Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Dystopian Fiction and written in an innovative

and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry

It’s not that Genesis doesn’t like her grandma

Vera may have disappeared

its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right

walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Dystopian Fiction and written in an innovativeHow 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