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Carter, Dr. Harold, Chapel Speaker ITC MLK Fellows Program Side 1, Aretha Franklin Sings Side 2
No full textIn this recording, awards are presented, Aretha Franklin sings gospel songs with a choir, and Dr. Harold Carter delivers a sermon titled Demons, History, and Christ where he talks about the Black religious experience including the charismatic preaching tradition.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Employment, stress, coping and health in two ethnic populations of Black men.
No full textThis dissertation investigates relationships among employment factors, stress perceptions, coping behavior, and health status in two ethnic groups of Black men: U.S. Black Caribbean and African American. The stress-coping paradigm elaborates a process where perceptions of stress lead to coping behaviors that ultimately compromise health status. Employment has been identified as a primary social context that initiates this process for Black men. However, this dissertation argues that ethnicity influences this process. These analyses examine data from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). Ethnic differences in employment satisfaction and differences in relationships between employment factors and reports of stress were found. Moreover, the effectiveness of resources used to cope with stress, and the influence of various stressors on the relationship between employment and health also varied by ethnicity. Results from this dissertation research may be used to generate additional hypotheses to understand the influence of employment and stress on the health of various ethnic groups of Black men.PhDBlack studiesHealth and Environmental SciencesPublic healthSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125384/2/3192659.pd
The scissors and the power : a look at Harold Pinter's the homecoming through pragmatic lenses
No full textThe article is an attempt at describing the functioning of language in dialogues of Harold Pinter’s plays. The author uses the concepts of sociopragmatics to analyze the utterances of the opening scene of the Homecoming as speech acts. The two characters of the scene, Lenny and Max, hold a seemingly trivial conversation, which turns out to be crucial for establishing the relationship between them and for constructing the framework of the action of the play. Detailed analysis of the conversational implicature of the utterances allows the author to highlight typical elements of “Pinteresque” manner of designing the dramatic dialogue, e.g., the changing dynamics of the conversational exchange, gradually increasing emotional tension between the characters, as well as the abundance of subtextual meanings of the dialogic utterances.Artykuł jest próbą opisu funkcjonowania języka w dialogach w sztukach Harolda Pintera. Autor artykułu stosuje socjopragmatykę jako narzędzie analityczne, które pozwala na omówienie dialogów z pierwszej sceny sztuki Powrót do domu w kategoriach aktów mowy. Dwie postacie występujące w omawianej scenie, Lenny i Max, prowadzą pozornie trywialną konwersację, która okazuje się kluczowa dla przedstawienia ich wzajemnej relacji, jak również zawiązania akcji dramatu. Szczegółowa analiza implikatury konwersacyjnej wypowiedzi Lenniego i Maxa pozwala doszukać się w omawianej scenie typowych elementów Pinterowskiej sztuki prowadzenia dialogu w dramacie, jak, na przykład, zmiennej dynamiki konwersacji, narastającego emocjonalnego napięcia pomiędzy bohaterami oraz bogactwa podtekstowych znaczeń obecnych w dialogach bohaterów
With the help of one's neighbors - externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru
No full textBoth public, and private resources contribute to children's nutritional status. And investments by one household may improve health in other neighborhood households, by improving the sanitation environment, and increasing shared knowledge. The authors measure the externalities of investments in nutrition, by indicatingthe impact of women's education in Peruvian neighborhoods, on children's nutrition in other households, after controlling for those households'education, and income. They find that in rural areas this shared knowledge has a significant impact on nutrition. The coefficient of an increase in the average education in the neighborhood is appreciably larger than the coefficient of education in isolation. That is, educating women in rural areas, improves all children's nutritional status, even for those whose caregivers are themselves not educated. In both urban, and rural areas, they observe externalities from investments in sanitation made by neighboring households. They do not find the same externalities in the case of investments, only in the household water supply. There is a direct link between the caregivers'education, and their children's health status. Education transmits information about health, and nutrition. It teaches numeracy, and literacy, which help caregivers read labels, and instructions. Bu exposing caregivers to new environments, it makes them receptive to modern medical treatment. It gives women the confidence to participate in decision-making within a household, and it gives men, and women the confidence to interact with health care professionals.Health Economics&Finance,Urban Services to the Poor,Urban Services to the Poor,Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Urban Services to the Poor,Urban Services to the Poor,Health Economics&Finance,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Town Water Supply and Sanitation
Harold Pinter and the Performance of Power: Considerations of Affect in Select Plays, Screenplays and Films, Poetry and Political Speeches
No full textThis thesis looks at selections of Harold Pinter's work across multiple media: written dramatic texts, screenplays and poetry, activity in theatrical and film production and his political activism. It has been argued that Pinter's dramatic medium is exceeded by movements, intensities and
forces that operate on and circulate within the corporeal bodies of Pinter's 'audiences'. However, approaches to Pinter to date remain overly focused on representation and hermeneutics and tied to a decidedly idealist conception of being, perception and knowledge. I argue that in order to
appreciate the politics of Pinter's aesthetics, readings of Pinter's work need to move in a more decidedly materialist direction. To do so, I enlist the conceptual tools of Gilles Deleuze and felix Guattari, specifically 'affect'. In bringing affect theory to Pinter I illustrate how 'the direct, mutual involvement of language and extra-linguistic forces,1 must be taken into account at every
critical step, and that meaning need be construed as a material process, the expression of forces
acting upon each other. The diversity of Pinter's work is explored over six chapters with a view to its aesthetic disposition and function, how it enters into noteworthy relations with those who engage with it, and how it establishes conditions that are propitious for transitory but ultimately productive trans formative encounters. Proceeding as such necessitates appraisal of ethical and
political positions in relation to Pinter's expression without distinguishing politics from aesthetics - a trend common to intellectual enterprise. Rather, the three keywords in the title of this thesis - performance, power and affect - function as concepts to advance the argument for Pinter's aesthetics as a politics. In considering the aesthetics of Pinter's work in varied media, this thesis invites the reader to see the strategies by which Pinter intervenes in each area as interrelated and political
Sociodemographic correlates of major depression, crack use, and dual diagnosis.
No full textDespite the seemingly extended history of psychiatric illness and drug use research, relatively little is known about the relationship among sociodemographics, major depression, crack use, and dual diagnosis. Using data from the 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, regression analysis was conducted on 11,766 black and white adults. This investigation explored stress and coping and socioeconomic inequity theories as they relate to depression and crack use. Self-medication theory was proposed to explain variances in the prevalence of dual diagnosis among respondents. Race and gender were central issues to this investigation. In Chapters I and II, the theoretical framing of the study, overview of research goals, and study methodology are presented. Figures illustrating the conceptual relationship between background variables, personal and financial resources, and health outcomes are also depicted. Chapters III, IV, and V were devoted to each of the three health outcomes (i.e., depression, crack use, and dual diagnosis). In Chapter III, analysis indicated a significant race-by-gender interaction, such that white women were more likely than white men to be depressed. Gender differences were not significant among blacks. In Chapter IV, a significant race-by-gender-by age interaction emerged. For black men and women, as age increased, the risk of crack use also increased. Blacks aged 26 years and older exhibited higher rates of past-year and lifetime crack use than whites aged 26 years and older. Blacks aged 35 years and older were more likely than whites aged 35 years and older, to have used crack within their lifetime. The final empirical investigation, Chapter V, revealed men to be more likely to be dually diagnosed than women, both within the past-year and within their lifetime. This study extended previous research on depression, crack use, and dual diagnosis, by examining the intersecting roles of race, gender, and other sociodemographic variables. Regardless of the health outcome (i.e., depression or crack use) race and gender were consistently predictive of the occurrence of depression, crack use, and dual diagnosis. It is suggested that sociodemographic variables be included in future analysis concerning psychiatric disorders and drug use, as well as theory-driven epidemiologic research.PhDBehavioral psychologyClinical psychologyHealth and Environmental SciencesPhysiological psychologyPsychologyPublic healthUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/124890/2/3016811.pd
Everyday life for black American adults: Stress, emotional, and cardiovascular responses.
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the stress process in Black American adults by exploring chronic stress, emotions, age, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure within the context of gender and socioeconomic position (SEP). A synthesized sociopsychophysiological conceptual framework based upon the environmental, psychological, and physiological traditions of stress research, empirical and scholarly literature, and critical reasoning about everyday life for Black American adults provided structure for the study. A model of Everyday Life for Black American Adults was tested using structural equation modeling. The convenience sample of Black American adults (N = 211) ranged from 25 to 79 years of age (M = 44.90). Participants were highly educated and 45% were married. Household size ranged from one to eight people (M = 2.8) with family per capita incomes ranging from zero to 19,000. Although chi-square was significant (chi2 = 18.05, df = 10, p = .054), the GFI (.98), TLI (.93), and CFI (.98) indexes each indicated good fit of the model which explained 27% of the variance in systolic blood pressure and 17% of the variance in diastolic blood pressure. SEP had a significant effect on chronic stress (beta = -0.376, p > .001) and chronic stress had a significant effect on negative affect (beta = .489, b = 1.809, p < .001). However, neither SEP nor chronic stress had significant effects on blood pressure. Interestingly, emotions did not have significant effects on blood pressure. Women had higher negative affect scores than men (beta = -.155, b = 2.771, p < .01); however, men's diastolic blood pressures were higher than women's (beta = -.132, b = -3.584, p < .05). As anticipated, age and BMI had significant effects blood pressure. However, findings indicated that gender, SEP, chronic stress, and emotions did not have the expected negative effects on blood pressure in highly educated, high income Black American adults. Findings of this study are useful to nurses and other health professionals in identifying health promotion interventions to eliminate disparities in health for Black Americans.PhDBlack studiesHealth and Environmental SciencesNursingPublic healthSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129200/2/3042047.pd
Multidimensional measures of acculturation and ethnic attachment as predictors of depressive symptoms in two populations of Korean-Americans.
No full textAcculturation has been characterized as an important variable in the mental health of ethnic migrant groups. This dissertation developed and assessed multidimensional measures of acculturation and ethnic attachment for Korean Americans based on a random sample of first-generation immigrants from Chicago (N = 622) and a sample of students from the University of Michigan (UMI) (N = 206). Factor analysis revealed four interpretable acculturation factors and six ethnic attachment factors among the Chicago sample. Five distinct acculturation factors and three ethnic attachment factors emerged among the UMI sample with Cronbach alpha estimates for each of the factors ranging from very high to moderate. In both samples, the results supported a multidimensional conceptualization of acculturation. Also, the results obtained provided evidence supporting the validity of the scale, which is promising for measuring level of acculturation among Korean American populations. Additional analysis considered the associations between acculturation, ethnic attachment, and depressive symptoms. Acculturation was a significant predictor of depressive symptoms: English familiarity was found to be negatively associated, while adoption of American appearances and having individualistic values were positively related. Ethnic attachment appeared beneficial--preserving Korean heritage and interacting with Korean friends were negatively associated with depressive symptoms. Acculturation and ethnic attachment measures showed similar effects for men and women. Bicultural (integration) mode of adaptation had the lowest predicted CES-D score (10.6), while the marginal mode of adaptation had the highest score (13.5). Finally, three cultural value scales: the Traditional (Korean or Confucian) Value Scale (TVS), the Independent Self-Construal Scale (IND-SCS), and the Interdependent Self-Construal Scale (INT-SCS) were investigated for construct validity and association with depressive symptoms. There were several significant associations between CES-D scores and the cultural value scales, when examined individually controlling only for demographic variables. Specifically, IND-SCS (that matches the expectation of the American society) was associated with fewer depressive symptoms, while the TVS and the INT-SCS were positively related.PhDEthnic studiesHealth and Environmental SciencesPsychologyPublic healthQuantitative psychologySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/131375/2/9909841.pd
The prevention of psychopathology in African Americans: An epidemiologic perspective
No full textAlthough improving the mental health status of African Americans is an important goal, it is not clear that this can be accomplished by increasing access to professional services. Many have argued that stressful social conditions are the major cause of mental disorder in blacks and thus, psychopathology can be prevented by eliminating racism, oppression and poor economic conditions. This review argues that while the notion of primary prevention with African Americans should be taken seriously, there is still a need for more and better epidemiologic research. Three bodies of knowledge relevant to black mental health are addressed: 1) the need for an epidemiologic knowledge base for prevention; 2) coping capacity and vulnerability to stress; 3) risk factor identification. Findings from a national survey of adult African Americans are presented as an example of risk factor identification for the purpose of specifying targets for preventive interventions. The paper concludes that before the prevention of psychopathology in black populations can be achieved, a number of measurement, theoretical and policy issues must be addressed. Specific directions for future research are outlined.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44304/1/10597_2004_Article_BF00752393.pd
Cedric Dover, April 15, 1948
No full textPortrait of Cedric Dover. Written on recto: For Harold with every good wish, Cedric. Written on verso: The late Cedric Dover, Eurasian at one time on the faculty at Fisk University, and author of the famous book on Negro art, for which Harold Jackman furnished much of the material; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 15, 1948
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