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Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:12:40
Publish Date: 2020-07-21 08:00:05
Description: Where does our preference for thinness really come from? As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics. She argues the origins of modern day fat phobia can be traced all the way back to slavery, and Black people are still dealing with the consequences.
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