Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity by Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD

“…This commentary describes ways in which notions of African American men’s “health” attained by individual choice—embedded in the notion that African American men should visit doctors or engage in fewer risky behaviors—are at times in tension with larger cultural, economic, and political notions of “health.” …”
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Prostate Cancer Education in African American Barbershops by John S. Luque PhD, MPH, Levi Ross PhD, MPH, Clement K. Gwede PhD, MPH, RN

“…There have been very few studies to rigorously evaluate the potential of African American barbers to educate men about prostate cancer in the barbershop setting. …”
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Conducting Precision Medicine Research with African Americans. by Chanita Hughes Halbert, Jasmine McDonald, Susan Vadaparampil, LaShanta Rice, Melanie Jefferson

“…In the model with specific participation barriers, distrust was associated with a reduced likelihood of participating in the research described in the vignette (OR = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.34, 0.96, p = 0.04).African Americans may have low enrollment in PMI research. …”
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Perspectives on technology, race, and African-American employment by Blakney, Benjamin Franklyn

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Community and heritage in African-American women's novels by Sakhar Govindan Nair.

“…This thesis attempts to document the range of responses African-American women writers have posited regarding their concerns with history, identity and culture. …”
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Renal and cardiovascular morbidities associated with APOL1 among African American and Non-African American children with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. by Robert P Woroniecki, Derek Ng, Sophie Limou, Cheryl A Winkler, Kimberly Jean Reidy, Mark Mitsnefes, Matthew G Sampson, Craig S Wong, Bradley A Warady, Susan L Furth, Jeffrey B Kopp, Frederick Jeffrey Kaskel

“…Background and objectives: African American (AA) children with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) have later onset disease that progresses more rapidly than in non-AA children. …”
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Educational Attainment Better Protects African American Women than African American Men Against Depressive Symptoms and Psychological Distress by Shervin Assari

Subjects: “…African Americans…”
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Empowering African-American Manhood, Empowering African-American Politics: The Quest of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1890-1920 by Amanda Laugesen

“…Du Bois was one of the most influential and significant African-American intellectuals, with a career that spanned the decades from the late nineteenth century until his death in 1963. …”
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Sodium Excretion and Cardiovascular Outcomes in African American Patients With CKD: Findings From the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension by Keon Pearson, BA, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, PhD, Shirin Jimenez, MD, Maria E. Montez-Rath, PhD, Tara I. Chang, MD, MS

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Father 2 Son: The Impact of African American Father–Son Sexual Communication on African American Adolescent Sons’ Sexual Behaviors by Allyssa L. Harris RN, PhD, WHNP-BC, Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD RN, WHNP-BC, Courtney E. Castle PhD

“…Limited research on parent–child sexual communication has been conducted on African American (AA) adolescent males who are at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS. …”
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The cultural matrix : understanding Black youth / by Patterson, Orlando, 1940- editor, Fosse, Ethan, ditor

Subjects: “…African American youth…”

Prostate cancer screening practices of African-American and non-African-American US primary care physicians: a cross-sectional survey by Richards TB, Rim SH, Hall IJ, Richardson LC, Ross LE

“…Our results may be helpful in hypothesis generation and in planning future research studies.Keywords: African-American, physician practice patterns, prostate-specific antigen, screening tests…”
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The Prentice Hall anthology of African American womens literature / by Lee, Valerie, 1950-

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African American Chemists : Academia, Industry, and Social Entrepreneurship / by Collins, Sibrina N., editor 645595

Subjects: “…African American chemists…”
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African Americans and World War II, 1939-1945 by ربيع حيدر الموسوي, تغريد جاسم عطية

“… African Americans actively participated in the Second World War 1939-1945 AD. …”
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Multiple loci associated with renal function in African Americans. by Daniel Shriner, Alan Herbert, Ayo P Doumatey, Jie Zhou, Hanxia Huang, Michael R Erdos, Guanjie Chen, Norman P Gerry, Michael F Christman, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles N Rotimi

“…The incidence of chronic kidney disease varies by ethnic group in the USA, with African Americans displaying a two-fold higher rate than European Americans. …”
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The Lived Experience of Informal African American Male Caregivers by Jo Ann Weinland MSN, APRN, BC, CNS

“…This article describes the lived experience of African American men providing care to a relative within the home and explores their definition of caregiver distress. …”
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The Search for School Safety and the African American Homeschooling Experience by Garvey Musumunu, Ama Mazama

“…There has been, in recent years, a noticeable surge in African American involvement in the homeschooling movement as well. …”
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Introduction: Riff: African American Artists and the European Canon by Adrienne L. Childs

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Discovery of novel hepatocyte eQTLs in African Americans. by Yizhen Zhong, Tanima De, Cristina Alarcon, C Sehwan Park, Bianca Lec, Minoli A Perera

“…African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately affected by metabolic diseases and adverse drug events, with limited publicly available genomic and transcriptomic data to advance the knowledge of the molecular underpinnings or genetic associations to these diseases or drug response phenotypes. …”
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