) are ind...

AIM To test the hypothesis that an intergenerational increase would occur in birthweights of babies born to UK-born compared with overseas-born (migrant) minority women. METHOD Live singleton births to mothers present at the 1991 Census in a national longitudinal study were classified by mother's country of birth and ethnic origin as reported in the census. During 1983-2000, 52,554 White, 178...

The aim of the present study was to compare body fat percent (BF %) using single-site near-IR reactance (NIR) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in a cohort of normal-weight (BMI < 25 kg/m2) black (n 102) and white (n 71); and obese (BMI > or = 30 kg/m2) black (n 117) and white (n 41) South African women (18-45 years). NIR-derived BF % was significantly correlated with DXA-derived BF % ...

The author describes the multiple pathways of events and strategies that served to nurture African American psychology in the United States. Special attention is given to strategies for inclusion and empowerment used in 4 psychological professional and scholarly associations: the American Counseling Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association of Black Psychologists, and...

BACKGROUND Women from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to attend cervical screening, but further understanding of ethnic inequalities in cervical screening uptake is yet to be established. This study aimed to explore the socio-demographic and ethnicity-related predictors of cervical cancer knowledge, cervical screening attendance and reasons for non-attendance among Black women in Lo...