This book chapter, entitled Black Venus Hottentot Revisited: Gratuitous Use of Black Women’s Bodies and the Role of … the campus reactions to the Duke rape allegations as well as explores the potential for added protections for women … women of color who are engaged in erotic work are even more burdened by such profiling. In doing so, it explores the …

Obesity is significantly more prevalent among non-Hispanic African-American (henceforth "black") women than among non …-Hispanic white American (henceforth "white") women. These differences have persisted without much alteration since the early 1970s … and in obesity prevalence between black women and white women do not narrow substantially after controlling for …