Recent changes in the african american population within the united states and the question of the color line at the beginning of the 21st century

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Harold Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Population ◽  
Color Line ◽  
African American Population

scholarly journals Becoming Me: Journey from the ‘South’

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Celia Ceby ◽  
Dr Cynthia Catherine Michael
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Population ◽  
The South ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
African American Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Document ◽  
The U.S

The rallying cry of “Black Lives Matter” that reverberated all through the U.S. after the George Floyd murder case brought to light the reality that racism is a living reality in the American soil. It is no legend of the past. It is not a bygone history. Therein lies the significance of the inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. Michelle Obama’s Becoming is more than a memoir. It is a social document that faithfully portrays the ground reality of ‘Being Black’ and ‘Becoming Black' in a “White Society”. In her memoir, while recounting her rise from modest origins to the closest this country has to nobility, Michelle is taking the readers on an intimate tour of everyday African-American life. Her book illustrates how all Americans must part with the idea of post-racial society, the quaint notion that race and racism are relics of the United States’ long-ago past. In the memoir, she establishes that prejudice is so woven into the fabric of America that it won’t be gone in her lifetime, or even longer. The article“Becoming Me: Journey from the ‘South” traces the early stages of her life as a “striver”, residing in the ‘South’ side of Chicago, identified with the city’s African American population

Schistosomiasis: A Rare Cause of Acute Appendicitis in the African American Population in the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalyana Nandipati ◽  
Vellore Parithivel ◽  
Masooma Niazi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Acute Appendicitis ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Lower Abdominal Pain ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sudden Onset ◽  
American Population ◽  
African American Population

Schistosomal appendicitis is rarely reported in developed countries. In this article we report a case series of schistosomal appendicitis at our community teaching hospital. In this retrospective study, we conducted a thorough database search for schistosomiasis in patients who had undergone appendectomy for acute appendicitis from 1995 to 2005. Of 1690 total appendectomies performed during this period, three cases of schistosomal appendicitis were identified. Data obtained included patient demographics, laboratory investigations, and pathological specimen. All patients belong to the African American race, are between the ages of 20 and 40 (mean 29.3 ± 9.5) years, and had onset of symptoms <24 hours in duration. Sudden onset of right lower abdominal pain with leucocytosis (14.1 ± 1.4 x 103) is a common feature. All patients underwent appendectomy and each was found to have an enlarged and inflamed appendix intraoperatively. Histopathology revealed transmural inflammation predominantly with neutrophils and scanty eosinophils. Schistosomal granulations are present in all layers of appendix including serosa. All patients had an uneventful postoperative recovery. Schistosomal appendicitis is an uncommon condition especially in developed countries like the United States. However, with recent changes in global migration, schistosomiasis should be considered as one of the causes for appendicitis, especially in the African American population.

Colonial and Revolutionary United States

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Littlefield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
American Population ◽  
American Institution ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Low Country

This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in colonial and revolutionary United States. Slavery was a southern American institution associated primarily with cotton and a divinely ordained labour force of blacks. Southerners in the Chesapeake might realize that slaves once produced tobacco, and in low-country South Carolina and Georgia that they once grew rice, and in southern Louisiana that they once raised sugar cane, but most people, when they thought about slavery at all, thought about the growing of cotton and reckoned that an African workforce required no explanation. Few knew that at one time slavery lived in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, that it had been vibrant in New York and Pennsylvania, and that slaves still worked in New Jersey in 1860. Even in the South, where the presence of a significant African-American population made the heritage of slavery undeniable and people generally recognized the meaning of that fact, most understood neither slavery's age nor its origins.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Cressler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Color Line ◽  
African American Religion ◽  
Black Catholics ◽  
Catholic History

This chapter begins with the ten Black bishops declaring in 1984 that Black Catholics should be “authentically Black and truly Catholic.” It contrasts this statement with the story of Mary Dolores Gadpaille, who argued in 1958 that Catholicism “lifted her up above the color line.” It juxtaposes these two examples in order to introduce readers to the central questions that govern the book. Why did tens of thousands of African Americans convert to Catholicism in the middle decades of the twentieth century? What did it mean to be Black and Catholic in the first half of the twentieth century and why did it change so dramatically in the thirty years that separated Gadpaille from the bishops? How would placing Black Catholics at the center of our historical narratives change the ways we understand African American religion and Catholicism in the United States? The chapter situates the book in scholarship and briefly introduces readers to Black Catholic history writ large.

Predictive factors for plasma cell disorders in African American patients: A community practice perspective.

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e19508-e19508
Author(s):  
Nay Min Tun ◽  
Gardith Joseph ◽  
Aye Min Soe
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Plasma Cell ◽  
Light Chain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
American Population ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Spearman's Rho ◽  
Spearman’S Rho ◽  
Plasma Cell Disorders

e19508 Background: African Americans have over two-fold higher incidence of multiple myeloma (MM) compared to other ethnic groups in the United States. Screening tests for MM are most often done when patients present with features suggestive of anemia, renal impairment, hypercalcemia, hypergammaglobulinemia or lytic bone disease, although MM may present with other manifestations. We carried out a retrospective study to investigate the potential clinical variables predictive of plasma cell disorders (PCD) in African American population. Methods: We reviewed the charts of African American patients who had serum protein electrophoresis, immunofixation and serum free light chain levels from 2007 to 2012. We defined traditional triggers for MM workup as hemoglobin (Hb) < 11 g/dL, serum creatinine (Cr) > 1.3 mg/dL, corrected serum calcium (Ca) > 10.5 mg/dL, albumin to globulin ratio (A:G ratio) < 1, and osteopenia or lytic lesion on DEXA scan/X-ray. PCD was defined as monocloncal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS), smoldering MM, MM, light chain MGUS or light chain only MM. Results: 254 patients were eligible. Mean and range of age, Cr, Ca, A:G ratio, Hb, total white blood cell, absolute neutrophil and platelet counts were 60 years (21 - 95), 1.05 mg/dL (0.49 - 9.6), 9.5 mg/dL (8.5 - 11), 1.07 (0.31 - 3.08), 11.7 g/dL (5.7 - 16.5), 6 x 103/mm3 (1.9 - 26), 3675 x 103/mm3 (192 - 11765) and 237 x 103/mm3 (22 - 1262), respectively. Twelve (13%) out of 92 patients without traditional trigger variables had PCD. In contrast, 50 (31%) out of 162 patients with trigger variables had PCD (composed of 48% MGUS, 8% smoldering MM, 14% MM, 25% light chain MGUS and 2% light chain only MM). There is a significant association between the presence of trigger variables and PCD (χ2= 9.16, p = .002). The number of trigger variables is positively correlated with the likelihood of a PCD (Spearman’s rho = .22, p < .001). So is increasing age (Spearman’s rho = .29, p < .001) in patients with trigger variables. However, age is not predictive of PCD in patients without trigger variables (rho = .1, p = .34). Conclusions: The number of traditional trigger variables and increasing age (especially over 50 years) are predictive of PCD in African American population.

Convergence of Mortality Among African Americans

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahdad Naghshpour ◽  
Sediq Sameem
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
County Level ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Implementation And Dissemination

The purpose of this study is to explore any possible convergence in African American mortality rates in the United States. Using county-level data of the United States over a period of nearly five decades (1968-2015), the findings indicate that β-convergence has occurred in mortality rates of African American population implying that their mortality rates are getting closer to their means. The results are particularly stronger for females and the elderly. The findings reflect lower cost of implementation and dissemination of strategies that would target the health of such population. JEL Classifications: II0, I30, R10

Immigration & the Color Line at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank D. Bean ◽  
Jennifer Lee ◽  
James D. Bachmeier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Boundary Dissolution ◽  
Racial Divide

The “color line” has long served as a metaphor for the starkness of black/white relations in the United States. Yet post-1965 increases in U.S. immigration have brought millions whose ethnoracial status seems neither black nor white, boosting ethnoracial diversity and potentially changing the color line. After reviewing past and current conceptualizations of America's racial divide(s), we ask what recent trends in intermarriage and multiracial identification – both indicators of ethnoracial boundary dissolution – reveal about ethnoracial color lines in today's immigrant America. We note that rises in intermarriage and multiracial identification have emerged more strongly among Asians and Latinos than blacks and in more diverse metropolitan areas. Moreover, these tendencies are larger than would be expected based solely on shifts in the relative sizes of ethnoracial groups, suggesting that immigrationgenerated diversity is associated with cultural change that is dissolving ethnoracial barriers – but more so for immigrant groups than blacks.

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