African American body image: Identity and physical self-acceptance

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 44-65

  Thompson, Vetta L Sanders ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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