Abstract This article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus Coates’s from 1996 until 2018 (350 texts; 468,899 words). study utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining linguistics and pragmatics. Frequencies five identity-related terms ( African (–) Americans, blacks...

Prostate cancer survival varies markedly by ethnicity. American Indians and blacks have the lowest 5-year relative survival among ethnic groups in the U.S. In New Mexico, relative survival for prostate cancer is lower for ethnic minority groups than for non-Hispanic whites. To examine factors underlying ethnic differences in prostate cancer survival in New Mexico, we analyzed Surveillance, Epid...

BACKGROUND The Black-White health paradox can be defined as lower frequency of depression despite higher prevalence of economic and social adversities as well as chronic medical conditions (CMC) among American Blacks compared to American Whites. Based on this paradox, the CMC - depressive symptoms link is expected to be weaker among Blacks than Whites. We conducted a 10-year longitudinal study ...

BACKGROUND There is limited research regarding the nature and prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among various racial and ethnic subpopulations within the United States, including African Americans and blacks of Caribbean descent. Although heterogeneity within the black population in the United States has largely been ignored, notable differences exist between blacks of Caribbean...

Following recent econometric developments, we use self-assessed general health on a Likert scale conditioned by several objective determinants to measure disparity between non-Hispanic Whites and minority groups in the United States. A statistical decomposition analysis is conducted determine contributions of socio-demographic neighborhood characteristics generating disparities. Whereas, 72% Bl...