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bodies

SOURCE: New York Times
11/28/2022

Will the Era of the Butt Ever End?

Heather Radke's "Butts: A Backstory" isn't (just) a provocation, but a carefully researched study of how bodily ideals and attractiveness are constructed and reproduced in societies.

SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/19/19

Unilever's Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

by Thomas A. Foster

Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.