Article/Book Listings
Green, Tiffany, and Tod Hamilton. “Maternal Educational Attainment and Infant Mortality in the United States: Does the Gradient Vary by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity?” Demographic Research 41, no. 25 (September 11, 2019): 713–52.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Maternal education-infant health gradients are flatter among foreign-born mothers than U.S.-born mothers; However, because common metrics of infant health are less predictive of infant mortality for some racial/ethnic and nativity groups, further study of maternal education-infant mortality gradients is necessary.... Read More
Keywords: maternal and child health, racial/ethnic health disparities, infant mortality, education
Smith, M. A. (2015). Who is a legitimate French speaker? The Senegalese in Paris and the crossing of linguistic and social borders. French Cultural Studies, 26(3), 317–329. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815587246
Abstract: Just as the distinction between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’ has implications in French literary studies, the boundaries that position certain groups as outsiders also exist in French society at large, where just because one speaks French, one is not necessarily a... Read More
Keywords: French and Francophone Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Applied Linguistics, SLA, Migration, Race and Ethnicity
Contact: mayaas@uw.edu
Sparkman-Key, N., Snyder, N., & Borden, N. (2019). Advancing the field of human services: LGBT competencies. Journal of Human Services, 39(1), 73-84
Abstract: Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals and Generic Human Services Professional Competencies adopted by the National Organization for Human Services do not include language or competencies specific to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Without a specific ethical code... Read More
Keywords: LGBT, Competencies, Standards of practice
Contact: Thedrkey@gmail.com
Imoukhuede, P. I., & Popel, A. S. (2011). Quantification and cell-to-cell variation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors. Experimental cell research, 317(7), 955-965.
Abstract: The vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFR) play a significant role in angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from existing vasculature. Systems biology offers promising approaches to better understand angiogenesis by computational modeling the key molecular interactions in this... Read More
Keywords: vascular biology, biophysics, systems biology, angiogenesis, cell signaling
Contact: imoukhuede@wustl.edu
Carrie Sampson & Melanie Bertrand (2020) “This is civil disobedience. I’ll continue.”: the racialization of school board meeting rules, Journal of Education Policy, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2020.1778795
Abstract: Minoritized communities throughout the world engage in spaces of educational decision-making to advocate for equity-oriented policies. In this article, we explore such advocacy at the local level in school board meetings in the United States. Specifically, we examine school board... Read More
Keywords: Educational equity, school boards, educational policy, educational leadership,
Contact: Csampso4@asu.edu
Freedom to aspire: Black children’s career dreams, perceived aspirational supports, and Africentric values. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2020.1718074
Abstract: Black children today fight to define their own futurist beyond the myth of low aspirations—a dominant societal ideology which limits Black success to careers in professional sports and entertainment and blames Black families and communities for devaluing education. Informed by... Read More
Keywords: Black children; career aspirations; drawings; Africentric values; qualitative
Contact: Jdturner@umd.edu
Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel. Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Abstract: The monograph illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in 1960s Cameroon, a west-central African country that was at the time newly independent. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book... Read More
Keywords: gender, history, Africa, cameroon, women, west africa, nationalism, politics
Contact: jmougoue@wisc.edu
Mendez DD, Fabio A, Robinson T, Bear T, Keenan E, Schiff M, Gary-Webb T. Using Spatial Analytics to Identify Areas for a Mobile Food Market. Progress in Community Health Partnership: Research Education and Action 2020 (In Press).
Abstract: Background: The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank (GPCFB) developed the Green Grocer mobile food market to address limited access to fresh, affordable food options in local communities. GPCFB and researchers from the University of Pittsburgh established a partnership for Green... Read More
Keywords: Mobile market, grocer, food, neighborhood, geographic information systems (GIS), community health partnerships, community health research, health disparities, power sharing, process issues
Contact: ddm11@pitt.edu
Smith, Maya Angela. 2019. Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries. Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture. University of Wisconsin Press.
Abstract: This volume explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Drawing on extensive interviews with people of Senegalese heritage, Maya Angela Smith contends that they are notable in their capacity for movement and in... Read More
Keywords: French and Francophone Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Applied Linguistics, SLA, Migration, Race and Ethnicity
Contact: mayaas@uw.edu
Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth. The color of love: Racial features, stigma, and socialization in black Brazilian families. University of Texas Press, 2015.
Abstract: The Color of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of... Read More
Keywords: racism, colorism, family, Brazil, Diaspora, socialization
Contact: hordgefreema@usf.edu