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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Aging : health challenges and the role of social connections 
    Publication: New York, NY : New York Academy of Medicine, May 2016
    ... big difference between African Americans that are of Caribbean descent versus African Americans who are third or fourth American generation and have moved up here from having family down south. They eat differently. ... I ... Caribbean African Americans. (Older adult service provider, Queens) Access ...
  2. ... a history of the involvement of people of African descent in the nursing profession in the US, the Caribbean, and Africa. (Grade level: 9 -12) Covey, Herbert ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health. (Volume 4, Part 1) 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, [1985-1986]
    ... environmental determinants and influences. Though Blacks in the Caribbean and the Americas are mostly of West African descent, an extensive process of miscegenation occurred during and ...
  4. ... American Indian / 145 4% Native American / Indigenous Afro-Caribbean 88 3% Afro-Latinx 34 1% Of African Descent 8 <1% AGE 18 to 24 64 6% ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Three dissertations on Boylston prize questions for the years 1806 and 1807 
    Publication: [Boston] : Published by Farrand, Mallory, & Co. and Hastings Etheridge, & Bliss, Boston ; by Hopkins & Bayard, New-York ; and Hopkins & Earle, Philadelphia ; Belcher and Armstrong, printers, 1808
    ... which invests the fifth in the order of descent from an African, with all the rights, immunities, and privileges of the native white. In Edward's History of the West-Indies, vol. ii. p. 19. is the following account ...
  6. ... histories of some but not all people of African descent in the US (e.g., more recent Black immigrants from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and other places). We also recognize that some ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The case of the manufacturers of soap & candles in the city of New-York, stated and examined :... 
    Publication: New-York : Printed by John Buel, for the association, MDCCXCVII [1797]
    ... imported from some distant parts, commonly from the West-Indies; the inhabitants of those Islands agreed among themselves in disclaiming its origin there ; but differed whether it was of Asiatic descent, from the climate of Siam, or of African production in the latitudes of Guinea. Had the ...
  8. ... native white parents? ....... (4) Born of parents of African descent?....... (5) Nationality, if born in a foreign coun- ... of the men meas- ured should be of African descent. Data cards will be furnished by The Adjutant ( ...
  9. ... life. At the present day, negroes of purely African descent are rarely met with here. The race has ... straightway concealed themselves behind some fellow citizens of African descent. By far the most common cause for exemption ...
  10. ... the United States. Seeing leading American physicians of African descent assembled that evening to deliberate over the highest ... great decisive tomorrow for the colored races of African descent. On behalf of those of us on the ...
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