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Altmetrics As Educational And Outreach Tools For Researchers: A Case Study At Howard University, Young-Joo Lee
Altmetrics As Educational And Outreach Tools For Researchers: A Case Study At Howard University, Young-Joo Lee
Young-Joo Lee
Altmetrics as Educational and Outreach Tools for Researchers: A Case Study at Howard University
Emergency Alert: This Is Not A Test! An International Disaster Relief Plan For Protecting Children And Families, Cynthia Mabry
Emergency Alert: This Is Not A Test! An International Disaster Relief Plan For Protecting Children And Families, Cynthia Mabry
Cynthia R Mabry
There are more than 132,000,000 orphans worldwide. As a result of recent natural disasters in the United States and other countries, the number of orphans has increased. Recent events in the Gulf Coast in the United States, Haiti and Japan showed that thousands of children become separated from their parents or guardians when disasters strike. Family members were scattered during these tragedies. Many children were reunited with their families; but some children were sent to orphanages while others waited in classrooms for their family members to come for them. Many Haitian children were sent to foreign countries far from their …
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Fifty years after Dr. W. E. B. DuBois wrote these words in The Souls of Black Folk, the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education case dramatized them. This legal action forced the United States to confront the explicit racial caste system imposed on African Americans prior to the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brown decision also highlighted how politics, wedded to the maintenance of white supremacy, supported the well-organized de Jure terror system common …
Reviewed Work: An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation And Modernity In The Lower South, 1730-1815. By Joyce E. Chaplin, Edna Medford
Reviewed Work: An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation And Modernity In The Lower South, 1730-1815. By Joyce E. Chaplin, Edna Medford
Edna Greene Medford
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Downstairs, Upstairs In D.C.; How White Folk Looked To Those Who Served Them, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Downstairs, Upstairs In D.C.; How White Folk Looked To Those Who Served Them, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
THEY CAME from Midnight, Mississippi, and Dawn, Virginia; from Knott, Texas, and Whynot, North Carolina. They are the African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington in the early decades of this century.
Between Women: Domestics And Their Employers., Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Between Women: Domestics And Their Employers., Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Scholars scrutinizing the sociohistorical literature for insights into the experiences of African-American household workers will be overwhelmed with the erroneous assumptions, faulty generalizations, and racist stereotypes that pervade the literature.