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The meaning "engage in mock-hostile banter" is African-American vernacular, by 1932. Related: Signified; signifying. While writing this essay, I asked a colleague, Dwight Andrews, if he had heard of the Signifying Monkey as a child. "Why, no" he relied intently. "I never head of the ...
The distinction here is important. I hope that academics who wish to do so willstudy Bannon and his impact on American politics;they should interview him, quote him in their work, and so on, as they see fit. Doing so does not imply any endorsement, or any vetting. Inviting him to camp...
From beating slaves to death to not treating them equally, and finally having an African American running the system. This is fairytale stuff, to be honest, and only in America can you see such things happen. Obama’s victory sends a message of hope, and change, and that struggle does ...
The response options for race were American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Pacific Islander, and White. Respondents could endorse any or all these responses. Other volunteered responses were field coded as “Other,”“Don’t know/Not sure,” and “Refused.” ...
Despite the large toll of opioid use disorder (OUD), genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of OUD to date have yielded few susceptibility loci. We performed a large-scale GWAS of OUD in individuals of European (EUR) and African (AFR) ancestry, optimizin
has just hours to launch a blockbuster bid to buy smaller mining rival Anglo American Plc. – or put its audacious takeover plan on the shelf. The proposal by the world’s biggest miner to spin ...
OBJECTIVE: To perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage scans using body mass index (BMI) to identify genetic loci predisposing to obesity. DATA: A total of 13 published genome scans on obesity have used BMI as their primary end point. Five of these 13 groups agreed to provide ...
Coastal marine waters in the Gulf of Guinea are severely affected by heavy metal pollution, particularly from small scale mining activities around major rivers feeding estuaries in the Region. However, the potential impact of these environmental stressor on the productivity of planktonic organisms remain...