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262. UK-born ethnic minority women and their experiences of feeding their newborn infant
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Twamley,Katherine (Author), Puthussery,Shuby (Author), Harding,Seeromanie (Author), Baron,Maurine (Author), and Macfarlane,Alison (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Midwifery
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(5) : 595-602
- Notes:
- Objective: to explore the factors that impact on UK-born ethnic minority women's experiences of and decisions around feeding their infant. Design: in-depth semi-structured interviews. Participants: 34 UK-born women of Black African, Black Caribbean, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian and Irish parentage and 30 health-care professionals. Setting: women and health-care professionals were recruited primarily from hospitals serving large numbers of ethnic minority women in London and Birmingham. Findings and conclusions: despite being aware of the benefits of exclusive breast feeding, many women chose to feed their infant with formula. The main barriers to breast feeding were the perceived difficulties of breast feeding, a family preference for formula feed, and embarrassment about breast feeding in front of others. Reports from women of South Asian parentage, particularly those who lived with an extended family, suggested that their intentions to breast feed were compromised by the context of their family life. The lack of privacy in these households and grandparental pressure appeared to be key issues. Unlike other participants, Irish women reported an intention to feed their infant with formula before giving birth. The key facilitators to breast feeding were the self-confidence and determination of women and the supportive role of health-care professionals. Implications for practice: these findings point to common but also culturally specific mechanisms that may hinder both the initiation and maintenance of breast feeding in UK-born ethnic minority women. They signal potential benefits from the inclusion of family members in breast-feeding support programmes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
263. UN Commission on Population and Development Reaffirms Cairo Consensus
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-01
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women's Health Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 17(1) : 6-7
- Notes:
- Discusses the highlights of the 44th Session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on Population and Development which dealt with the issue of Fertility, Reproductive Health and Development in which the 1994 Programme of Action from the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt was reaffirmed.
264. Una Marson and the Fractured Subjects of Modernity: Writing across the Black Atlantic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Donnell,Alison (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Winter2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(4) : 345-369
- Notes:
- Examines the work of Jamaican writer Una Marson for her engagement with the ideas of modernity and her cultural expectations as she traveled from Jamaica to London, England in the 1930s. Topics include colonialism, race and gender, modernism, and the magazine "Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Magazine for Business Youth of Jamaica and the Official Organ of the Stenographer's Association."
265. Unequal Distribution and Other Poems
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Michel,Claudine (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-04
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(1) : 158-162
- Notes:
- Three poems by Claudine Michel. "Unequal Distribution." First Line: Unequal distribution that forces; Last Line: to throw away her whistle and dream of a new Haiti? "Darkness." First Line: It is; Last Line: comes. "Brigitte." First Line: Did your mother call you Brigitte; Last Line: Child?
266. Urban governance and disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: the experiences of Oxfam GB
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pelling,Mark (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2011
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Environment & Urbanization
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(2) : 383-400
- Notes:
- This paper provides a cross-cultural analysis of the experiences of Oxfam GB in supporting urban community-based disaster risk reduction in Haiti, Guyana and the Dominican Republic. The paper focuses on the efforts of Oxfam GB and its local partners to overcome the determining influence of local governance on who benefits from interventions, and the longevity of positive outcomes.
267. Validation of the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire in 1(st) generation Black African-Caribbean and South Asian UK migrants: A sub-study to the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening (E-ECHOES) study
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bennett,Philip C. (Author), Lip,Gregory Y. H. (Author), Silverman,Stanley (Author), Blann,Andrew D. (Author), and Gill,Paramjit S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bmc Medical Research Methodology
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 85 : 85
- Notes:
- Background: We determined the diagnostic accuracy of the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire (ECQ) in 1(st) generation Black African-Caribbean UK migrants as previous diagnostic questionnaires have been found to be less accurate in this population. We also determined the diagnostic accuracy of translated versions of the ECQ in 1st generation South Asian UK migrants, as this has not been investigated before. Methods: Subjects were recruited from the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening (E-ECHOES) study, a community based screening survey for heart failure in minority ethnic groups. Translated versions of the ECQ were prepared following a recognised protocol. All participants attending screening between October 2007 and February 2009 were asked to complete the ECQ in the language of their choice (English, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi or Gujarati). Subjects answering positively to experiencing leg pain or discomfort on walking were asked to return to have Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) measured. Results: 154 out of 2831 subjects participating in E-ECHOES (5.4%) were eligible to participate in this sub-study, for which 74.3% returned for ABPI assessment. Non-responders were younger than participants (59[ 9] vs. 65[ 11] years; p = 0.015). Punjabi, English and Bengali questionnaires identified participants with Intermittent Claudication, so these questionnaires were assessed. The sensitivities (SN), specificities (SP), positive (PPV) and negative (NPV) predictive values were calculated. English: SN: 50%; SP: 68%; PPV: 43%; NPV: 74%. Punjabi: SN: 50%; SP: 87%; PPV: 43%; NPV: 90%. Bengali: SN: 33%; SP: 50%; PPV: 13%; NPV: 73%. There were significant differences in diagnostic accuracy between the 3 versions (Punjabi: 83.8%; Bengali: 45%; English: 62.2%; p < 0.0001). No significant differences were found in sensitivity and specificity between illiterate and literate participants in any of the questionnaires and there was no significant different difference between those under and over 60 years of age. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the ECQ is not as sensitive or specific a diagnostic tool in 1st generation Black African-Caribbean and South Asian UK migrants than in the Edinburgh Artery Study, reflecting the findings of other diagnostic questionnaires in these minority ethnic groups. However this study is limited by sample size so conclusions should be interpreted with caution.
268. Wanaragua: La clave rítmica garífuna como epicentro del mestizaje afroamericano
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pérez Guarnieri,Augusto, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Tradiciones de Guatemala
- Journal Title Details:
- 75 : 173-191
- Notes:
- Considers the characteristic features of Garífuna music, which are intrinsically related to the history of slavery, warfare, miscegenation, and resistance of this people of African and Caribbean ancestry, living today mainly on the Atlantic Coast of Central America and in the U.S. Based on his analysis of the Wanaragua or Yancunú rhythm, performed in Livingston, Guatemala, by dancers wearing shell rattles (illacu) tied to their ankles, and a musical ensemble consisting of two drums (garaón) and gourd rattles (sisira), the author examines the metric ambiguity of its basic “time line” or 'clave' of 3:3:2 as well as the rhythmic flexibility and unpredictability with which the dancers and musicians relate to it, as a musical expression of the social and cultural conditions created by that history, especially by the processes of miscegenation.
269. Water in Haiti: Acknowledging the Dilemmas of Dialogue in "Service" Work
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lucier,Danielle Hope (Author) and Anderson,Shawny (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- English, Portuguese and Spanish
- Publication Date:
- Spring2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Women & Language
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(1) : 63-66
- Notes:
- The author's thoughts on service work during a summer 2010 travel course to Haiti with a group from Saint Mary's College of California and reflections on the complexity of service learning and disaster relief work. A dilemma concerning the installation of a rainwater capture system on a house brought to light the issue of what the family thought they needed versus what the group thought they needed. The decision making process is discussed.
270. West Africa in the Caribbean : art, artefacts and ideas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lewis,Maureen Warner (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- December, 2011
- Published:
- Durban, South Africa
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Critical arts: a journal for cultural studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 25 (4): 555-564
- Notes:
- Special journal issue: Communicating Pan-Africanism: Caribbean leadership and global impact, While kinship and political structures could not be transferred from Africa to the Caribbean under the conditions of forced migration, kinetic expressiveness, artistic skills and mental epistemologies were retained. These retentions covered domains such as religious ideas, musical instrumentation and morphology, dance choreography, culinary forms, hair and dress aesthetics, language syntax, economic activity and cooperation.