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From heart disease and diabetes to HIV and obesity, Black women and girls face serious health risks, lagging behind their white counterparts by every measure of health, well-being, and fitness. Michele Tracy Berger shows us why this is the case, exploring how the health needs of Black women and girls are uniquely rooted in their experiences with racism, sexism, and class discrimination. Drawing on interviews with mothers and their daughters, as well as compelling medical data, Berger provides insight into the larger patterns that place Black women at such high risk on a national level. She shows how Black mothers communicate with their daughters about health, sexuality, and intimacy, including how they attempt to promote healthy living standards even as they navigate widespread, systemic challenges.

African American women --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Health and hygiene. --- . --- African American daughters. --- African American mothers. --- African-American women. --- Black feminism. --- Black girls. --- Communication. --- Daughters. --- Diet. --- Focus groups. --- Gatekeepers. --- Gender and media. --- Gendered peer pressure. --- Gendered scripts. --- Good girl and bad girl culture. --- HIV/AIDS. --- Health providers. --- Health. --- Inheritances. --- Intersectionality. --- Intimacy. --- Mixed messages. --- Narratives. --- North Carolina. --- Pleasure. --- Pregnancy. --- Public policy. --- Racial and gender health disparities. --- Responsibility. --- STDS. --- Sexual education. --- Sexual health. --- The South. --- Trust. --- Typology. --- Well-being. --- barriers. --- cleanliness. --- diet. --- exercise. --- grandmothers. --- health care access. --- health disparities. --- health. --- mothers. --- pressure. --- respect. --- sexuality. --- trust. --- virginity. --- worldviews. --- young women. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of health --- United States --- African Americans. --- Women --- Health of women --- Health education of women --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Hygiene --- Diseases --- United States of America --- Interviews --- Classism --- Physical health --- Motherhood --- Racism --- Sexism --- Sexuality --- Blackness --- Book --- Chiffres --- Communication --- Daughters