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Recommended Read : Race Relations in the United States, 1960-1980" by Thomas Adams Upchurch

Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 0313341717

This book provides comprehensive reference coverage of the key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions.

Few decades in American history were as full of drama and historical significance as the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, a revolution in race relations occurred, seeing the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and the Latino labor movement. The focus in the 1970s was on carrying out the reforms of the previous decade, with resulting white backlash. Few decades have interested students today as much, and this volume is THE content-rich source in a desirable decade-by-decade organization to help students and general readers understand the crucial race relations of the recent past. The volume covers two decades with a standard format coverage per decade, including Timeline, Overview, Key Events, Voices of the Decade, Race Relations by Group, Law and Government, Media and Mass Communications, Cultural Scene, Influential Theories and Views of Race Relations, Resource Guide. This format allows comparison of topics through the decades.

The bulk of the coverage is topical essays, written in a clear, encyclopedic style.
Historical photos, a selected bibliography, and index complement the text.

Chocolate Cravings and Depression

An Australian study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that almost half of those surveyed craved chocolate when depressed and that the majority of those who had cravings reported that eating chocolate makes them feel better.

About 54 percent of participants reported food cravings and 45 percent of these people specifically named chocolate as the food they craved. More women than men reported craving chocolate, with 51 percent of women vs. 31 percent of men reporting this craving.

"Our most intriguing finding was the specificity of the links between chocolate craving and personality styles," said authors Dr Gordon Parker and Joanna Crawford from the University of New South Wales' psychiatry school and Black Dog Institute. Chocolate cravings occurred more often in depressed people who had symptoms of feeling irritable and being scared of social rejection.

About 61 per cent of those who craved chocolate reported that it improved their mood and made them less anxious and irritable. This finding was "consistent with these individuals judging chocolate as reducing anxiety and irritability," said the authors.

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