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This is a link for a short excerpt of the new documentary, Beauty Mark: Body Image & the Race for Perfection Educational Edition.  It explores the questions, “How do our families influence our relationship with our own bodies? How do American media standards of beauty get inside our hearts and heads? In what ways can sport and the drive for fitness actually make us sick rather than healthy? “  What it doesn’t explore but what is true is that many African American women obsessively exercise and starvation diet but because we come from those who survived slavery (obsessive forced exercise on a starvation diet) we may do great damage to our bodies but never look like the skin and bones White brothers and sisters we see in this documentary and are thus unidentified, unhelped and urged by judgemental others to eat even less and exercise even more.

Of interest to media, health sciences, athletics, physical education, psychology, social work humanities, women’s studies,

For additional resources and information, visit the film's website: www.beautymarkmovie.com

Sections: Introduction | Racing Her Heart Out | A Distorted Mindset | Mayhem | Searching for Beauty | Re-Imagining Beauty | Going Home

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