The Final Years

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan R. Ellenberger
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
West Hollywood ◽  
Art Collection ◽  
Movie Star

Hopkins loses money on an investment and is forced to sell her art collection and her Sutton Place townhouse. Her friend Ward Morehouse dies and, from that, Hopkins is reacquainted with his wife, Becky, and they become best friends. Morehouse recounts her first visit to Hollywood, going to parties and Hopkins’s denial of having a Southern accent. Michael is transferred to March Air Force (now Reserve) Base, sixty miles from Los Angeles. Michael’s regrets, Hopkins’s sometimes stormy relationship with her daughter-in-law, and her affection for her grandson, Tom, are explored. Hopkins’s famous parties, as well as her obsession with psychics, her views on African Americans, and her fear of being forgotten are discussed. Hopkins appears on television and in films, including The Savage Intruder, playing a drunken, aging movie star. With her health waning, she’s given up on love and confines herself to her West Hollywood apartment, drinking champagne and calling friends in the middle of the night.

scholarly journals African Americans’ Access to Healthy Food Options in South Los Angeles Restaurants

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 668-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
LaVonna Blair Lewis ◽  
David C. Sloane ◽  
Lori Miller Nascimento ◽  
Allison L. Diamant ◽  
Joyce Jones Guinyard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
South Los Angeles

Framing the Bomb in the West

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Nevada Test Site ◽  
Nuclear Weapons Testing ◽  
Screen Space ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

Focused on the period of atmospheric (above-ground) nuclear weapons testing in the continental United States, from 1945 to 1963, this chapter, written by Susan Courtney, does two things. First, it describes some of the basic conditions and infrastructure that shaped the proliferation of films of nuclear weapons tests, including the U.S. government’s secret military film studio dedicated to this work in the hills above Los Angeles, known as Lookout Mountain Air Force Station or Lookout Mountain Laboratory. Second, it turns to the representational legacy that resulted, which was by no means limited to films made by or for the military. More specifically, it considers how footage of atomic tests in New Mexico and at the Nevada Test Site helped to shape the filmic record of nuclear weapons—and popular cultural memory—by framing the bomb in the desert West, arguably the screen space of American exceptionalism.

Assimilative Tendencies and Curricular Crosscurrents

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Gleason
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
American Society ◽  
Zoot Suit

Besides its massive impact on the institutional side of Catholic higher education, World War II affected the thinking of Catholic educators. We have already touched upon this dimension in noting how the war and postwar growth required them to expand their horizons and redouble their efforts in research, fundraising, and administration generally. Here we look more closely at how Catholics were affected by the great ideological revival of democracy that accompanied the war. This kind of influence was sometimes explicitly noted by Catholic leaders, as when Archbishop Richard Gushing of Boston called attention to the “neo-democratic mentality of returning servicemen and the university-age generation generally”; others recognized that it created problems since the Catholic church was so widely perceived as incompatible with democracy and “the American way of life.” We shall postpone examination of controversies stemming from this source to the next chapter, turning our attention in this one to the assimilative tendencies reflected in Catholics’ new appreciation for liberal democratic values, and to the major curricular concerns of the era which were also affected by the war. In no area did the democratic revival have a more profound long range effect than in the impetus it lent to the movement for racial equality and civil rights for African Americans. The publication in 1944 of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma marked an epoch in national understanding of what the book’s subtitle called “the Negro problem and modern democracy.” Myrdal himself stressed the importance of the wartime context, which made it impossible to ignore racial discrimination at home while waging war against Nazi racism. At the same time, increasing black militance, the massive migration of African Americans to northern industrial centers, and above all the great Detroit race riot of 1943—reinforced by the anti-Mexican “Zoot Suit” riots in Los Angeles the same summer—suddenly made the improvement of race relations an imperative for American society as a whole. By the end of the war, no fewer than 123 national organizations were working actively to “reduce intergroup tensions,” and the civil rights movement began a steady advance that led directly to the great judicial and political victories it won in the fifties and sixties.

scholarly journals Binge Drinking among Economically Disadvantaged African American Older Adults with Diabetes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shervin Assari ◽  
James L. Smith ◽  
Mohammed Saqib ◽  
Mohsen Bazargan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
African American Older Adults

Purpose. This study investigated the effect of demographic, socioeconomic, and psychological factors as well as the role of health determinants on alcohol consumption and binge drinking among economically disadvantaged African American older adults with type 2 diabetes mellites (T2DM). Methods. This survey recruited 231 African Americans who were older adults (age 65+ years) and had T2DM. Participants were selected from economically disadvantaged areas of South Los Angeles. A structured face-to-face interview was conducted to collect data on demographic factors, objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) including education and financial difficulty, living arrangement, marital status, health, and drinking behaviors (drinking and binge drinking). Results. Age, gender, living alone, pain, comorbid conditions, and smoking were associated with drinking/binge drinking. Male gender, pain, and being a smoker were associated with higher odds of drinking/binge drinking, while individuals with more comorbid medical conditions had lower odds of binge drinking. Conclusion. In economically constrained urban environments, gender, pain, and smoking but not age, SES, depression, and health may predict binge drinking for African American older adults with T2DM. African Americans older adult men with T2DM with comorbid pain should be screened for binge drinking.

Lung cancer risk in relation to the CYP2C9*1/CYP2C9*2 genetic polymorphism among African-Americans and Caucasians in Los Angeles County, California

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 527-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. London ◽  
Ann K. Daly ◽  
Julian B.S. Leathart ◽  
William C. Navidi ◽  
Jeffrey R. Idle
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Genetic Polymorphism ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Lung Cancer Risk

CYP2D6 phenotype ??? genotype relationships in African-Americans and Caucasians in Los Angeles

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 529-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian B.S. Leathart ◽  
Stephanie J. London ◽  
Annette Steward ◽  
James D. Adams ◽  
Jeffrey R. Idle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cyp2d6 Phenotype
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