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The Creative Encounter

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By Howard Thurman — 1972

Howard Thurman writes here about the "meaning of the religious experience as it involves the individual totally, which means inclusive of feelings and emotions."

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.

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Sabrina Strings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

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Dorothy Roberts
1998
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Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.

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Leigh Raiford (Editor), Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Editor)
2017
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Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other

Drawing on her own and others' experiences, Loulan explores what it means to be lesbian: how we live our lives and how we want to live our lives - with passion - "passion is not only about sex, but about the life force that energizes it.

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JoAnn Loulan
1987
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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

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