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Robbins, Jessica C., and Kimberly Seibel. "ADAPTIVE GARDENING PRACTICES AMONG OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS IN DETROIT." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1901.

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Abstract It is well established that gardening can promote physical, social, and emotional wellbeing for many older adults in varied circumstances (Milligan, Gatrell, and Bingley 2004; Nicklett, Anderson, and Yen 2016; Wang and MacMillan 2013). In post-industrial cities formed by historical and ongoing processes of structural inequality such as Detroit, Michigan, gardening is beneficial for residents in terms of health, economic activity, community-building, and city beautification (Lawson 2005; Pitt 2014; Pothukuchi 2015; White 2011). However, research has less frequently investigated how gardening can promote wellbeing for older adults living in contexts of urban structural inequality. This poster addresses this gap by exploring how older African American gardeners in Detroit adapt their gardening practices to changing physical abilities and capacities. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season (March-October 2017) with older African Americans in Detroit (n= 27), we employ a selective-optimization-with-compensation framework (Baltes and Baltes 1990) to understand the modifications that older Detroiters make in their gardening practices as they age. Findings demonstrate that older African Americans in Detroit engage in gardening in flexible, creative ways that accommodate new physical limitations, while also connecting to changes occurring in the city of Detroit. This study thus has implications for further understanding how gardening can benefit older adults, and how older adults can contribute vitality to contexts of structural inequality.

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Pattin, Anthony J., and Ledric Sherman. "Experiences Among African American Community Members With Pharmacy-Based Immunization Services in Detroit, Michigan." Journal of Pharmacy Technology 34, no. 6 (September 19, 2018): 259–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8755122518801288.

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Background: Although vaccination rates improved modestly in the United States during the 2014-2015 season, racial and ethnic disparities in the use of vaccines persist. Pharmacy-based immunization programs expand access to immunization services; however, African Americans in one metropolitan community did not have the same level of access to this service as non-Hispanic whites. Objective: To examine the experiences of African Americans with pharmacy-based services and identify how pharmacies and pharmacy organizations can better service patients in urban communities with similar dynamics. Methods: This qualitative study utilized focus group discussions among African American residents in Detroit, Michigan, where there are reported disparities in access to pharmacists that immunize to learn more about their experiences with pharmacy-based immunization services. Results: Three major themes emerged: the pharmacy location is often more convenient and accessible than doctors’ offices, there is clear communication with the pharmacist, and perceived lower immunization fees at pharmacies. Participants found pharmacies easier to access in their community for immunization services. Consistent interaction with familiar pharmacists and pharmacy staff members facilitated strong relationships and dialogue between pharmacists and patients. Patients perceived costs for vaccines to be less at the pharmacy than at their physicians’ offices. Conclusions: Participants reported positive experiences with pharmacy-based immunization services and expansion of these services may influence more African Americans to receive recommended vaccines in this community.

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Mitchell, Jamie, Tam Perry, Vanessa Rorai, Joan Ilardo, Peter Lichtenberg, and James Jackson. "Building and Sustaining a Community Advisory Board of African American Older Adults as the Foundation for Volunteer Research Recruitment and Retention in Health Sciences." Ethnicity & Disease 30, Suppl (November 19, 2020): 755–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.30.s2.755.

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Older African Americans’ participation in health-related research is severely limited; they are not involved in sufficient numbers to ensure the applicability of advancements in medical and behavioral health. This research participation gap exacerbates older African Americans’ vulnerability to poor health outcomes and disparities. The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research employs a progressive community-based participatory model that utilizes a structured community advisory board (CAB) of African American older adults in metro Detroit, Michigan to oversee the research recruitment and retention of fellow minority older adult research participants. CAB members develop and support community health programming that provides free resources to older adults and also serves as fertile ground for recruiting participants in a volunteer research registry. CAB members are also provided ongoing training on social and behavioral health research and are supported in acting as a consultancy to outside researchers where they can be compensated for their expertise and engagement. This community-engaged model of sustaining a CAB of African American older adults offers key lessons learned on building relationships and trust, valuing and leveraging community members’ expertise and time, sharing decision-making, and fostering genuine community all while promoting research recruitment and retention among underserved populations.Ethn Dis. 2020;30(Suppl 2):755-764; doi:10.18865/ed.30.S2.755

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Marks, Alexis Braun, Mason Christensen, Amanda Ford, Steven Gentry, Ashley Johnson Bavery, and Matthew Jaber Stiffler. "Locating Arab Americans in Greater Detroit: An Overview of MENA Archives in Southeast Michigan." American Archivist 86, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 370–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-86.2.370.

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ABSTRACT Southeast Michigan is home to one of the largest, most highly concentrated populations of people of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent in the United States. This case study includes summaries of MENA-related collections at four separate repositories: the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, the Arab American National Museum, the Dearborn Historical Museum, and Eastern Michigan University Archives. This region not only provides unparalleled archival holdings, but researchers and archivists are actively working with local MENA communities to create future collections. In this study, staff from each of the four profiled institutions have contributed a summary that links collections across institutions and illustrates the importance of visiting two or more sites to fully understand the region's Arab American community. The authors reveal how researchers can find a rich collection of artifacts and photographs, oral histories, personal papers and organizational records, published materials, and government documents all within a half-hour drive of the Detroit Metro Airport. These collections, which are local, national, and international in scope, make metropolitan Detroit a crucial research site for historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and other scholars examining the life and culture of MENA communities across the United States.

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Jiagge, Evelyn, Joseph Kwaku Oppong, Jessica Bensenhaver, Francis Aitpillah, Kofi Gyan, Ishmael Kyei, Ernest Osei-Bonsu, et al. "Breast Cancer and African Ancestry: Lessons Learned at the 10-Year Anniversary of the Ghana-Michigan Research Partnership and International Breast Registry." Journal of Global Oncology 2, no. 5 (October 2016): 302–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.2015.002881.

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Women with African ancestry in western, sub-Saharan Africa and in the United States represent a population subset facing an increased risk of being diagnosed with biologically aggressive phenotypes of breast cancer that are negative for the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor, and the HER2/neu marker. These tumors are commonly referred to as triple-negative breast cancer. Disparities in breast cancer incidence and outcome related to racial or ethnic identity motivated the establishment of the International Breast Registry, on the basis of partnerships between the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. This research collaborative has featured educational training programs as well as scientific investigations related to the comparative biology of breast cancer in Ghanaian African, African American, and white/European American patients. Currently, the International Breast Registry has expanded to include African American patients throughout the United States by partnering with the Sisters Network (a national African American breast cancer survivors’ organization) and additional sites in Ghana (representing West Africa) as well as Ethiopia (representing East Africa). Its activities are now coordinated through the Henry Ford Health System International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes. Herein, we review the history and results of this international program at its 10-year anniversary.

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Booker, Vaughn A. "“God’s Spirit Lives in Me”." Nova Religio 22, no. 1 (August 1, 2018): 5–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2018.22.1.5.

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This article explores the work of the Rev. Charleszetta “Mother” Waddles (1912–2001), an independent African American Christian minister who operated the Perpetual Mission for Saving Souls of All Nations in Detroit, Michigan. It argues that Mother Waddles sought to reshape and repurpose the spiritual rhetoric of New Thought theology—especially the concept of “positive thinking”—for her daily practice as a home missionary and for others living in similar circumstances. Mother Waddles was distinct from other twentieth-century, African American New Thought messengers because she sought to speak to and change the lives and mindsets of other impoverished African Americans without making a theological case for their divine entitlement to material prosperity or by encouraging their desire for financial wealth. Her undated, self-published book, Attributes and Attitudes, offered twelve divine virtues that every potential home (urban) missionary worker should embody—as well as twelve negative attitudes they must reject—in order to serve others.

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Robbins, Jessica C., and Kimberly A. Seibel. "Temporal aspects of wellbeing in later life: gardening among older African Americans in Detroit." Ageing and Society 40, no. 12 (July 18, 2019): 2614–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x19000813.

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AbstractGardening has well-established physical, social and emotional benefits for older adults in varied circumstances. In Detroit, Michigan (United States of America), as in many cities, policy makers, funders, researchers, community organisations and residents regard gardening as a means of transforming bodies, persons, communities, cities and broader polities. We draw on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season with 27 older African Americans in Detroit to foreground the social dimensions of wellbeing in later life and thus develop a more robust and nuanced understanding of gardening's benefits for older adults. Based on anthropological understandings of personhood and kinship, this article expands concepts of wellbeing to include social relations across multiple scales (individual, interpersonal, community, state) and temporalities (of the activity itself, experiences of ageing, city life). Even when performed alone, gardening fosters connections with the past, as gardeners are reminded of deceased loved ones through practices and the plants themselves, and with the future, through engagement with youth and community. Elucidating intimate connections and everyday activities of older African American long-term city residents counters anti-black discourses of ‘revitalisation’. An expansive concept of wellbeing has implications for understanding the generative potential of meaningful social relations in later life and the vitality contributed by older adults living in contexts of structural inequality.

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Lammers, Philip Edward, Velmalia Matthews-Smith, Ya-Lin Yun, Yumei Pan, Snjezana Zaja-Milatovic, Amy Sullivan, Rosana Eisenberg, et al. "Somatic mutation spectrum of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) from African Americans (AAs)." Journal of Clinical Oncology 30, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2012): 6038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.6038.

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6038 Background: In the AA population, previous studies have presented conflicting data on the frequency of EGFR mutations (Reinersman JTO 2011;Leidner JCO 2009), while frequencies of other gene mutations and translocations, including anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), have not been described. Methods: 161 archival FFPE tumor specimens from self reported AA patients with any stage NSCLC from 1997-2010 were collected from 3 sites in Tennessee (132 samples) and one site in Michigan (29 samples). Samples were evaluated for known recurrent driver mutations in EGFR, KRAS, BRAF, NRAS, AKT1, PI3KCA, PTEN, HER-2, MEK1 by standard SNaPshot/sizing assays, and translocations in ALK by FISH. Clinical data was collected on 119 patients. Chi-square was used to compare the frequency of mutations in subgroups and Kaplan-Meier and log rank were used to calculate and compare PFS between groups. Results: 5.0% of tumors had EGFR mutations, 14.9% had KRAS mutations, 0.6% had a BRAF, AKT1, PI3KCA, or HER2 mutation, and 0% had NRAS, PTEN, or MEK1 mutations. Of 35 ‘pan-negative’ non-squamous specimens, 0 had ALK translocations. PFS was the same in those with and without KRAS mutation (p=0.74) and showed a trend towards improvement in those with EGFR mutation (p=0.08). The frequency of EGFR mutations was higher in samples from Detroit versus those from Tennessee (17% vs 2.3%, p<0.01), as was the frequency of adenocarcinoma (62% vs 44%, p<0.05). The frequency of EGFR mutations in never smokers was higher in the samples from Detroit versus Tennessee (83% vs 7.1%, p<0.01). Conclusions: In the largest tumor mutational profiling study of NSCLC from AAs to date, EGFR mutations occurred less frequently than would be expected from a North American population. We noted a regional difference, with fewer EGFR mutations in Tennessee than in Michigan, a finding that may have been the result of more adenocarcinoma samples from Michigan. The rates of other mutations and translocations including ALK were low. While lung cancer tumors should continue to undergo routine molecular testing to prioritize therapy, future comprehensive genotyping efforts should focus on identifying novel driver mutations in this population. Funding: 5RC1CA162260 R01CA060691 R01CA87895.

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Lau, Yan Kwan, Harihar Bhattarai, Tanner J. Caverly, Pei-Yao Hung, Evelyn Jimenez-Mendoza, Minal R. Patel, Michele L. Coté, Douglas A. Arenberg, and Rafael Meza. "Lung Cancer Screening Knowledge, Perceptions, and Decision Making Among African Americans in Detroit, Michigan." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 60, no. 1 (January 2021): e1-e8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2020.07.004.

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Ramsay, Jessica E., Mary R. Janevic, Cainnear K. Hogan, Dominique L. Edwards, and Cathleen M. Connell. "Using the Replicating Effective Programs Framework to Adapt a Heart Health Intervention." Health Promotion Practice 20, no. 5 (May 14, 2018): 760–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839918775740.

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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. African Americans and people of low socioeconomic status suffer disproportionately from heart disease–related morbidity and mortality. In Detroit, Michigan, a primarily African American and low-income urban area, heart disease mortality is at twice the national rate. Despite evidence for the effectiveness of self-management support interventions in reducing chronic disease burden for older adults, few are adapted for communities most in need. This article describes the process of adapting Take PRIDE, an evidence-based heart disease self-management intervention, for older adults in Detroit via the Replicating Effective Programs (REP) framework. Working within a community–academic partnership, we found REP useful in facilitating the identification of diverse stakeholders, core versus adaptable elements of the intervention and barriers to implementation. We also made several modifications to the REP framework in order to better fit our project needs. Overall, we found REP to be an effective, flexible tool that allowed us to successfully adapt a disease-management intervention for this setting. Processes, lessons learned, and recommendations offered in this article may help researchers and practitioners working to expand access to self-management support for populations most affected by chronic disease.

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Metcalfe-Ball, Bernice D. "The Examination of the Impact of Michigan’s Proposal 02-06 on UndergraduateAdmissions at Michigan Public Universities." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372346633.

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Taylor, Shockley Megan Newbury. ""We, too, are Americans": African American women, citizenship, and civil rights activism in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284135.

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This dissertation explores the activities of middle- and working-class African American women during and immediately after World War II in Detroit and Richmond, Virginia, in order to examine how World War II enabled African American women to negotiate new state structures in order to articulate citizenship in a way that located them within the state as contributors to the war effort and legitimated their calls for equality. This study provides a new understanding of the groundwork that lay behind the civil rights activism of the 1950s and 1960s. By looking at African American women's wartime protest and exploring how those women created templates for activism and networks for the dissemination of new discourses about citizenship, it reveals the gendered roots of the civil rights movement. This study uses a cross-class analysis within a cross-regional analysis in order to understand how African American women of different socioeconomic levels transformed their relationship with the state in order to use state structures to gain equality in diverse regions of the country. Class and region framed African American women's possibilities for activism. In both Detroit and Richmond, women's class positions and local government structures affected how African American women constructed claims to citizenship and maintained activist strategies to promote equality. This study finds that the new discourse and programs of middle-class African American women, linked with the attempts of working-class women to gain and retain jobs and better living conditions, contributed to a new sense of militancy and urgency within the civil rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s. By attempting to claim their rights based solely on their status as citizens within the state, African American women greatly contributed to the groundwork and the ideology of the more aggressive civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. African American women's initial forays into desegregating restaurants, jobs, transportation, and housing created the momentum for the entire African American community's struggle for equality.

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Young, Kelcei. "And the Stereotype Award Goes to...: A Comparative Analysis of Directors using African American Stereotypes in Film." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609173/.

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This study examines African American stereotypes in film. I studied six directors, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Lee, the Russo Brothers, Ryan Coogler, Tate Taylor, and Dee Rees; and six films Detroit, BlacKkKlansman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Help, and Mudbound. Using the framework of critical race theory and auteur theory, I compared the common themes between the films and directors. The main purpose of my study is to see if White or Black directors predominantly used African American stereotypes. I found that both races of directors rely on stereotypes for different purposes. With Black directors, the stereotype was explained further through character development, while the White directors used the stereotype at face value with no further explanation.

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Stevenson, Joe. "Spiritual direction and grief a grace to embrace /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Steward, Tyran Kai. "In the Shadow of Jim Crow: The Benching and Betrayal of Willis Ward." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374038170.

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Varner, Teri Lynn. "Performing black consciousness through natural hairstyles the case of African-American females in Detroit, Michigan /." 2003. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/r/d/2003/varnert032/varnert032.pdf#page=3.

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Murage, Njeru Wa. "Organizational history of the Detroit Urban League, 1916-60." 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=I095AAAAMAAJ.

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Brown, Kenneth Russell. "Strategies for economic development, Black churches, and the Hartford Avenue Memorial Baptist Church example." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/48259952.html.

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Dillard, Angela Denise. "From the Reverend Charles A. Hill to the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr. change and continuity in the patterns of civil rights mobilizations in Detroit, 1935-1967 /." 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=saHhAAAAMAAJ.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1995.
Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 342-352).

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Jackson, Tamela Teara. ""I can turn karaoke into open mic night" : an exploration of Asian American men in hip hop." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22417.

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The purpose of this report is to explore the ways in which Asian American men participate in hip hop culture, and what this participation says about their politics and representation in United States media and popular culture. This is done through an analysis of Freestyle Friday All Star, MC Jin, a Chinese American emcee from Queens, New York, as well as DJ Soko, a Korean American DJ from Detroit, Michigan. I argue that their participation is a desire for political power and creative visibility rendered on their own terms.
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Books on the topic "African americans, michigan, detroit"

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Gaines, Clarence B. Celebrating our heritage: Detroit, Michigan, 2004. Chicago (The Gaines Research Project, P.O. Box A3630, Chicago 60690-3630): C.B. Gaines, 2004.

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Berlatsky, Noah. The 1967 Detroit riots. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.

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1939-, Thomas Richard Walter, ed. Detroit: Race riots, racial conflicts and efforts to bridge the racial divide. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013.

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Thomas, Richard Walter. Life for us is what we make it: Building Black community in Detroit, 1915-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

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Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of Detroit. New York, NY: New Press, 2008.

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The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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1961-, Cohassey John, ed. Toast of the town: The life and times of Sunnie Wilson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.

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Thomas, June Manning. Redevelopment and race: Planning a finer city in postwar Detroit. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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MacRae, Cordella. Civil War veterans of the 102nd United States Colored Troops, the First Michigan Colored Regiment, buried in Elmwood cemetery, Detroit, Michigan. [Detroit, Mich.] (5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit 48202): Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society, 1990.

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Blue collar blues. New York: Warner Books, 1998.

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Mays, Kyle T. "“Detroit Is the Black Man's Land”." In Studying African-Native Americans, 27–40. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429456459-4.

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Rector, Josiah. "The Dehydration of Detroit." In Toxic Debt, 172–98. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665764.003.0009.

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Between 2014 and 2019, the City of Detroit shut off water to over 250,000 people, and the actions of state-appointed Emergency Managers exposed nearly 100,000 people in Flint to poisoned water. This chapter argues that the water disasters in twenty-first-century Detroit and Flint resulted from a catastrophic convergence between the historical legacies of postwar deindustrialization, housing discrimination against African Americans, and neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and austerity. What set Detroit and Flint apart from other Rust Belt cities was that Michigan’s Emergency Manager laws empowered the state to impose extreme austerity, outsourcing, and privatization policies without any democratic accountability, leading to harsher water shut-off policies and reckless cutbacks in public health protection. The financial sector also played a central role in the fiscal crises that enabled the state takeovers. Predatory lending, driven by deregulated Wall Street banks and real estate developers, created toxic municipal debt that precipitated Emergency Management. The chapter also tells the story of Detroit’s water rights movement, led by working-class African American women, who had protested utility shutoffs and the immiseration of the urban poor for decades, and increasingly were forced to put their bodies on the line.

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Boaz, Danielle N. "Human Sacrifice and African American Muslims in the 1930s." In Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur, 77—C4P56. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689400.003.0004.

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Abstract In 1932, in Detroit, Michigan, an African American Muslim named Robert Harris killed his tenant on an altar in his home, as a purported human sacrifice to Allah. In the weeks that followed, as Harris was prosecuted for murder and ultimately was sent to an insane asylum, newspapers across the country declared that Detroit was home to a “voodoo cult,” and that Black Muslims in the city offered human sacrifices to their “gods.” This was likely the first time that Black people in the United States were suspected of belonging to a religious organization centered on ritual murder. This chapter explores how the actions of this unstable man led to an entirely new interpretation of domestic “voodoo” and had profound repercussions for the Nation of Islam that continue to the present day.

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Brown, Jeannette E. "Life After Tenure Denial in Academia." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0010.

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The year 2014 was absolutely devastating for me professionally and personally; I was denied tenure and I lost both my maternal and paternal grandmothers. Reflecting back on that time in my life, I am certain that I would not have been able to survive the experience without the support of my close family and friends. I truly believe that the story of my journey will help others experiencing difficult challenges in their careers. After graduating from Henry Ford High School in Detroit, MI, in 1988, I enrolled at Highland Park Community College (HPCC) in nearby Highland Park. My mother was working as a secretary in the nursing department at the time, so I was able to take advantage of the tuition benefit offered to the college’s employees. I enrolled in a chemistry course for non-science majors, which I absolutely loved! Needless to say, after earning my associate’s degree in 1990, I decided to pursue chemistry as a major. I enrolled at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and attended two semesters before transferring to Wayne State University (WSU), in Detroit. My experiences as an undergraduate chemistry major at WSU led me on the path to pursue a doctorate in chemistry. In the fall of 1992, I was awarded an NIH-MARC (National Institutes of Health-Minority Access to Research Careers) Fellowship. This fellowship provided me not only funding support, but hands-on research training in the laboratory of Professor Regina Zibuck, a synthetic organic chemist. The environment in the Zibuck laboratory was very supportive and due to this mentoring experience, I wanted to earn a doctorate in chemistry. As a MARC Fellow, I was engaged in research and presented a poster on my research efforts at a national conference for the first time. Thus, I was developing fundamental laboratory and communication skills as an undergraduate researcher. Also during this time at WSU, I became involved in the WSU-NOBCChE chapter, where I found a supportive network of African American students pursuing undergraduate degrees in chemistry. The chapter adviser was Dr. Keith Williams, Director of Minority Student Initiatives in the chemistry department.

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Zolten, Jerry. "“I Just Got on My Travelin’ Shoes”." In Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, 17—C2.F2. 2nd ed. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190071493.003.0002.

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Abstract The 1930s were formative and expansive years for all styles of African American entertainment, including acapella gospel quartets. Recordings, radio, and touring provided regional groups access to broad audiences. James Davis and Barney Parks were inspired to pursue a livelihood as professional singers. They called themselves the Dixie Hummingbirds and began a campaign of “wildcatting,” going from town to town and remaining until they had established themselves there before moving on to the next. The Hummingbirds drove as far north as Michigan down south to Florida. They faced trial and tribulation along the way: detentions, sleeping in the car, all-night driving, wrecks, not getting paid, and racist confrontations. Their break came in the late 1930s for the famous recording group when Jimmy Bryant, stranded in Greenville while on tour with the Heavenly Gospel Singers of Detroit, used his record company connections to get the Hummingbirds an audition. The group, Bryant, James Davis, Barney Parks, and Wilson Baker, drove to New York City and recorded fourteen acapella spirituals for the Decca record label, which were released in 1939. The Hummingbirds were paid a flat fee. They returned home with the prestige of having recorded, but otherwise their career had stalled, leaving them wondering where to go from there.

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Rector, Josiah. "Detroit Reassembled." In Toxic Debt, 59–77. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665764.003.0004.

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Between 1929 and 1932, the Great Depression caused Detroit’s rate of unemployment, mortgage defaults, evictions, and water bill delinquencies to skyrocket. Beginning in 1933, New Deal policies helped Detroit avoid bankruptcy, ended the foreclosure and water shut-off crisis, and rebuilt the city’s infrastructure. Union organizing and strikes, given legal sanction by New Deal labor legislation, empowered workers to demand higher wages and safer working conditions in automobile. Yet, while New Deal policies benefited the city and improved public health, they also exacerbated environmental inequalities. New Deal housing agencies incorporated the racist property appraisal and lending practices of the real estate and banking industries into their vast new system of federal mortgage loan insurance. Redlining, along with restrictive covenants and racist mob violence by whites, trapped African Americans in neighborhoods with declining housing stock and poorer air quality while giving whites privileged access to suburban single-family homes with newer building materials and cleaner air. And while New Deal labor policies institutionalized collective bargaining for newly unionized autoworkers, they left shopfloor segregation intact, contributing to higher rates of occupational disease for African Americans.

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Quist, John W. "“A Long-Cherished Plan”." In Continent in Crisis, 152–73. Fordham University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531501280.003.0007.

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Following the American Revolution, Americans and Canadians pondered and debated, for well over a century, the prospective integration of their countries. Americans favoring Canadian annexation expressed their sentiments irregularly but were widespread in the Whig, Democratic, and Republican parties. They generally held that Canada’s entry to the United States would occur peacefully and be welcomed by Canadians. The loudest and most belligerent talk regarding Canadian annexation, though, occurred during the half-dozen years following the U.S. Civil War and stemmed from disputes with Great Britain over the unresolved Alabama Claims. Michigan Senator and Detroit resident, Zachariah Chandler, led the annexation chorus. For decades beforehand—and thereafter—Detroit residents, living along the U.S.-Canadian border, had followed Canadian affairs more closely than most U.S. residents. Their perceptions thus provide an instructive window into the broader U.S. debate regarding Canada and Canadian annexation.

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Curtis, Wayne, and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis. "Feedom Freedom Farmers." In Why Detroit Matters. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447327868.003.0024.

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The term “urban garden” may be too narrow to describe the work that Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson-Curtis do with their Feedom Freedom farm on Manistique Avenue on the far east side of Detroit. In 2009, they planted their first seeds in a formerly abandoned lot next to their home. Today, they grow food on roughly one acre of land. It is shared with the community and sold within the neighborhood, as well as at Eastern Market. In this interview chapter, they discuss how growing food is an act of revolution that is closely connected to their consciousness as African Americans oppressed under capitalism.

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Rector, Josiah. "Bodies on the Line." In Toxic Debt, 36–56. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665764.003.0003.

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This chapter begins with the devastating Briggs Fire of 1927, using it demonstrate how racial segregation and a weak regulatory state compounded the environmental risks created by the rise of the automobile industry in Detroit. As over 100,000 African Americans migrated to Detroit between 1910 and 1930, restrictive covenants kept African Americans out of virtually all new housing developments, resulting in severe overcrowding in the Near East Side neighborhoods of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. As overcrowding worsened in the Near East Side ghetto, Black tuberculosis deaths skyrocketed, undoing the progress of earlier decades. In the city’s factories, white managers restricted most African Americans to departments where polluted air caused silicosis, lead poisoning, and other occupational diseases. Detroit improved its water quality by chlorinating the water supply in 1913, resulting in a decline in typhoid deaths, but ran up record municipal debts to build sanitary infrastructure in the 1910s and 1920s. Then, between 1929 and 1933, the city’s tax base collapsed and its debt became unsustainable. The takeoff of the automobile industry created environmental, economic, and social problems that Detroit could not fix within the constraints of liberal Fordist capitalism.

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Kurashige, Scott. "Re-reading Vincent Chin." In Minority Relations, 126–58. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496810458.003.0005.

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This chapter provides a new look at the Vincent Chin case. Chin was a young Chinese American from the Detroit area whose beating death at the hands of two white men in 1982, and the light sentences they received at trial, sparked widespread outrage among Asian Americans and helped catalyze Asian American political organizing. The chapter urges scholars and researchers to beyond the received ideas in the established narrative about Chin's murder and to understand how the particular spatial, gender, and class dynamics of Detroit influenced the case. The chapter also specifically details the important involvement of African Americans in the case.

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Conference papers on the topic "African americans, michigan, detroit"

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Pathak, Anand, Ruta Sharangpani, Glenn Copeland, Eden V. Wells, and Violanda Grigorescu. "Abstract B89: Multivariate modeling of biological, socioeconomic, and treatment level variables partially explains the differential breast cancer mortality between African Americans and white Americans in Michigan." In Abstracts: AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research‐‐ Oct 22-25, 2011; Boston, MA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.prev-11-b89.

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Purrington, Kristen S., Julie J. Ruterbusch, Mark Manning, Michael S. Simon, Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer, and Ann G. Schwartz. "Abstract C042: Family history of cancer among African Americans with breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers in the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors cohort." In Abstracts: Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; September 20-23, 2019; San Francisco, CA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp19-c042.

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Tobi, Martin, Fadi Antaki, MaryAnn Rambus, Paula Sochacki, and Edi Levi. "Abstract 3714: Detroit African Americans (AA) are overrepresented among patients with large high-grade dysplastic (HGD) adenomas (LHiGDA) versus those with small HGD adenomas (ShiGDA)." In Proceedings: AACR 106th Annual Meeting 2015; April 18-22, 2015; Philadelphia, PA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2015-3714.

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