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title: "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia"
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# Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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## Customer Reviews

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    Turns out that dieting is not only miserable but blatantly racist.
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020*

I thoroughly enjoyed this book (if you can use 'enjoy' when talking about racism). Though deeply academic it is easy to read, well formed and flows freely. The premise is that fat phobia is based on trying to avoid the appearance of perceived inferiority. Fat phobia is an attempt to social climb into the highest strata we can achieve. And that ladder is about darker people at the bottom and white people at the top. The book shows how arbitrary and unscientific the medical rationale is for fat phobia but is simply an extension of the social control already at play in cultural aesthetics. At its roots the book shows the role of controlling females by making an obsession with beauty and subsequently weight control as the motive for 500 years of objectifying the female body. The saddest part is the need to demonize black women's bodies  so white women could feel a little less crap about their bodies...so if you're an anti-racist, think about why you really 'need' to lose weight. To be better than our African American sisters??? Heck no!

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    A rich read
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2020*

Using this for my dissertation work.  What makes this work different from other peer reviewed literature that juxtaposes Black women's body and beauty standards and those of White women's is that it explains the relationship between the two.

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    Required (and good) reading.
  

*by A***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020*

Very well-researched and written. It will make you even angrier at white supremacism, but we NEED to understand the history of that, especially in America, especially in relation to larger (actually..normal) bodies. The chapters on that and when the medical community got involved were the most interesting and infuriating chapters. Will probably read again soon.

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