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The Body of the Beholder Cultural This 2006 USA Today article focuses on studies that suggest white and non-white women are equally unhappy with their bodies. How do these conclusions contrast with those reported in Ingrassia's article?http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-24-body-image_x.htm Sloane Crosley writes from personal experience about body image and race in the Village Voice essay "Butt Seriously." http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-08-03/news/butt-seriously/1 In her BNet essay "Embracing 'Black is Beautiful,'" Kendra Mitchell argues that "African Americans have long had a seriously vexed relationship with the very notion of beauty." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_23_17/ai_69652795BibliographicalThis writer focuses on a study that discovered why white girls dislike their bodies, but black girls are proud of theirs. Ingrassia has written pieces on fashion and design for the Los Angeles Times; this page links to a dozen of her articles. http://articles.latimes.com/writers/michele-ingrassia |