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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Main Author: Marta Usiekniewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2016-09-01
Series:InterAlia
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