Negros, brancos e o grupo dos ricos: o outro lado da desigualdade racial brasileira by Emerson Ferreira Rocha

“…This contradicts the thesis of “whitening” – embranquecimento – insofar as this thesis claims that blacks of a higher socioeconomic status may not suffer discrimination in Brazil or, at least, that they may be discriminated at a lesser extent. …”
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Utilization of Oncotype DX in an Inner City Population: Race or Place? by Amber A. Guth, Susan Fineberg, Kezhen Fei, Rebeca Franco, Nina A. Bickell

“…Of 225 ER+ women participating in a patient assistance trial, 23% underwent Oncotype DX testing: 31% of whites, 21% of blacks, and 14% of Hispanics (P=0.04) were tested. …”
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The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated declines in cancer incidence by race/ethnicity and census‐tract level SES, rurality, and persistent poverty status by Benmei Liu, Mandi Yu, Jeffrey Byrne, Katheen A. Cronin, Eric J. Feuer

“…Results Overall, incidence rates decreased from 2015–2019 to 2020, with varying PCs by cancer sites and population groups. Notably, NH Blacks showed significantly larger PCs than NH Whites in female lung, prostate, and colon cancers (e.g., prostate cancer: NH Blacks −7.3, 95% CI: [−9.0, −5.5]; NH Whites: −3.1, 95% CI: [−3.9, −2.2]). …”
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Legible Bodies and the Ghosts of American History: On Racialized Surveillance in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs Videogames by Sören Schoppmeier

“…These two opposing representations ultimately reproduce the racializing logics of contemporary digital surveillance as well as its lineage in American history in the ways that both whiteness and Blackness organize the operation of surveillance in the Watch Dogs franchise.…”
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Unveiling the Power of Race and Education in Shaping Entrepreneurial Dreams: An Empirical Study in Florida by Donovan Collier, Ravi Chinta

“…This study investigates the main effects and the interaction effects of race and education on entrepreneurial intentions in the pre-startup phase, using logistic regression analysis on a sample of 967 respondents from Florida. Blacks and Other Nonwhites are compared to Whites in the logistic regression analysis. …”
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Design and Optimization of Elliptical Cavity Tube Receivers in the Parabolic Trough Solar Collector by Fei Cao, Lei Wang, Tianyu Zhu

“…Increasing the tracking error angle and increasing the PTC focal distance would both decrease the cavity blackness. Introducing a flat plate reflector at the elliptical cavity open inlet can largely increase the cavity darkness.…”
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Dynamics Characteristic Analysis of a Spur Gear based on Measured Tooth Surface Error by Chen Siyu, Bai Fan, Tang Jinyuan

“…In order to study the influence of tooth surface error on gear system,the static transmission error is calculated for gear system with measured errors such as profile deviation,run out and pitch errors by tooth contact analysis method.In this work,a differential equation of vibration for gear system with time-varying meshing stiffness,blackness,meshing damping and static transmission error is established on the basis of previous research for gear transmission system. …”
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Trends in stroke-related mortality in atrial fibrillation patients in the United States: Insights from the CDC WONDER database by Muhammad Abdullah Naveed, Sivaram Neppala, Himaja Dutt Chigurupati, Muhammad Omer Rehan, Ahila Ali, Hamza Naveed, Bazil Azeem, Rabia Iqbal, Manahil Mubeen, Mashood Ahmed, Ayman R. Fath, Timir Paul, Bilal Munir

“…AAMRs decreased for all races except Blacks. Geographically, AAMRs ranged from 4.3 in Nevada to 11.9 in Vermont, with the Western region showing the highest mortality (AAMR: 7.9). …”
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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

“…Other slave narratives are then examined to show how the slave narrators’ reticence does not simply stem from their desire to live up to the prudish expectations of their readers but constitutes a rhetorical strategy aiming at opposing fugitive slaves abiding by conservative moral values to slaveholders whose profligacy blurs the conventional boundaries between males and females, Blacks and Whites, animals and human beings. As a result, try as they may to challenge the scale of values associated with these stereotypes, slave narrators get trapped in a conservative system of polarities that define them as inferior. …”
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Le Guyana: "Land of Six Peoples" ou "One People, One Nation" ? by Léna Loza

“…Examining postcolonial questions about Guyana entails transcending the traditional dichotomy "former colonizers/former colonized people." Indians and Blacks, who were both subject to colonial power, have indeed developed antagonistic relationships. …”
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Vidas no sufoco nos transportes na pandemia: um App de mapeamento colaborativo para alerta de lotação na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) by Ricardo Barbosa da Silva

“…It was found that the population of the urban peripheries is most subjected to the condition of suffocation of crowding in public transport, precisely in the territory that concentrates the poorest and blacks, found to be the most vulnerable group to Covid-19.…”
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Simultaneous Determination of Salicylic Acid, Jasmonic Acid, Methyl Salicylate, and Methyl Jasmonate from Ulmus pumila Leaves by GC-MS by Zhi-hong Huang, Zhi-li Wang, Bao-lin Shi, Dong Wei, Jian-xin Chen, Su-li Wang, Bao-jia Gao

“…The study uses Ulmus pumila leaves infected by Tetraneura akinire Sasaki at different stages as materials; after extraction with 80% methanol and ethyl acetate and purification with primary secondary amine (PSA) and graphitized carbon blacks (GCB), the contents of signal compounds salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, methyl salicylate, and methyl jasmonate were determined by GC-MS. …”
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PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS toxicokinetic considerations for the development of an in vivo approach for assessing PFAS relative bioavailability in soil by Albert L. Juhasz, Farzana Kastury, Ruby Jones, Mahima Seeborun, Tanya Caceres, Carina Herde, Michelle Cavallaro, Sarah Dilmetz, Joshua Hutchings, Yevgeniya Grebneva, Chris Desire, Peter Hoffmann

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Equitable artificial intelligence for glaucoma screening with fair identity normalization by Min Shi, Yan Luo, Yu Tian, Lucy Q. Shen, Nazlee Zebardast, Mohammad Eslami, Saber Kazeminasab, Michael V. Boland, David S. Friedman, Louis R. Pasquale, Mengyu Wang

“…With FIN for racial groups, the overall AUC and ES-AUC increased from 0.82 to 0.85 and 0.77 to 0.81, respectively, with the AUC for Blacks increasing from 0.77 to 0.82. With FIN for ethnic groups, the overall AUC and ES-AUC increased from 0.82 to 0.84 and 0.77 to 0.80, respectively, with the AUC for Hispanics increasing from 0.75 to 0.79.…”
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Play space – head space – third space: playful pedagogy and research – ways of building collaborative and creative communities of learners by Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield

“…To carry third space practice further, rather than writing a summative reflective piece drawing together our thinking in a suitably formal and dense academic piece, we have cut up what we have written – we have blacked out the blogs and PowerPoint sessions of others – and we have put these together to create a new story: that explores the creation of 'third spaces' and immersive activities as pedagogical practices for powerful student learning. …”
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(Auto)biography and Authority: Dickens and Forster’s Reconstruction of a ‘National Treasure’ by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper considers the reconstruction by John Forster of Charles Dickens’s childhood through his use of what is usually called ‘the autobiographical fragment’, a short text dealing with the Blacking Warehouse episode which bears witness to both Dickens’s strict auto-censorship and his tendency to frenetic confession. …”
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The South between Two Frontiers: Confederate Cowboys and Savage Rednecks by Hervé Mayer

“…If The Birth of a Nation was the first and last film in which Blacks were pictured as predatory beasts in Hollywood, this internal frontier reappears with the cultural crisis of the 1960s, when the South became home to savages of a new kind, degenerate rednecks, who embody the failure of the national myth in the Western, serving as scapegoats for an American savagery revealed by the My Lai massacre and the Manson murders. …”
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Variation in Provider Identification of Obesity by Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Characteristics among an Insured Population by Sara N. Bleich, Jeanne M. Clark, Suzanne M. Goodwin, Mary Margaret Huizinga, Jonathan P. Weiner

“…Members living in neighborhoods with the largest proportions of Blacks were 29 percent less likely to receive an obesity diagnosis (P<.05). …”
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“I think it was in poor taste that you were doing Murtaugh in whiteface” – Blackface goes West (and White) in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, 2005-) by Sébastien Lefait

“…In these two installments, a white character “blacks up” to play Murtaugh in “sweded” sequels to Lethal Weapon 1 to 4 (Richard Donner, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1998). …”
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Reflections on the ecclesiastical interpretations of 6th April 1652 as a South African symbolic date by R. M. Britz

“…This was illustrated at the 1952 celebrations. To many blacks the date commemorated inaugurated three centuries of wrong. …”
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