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"This book examines the academic study of the African and Native American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as well as the existence of African Americans with Native American ancestry and Native Americans with African ancestry in the Western Hemisphere. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, and sociology that initiated research into these areas, this book attempts to provide understandings of how scholars have studied and continue to understand the experiences of African-Native Americans or individuals of blended-culturally and/or racially-African and Native American ancestry in the North, Central, and South America. It aims to illuminate problems, perspectives, and prospects for interdisciplinary research. The first part is structured to cover the problems - past and present - encountered in investigating the scope of the topic and presents an overview of the most important academic findings. The second part provides both anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on the lived experiences of African-Native Americans with both Native Americans and non-Native Americans. And, finally, it sketches out future directions in scholarship. This book will be of interest to anthropologists, historians, sociologists and Ethnic Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars, from undergraduates interest in the topic to graduate students and researchers seeking to interrogate past research or fill explanatory gaps in the literature with new research"--

THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY THOUGH WORKING UNDER CONDITIONS OF ILLEGALITY MUST ENSURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TIES WITH THE MASSES. THE SOUTH AFRICAN REGIME IS IN A CRISIS SITUATION FROM WHICH IT ATTEMPTS TO EXTRICATE ITSELF BY PROMOTING THE BLACK MIDDLE STRATA WHICH WILL BE ITS ALLY. THE CRISIS HAS TO BE MET WITH AN ATTEMPT TO RESTRUCTURE CERTIAN FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLASSES AND THE STATE.

Association of demanding kin relations and family routine with adolescents' psychological distress and school achievement was assessed among 200 low‐income, African American mothers and adolescents. Demanding kin relations were significantly associated with adolescents' psychological distress. Family routine was significantly related to adolescents' school achievement. Demanding kin relations were negatively associated with school achievement for adolescents from families low in routine, but unrelated to achievement for adolescents in families high in routine. Additional research is needed on poor families and their social networks.

PART 1. THE PRIVATE SOJOURNS -- African scholars and the question of exile -- My (South African) American story / Stephen Clingman -- Reflections on exile: The case of Ethiopians / Getachew Metaferia -- Understanding the relevance of cultural competence towards African scholars in American academy: Personal experiences / Fraternel Amuri Misako -- In search of knowledge in North America: Challenges and possibilities / Balla Keita -- PART 2. PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES -- Despite the odds: An African woman's experience of navigating the US academy -- Tenure, promotion, and recognition: Challenges of race, ethnicity and gender -- Going with the flow: The unplanned journey in a predominantly white institution -- Boundaries of exclusion and inclusion: Africans and the Western academy -- PART 3. IDENTITY, HOPE, AND ASPIRATIONS -- Post independence African scholars and the second liberation struggle -- On scholarship and the hyphenated African identity adaugo -- The fallacy of unity between Africans and the African Americans -- The invisible minority: Accented speaker and upward mobility in the workplace.

Rosa Parks was an amazing woman. She stood up for herself and her beliefs. One day, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. Her actions helped spark the civil rights movement. Today, Americans have more freedom because of her actions.

Typed poem reflecting on Hays' conception of the American dream ; What is the American dream? It is the anticipation that sometime we will be able to say — Here is equality and freedom; Here is brotherhood and justice. The dream is of compassion expressing itself in society's concern for those who fall by the way in a competitive system. It is imagination perfecting the mechanisms of government. It is sensitivity to the claim of righteousness in human affairs. It is the hope that triumphs here will strengthen values that are shared with other people around the world. It is human kindness so penetrating the nation that every man, no matter how incapacitated, will feel that he is wanted. It is the vision of opened doors of opportunity. It is insistence upon government by as well as of and for the people. It is the hope of human dignity made secure. It is the longing for acknowledgment of the human family's oneness. It is the vision of a citizenry drawn together in mutual confidence, facing common evils and exalting a common faith in God. This is my conception of the American dream.

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Based on stress sensitization theory and stress proliferation theory, this study was designed to identify adverse childhood experience (ACE) classes and their relationships with perceived stress and self-care behaviors. Hypotheses were that (a) there would be diverse ACE classes among African American social work students; (b) the identified classes embedded in high/multiple ACEs would have greater levels of perceived stress than those in low ACEs; and (c) the identified classes embedded in high/multiple ACEs would have lower levels of self-care behaviors than those in low ACEs. Recruited from one of the South's historically Black colleges and universities, 186 African American social work students completed an online survey. Latent class analysis found three classes fit the data best: low ACEs, high divorce/abuse/neglect, and high/multiple ACEs. Students in the high divorce/abuse/neglect class had the greatest levels of perceived stress and significantly greater perceived stress levels than the low ACEs class. The low ACEs class had greater self-care behaviors than students in the other two ACEs classes. The study revealed diverse ACE classes and the effect of more ACEs on greater perceived stress and lower self-care behaviors, supporting the importance of using a range of approaches to support African American social work students with different ACEs.