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Fearing the Black Body

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Fearing the Black Body

By Sabrina Strings

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About the book

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years 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 w...Show more

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9781479886753

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New York University Press

Published year

2019

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Fearing the Black Body

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