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What does anti-fatness have to do with racial prejudice, especially anti-blackness? How have thinness, health, and moral virtue been intertwined in history, and how does their connection inform our understanding of the body today? What do breakfast cereals tell us about this history and its legacy? Join us to discuss these and other questions in relation to excerpts from Sabrina Strings’s award-winning monograph Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019).
Reading: ‘Introduction: The Original Epidemic’ and Chapter 7, ‘Good Health to Uplift the Race’, in Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body (2019).
