White (Caucasian!) American Heritage Month

The American Heritage Intermediate Corpus

Sample studies of the five-million-word American Heritage Intermediate Corpus, the largest yet for English, show the inadequacies of computerized word counts for lexicographical purposes. Out of about 87,000 word types listed in the American Heritage Word Frequency Book (by JOHN B. C~RorI. et alii, Houghton Mifflin-American Heritage, New York, 1971), only about 40 % seem distinctive lexical ite...

American = White?

Six studies investigated the extent to which American ethnic groups (African, Asian, and White) are associated with the category "American." Although strong explicit commitments to egalitarian principles were expressed in Study 1, Studies 2-6 consistently revealed that both African and Asian Americans as groups are less associated with the national category "American" than are White Americans. ...

American Heart Month — February 2013

American Heart Month — February 2014

Preventive medication adherence in African American and Caucasian headache patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine race-related differences in adherence to preventive medication agents in headache patients and identify factors predictive of medication adherence in Caucasian and African American headache patients. METHODS Using a longitudinal naturalistic study design, data from 77 Caucasian and 32 African American headache patients were collected through (1) 30-day daily diarie...