Fearing the Black Body
Obésité
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Female
Overweight women
Noires américaines
Women, united states, social conditions
African American
Obesity
Noirs américains
African American women
Conditions sociales
Aspect social
African Americans
Social aspects
Social conditions
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. …
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