Belly of the beast : the politics of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness

Harrison, Da'Shaun, 1996- author.

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"Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discr...

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African American men Social conditions

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Black people United States

Body image Social aspects United States

Discrimination against overweight persons United States

Masculinity United States

Obesity Social aspects United States

Obesity in men Social aspects United States

Overweight men United States Social conditions

Overweight persons United States Social conditions

Physical-appearance-based bias United States

Transgender people United States

Transgender people's writings

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ISBN:

9781623175979

Description:

xiv, 128 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Beyond self-love
Pretty ugly : the politics of desire
Health and the Black fat
Black, fat, and policed
The war on drugs and the war on obesity
Meeting gender's end
Beyond abolition

LCCN:

2020055026

Control Number:

3282724

Other Authors:

Laymon, Kiese, writer of foreword

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