VIDEO

FindCenter AddIcon

Chelsey Luger Emphasizes Learning About and Honoring Indigenous People Everywhere

By Chelsey Luger — 2020

Luger talks about indigenous communities, the struggles they have endured in this country.

25:40 min

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.

Book
Sabrina Strings
2019
FindCenter AddIcon

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.

Book
Dorothy Roberts
1998
FindCenter AddIcon

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.

Book
Leigh Raiford (Editor), Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Editor)
2017
FindCenter AddIcon

For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

Article
Naveen Kumar
2019
FindCenter AddIcon

Why Did Weight Become the Scapegoat for Health Issues?: A Q&A with Sabrina Strings, PhD

When the associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine examined current assumptions around body fat, she found them to be overly simplistic and lacking in evidence.

Article
Sabrina Strings
2020
FindCenter AddIcon

Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina

In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina.

Book
Rosie Molinary
2007
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

BIPOC Well-Being