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...

This paper deals with the study of how racist ideologies are constructed in Crane’s “A Dark Brown Dog” using the CDA framework. Benefitting from the approaching between literature and linguistics, it focuses on the linguistic examination of the (re)construction of whiteness and blackness based on the assumption that racism is: a social, a discursive, and an ideological construct. This tri-dimen...

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,...

• Whites' affiliation predicts perceived understanding of Blacks' racial experiences. • Self-image goals mediate the effect of affiliation on perceived understanding. • Whites and Blacks disagree about how well Whites understand racial experiences. • Differences in affiliation cause divergent perceptions of understanding. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Four studies investigated whether t...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate if the different results of prostate cancer risk between black and white Brazilian men may be associated with the varying methodology used to define participants as either Blacks or Whites. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated median PSA values, rate of PSA level ≥ 4.0 ng/ mL, indications for prostate biopsy, prostate cancer detection rate, biopsy/cancer rate, cancer/biops...