Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Hard-Boiled Mystery Alice Walker’s epic carries readers

Alice Walker’s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love

California might find a home at the bottom

In “Sugar Babies

and Q-Tip—and asking them to bring along their favorite recipes

Orecchiette with Broccolini & Italian Sausage

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Hard-Boiled Mystery Alice Walker’s epic carries readersHow 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