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Randolph G. Potts has been involved in several intervention and research projects focusing on African American children and adolescents during the past ten years. His published work also covers the relationships between spirituality and the experience of cancer, and spirituality and alcoholism in African American communities.
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Potts, R.G. The social construction and social marketing of the “dangerous black man”. Journal of African American Men 2, 11–24 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-997-1002-2
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