• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.528-534
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• 2010

This study explores the influence of health behaviors and individual attributes on adolescent overweight and obesity using data from Wave II (Add Health). Structural equation model/ path analysis using maximum likelihood estimation was utilized to analyze the relationships of health behaviors and attributes with obesity. Results of the model reveal that the causal paths (adolescents' attributes and health behaviors) for overweight and obesity were different for African American and Caucasian adolescents. Generally, African Americans were more susceptible to overweight and obesity than Caucasians. Although increasing levels of vigorous physical activities lowers the risk for obesity among African American and Caucasian adolescents alike, low family SES and being sedentary were associated with overweight and obesity among Caucasians. No significant associations were found among African Americans. Increased hours of sleep at night relate positively with obesity among African Americans. These findings suggest important elements in the consideration of race in developing effective intervention and prevention approaches for curbing the obesity epidemic among U.S. adolescents.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제36권
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• pp.211-240
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• 2014

This is a cross-sectional study designed to analyze the correlation between the structural and social variables and the pattern of contraction and deletion of the copula verb in the speech of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers in Athens in Georgia, USA using a questionnaire. The results show that the frequency of copula contraction is higher than that of deletion in all factor groups including the age of the speakers where this study found that younger speakers tend to have higher frequency of contraction and deletion of the copula than older speakers. This study analyzes this as a function of the fact that younger speakers of AAVE are conscious of the linguistic and social differences between AAVE speakers and speakers of Standard American English (SAE) and they consciously make choices regarding which norm to use at which contexts to satisfy their communicative and socio-cultural needs. This sort of conscious social behavior is not likely to disappear with age rather it might increase as a correlate of the perceived physical, socio-cultural and psychological distance between AAVE speakers and speakers of other varieties. This study shows that such perceived linguistic, socio-cultural and psychological distance has negative effects on pedagogy and I proffer the remedy.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to explore end-of-life (EOL) care planning and the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) among people who identify as Black or African American. Methods: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) were used to guide and inform this systematic review process. The following academic electronic databases with publications that reflected the interdisciplinary fields related to the research objective were searched: APA PsycINFO, CINHAL, PubMed, Scopus, and Social Work Abstracts. Results: After the authors conducted the search, 14 articles (from 13 studies) ultimately met the criteria for inclusion. The results substantiated significant concerns highlighted in previous literature regarding SES and its relation to EOL planning, but also revealed an absence of original work and interventions to increase engagement in EOL planning among Black and African American populations. Conclusion: Black individuals deserve an equitable EOL experience. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers need to move towards advocacy and action to meet this important need.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.104-108
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• 2016

흑인음악은 미국 내에서 소박한 민요에서부터 '재즈','알앤비','소울','펑크' 음악을 포함하는 매우 포괄적인 개념이다. 5음 음계의 싱코페이션을 사용하는 독특한 아프리카적 특성과 가스펠의 영향을 받으면서 발전하게 된다. 흑인 음악 장르의 다양성은 인종차별에 대한 역사적 흐름과 지역적 특색과 더불어 백인들과의 음악적 퓨전에서 찾을 수 있다. 미국 흑인음악의 거장 '스티비원더'. 흑인음악의 아버지라는 타이틀과 함께 그에게는 신체적 특징이 있다. 그것은 장애를 극복하면서, 수많은 음반과 히트곡 그리고 수 없이 많은 상을 차지하며, 미국을 넘어 전 세계적인 인기를 구가하는 뮤지션이 됐다는 점이다. 실용 음악사에 놓칠 수 없는 '스티비원더' 의 삶과 음악 그리고, 정신을 계승, 발전시켜 나아가야 함은 이 시대와 앞으로의 우리들의 음악을 폭넓게 밝혀주는 주요한 요소 중의 하나일 것 이다. 스티비원더의 모험 정신과 천재성은 앞으로도 우리나라 대중음악 및 뮤지션에게 큰 영향을 주게 될 것이다. 본 논문에서는 흑인 음악의 거장 '스티비원더'의 작품을 분석하고 악기 구성과 리듬의 독특함이 우리나라의 대중음악 뮤지션에게 어떠한 영향을 주었는지 연구 한다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-58
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• 2000

Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) were used to examine factors related to adolescent behavior problems, smoking, and delinquency. This study focuses particularly on the factors in an adolescent s immediate environment such as family, school, peers, and neighborhood (i.e. the microsystems) for the identification, prevention, and early intervention of adolescent behavior problems, smoking, and delinquent behavior. Both African American and Caucasian American adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 for whom data were available in the NLSY were included in this study (N=788). Results indicate that delinquent peer pressure and negative attitudes toward school are important determinants of behavior problems, smoking, and delinquency of American adolescents. Differences between African American and Caucasian American adolescents are highlighted.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제15호
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• pp.31-49
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• 2013

This paper delves into the recent 'paintings' of African-American artist David Hammons, which combine rubbish-like plastic wraps with the abstract-expressionist style paintings. In straddling between rubbish and art object, his works tend to blur the boundary drawn between two opposite categories in value, art and garbage, provoking the sophisticated taste of Upper-East-side white community in Manhattan, New York. Choosing the venue of his exhibition at a commercial gallery, Hammons's creative efforts is also a critique of what can be seen as the dominance of abstract expressionism and white elitism in American art history. The artist is known for his use of unconventional materials in art making such as black hair, barbecue bones, and elephant droppings, ones that are often associated with African-American experiences in all different levels. Since his debut in the art scene in the 1970s, Hammons has pursued the view of art-making as a medium for provoking contentious issues of racial relations in the States. On the other hand, the reception of Hammons's work as African-American art can be potentially quite limiting, overlooking as it does multi-faceted meanings of his art practice. His unconventional approach to art often took him outside art galleries and museums, where he was seen using a variety of common materials for site-specific installations and performances. Staged in different parts of Manhattan, these acts of art making traverse seemingly opposite communities and cultures, often blurring their boundaries. Hammons's artistic practice can label him what Abdul Jan Mohamed calls "specular border intellectual", revealing as it does the symbiosis of binary oppositions that is basic to the experience of communnal living.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.107-127
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• 2008

Critics are inclined to interpret J.M. Coetzee's novels in South African contexts, which Coetzee's own background seems to support. One has to bear in mind, however, that Coetzee tends to "see the South African situation as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo-colonialism." In other words, putting too much emphasis on South African contexts may diminish or undermine significance of Coetzee's multi-layered novels. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to highlight what Coetzee has to say about American colonialism/imperialism and to emphasize importance of "postcolonial rhetoric of simultaneity" which is repeatedly shown in his fictional works. It gives a meticulous attention to and analyzes "Vietnam Project," the first novella of Dusklands, Coetzee's very first novel, which depicts and characterizes "what Chomsky in the context of Vietnam [War] called 'the backroom boys.'" "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," "When a Woman Grows Older," and Diary of a Bad Year are occasionally brought into discussion as well. This kind of study seems timely and pertinent especially when we take into account the rampant American imperialism which has devastated and almost traumatized the world.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.433-451
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• 2018

In Jesmyn Ward's 2017 novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward places herself within the modern African American literary tradition and lays out the unending "historical traumas" of blacks and cultural haunting in her narrative. She brings to the fore the story of a young black boy and demonstrates the difficulty of living while a black man in the American rural South. Living or dead, black males remain spectral as their frustrated black bodies are endlessly rejected and disembodied. It's through Ward's close attention to the notions of black masculinity and retrieval of (black) humanity that the black South is remembered, recuperated, and historicized. Shrewdly enough, Ward expands it further into the tradition of American literature. Instead of singularizing African American identity and its historical traumas, she renders them the part of American history and universalizing the single black story as the story of the American South. Filling in the gaps that Faulkner and other white writers have left in their novels, Ward writes stories about the unspeakable, the invisible, the excluded to deconstruct white narratives and rebuild the American history; and reasserts African roots and history, spirituality, black raciality and locality within the American tradition. I examine the symbolic significance of Jojo's claim of black masculinity within the socio-political contexts of contemporary America. I also look closely at Ward's portrayal of Jojo's black family genealogy on account of its traumatic experiences of incarceration in notorious Parchman Farm. Locating Jojo as the inspiration of linking the past and the present, the unburied and the living, I contend that Ward creates "home" for blacks in an atemporal oceanic space where the past and the present are able to meet simultaneously. I argue that the oceanic space is an alternative space of affect that functions against the space of white rationality.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.301-322
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• 2008

Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self was published in the Colored American Magazine during 1902-03. As a literary experimentalist and a political protester, Hopkins uses her fiction as a medium to overcome and ameliorate the violently racialized surroundings of the turn-of-the-century America. Having been faced with racist rhetorics and theories growing on biological differences between races, Hopkins must have felt an overwhelming urgency to challenge the heritage of slavery in American history. In order to speak out her political agenda in such a milieu, she needed a new setting as well as new narrative materials for the new era. She had to move the setting from America to Africa, the ancient utopian Ethiopia; her interest in the ancient African civilization reflects both a popular African-American vision of Africa and the movement of "black nationalism" of the time. She also needed materials from nineteenthcentury sciences, the newly evolving theories of psychology and mysticism (spiritualism/mesmerism), to explore the meaning of "the hidden self" which unfolds the complex nature of Hopkin's position on race, "blood," and African-American racial subjectivity. Hopkins in the novel explores not the color line but the bloodline. Tracing the horrific legacy of incest in the history of slavery, she attempts to redefine the true racial identity of African-Americans in America and to reconstruct their past, both family and race history. At the very center of her major tropes in the novel-such as "of one blood," "the hidden self," and incest-exists female body. Black female body, though it represents the violent site of sexual body (rape and incest) in slavery, ultimately becomes a vehicle to convey and preserve the truth of racial memory/past/history for African-Americans. As a conveyor of the past, black women not just connect the past and the present but also reawaken AfricanAmericans with the legacy of the African 'pure' bloodline. Hopkins's vision here necessitates the reevaluation of black women's role in family and history, heralding the 20th-century black feminine writing. With the major tropes, Hopkins clearly suggests that the blood of (African-)Americans is unrecognizably intermixed. Although the novel ends with ambivalence and without resolution on what Africa signifies, those tropes certainly offer her a vehicle for criticizing as well as for challenging the racial reality of America.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2008

연구목적: 본 연구는 가변형 트레이 개발의 일환으로 그 시제품을 제작하고 비가역성 하이드로콜로이드 인상재를 사용하여 백인과 흑인에 서 인상채득시 트레이의 구강내 적합성를 알아보고자 하였다. 연구재료 및 방법: 가변형 트레이는 한국 성인 악궁의 크기 분석결과를 기본으로 하여 설계하였으며, CAD-CAM 작업을 통하여 견본 모형을 제작한 후 이를 이용하여 실리콘 간이 금형을 만든후 시제품을 제작하였다. 제작된 시제품을 이용하여 국내에 거주하는 백인 60명 (남자 30명, 여자 30명)과 흑인 60명 (남자 30명, 여자 30명)의 인상을 채득한 후 측정부위별로 인상체의 두께와 길이를 측정하여 그 적합도를 평가하였다. 결과: 1. 스탑과 경사면에 의해 트레이의 폭이 적절히 조절되어 균일한 인상체의 두께를 얻을 수 있었다. 2. 백인의 상악 트레이에서는 구개부 중앙이 13.0mm, 구개부 후방이 7.4mm로 비교적 인상체의 두께가 크게 측정되었다. 3. 백인의 하악 트레이에서는 전치 설측 기저부에서 인상체의 길이가 6.7mm로 길게 나타났으며 협측 제1,2 소구치 접촉점에서 폭이 6.7mm로 측정되었다. 설측 후방에서 폭이 2.9mm, 길이는 2.8mm로 조금 작게 측정되었다. 4. 흑인의 상악 트레이에서는 전치 순측 기저부에서 폭이 11.0mm, 구개부 중앙은 12.0mm, 구개부 후방은 11.0mm로 크게 측정되었으며 최후방 변연에서는 제2 대구치에서 후방 변연까지의 거리가 0.8mm로 작게 측정되었다. 5. 흑인의 하악 트레이에서는 전치 순측 기저부에서 폭이 9.2mm, 견치 순면에서 폭이 8.2mm로 비교적 크게 측정되었으며 최후방 변연에서는 제2 대구치에서 후방 변연까지의 거리가 0.3mm로 작게 측정되었다. 결 론: 이상과 같은 연구에 의해 측정된 값을 참고로 트레이의 변연 길이나 폭을 수정하고, 악궁의 해부학적 형태를 반영한다면, 이 가변형 트레이를 사용하여 백인과 흑인에서도 임상에서 보다 쉽고 정확한 인상채득을 할 수 있을 것이다.