scholarly journals Jack G. Shaheen 1935–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Author(s):  
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
American Media

Pioneering author and media critic, Dr. Jack Shaheen devoted his life to identifying and contesting damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media and pop culture. Arabs and Muslims were offered up as cartoon caricatures—dagger wielding, evil, ridiculous, hypersexualized, inhumane and incompetent “others.” Dr. Shaheen quickly recognized their shared genealogy to the portrayals of other racialized groups including Jews, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and African Americans. Always in the spirit of engaged dialogue, he was outspoken in defense of any group that was wrongfully stereotyped and vilified.

Children Are Hiding in Plain Sight in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Young People ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Age Of Majority

All kinds of peoples, previously marginalized in favor of the actions and thoughts of elite policy makers, now fill foreign relations histories. African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, women, workers, and many others have been shown to be indispensable—if informal—diplomatic assets. And yet, diverse as this cast of characters has become, notice one thing they share in common: their adulthood. It is as if human experience with foreign affairs only begins with the age of majority. What might be gained once we appreciate the influence of young people, as both audience and agent, in the long history of America's entanglement with the wider world?

Differences in the Epidemiology of Suicide in Asian Americans by Nation of Origin

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Filipino Americans ◽  
Suicide Rates

Epidemiological patterns of suicide for Chinese, Japanese and Filipino Americans in 1980 were compared to those for whites, African Americans and Native Americans. The suicide rates of Asian Americans were quite low and in the same rank order as the suicide rates in their home nations. The suicide rates for female Asian Americans were much closer to those of male Asian Americans than was the case for other ethnic groups. Asian Americans used firearms less often for suicide as compared to other ethnic groups. However, epidemiological differences were observed between suicide in Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese Americans. In general, the epidemiology of suicide for Asian Americans showed similarities to the results of epidemiological studies of Asians in their home nations. This suggests that the epidemiological findings have validity, and also that cultural factors have an important influence on the circumstances of suicide.

Religion, Modernity, and Assimilation in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira K. Mehta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Current Configuration ◽  
European Immigrants

Given that modernity, in its current configuration, owes much of its formulation to Protestant models of individualism and governance; and given that in the United States, religious minorities find themselves assimilating to Protestant religious norms and to a secular state that is similarly shaped by Protestant world views, it is often difficult to distinguish between “assimilating to the United States” and “wrestling with modernity.” Often, religious groups are doing both, but which they perceive themselves to be doing shapes their perceptions of the experience. Religious assimilation is closely tied to whiteness and therefore was more available to European immigrants who were Catholic or Jewish than to Native Americans, African Americans, or Asian Americans, regardless of religion. That said, an examination of the concept of assimilation demonstrates that definitions or ideals of assimilation have varied throughout U.S. religious history.

scholarly journals Sources: The Great American Mosaic: An Exploration of Diversity in Primary Documents

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Chris G. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Latino Americans ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Identity Based

Gary Y. Okihiro's edited collection of primary documents, The Great American Mosaic, is a conventionally formatted ABC-CLIO sourcebook of historical materials divided between four volumes, one of each focusing on the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans. A set that also included a volume focused on the experience of Muslim Americans might have increased the impression of timeliness to the work as a whole, but such an identity-based assignment would not have gelled with Okihiro's geographically based organization, the logic of which he explains tautly in a general introduction to the set.

Pan cancer analysis of the intra-tumoral microbiome’s correlation with racial disparities.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 2519-2519
Author(s):  
Wei Tse Li ◽  
Matthew Uzelac ◽  
Jaideep Chakladar ◽  
Lindsay M. Wong ◽  
Aditi Gnanasekar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Microbial Abundance ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Starting Point

2519 Background: Microbiome composition can influence cancer development and is moderated by diet, hygiene, sanitation, and other environmental variables. For example, a Mediterranean diet could increase breast Lactobacillus abundance, while the gut microbiome changes dramatically with fructose intake. Recent studies have revealed correlations between microbial abundance and racial disparities in cancer. Given these reports, it is critical to examine whether environmental influences on the microbiome contribute to racial disparities in cancer incidence and prognosis. Methods: We examined the intra-tumoral microbiome in the lungs, breasts, bladder, colon, rectum, cervix, head and neck, prostate, and pancreas (n = 4,169). Raw tumor RNA sequencing data were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and aligned to bacterial genomes. Microbial abundance was correlated to race, ethnicity, and prognostic variables (Kruskal-Wallis test or Cox regression, p< 0.05). Results: We identified several microbes correlated with racial disparities for breast and bladder cancer, two microbes for lung squamous cell carcinoma, and one microbe for colon cancer. For breast cancer, African Americans have the highest mortality rate, followed by white Americans and Asian Americans. We found that four microbes, all under the order Burkholderiales, were positively correlated with poor prognosis and were most abundant in African Americans and least abundant in Asian Americans. Therefore, increased abundance of these microbes may contribute to the observed mortality differences between races. For bladder cancer, Asian Americans have the lowest incidence and mortality rates. Seven microbes, including two Geobacillus, two Pseudomonas, and two Burkholderiales, positively correlate with good prognosis and are upregulated in Asian Americans. High Pseudomonas fluorescens abundance is positively correlated with decreased risk of death (HR: 0.57, 95% CI: 0.38-0.85). High abundance of the Burkholderiales R. pickettii (HR: 0.62, 95% CI: 0.42-0.92) and V. paradoxus (HR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.36-0.98) also exhibit the same trend. Geobacillus and Pseudomonas are both present in food, while Burkholderiales can cause nosocomial infections and are altered by diet. Conclusions: Our study is the most comprehensive to date investigating racial differences in the intra-tumoral microbiome. Our data serve as a starting point for exploring whether environmental influence of microbial abundance contributes to racial disparities in cancer.

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