Book: Fat phobia arises from racism and religion
Book: Fat phobia arises from racism and religion
- August 12, 2019
- Sabrina Strings, sociology, Futurity, Aug. 12, 2019
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In Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (NYU Press, 2019), Sabrina
Strings, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine
discusses the stigma of larger—primarily female—body types and how deep racial and
religious roots, rather than health concerns, led Western society to favor the lean.
For the full story, please visit https://www.futurity.org/fat-phobia-book-sabrina-strings-2130182-2/.
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