Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor…
Want to Read $ 16.50"...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 eighteenth century has claimed that fatness was ‘savage’ and ‘black."-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medical knowledge was not to be exercised in the French commonwealth."-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid whites (e.g., Celtic Irish, southern Italians, Russians), were primary targets of these arguments."-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail against persons deemed too fat or too thin. But over time, a growing number did so specifically, and exclusively, to condemn fatness."-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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4.33
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
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5.00
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4.15
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3.10
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4.35
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4.33
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4.30
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4.23
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4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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4.48
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4.37
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4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.25
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Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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22. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
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4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
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4.31
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4.46
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25. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
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26. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
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"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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4.58
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
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By: Hilary Kinavey
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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By: Dalia Kinsey
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Become the healthiest and happiest version of yourself using wellness tools designed specifically f… read more
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By: Chrissy King
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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