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Iris Kyle. Iris Kyle doing an abdominals and thighs pose during the finals individual mandatory posing during the 2008 Ms. Olympia. Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; [11] August 22, 1974) is an African - Indian American professional female bodybuilder. [12][13] She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever.
Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [1] was an African-American woman [4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely ...
Black women with depression are more likely to experience sleep disturbances, self-criticism, and irritability. [62] 60% of black women have been molested or sexually abused before age 18 by a black man. [63] Black women are more likely to get murdered than white women. [64] Black women have shorter life expectancies.
Shirley Anne Tate. Shirley Anne Tate (born March 1956) is a Jamaican sociologist, scholar, researcher, educator, and author. [2][1] She is known for her work in studying racism, the Black diaspora and the intersection with feminism; specifically within institutional racism, mixed race studies, and Black identity. [3][4][5][6]
African American beauty focuses on the beauty of African Americans, as beauty is viewed differently by various groups. [2] Similar to other cultures, ideals of beauty in African-American communities have varied throughout the years. Influenced by the racial perspectives on beauty, lighter skin tones and straight hair have been considered ...
Strong black woman. The strong black woman schema, as defined by scholars, is an archetype of how the ideal Black woman should act. This has been characterized by three components: emotional restraint, independence, and caretaking. [1] Strong black women must hold back their emotions to avoid appearing weak, portray themselves as strong and ...
Hortense J. Spillers (born 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University.A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 ...
In this form of media, Black women's bodies have been historically hyper-sexualized through images of exotic dancers dressed in a provocative way. In an attempt to oppose those who perpetuate the misrepresentation of Black women, students at Spelman College cancelled a bone-marrow drive in the spring of 2004.