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Winona LaDuke: “Thinking Beyond Empire”

By Winona LaDuke — 2011

Winona LaDuke, Picard lecturer at United Theological Seminary’s Spring Convocation 2011 delivers the first of a two day series of lectures.

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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
2019
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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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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.

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Naveen Kumar
2019
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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.

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Rosie Molinary
2007
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Aim True: Love Your Body, Eat Without Fear, Nourish Your Spirit, Discover True Balance!

Yoga teacher and inspirational speaker Kathryn Budig is known for her ability to encourage others to set their intentions and goals, no matter how lofty, and work toward them while staying true to themselves. In Aim True, Budig extends her empowering message beyond the mat.

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Kathryn Budig
2016
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