As they write in “Powerlessness and Anger in African American Women: The Intersection of Race and Gender,” this dynamic results in “heightened levels of emotional distress that include frustration, anger, and resentment.” And has been associated with hypertension, coronary heart disease, and numerous other health issues. The stress of keeping all of this bottled up is literally killing marginalized women. And yet the prevailing advice from the CDC and the American Heart Association remains to diet and exercise in the face of heart disease, putting much of the onus of surviving racism and
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