Browsing by Subject "African American men"
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CORTISOL RESPONSE TO PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING INFORMATION AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN
(East Carolina University, 2012)According to national statistics, African American men have a 60% higher incidence rate, are diagnosed at later stages, and have twice the mortality rate of Caucasian men. The prostate cancer disparity is especially salient ... -
Family Interactions Among African American Prostate Cancer Survivors
(East Carolina University, 2008-07)Prostate cancer affects African Americans at a higher rate than any other ethnic group in the United States. Prostate cancer does not only affect the man with the disease but also affects those individuals who are closest ... -
A Rationale for the African American Man's Destruction in Alice Walker's Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
(East Carolina University, 2012)The African American man is destroyed physically or psychologically in many literary works because he is disliked and/or because of choices he makes. What is intriguing is that African American women writers Zora Neale ...