The History of Misogynoir

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I coined the term misogynoir in 2008 while working on my dissertation. I was looking at these old medical school yearbooks from the 1910s and looking at the representation of black women. And it occurred to me that there's a way that black women specifically are being targeted. So misogynoir is a way to describe the anti-black racist misogyny that black women experience.

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This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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