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Fearing the Black Body

Strings

This book explores the historical development of ideologies that support Western, patriarchal white supremacy, specifically the yoking of beauty to Protestant, Anglo-Saxon whiteness. Beginning in the Renaissance and ending in the 1990s, the author charts the development of ideals of race and beauty that juxtaposed slim, desirable white women against corpulent black women. Interestingly, the author does not address fat from a health standpoint or previous attitudes held towards corpulence.
Publish Date
2019-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
2019-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.26
ISBN
9781479886753
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2019-11-15T19:20:33.000Z
“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by #SabrinaStrings @SaStrings So grateful for this book. It is a truly remarkable piece of work that offers great insight into the history of fatphobia and its origins in the fear and hatred of the Black body. #mcgreads      source