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100 1  Strings, Sabrina,|eauthor. 
245 10 Fearing the black body :|bthe racial origins of fat phobia
       /|cSabrina Strings. 
246 30 Racial origins of fat phobia 
264  1 New York :|bNew York University Press,|c[2019] 
300    vii, 283 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction : the original epidemic -- Being Venus -- 
       Plump women and thin, fine men -- The rise of the big 
       black woman -- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic -- American 
       beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic -- Thinness as
       American exceptionalism -- Good health to uplift the race 
       -- Fat, revisited -- Epilogue : the obesity epidemic. 
520    "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."--Amazon.com. 
650  0 Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)|xSocial aspects|zUnited 
       States. 
650  0 African American women|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Overweight women|zUnited States|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Obesity|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  2 Obesity. 
650  2 Black or African American. 
650  2 Female. 
650  7 African American women|xSocial conditions.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00799467 
650  7 Obesity|xSocial aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01042759 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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