What Will They Think If I Post This? Risks and Returns for Political Expression Across Platforms by Elnaz Parviz, Cameron W. Piercy

“…Findings indicate that perceived ideological homophily with the audience on an SNS and past use of privacy management settings both predict how much individuals post about politics on Facebook and Twitter, but not on Instagram. On Instagram, Black Americans were significantly more likely to engage in online political expression. …”
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Hallelujah (1929) de King Vidor : naissance de la voix afro-américaine à Hollywood by Jean-Marie Lecomte

“…Hallelujah’s characters (mostly played by untrained actors) transcend the limitations of their visual representation through the poetics of voice. Black Americans are not patronized, but shot with Vidor’s particular brand of subjective realism suffused with folk poetry, they become human.…”
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Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs by Wonyoung So, Catherine D’Ignazio

“…This study models the use of algorithmic methods in the service of reparations to Black Americans in the domain of housing, where most American wealth is built. …”
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Comparison of Various Equations for Estimating GFR in Malawi: How to Determine Renal Function in Resource Limited Settings? by Nicola Glaser, Andreas Deckert, Sam Phiri, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Florian Neuhann

“…The study was conducted in Lilongwe, Malawi enrolling a population of 363 adults of which 32% were HIV-positive.Comparison of formulae based on Bland-Altman-plots and accuracy revealed best performance for the CKD-EPI equation without the correction factor for black Americans. Analyzing the differences between HIV-positive and -negative individuals CKD-EPI systematically overestimated eGFR in comparison to cystatin C and therefore lead to underestimation of CKD in HIV-positives.Our findings underline the importance for standardization of eGFR calculation in a Sub-Saharan African setting, to further investigate the differences with regard to HIV status and to develop potential correction factors as established for age and sex.…”
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The Wake at the Root: Understanding Racial Identity Refinement through Genetic Ancestry Testing and Theater Performance by Devin A. Heyward

“…Participants (<i>n</i> = 8) were enrolled in an arts-in-education program that uses theater to explore Black Americans’ identities and family histories. This study used theater performance and modified life narrative interviews to understand how participation informed understandings of the self and others. …”
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Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) et Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) : les documentaires du New Queer Cinema by Camille Bui

“…In the light of Judith Butler’s definition of gender as performative, this article discusses how these films try to destabilize the gender norms of American society by questioning the traditional image of Black Americans conveyed by mainstream movies. The two films give new visibility to marginalized communities of Black and Latino gays and transgenders, thus opening the field of possible identities. …”
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Americans’ Trust in Government and Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Elizabeth Suhay, Aparna Soni, Claudia Persico, Dave E. Marcotte

“…We find somewhat steeper declines among women, Black Americans, the less educated, and Republicans. Finally, we find that trust in state governments and local health officials was positively associated with protective health behaviors, especially among Republicans, and that trust in the federal government was associated with a lower likelihood of such behaviors.…”

Cholesterol and Egg Intakes with Cardiometabolic and All-Cause Mortality among Chinese and Low-Income Black and White Americans by Xiong-Fei Pan, Jae-Jeong Yang, Loren P. Lipworth, Xiao-Ou Shu, Hui Cai, Mark D. Steinwandel, William J. Blot, Wei Zheng, Danxia Yu

“…Similarly, we observed a positive association of egg intake with all-cause mortality in Black Americans, but a null association in White Americans and a nonlinear inverse association in Chinese. …”
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Interrogating the ‘White-Leaning’ Thesis of White–Asian Multiracials by Kelly H. Chong, Miri Song

“…Historically, Asian Americans have been positioned as a “racial middle” group in relation to White and Black Americans. In line with this perceived racial position, Asian–White multiracials have been generally characterized as being more White than Black–White multiracials, as well as “leaning White” in terms of self-identification. …”
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The Black radical imagination: a space of hope and possible futures by Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett, Tanisha G. Hill-Jarrett

“…I conclude with considerations of what brain health and healing justice looks like for aging Black Americans— specifically, how invocation of the Black radical imagination may have positive brain health effects for a demographic group at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.…”
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“When you Search a #Hashtag, it Feels Like You’re Searching for Death:” Black Twitter and Communication About Police Brutality Within the Black Community by Deion S. Hawkins

“…Using Critical Race Theory as the anchor, this qualitative study utilized a trauma-informed interview approach to better understand how Black Americans use Twitter to engage with the timely issue of police brutality. …”
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“Today the Pot is Boiling Over!”: Ebony Magazine, the Black Revolts, and the Search for a Social Resolution, 1966-1967 by Sid Ahmed Ziane

“…At the time when the popular and the regional White and Black-owned media did not provide a practical resolution to the race riots whilst others generated instances of sensationalism to vilify the Black revolt, Ebony appeared as a sui generis magazine by providing viable social resolutions to quell the Black revolts and the social problems impinging upon Black Americans. This intervention was culminated in a special issue which critically addressed the Black youth and their rationale behind sparking off the revolts. …”
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Religion across Axes of Inequality in the United States: Belonging, Behaving, and Believing at the Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality by Landon Schnabel

“…Overall, whereas we see clear divides in how religious people are by factors like gender, education, and sexual orientation among most racial groups, race appears to overpower other factors for Black Americans who are consistently religious regardless of their other characteristics. …”
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A Matter of Solidarity: Racial Redistribution and the Economic Limits of Racial Sympathy by Tarah Williams, Andrew J. Bloeser

“…Using the 2013 CCES, we use a newly developed measure of racial sympathy (Chudy, 2021) to study white Americans’ support for policies designed to provide resources to black Americans. Consistent with expectations, we find that whites with higher levels of racial sympathy have higher levels of support for such policies, but that this pattern is stronger among whites who are more affluent. …”
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Racism and Structural Violence: Interconnected Threats to Health Equity by Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Jennifer J. García, Uchechi Mitchell, Elinam D. Dellor, Natalie J. Bradford, Mandy Truong

“…In 2020, the continuing murder of Black Americans by police officers received widespread media attention and sparked global outrage. …”
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Interweaving Pittsburgh’s Black Cosmogony: Transgenerational Trauma, African Cultural Affiliation and Spiritual Restoration in August Wilson’s Joe Turner‘s Come and Gone (1988)... by Mariame WANE LY & Faguèye SECK

“…Abstract : In his ten-play chronicle of African American experience in the twentieth century, August Wilson examines the sway of enslavement in Black Americans’ contemporary condition. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, his second play, delves into the African American experience as well as the examination of trauma in the articulation of a specific historiography. …”
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The impact of oppression on motherhood in Morrison’s novels by Elvi

“…In Beloved, Morrison applies elements of slave narrative and racial oppression to tell the sufferings suffered by black American women. As an African-American writer who writes a story of black American women through a third-person narrative, she challenges black women’s identity through her richness use of language. …”
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Disaggregating Asian American and Pacific Islander Risk of Fatal Police Violence by Gabriel L. Schwartz, Jaquelyn L. Jahn

“…Pacific Islanders suffered higher rates (0.88, CI: 0.65–1.19), on par with Native and Black Americans. More granularly, Southeast Asian American groups displaced by US war in Southeast Asia suffered higher rates than others from the same region. …”
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A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011-2014. by Cody T Ross

“…The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average. …”
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Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs by So, Wonyoung, D’Ignazio, Catherine

“…This study models the use of algorithmic methods in the service of reparations to Black Americans in the domain of housing, where most American wealth is built. …”
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