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Book Reviews
Strings, S. 2019. Fearing the black body: The racial origins of fat phobia. In Fearing the black body. New York University Press.
In the blurb, Strings sets out that poor black women in the US are being stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. Her argument is that this racist fatphobia is the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which took root more than two hundred years ago. This book does something remarkable that no other book I have read does. It brings into conversation loose, circulating fragments of my lived experience that I did not know were i
Elizabeth Cobbett
Aug 194 min read
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