The Socioeconomic Assimilation of Caribbean American Blacks

Social Forces ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthijs Kalmijn
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Assimilation ◽  
American Blacks

Lack of association of the polymorphic locus in the 5'-flanking region of the human insulin gene and diabetes in American blacks

Diabetes ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 433-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Elbein ◽  
P. Rotwein ◽  
M. A. Permutt ◽  
G. I. Bell ◽  
N. Sanz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Insulin ◽  
Polymorphic Locus ◽  
Insulin Gene ◽  
Human Insulin Gene ◽  
Flanking Region ◽  
American Blacks

scholarly journals A NOVEL DIABETES SYNDROME IN AMERICAN BLACKS (TYPE 1.5 DIABETES): INSULIN SECRETORY AND BINDING STUDIES

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 303A-303A
Author(s):  
W E Winter ◽  
N K MaClaren ◽  
W J Riley ◽  
M S Kappy ◽  
J Jensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Binding Studies ◽  
Type 1.5 Diabetes ◽  
American Blacks

The Garvey Movement in British West Africa

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Okonkwo
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
The West ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Blacks ◽  
Garvey Movement ◽  
African Nationalism

The paper seeks to present new information concerning the activities of the West African branches of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The author has included biographical profiles of the British West African Garveyites to integrate the Garvey movement into the history of West African nationalism and Pan-Africanism.It is argued that Garveyism was welcomed in British West Africa by the older cultural nationalists who saw Garveyism as an extension of Blyden's ideas. Pan-African sentiments of racial unity and solidarity of African and American blacks, pride in the history of the race, and self-help projects had wide circulation in West Africa from the latter part of the nineteenth century, as a result of Blyden's influence. Joining the branches of the U.N.I.A. was a practical demonstration of a long-standing commitment to cultural and racial nationalism among the West African elite.The Garvey movement also marked the beginning of a new era in West African nationalism. Garvey's radical pronouncements on freeing Africa from colonial rule were unacceptable to the older cultural nationalists who dominated the Garvey groups. They disavowed any interest in organizing a central nation for the race. However, Garvey's ideas may have had long-term effects. By the 1930s the idea of independence from colonial rule seemed more attractive to the West African nationalists. Garvey was one of the first to speak out boldly for freedom from colonialism.The concrete achievements of the West African branches of the U.N.I.A. were small indeed. Nigeria had the most Garveyite activity in British West Africa. There was an agent for the Black Star Line in Lagos and a branch of the U.N.I.A. and A.C.L. The Gold Coast had the least Garveyite activity, probably because of their involvement in the National Congress of British West Africa and also because of their more critical attitude towards co-operation with American blacks. They believed that Africans were best qualified to lead any joint efforts for intra-racial co-operation.

scholarly journals The deletion in both common types of hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin is approximately 105 kilobases

Blood ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1797-1803
Author(s):  
FS Collins ◽  
JL Cole ◽  
WK Lockwood ◽  
MC Iannuzzi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fetal Hemoglobin ◽  
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Beta Thalassemia ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Beta Globin ◽  
Gamma Delta ◽  
Large Deletions ◽  
Hereditary Persistence ◽  
American Blacks

The most common forms of hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH) involve large deletions that remove the adult delta and beta genes but leave the paired fetal genes (G gamma and A gamma) intact. The size of these deletions has previously eluded exact definition. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and the enzyme SfiI, which cuts only rarely in genomic DNA, we have constructed a large-scale restriction map of the beta-globin cluster in normal and HPFH DNA. The deletions in HPFH-1, which occurs in American blacks, and in HPFH-2, which occurs in Ghanaian blacks, are found to be approximately 105 kilobases (kb) in length, though the endpoints are staggered by approximately 5 kb. The fact that two previously reported gamma delta beta-thalassemia deletions to the 5′ side of the beta-globin cluster are also about 100 kb suggests a common mechanism, possibly involving the loss of a complete chromatin loop.

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