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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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2019
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The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance
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“...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatness was ‘savage’ and ‘black.”
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
“The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail against persons deemed too fat or too thin. But over time, a growing number did so specifically, and exclusively, to condemn fatness.”
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
“The author spells this out for the reader: “Stoutness, corpulence, and surplusage of flesh” are never desirable “except among African savages.”13 This raises several questions. First, what led some well-to-do Americans to believe that slenderness, especially among women, was both aesthetically preferable and a sign of national identity? How did fatness become a sign of immorality? How did fatness become linked to “Africanity” or blackness?”
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
― Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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