Review by kathrynhoss - Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

A must-read to understand anti-fat bias in the Western world and how it relates back to white supremacy.

As we have seen, the current anti-fat bias in the United States, and in much of the West, was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the 18th century has claimed that fatness was savage and Black... because women are typically reduced to their bodies, fat stigma has commonly targeted racial ethnic Other women. Protestant moralism and the distain of indulgence contributed to the cacophony of pro-thin, anti-fat bias. The medical field has been the most recent institution to enter the fray.

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

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