There's an idea that women of color don't struggle with eating disorders, because the equating of thinness with beauty is, historically and culturally, a white practice. But this just isn't the case. "What we've seen is that African-American girls are now becoming increasingly more likely to suffer from disordered eating, and this seems to be a sort of post-integration experience," Melissa Harris-Perry says in this NPBC video. "More and more young black girls are going to school in environments that give them sort of very strong messages about normative body types that African-American girls have a difficult time fitting into."