Dangerous Bodies: Blackness, Fatness, and the Masculinity Dividend
Contemporary obesity epidemic discourse galvanizes racism and classism under the veil of “care,” and is used to further stigmatize mostly poor people of color. I examine the intersection of fatness, race, and masculinity to show how in the case of black male bodies fatness is criminalized and used t...
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Language: | English |
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Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
2016-09-01
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Series: | InterAlia |
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