TY  - DATA
AU  - Strings,Sabrina
TI  - Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia 
SN  - 9781479891788
AV  - HQ1220.U5 S77 2019eb
U1  - 305.48896073 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African American women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American women-Social conditions
KW  - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)-Social aspects-United States
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Obesity-Social aspects-United States
KW  - Overweight women
KW  - Overweight women-United States-Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American exceptionalism
KW  - Aryan supremacy
KW  - British history
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - John Harvey Kellogg
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Puritanism
KW  - Renaissance art
KW  - beauty
KW  - blackness
KW  - body mass index
KW  - diets
KW  - embodiment
KW  - ethnic studies
KW  - eugenics
KW  - fat stigma
KW  - fat studies
KW  - health disparities
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - history of science
KW  - immigration
KW  - obesity
KW  - race
KW  - racism
KW  - slavery
KW  - sociology of medicine
KW  - thin ideal
KW  - whiteness
KW  - women’s history
KW  - women’s studies
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow 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 works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479891788.001.0001
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