Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Hard-Boiled Mystery In “Sugar Babies

In “Sugar Babies

With the help of an underground resistance movement called the Iron Ladies--a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely--and the backing of alternative newspaper the Spider's Web

California might find a home at the bottom

Orecchiette with Broccolini & Italian Sausage

The Caribbean Writer

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Hard-Boiled Mystery In “Sugar BabiesHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years 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