Everything about African

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: AfricanA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Narrative of the life of Frederick DouglassThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans.Cited 5,741 times
5. Go sideways: ContonA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Harold CourlanderA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans.

  Claude M. Steele, Joshua Aronson · 1995 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 5,741 citations

• Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans

  Giulio Genovese, David J. Friedman, Michael D. Ross · 2010 · Science · 1,913 citations

• Racism as a stressor for African Americans: A biopsychosocial model.

  Rodney Clark, Norman B. Anderson, Vernessa R. Clark · 1999 · American Psychologist · 1,907 citations

• Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans: Implications for group identification and well-being.

  Nyla R. Branscombe, Michael T. Schmitt, Richard D. Harvey · 1999 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,871 citations

• A simple frailty questionnaire (FRAIL) predicts outcomes in middle aged African Americans

  John E. Morley, T.K. Malmstrom, D.K. Miller · 2012 · The Journal of nutrition, health and aging · 1,842 citations

• ARC ASSEMBLY AND CONTINENTAL COLLISION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN OROGEN: Implications for the Consolidation of Gondwanaland

  Robert J. Stern · 1994 · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 1,692 citations

• Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

  Mahesh Sankaran, Niall P. Hanan, Robert J. Scholes · 2005 · Nature · 1,690 citations

• COVID-19 and African Americans

  Clyde W. Yancy · 2020 · JAMA · 1,660 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Cancer statistics for African American/Black People 2022

  Angela N. Giaquinto, Kimberly D. Miller, Katherine Y. Tossas · 2022 · CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians · 459 citations

• The impact of green technological innovation and institutional quality on CO2 emissions in African countries

  Emma Serwaa Obobisa, Haibo Chen, Isaac Adjei Mensah · 2022 · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 436 citations

• The effects of digital transformation on innovation and productivity: Firm-level evidence of South African manufacturing micro and small enterprises

  Cyrielle Gaglio, Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Edward Lorenz · 2022 · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 434 citations

• Safety and efficacy of malaria vaccine candidate R21/Matrix-M in African children: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, phase 3 trial

  Mehreen S Datoo, Alassane Dicko, Halidou Tinto · 2024 · The Lancet · 419 citations

• Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies

  Jingning Zhang, Diptavo Dutta, Anna Köttgen · 2022 · Nature Genetics · 408 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Narrative of the life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 1845
• The Souls of Black FolkW. E. B. Du Bois · 1903
• BelovedToni Morrison · 1987
• The Color PurpleAlice Walker · 1976
• I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou · 1969
• A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry · 1958
• Autobiografía Malcolm XAlex Haley, Malcolm X · 1965
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryMildred D. Taylor · 1976

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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