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Books on: african woman social

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Black Women in the New World Order: Social Justice and the African American Female

Book by Willa Mae Hemmons; Praeger Publishers, 1996

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African American Women, African American Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ORDERING THE NEW WORLD ORDER From a social scientific viewpoint, this...more equitable results for the African American woman. Such social action is necessary because...epitomizes the status of the African American female. The manner...
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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam

Book by Carolyn Moxley Rouse; University of California Press, 2004

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African American Women--Religion, Muslim Women--Social Conditions, Muslim Women--United States--Social Conditions, Women In Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...therapy like the Nation of Islam: to find within African American social history a different story from the one Americans are...use it because this is societys way of describing a woman that is not meek and mild. In feminist terms, its...
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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965

Book by Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas; University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Subjects:

African American Women Social Reformers--History, African American Women--Political Activity--History, African Americans--Suffrage--History, Suffragists--United States--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...International Relations, Social and Economic Conditions...disseminated to the press. The women resolved 1 to commend...to study problems of African peoples and those of African Americans. Educational, social, religious, and industrial...schedule visits from native Africans and missionaries. 18...
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Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Book by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo; University of North Carolina Press, 1996

Subjects:

African American Women--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Social Conditions, African Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Migrations--History--20th Century, Rural-Urban Migration--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th Century, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Childhood: class background of migrant women, 33 , 36 , 46 - 47 ; place of residence...43 ; as extended family, 43 , 156 ; as social center, 43 - 44 ; female leadership in...personal regeneration, 155 -56; as woman-centered, 156 , 158 ; as social welfare institution, 156 , 161 -62...
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Success Factors of Young African American Women at a Historically Black College

Book by Marilyn J. Ross; Praeger, 2003

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Academic Achievement--United States, African American College Students--Social Conditions, African American Universities And Colleges, African American Women--Education (Higher)

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...J. Success factors of young African American women at a historically black college...737-4 (alk. paper) 1. African American women Education (Higher). 2. African American college students Social conditions. 3. African American...

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Journal Articles on: african woman social

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Rewriting Patriarchal Scripts: Women, Labor, and Popular Culture in South African Clothing Industry Beauty Contests, 1970s-2005

Journal article by Peter Alegi; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2008

Subjects:

Beauty contests--Social aspects, Feminism--History, Garment workers--Social aspects, South African history, Working women--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...positioned at the bottom of a social hierarchy by structures...in their analysis of social dynamics in Cape Towns African township of Langa published...for leadership among Africans is very limited ... and therefore a source of social prestige." (51...afford oppressed black women a rare opportunity for...
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Group Interventions with Low-Income African American Women Recovering from Chemical Dependency

Journal article by Olivia G.M. Washington, David P. Moxley; Health and Social Work, Vol. 28, 2003

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African American women--Drug use, African American women--Health aspects, African American women--Social aspects, African American women--Statistics, Drug addicts--Care and treatment, Drug addicts--Demographic aspects, Social case work--Statistics, Social case work--Technique, Substance abuse--Demographic aspects

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...of Successful African American Women...accomplished African American women...feelings about the woman in the picture...with several women describing the...to overcoming social discrimination...chemically dependent women. African American Research...Journal of Social Work Research...
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African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936

Journal article by J. Aaron Frith; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004

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African American Women and Social Action: the Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism...settlement-house movement to deliver vital social services to black communities, North...training a new generation of professional social workers, and in the 1930s state and...
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Partner Abuse and Welfare Receipt among African American and Latino Women Living in a Low-Income Neighborhood

Journal article by Yunju Nam, Richard Tolman; Social Work Research, Vol. 26, 2002

Subjects:

African American women--Psychological aspects, Chicago, Illinois--Social aspects, Family violence--Research, Hispanic American women--Psychological aspects, Welfare--Influence

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...receipt among African American and...they receive social services aimed...nonabused women, given other...theory, a woman chooses public...only among African American women, not among...implications for social policy and social work practice...
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Perceptions of Sexual Risks and Injection for HIV among African American Women Who Use Crack Cocaine in Nashville, Tennessee

Journal article by Samuel A. Macmaster, Randolph F.R. Rasch, Mark L. Kinzly, R. Lyle Cooper, Susan M. Adams; Health and Social Work, Vol. 34, 2009

Subjects:

African American women--Drug use, African American women--Sexual behavior, Crack (Drug)--Management, Drug abusers--Health aspects, Drug addicts--Health aspects, HIV infection--Risk factors, HIV infections--Risk factors, Tennessee--Health aspects, Tennessee--Social aspects

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...Injection for HIV among African American Women Who Use Crack Cocaine...preventive practices. One woman offered an assessment...improvements throughout the African American community...think African American women are taking care of themselves...themselves.
woman had so internalized a...

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Magazine Articles on: african woman social

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Do Good, Get Rich: Social Warriors Start Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women

Magazine article by Elaine Lee; Black Enterprise, Vol. 38, May 2008

Subjects:

Africans--Economic aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Microfinance--Social aspects, Women--Economic aspects, Women--Social aspects

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Do Good, Get Rich: Social Warriors Start Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women. by Elaine Lee ILLUSTRATION...business trend, these social entrepreneurs are the...empowering indigenous African women through business. Her...
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What about the Women?

Magazine article by Antonio De Figueiredo; New African, January 2003

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Africans--Political aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Colonization--Social aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Criticism and interpretation, Women in politics--Criticism and interpretation, Women's rights--Political aspects, Women's rights--Social aspects, Women--Political aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...Africa towards Kenyan or South African tourist attractions, also...five Portuguese-speaking African countries--Mozambique...including, incidentally, by many Africans. In what concerns women...and fellow countrymen, now women still feel "marginalised" within African "marginalisation. Even I...balance when asked by a Canadian woman journalist: "And what about...
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Advancing African American Women in the Workplace: New Study Finds Challenges Remain despite Push for Diversity

Magazine article by Carolyn M. Brown; Black Enterprise, Vol. 34, June 2004

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African American women--Social aspects, Working women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Advancing African American Women in the Workplace: New Study Finds...quantitative findings or a group of African American women at Fortune 1000 companies qualitative...groups of entry-and mid-level African American women, more than 50...
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Good News for All Women of Africa: There Will Be 50% Women and 50% Men in the AU Commission. Historic, Reports Tom Mbakwe

Magazine article by Tom Mbakwe; New African, September 2002

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, African Union--Social policy, Equality--Political aspects, International agencies--Social policy, International organizations--Social policy, Women in politics--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...was not enough, the African leaders, determined...representation of women and men. But this is...going to get - 50% women, 50% men. The groundbreaking...each region shall be a woman". The 10 commissioners...candidates, including a woman for each portfolio...the need for eligible Africans, both men and women, to rise up to the...
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African-American Women on the Western Frontier

Magazine article by Roger D. Hardaway; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 60, January 1997

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African American Mormons--History, African American women--History, Brown, Clara--Biography, California--History, Fields, Mary--Biography, Greeley, Julia--Biography, James, Jane Elizabeth Manning--Biography, Mason, Biddy--Biography, Nevins, Tish--Biography, Pleasant, Mary Ellen--Biography, Western States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Americans have been. Africans came to the New...nineteenth century, an African American named...the first black women who went west was...African-American woman to travel with...several of her African-American and...poor, men and women. Like Clara Brown...servant of a white woman who--in 1874...converted her African-American servant...other end of the social and economic spectrum...

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Newspaper Articles on: african woman social

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I Was Torn between Two Mums; Her African Mother Handed Her over to a White English Couple to Give Her a Better Life. and She Had a Truly Idyllic Childhood - until the Day Social Workers Knocked at the Door

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 6, 2009

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Social workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...between Two Mums; Her African Mother Handed Her over...Childhood - until the Day Social Workers Knocked at the...arrangement - that is, Social Services were not involved...the sight of a white woman walking down the street...when Lola was nine, Social Services became involved...
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I Was Torn between Two Mums; Her African Mother Handed Her over to a White British Couple to Give Her a Better Life. and She Had a Truly Idyllic Childhood - until the Day Social Workers Knocked at the Door

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 6, 2009

Subjects:

Social workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...between Two Mums; Her African Mother Handed Her over...Childhood - until the Day Social Workers Knocked at the...arrangement -- that is, Social Services were not involved...the sight of a white woman walking down the street...when Lola was nine, Social Services became involved...
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Revealed: The Woman at the Top in the Worst Two Child Abuse Cases; after a Tribunal Yesterday Slated Social Services Management, We Examine the Controversial Record of Care Supremo Mary Richardson

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 10, 2005

Subjects:

Haringey Social Services

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...also evidence that in Hackney African children are particularly...per cent - nine in all - are African, whereas Africans comprise 12 per cent of the...says one concerned Hackney social worker, speaking on condition...It is shocking how few African children there are on the...
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South African Visit; City Woman Sees Many Changes

Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), July 3, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

South African Visit; City Woman Sees Many Changes. Byline...reckons her recent South African trip was just as much...lot of government and social change since apartheid...experienced an enormous social change and it is still...
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Police Appeal over Pregnant Woman; African Goes Missing Days before Birth

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 3, 2009

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Missing persons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Police Appeal over Pregnant Woman; African Goes Missing Days before...Black AHEAVILY-PREGNANT woman whose boyfriend murdered...You were a decent young woman who was caught in a vulnerable...keep an appointment with social services officials. Police...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african woman social

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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...newly emancipated African-American men but not to the women who had helped win...vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association...amendments kept the woman-suffrage movement...National American Woman Suffrage Association...granted suffrage to the women within their borders...organization was the Womens Social and Political Union...
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Integration

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...segregation separating African Americans from the rest...by the persistence of social custom. African Americans...rights organizations. African Americans, enjoying...Meredith became the first African American to attend a...Rosa Parks , a black woman, refused to give up...
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Howe, Julia Ward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1819 1910, American author and social reformer, b. New York City...wrote and lectured in behalf of woman suffrage, African-American emancipation, and other...Letters elected her as its first woman member (1908). Besides writing...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...literature ; and South African literature . The Tudors...keeping at bay its serious social and religious problems...fiction, departures from social realism are evident in...the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...men and many young women. The creation of...supported the efforts of African-American citizens...manifestations of social upheaval were the...growing movement of women demanding social...she was the first woman to gain a major partys...government funding for social programs the defense...

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