Review: American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship, by Niambi M. Carter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 217-219
Author(s):  
Najja K. Baptist
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Black African

scholarly journals Association of Blood Type on Clinical Outcomes in Black/African Americans Hospitalized for COVID-19 Infection

Blood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
Yan Cheng ◽  
Sharif Mohammed ◽  
Alexis Okoh ◽  
Ki (Steve) Lee ◽  
Corinne Raczek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Kidney Injury ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Hospital Mortality ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Type A ◽  
Blood Type ◽  
P Value ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Black African ◽  
O 31

Introduction: Early studies from Wuhan, China have reported an association between blood type and outcomes in COVID-19 infected patients. Conflicting reports in literature have investigated the protective role of blood type O against worst outcomes associated with COVID-19 infections. Approximately 50% of Black/African Americans (AA) have blood group O. Our study is the only study to date looking at the association between Black/AA and blood type. We aimed to determine the association between blood type and Black/AA patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data on patients with known blood type, who were admitted for COVID-19 at a single center between March and April 2020. We excluded other races in our study because only about 2% of the population was Caucasian and 8% representing other races, representing a small subset of patients under study whereas Black/AA represented about 90% of our hospitalized patients. Patients were stratified into 4 groups based on their ABO blood type. Baseline demographic, clinical characteristics and clinical course of the disease were compared. The primary end point was in-hospital mortality. Secondary endpoints included admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis and length of stay (LOS). Results: During the study period, a total of 256 patients were reviewed. Distribution of ABO type was as follows; A: (N=65) 25%, B: (N=62) 24%, AB: (N=9) 4%, O: (N=120) 47%. Compared to blood types A, B and O, AB patients were younger (mean; yrs. 63 vs. 63 vs. 62 vs. 43 yrs. p=0.0242). Blood type B patients were more likely to present with nausea, than groups A, AB, and O. (27% vs. 10% vs. 0% vs. 5%; p=0.017). All other characteristics including baseline inflammatory markers were comparable. There was no difference among groups regarding in-hospital mortality (A: 39% B: 29% AB: 33% O: 31% p value: 0.676) or admission to the ICU (A:31% B: 28% AB: 33% O: 34% p value: 0.840). The incidence of acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis was higher in blood type A patients compared to B, AB, and O. (31% vs. 0% vs. 23% vs. 19%; p=0.046). In hospital LOS was comparable among all groups. Conclusions: In this single center analysis of black/AA patients admitted for COVID-19, there was no association between blood type and in-hospital mortality or admission to ICU. Blood type A patients had a higher propensity of kidney injury, but this did not translate into worse in-hospital survival. Disclosures Cohen: GBT: Speakers Bureau.

Health Disparities and the Heterogeneity of Blacks/African Americans in the United States: Why Should We Care?

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Oyare Amuta-Jimenez ◽  
Wura Jacobs ◽  
Gabrielle Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Black African ◽  
Health And Mortality

Each year, millions of dollars are spent on research and public health interventions targeted toward reducing health disparities primarily among the “Black/African Americans” community, yet the progress made lags far behind the amount of money and effort spent. We hypothesize that part of the problem is that sociocultural factors play a significant role in disease prevention. Most studies and programs aggregate “Black immigrants” (BIs) and “African Americans” (AAs) as “Black/African American.” This categorization assumes that the sociocultural determinants that influence BIs are the same as for AAs. BIs have health and mortality profiles that vary from AAs. This commentary aims to (1) introduce this idea in more depth and provide a brief scope of the problem, (2) provide scientific evidence of noteworthy differences between AAs and BIs in areas of sociodemographics, health behaviors, and health outcomes, (3) discuss implications of considering the Black/AA group as homogeneous and provide recommendations for disaggregation.

scholarly journals Caregiver Reactions to Aggressive Behaviors in Persons With Dementia in a Diverse, Community-Dwelling Sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan R. Hansen ◽  
Nancy A. Hodgson ◽  
Chakra Budhathoki ◽  
Laura N. Gitlin
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Aggressive Behaviors ◽  
Black African ◽  
Caregiver Health ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Hispanic Latinos ◽  
Behavior Types

Purpose: To describe caregiver challenges with and confidence managing three aggressive behavior types in persons with dementia: verbal aggression, destroying property, and threatening to hurt others. Design and Method: Secondary analysis of baseline data from the 2001-2004 Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health II (REACH II) initiative. Results: One or more aggressive behaviors within 1 week were reported by more than a third of caregivers, with most expressing upset but fewer expressing confidence managing the behaviors. Caregiver distress and confidence differed by race/ethnicity in response to verbal aggression, with more White/Caucasian caregivers expressing upset than Hispanic/Latinos or Black/African Americans. Fewer Hispanic/Latinos expressed confidence managing verbal aggression, compared with White/Caucasians or Black/African Americans. Discussion: Aggressive behaviors challenge caregivers, with reactions varying by behavior type and race/ethnicity. Cultural and contextual factors suggest the need to tailor interventions, especially skill-building interventions that increase confidence managing aggressive behaviors while decreasing upset.

Assessment of Perceptions and impacts of COVID-19, and adherence to Public Health Recommendations among Black/ African Americans

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Asare ◽  
Chukwuemeka N Okafor ◽  
Karla J Bautista
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Health Belief Model ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Black African ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
The Us ◽  
Belief Model

We evaluated the associations between health belief model (HBM) constructs and adherence to COVID-19 public health recommendations (PHR) among 433 Black/African Americans (AA) in the US. We found that participants’ perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived barriers were posi- tively associated with PHR (p<.01), and the variables accounted for 25% of the variance. Factors such as worrying about health and worrying about living conditions were associated with participants’ anxiety and depressive symptoms (p<.01) accounting for 12.6 and 9.2% of the variance respectively. HBM con- structs could be used to develop an intervention to encourage adherence to COVID-19 PHR among AA.

Bearing Witness While Black

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allissa V. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
American People ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Black African ◽  
Black Newspapers ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
American Tradition

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism tells the story of this century’s most powerful black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters, spurring a global debate on excessive police force, which disproportionately claimed the lives of African Americans. The book reveals how smartphones, social media, and social justice empowered black activists to create their own news outlets, continuing a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. It identifies three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people—slavery, lynching, and police brutality—and the journalism documenting their atrocities, generating a genealogy showing how slave narratives of the 1700s inspired the abolitionist movement; black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and civil rights movements; and smartphones of today powered the anti–police brutality movement. This lineage of black witnessing, the book shows, is formidable and forever evolving. The text is informed by the author’s activism. Personal accounts of her teaching and her own experiences of police brutality are woven into the book to share how she has inspired black youth to use mobile devices to speak up from the margins. Bearing Witness While Black conveys a crucial need to protect our right to look into the forbidden space of violence against black bodies and to continue to regard the smartphone as an instrument of moral suasion and social change.

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