Publication Year: 2011 / Subject Term: Caribbean people and Women / Language: English

Start Over Publication Year 2011 Subject Term Caribbean people Subject Term Women Language English

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Johnson,Violet M. Showers (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2011 Fall
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research & Community Involvement
Journal Title Details:: 2(2) : 196-207
Notes:: Discusses the contribution of fostering and surrogate mothering on the presence, settlement, and communities of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the U.S. from 1910 to 1950. Offers an overview of the Boston West Indian community in the U.S. and the successful formation of an immigrant neighborhood through childcare arrangements.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Barrett,Livern (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Aug 11-Aug 17, 2011
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 20
Notes:: American Carmelita Jeter winning the women's 100 metres final in 1 0.93 seconds at the Samsung Diamond League meet at Crystal Palace Stadium in London, yesterday. Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce right) was third in 11. 10 seconds. Trinidad and Tobago's Kelly-Ann Baptiste was second in 1 0.97 while Jamaicans Schillonie Calvert (11.23) and Aleen Bailey (11.36) were fourth and seventh respectively.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Tehranifar,Parisa (Author), Reynolds,Diane (Author), Flom,Julie (Author), Fulton,Loralee (Author), Liao,Yuyan (Author), Kudadjie-Gyamfi,Elizabeth (Author), and Terry,Mary Beth (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2011
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Cancer Causes & Control
Journal Title Details:: 22(4) : 599-610
Notes:: Investigates the associations between reproductive and menstrual risk factors for breast cancer and mammographic density, a strong risk factor for breast cancer, in a predominantly ethnic minority and immigrant sample. Interviewed women (42% African American, 22% African Caribbean, 22% White, 9% Hispanic Caribbean, 5% other) without a history of breast cancer during their mammography appointment (n = 191, mean age = 50). Concludes that the mean level of mammographic density did not differ across ethnic and nativity groups, but several risk factors for breast cancer were associated with density in ethnic minority and immigrant women.

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