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Fearing the Black Body

Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

2019

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Livre de Sabrina Strings · 2019 (États-Unis)

Genres : Essai, Version originale
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There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific... Voir plus