Browsing by FAS Department "African and African American Studies"
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A Capitalizing City: Dar Es Salaam and the Emergence of an African Entrepreneurial Elite (C. 1862-2015)
(2018-09-19)A Capitalizing City charts the ways some people of African descent in Dar es Salaam, the commercial and industrial capital of Tanzania, have attempted, historically, to either integrate into the modern capitalist system ... -
Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21)This Presidential Address offers elements for a systematic and cumulative study of destigmatization, or the process by which low-status groups gain recognition and worth. Contemporary sociologists tend to focus on inequality ... -
Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Asia: Changing Dynamics in Contemporary West Africa's Political Economy
(African Finance and Economic Association, 2011)The last two to three decades have witnessed significant transformation in West Africa’s relations to the Arabian Gulf and Asia. While ties to countries such as Saudi Arabia are historic, economic liberalization since the ... -
African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
The Agrarian Origins of Mau Mau: A Structural Account
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Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter?
(Springer Verlag, 2006)Alexis de Tocqueville believed that “democratic peoples’... passion for equality is ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible.” This article examines whether and under what conditions residents of the United States ... -
An American Conundrum: Race, Sociology, And The African American Road To Citizenship
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Analytic Narratives Revisited
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The Analytical Narrative Project
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‘Anthropologists Are Talking’: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)In 2010, South Africa hosted the first World Cup in soccer ever to take place on the African continent. Twenty years after the fall of Apartheid, South Africa presents a series of fractured and contradictory images to the ... -
Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?
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The Association between Hypertension and Depression and Anxiety Disorders: Results from a Nationally-Representative Sample of South African Adults
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Objective Growing evidence suggests high levels of comorbidity between hypertension and mental illness but there are few data from low- and middle-income countries. We examined the association between hypertension and ... -
Attitudes to Mesalamine Questionnaire: A Novel Tool to Predict Mesalamine Nonadherence in Patients with IBD
(Springer Nature, 2014)OBJECTIVES: Poor adherence to mesalamine is common and driven by a combination of lifestyle and behavioral factors, as well as health beliefs. We sought to develop a valid tool to identify barriers to patient adherence and ... -
Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Barack Obama was elected president of the United States shortly before this issue of the Du Bois Review went to press. The historic nature of the 2008 presidential campaign was evident early in the process, particularly ... -
Beyond Charitable Imperialism: Intersections of Third Cinema, Music, and Social Change in (Post-) Conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo
(2013-02-13)Beyond Charitable Imperialism investigates the role of film, digital media, and music in mediating social and political change in conflict regions with specific attention to the aesthetic choices, ethical implications, and ... -
The Biologistical Construction of Race: "Admixture" Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
(Sage Publications, 2008)This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to reducing health disparities in Latinos with ... -
Black Humor: Reflections on an American Tradition
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Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013
(2014-02-25)Black Notes on Asia: Composite Figurations of Asia in the African American Transcultural Imagination, 1923-2013 sheds new light on the hitherto neglected engagements of African American writers and thinkers with various ... -
A Black Presence Disclosed in Absence: The Politics of Difference in Contemporary Art
(2013-02-25)As an interdisciplinary project that integrates African and African American Studies, critical race theory, and Art History, this dissertation attempts to enrich our understanding of the politics of difference in contemporary ... -
Bridging cultural sociology and cognitive psychology in three contemporary research programmes
(Springer Nature, 2017)Three prominent research programs in cognitive psychology would benefit from a stronger engagement with the cultural context of cognition: studies of poverty focused on scarcity and cognitive bandwidth (CB); of the ...