In this second part of our mini-series on the history and politics of yoga, we play our recent interview with Shanice Jones Cameron about her research on Black women and their engagement yoga through social media. As she explains, today modern postural yoga remains "a form of exercise that remains exclusive to a privileged subset of the population," while the typical yoga practitioner, as it appears in advertisements and popular culture, tend to be White, female, and middle-class. This leads to important questions concerning the politics of representation in contemporary yoga culture. In this episode, Shanice discusses her research the intersections of race and representation in contemporary yoga culture, and explains the increasing importance of highlight Black women's engagement with yoga through social media pages like the popular Instagram page Black Girl Yoga.
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