it's theme touches on mercantilism and the slave trade, colonialism, and the African experience, and suggests that this experience unties all Africans, even those who have never lived on the continent. Lowe's article adds to this theme by showing that Africa is still viewed as unpopular in the media, and suggesting that the media contributes to furthering that stereotype by its use of the word tribe. Furthermore, the article

At the same time, however, the ghettoes resulted from the people's desire to form a united community to which they could relate and that could offer comfort from a society that, despite its more opened views, still viewed blacks from the point-of-view of the segregation policy. The ghettoes however represented an environment that would later offer one of the most important and relevant elements of the American culture: the music

African-American Religious Movements The African-American religious experience went through a period of "…extraordinary change" in the years between WWI and WWII (Fulop, et al., 1997, p. 314). Several "sects" and "cults" worshiped in storefront churches, moving from "mainline churches" into organizations that had political, fraternal and "benevolent" approaches to spirituality. But as to mainline Black churches, between 1926 and 1936, the Black Baptist movement grew from 3.2 million to 3.8 million

SIX: How does your family culture affect the formation of gender roles? There are many families in the African-American community that consist only of a mother. It is no secret that in a large number of Black families, the father is gone. I am blessed because my parents have pretty much shared responsibilities for the home and our income; we have no gender issues. SEVEN: Is a language other than English

" You figure, Williams explained to the author, you don't like what's happening at home in Chicago, and now in the U.S. Marines "...you finally get a chance to get away." Those were Williams' reasons for joining the military and participating in the Vietnam War as an African-American youth. Indeed Williams saw the military as not just an escape, but as "a form of incarceration" - but the war might

Organizational culture affects nursing practice and care across several dimensions. From job satisfaction to organizational effectiveness to patient perceptions of care, the culture of nursing organization has widespread implications. As an employee in a psychiatric hospital, I have observed that the cultural organization among staff has far reaching effects that touch nearly all facets in the workplace. The culture of the hospital I work at would be considered constructive, positive