Browsing by FAS Department "African and African American Studies"
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Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race
(Duke University Press, 2009)Proceeding from Robyn Wiegman's call for a transition from questions of "why" to "how" with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the "scriptive thing," to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation ... -
Democracy in Africa: A Very Short History
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)When discussing governance in Africa, one must be circumspect when applying the term "democracy." One reason for doing so is because the term is imprecise. However, while differing in the attributes they posit and the ... -
Democratic Transitions
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)Przeworski et al. (2000) challenge the key hypothesis in modernization theory: political regimes do not transition to democracy as per capita incomes rise, they argue. Rather, democratic transitions occur randomly, but ... -
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
(MIT Press, 2011)Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; ... -
“Diasporas,” mobility and the social imaginary: Getting ahead in West Africa
(Association of Third World Studies, 2010) -
"Diasporas,” Mobility and the Social Imaginary: Getting Ahead in West Africa
(Association of Third World Studies, 2010)The article presents the lecture "'Diasporas,' Mobility and the Social Imaginary: Getting Ahead in West Africa," by Emmanuel Akyeampong, that was delivered as the keynote lecture at the 27th Annual Conference of the Third ... -
Dimensions of Liberal Self-Satisfaction: Civil Liberties, Liberal Theory, and Elite-Mass Differences
(University of Chicago Press, 1986) -
Discriminate Biopower and Everyday Biopolitics: Views on Sickle Cell Testing in Dakar
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)Many physicians in Senegal and France, where most Senegalese sickle cell specialists are partially trained, assume that genetic testing that could imply selective abortion for people with sickle cell would run counter to ... -
The Diversity Challenge
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012) -
Domestic Interests and Control Regimes
(Cambridge University Press, 2007) -
The effects of Obama's political success on the self-rated health of Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
(International Society on Hypertention in Blacks, 2011)Stress in the social environment can affect individual health. Election of the first Black President of the United States provides an opportunity to assess how a positive change in the macro-political climate impacts the ... -
Endogenizing Syndromes
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Equity in the Receipt of Oseltamivir in the United States During the H1N1 Pandemic
(American Public Health Association, 2014)Objectives. We assessed the relationship between individual characteristics and receipt of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in the United States during the H1N1 pandemic and other flu seasons. Methods. In a cohort of individuals ... -
The Ethics of Uncle Tom's Children
(University of Chicago Press, 2012) -
Ethiopian Lives and Liturgies
(Harvard Divinity School, 2013) -
Ethnic Enclaves and the Dynamics of Social Identity on the College Campus: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(American Psychological Association, 2004)The effects of membership in ethnic organizations and fraternities and sororities on intergroup attitudes were examined using a 5-wave panel study at a major, multiethnic university. The results showed that these effects ... -
Ethnicity
(Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2006) -
Ethno-Racial Attitudes and Social Inequality
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The Ethnomusicologist and the Transmission of Tradition
(University of California Press, 1996)