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How are African American political attitudes influenced by the mass media? Cathy Cohen's theory of marginalization suggests that media narratives about African Americans influence their public opinion about HIV/AIDS, behaviors associated with it, and populations associated with it. However, this has gone untested. Using an innovative experimental design involving four hundred African American participants, I find that episodic framing of HIV/AIDS not only activates negative attitudes toward behaviors associated with the disease and toward black men who engage in them; it also stimulates positive attitudes toward political mobilization and regressive policy solutions. Adapted from the source document.

How are African American political attitudes influenced by the mass media? Cathy Cohen's theory of marginalization suggests that media narratives about African Americans influence their public opinion about HIV/AIDS, behaviors associated with it, and populations associated with it. However, this has gone untested. Using an innovative experimental design involving four hundred African American participants, I find that episodic framing of HIV/AIDS not only activates negative attitudes toward behaviors associated with the disease and toward black men who engage in them; it also stimulates positive attitudes toward political mobilization and regressive policy solutions.

Traces the development of African-American community traditions over three centuriesFrom the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American communities has its basis in collectivism—a behavioral and rhetorical tendency to privilege the group over the individual—it explores the institutions that arose as enslaved Africans exploited the potential for group action and mass resistance. Craig Steven Wilder's research is particularly exciting in its assertion that Africans entered the Americas equipped with intellectual traditions and sociological models that facilitated a communitarian response to oppression. Presenting a dramatic shift from previous work which has viewed African-American male associations as derivative and imitative of white male counterparts, In the Company of Black Men provides a ground-breaking template for investigating antebellum black institutions

Examines the impact of Black representation in state legislatures on the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) policy on the state level; US.

From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. In the Company of Black Men examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish. Arguing that the universality of the voluntary tradition in African-American c

Uncertainty about domestic & foreign policies in areas were the US has vital interests makes hazardous an assessment of current US influence in Africa. An effective US influence in that continent is weakened by several liabilities. The US is so greatly over-extended by commitments in so many crisis areas that Africa does not receive the necessary high-level attention. Many of these commitments require continued support of dictatorships & other gov's which enable some Africans to scoff at the US role of 'Leader of the Free World.' On our domestic front, federal, state, & local gov's, supported by nongov'al org's, are attacking with varying degrees of success the inequalities imposed upon most US Negroes. Watts I, Watts II, other violent eruptions, & the acquittal of many whites who have been charged with the murder of civil rights workers & of men & women not engaged in civil-rights activities more than offset in the minds of Africans the onslaughts on segregation & discrimination. African Negroes living in the US are understandably more prone to write home about segregation & discrimination from which they suffer than about the org's & individuals engaged in promoting a better knowledge of Africa. On the African continent, US policy in Rhodesia & South Africa constitutes the greatest current liability. In mid-1966, the African policy of the US may still have time to reduce its liabilities & increase its assets. HA.