COVID-19 and the Present and Future of Black Communities: The Role of Black Physicians, Engineers, and Scientists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Black Communities ◽  
Black Physicians

Spatializing Blackness

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashad Shabazz
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Power Functions ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Timely Response ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side. A geographic study of race and gender, this book casts light upon the ubiquitous—and ordinary—ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, the book explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, it investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with—and resist—spacial containment. A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, the book examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today.

African American Doctors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McBride
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Free Black ◽  
Black Physicians

Throughout history African American doctors have been held in high esteem in the culture and political affairs of Black America. Reflecting the major phases of black American history, the literature on black doctors reveals black medical leaders are seen as an elite because they have promoted simultaneously improving their professional status and the plight of the black race pursuing national equality. The first body of writings covers the slavery era, Civil War and Reconstruction, and the so-called Nadir through the early 20th century. This literature asserts folk medicine practitioners, along with indigenous midwives helped to hold slave and free black communities together. As proprietary medical schools sprouted up throughout the antebellum North, a few blacks managed to gain apprenticeships or attend medical schools and then finally became practicing doctors. Like other trained physicians of this era, black doctors promoted their practices and medicines as entrepreneurs throughout the free black communities. Early black physicians were also abolitionists and enthusiastically supported the health-care efforts of the federal government during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A second body of writings focuses on the black doctor from the start of the 20th century through World War II. They cover leading black physicians who, with the support of white professional and philanthropic allies, struggled to accommodate the segregated or, that is, “Jim Crow” health-care institutions. In the South, segregation laws and customs barred blacks from treatment in mainstream hospitals as well as black physicians from using these hospitals. In health-care facilities Jim Crow practices included separate, less-equipped wards for black patients and few privileges for black doctors and nurses to serve in these facilities. Nonetheless, black medical professionals and civic activists built independent hospitals, medical schools, and public health campaigns. Black physicians, surgeons, and nurse leaders inspired the black community’s collective esteem, public health initiatives, and political elevation. A third stream of publications emerged concerning black medical students and doctors involved in the civil rights movement. These black doctors played major roles locally and nationally to integrate medical schools, hospitals, and health agencies. A fourth body of writings developed in the last two decades of the 20th century and early 21st century. These published works center on the struggle by blacks to overcome personal handicaps and become exemplary professionals. These writings also focus on black doctors and the urban black health crisis, as well as black medical life in a new highly technological medical system The final stream of contemporary books on black doctors involve those who became national figures in the nation’s attempt to reform medical education and policies. These doctors became prominent in the face of persistent racial health disparities as well as other national health problems such as inadequate family health care and mass disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

The Sounded Poetics of the Black Southern Pacific

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-60
Author(s):  
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Pacific World ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Sonic Structures

Chapter 1 examines how the poetics of sound construct, mediate, and enact the black southern Pacific world. The palpable proximity of the divine and the supernatural is a central organizing principle of this world, as well as the role of music-making within it. By the same token, deeply felt epistemologies, affectivities, and forms of sociality that characterize this world structure the ways that sound is understood and used. The discussion presents an introduction to how the black communities that live on the riverbanks of Colombia’s southern Pacific coast use musical practice to mediate and model this complex soundworld. These sonic structures of feeling are a constant reference, and a lived reality, in the periods covered by the other chapters in this book as well.

scholarly journals Black self-hatred: Regaining self-worth – From decolonisation towards reconciliation in South Africa – A practical theological appraisal

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magezi E. Baloyi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
African People ◽  
Black Person ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Inferiority Complex ◽  
Practical Theological

The black-on-black violence that typifies the present-day South Africa, amongst other things, manifests itself in different forms, for instance, mob justice, xenophobia, black undermining and even harassing another black person in the workplace, along with other signs of an inferiority complex. The affirmation of ‘Black is Beautiful’, which was a popular slogan used by the slain Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, finds slippery ground to resonate amongst the black masses today; hence, the manifestation of self-hatred still has a space within black communities. It is the continuity of this pathology, from an outward look to inward thinking, decisions and actions that deprives African people of a chance to make an impact in respect of self-worth, decolonisation and reconciliation. As much as people can blame the slow pace of the transformation agenda in South Africa, it is equally important to determine the role of inflicted self-hatred as a factor in the process. It is a bone of contention that being truthful to self-worth and self-esteem takes courage to make us active participants in our decolonisation, which will ultimately play a role in the reconciliation of the previously (and presently) divided South Africa.

scholarly journals Subverting the Role of Les Lieux de Mémoire: Alaga Syrup as a Symbol in King Hedley II

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bell
Keyword(s):  
Black Communities ◽  
The Impact

An analysis of the impact Alaga Syrup has had on Black communities and its relevance within August Wilson’s play, King Hedley II.

Antiblackness within the assemblages of undetectability

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110546
Author(s):  
Aaron Mallory
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Biomedical Interventions

This commentary is concerned with the role of anti-blackness for North American-based Black gender and sexual minorities in Brown's and Di Feliciantonio ‘Reconceptualising of PrEP, TasP and Undetectability’ . The commentary centers anti-blackness in order to address concerns within Feliciantonio and Brown's conceptualization of assemblages and subject formation within these spaces. In considering anti-blackness, the commentary points to the ways Black gender and sexual minorities are addressing barriers to accessing biomedical interventions through the promise of an AIDS-Free future that has not fully been realized within their communities. As such, this commentary argues that in addressing anti-blackness, Black communities are engaging in a queer futurity that expands the impact of biomedical interventions through the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor
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