A review by mrfroggy
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

5.0

Absolutely crucial for understanding the emergence of antifatness in the west, not only as a beauty and health standard, but as a biological differentiation between white and black bodies predicated on racial superiority, class, religious and moral distinctions, and heterosexiam.

Very well written and easy to read, structured into three segments as antifatness developed through the past 500 years. I loved the historical build up and focus on key figures that pushed these changing tastes as well as the inclusion of perspectives from white women and black publications all throughout. Im gonna be raving about this book in every conversation for a very long time....