Visioning Hope: Embracing Higher Education’s Role With Urban Public Charter Schools

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bette S. Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
African American ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
American Population ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Public Charter Schools ◽  
Urban Charter Schools

The purpose of this study is to reflect on the evolution of a partnership between a university and urban charter high school serving a predominately African American population. Because of the author’s embeddedness both as the researcher and participant member, this research assumes the paradigm of autoethnography. Reflections on key components of this evolution provide implications for teacher education, particularly in regard to a call for engagement between urban charter schools and educator preparation programs, and a challenge to higher education to analyze existing perceptions of public charter schools within a wider institutional mission to prepare educators for all children.

Emancipation and Free African Americans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Archer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
African Descent ◽  
American Population ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Free African Americans

Except in parts of Rhode Island and Connecticut, slavery was a peripheral institution, and throughout New England during and after the Revolution there was widespread support to emancipate slaves. Some of the states enacted emancipation laws that theoretically allowed slavery to continue almost indefinitely, and slavery remained on the books as late as 1857 in New Hampshire. Although the laws gradually abolished slavery and although the pace was painfully slow for those still enslaved, the predominant dynamic for New England society was the sudden emergence of a substantial, free African American population. What developed was an even more virulent racism and a Jim Crow environment. The last part of the chapter is an analysis of where African Americans lived as of 1830 and the connection between racism and concentrations of people of African descent.

scholarly journals Resting Heart Rate and Long-term Outcomes Among the African American Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishan S. Parikh ◽  
Melissa A. Greiner ◽  
Takeki Suzuki ◽  
Adam D. DeVore ◽  
Chad Blackshear ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
African American ◽  
Resting Heart Rate ◽  
American Population ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
African American Population

Consequences of a match made in hell: the harm caused by menthol smoking to the African American population over 1980–2018

2021 ◽  
pp. tobaccocontrol-2021-056748 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mendez ◽  
Thuy T T Le
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Smoking Initiation ◽  
African American Community ◽  
American Population ◽  
The Public ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Menthol Cigarettes ◽  
Life Years

BackgroundFor many years, national surveys have shown a consistently disproportionately high prevalence of menthol smokers among African Americans compared with the general population. However, to our knowledge, no prior study has quantified the harm that menthol smoking has caused on that population. In this work, we estimate the public health harm that menthol cigarettes have caused to the African American community over the last four decades.MethodsUsing National Health Interview Survey data, we employed a well-established simulation model to reproduce the observed smoking trajectory over 1980–2018 in the African American population. Then, we repeat the experiment, removing the effects of menthol on the smoking initiation and cessation rates over that period, obtaining a new hypothetical smoking trajectory. Finally, we compared both scenarios to calculate the public health harm attributable to menthol cigarettes over 1980–2018.ResultsOur results show that menthol cigarettes were responsible for 1.5 million new smokers, 157 000 smoking-related premature deaths and 1.5 million life-years lost among African Americans over 1980–2018. While African Americans constitute 12% of the total US population, these figures represent, respectively, a staggering 15%, 41% and 50% of the total menthol-related harm.DiscussionOur results show that menthol cigarettes disproportionally harmed African Americans significantly over the last 38 years and are responsible for exacerbating health disparities among that population. Removing menthol cigarettes from the market would benefit the overall US population but, particularly, the African American community.

Perceived Racial Discrimination in the Pregnant African American Population

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan R. Mileski ◽  
Maria R. Shirey ◽  
Patricia A. Patrician ◽  
Gwendolyn Childs
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
American Population ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination
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