{"title":"Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man","authors":"Ariel Martino","doi":"10.1080/00064246.2022.2008762","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"analyze any specific sub-cultures or Latin American beauty standards and how they informed European and North American cultures, it does trace the racial origins of fat phobia. Strings answers the questions of why we regard fatness poorly especially in womenofAfricandescent. In her explanation, she details the immorality and savagery connotated into the very flesh of African peoples. Strings’ scholarship is a pillar in the field of sociology and provides an excellent examination of historical and contemporary body studies involving the Black body in adjacency to white supremacy.","PeriodicalId":45369,"journal":{"name":"BLACK SCHOLAR","volume":"52 1","pages":"95 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"24","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BLACK SCHOLAR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2008762","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ETHNIC STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 24
Abstract
analyze any specific sub-cultures or Latin American beauty standards and how they informed European and North American cultures, it does trace the racial origins of fat phobia. Strings answers the questions of why we regard fatness poorly especially in womenofAfricandescent. In her explanation, she details the immorality and savagery connotated into the very flesh of African peoples. Strings’ scholarship is a pillar in the field of sociology and provides an excellent examination of historical and contemporary body studies involving the Black body in adjacency to white supremacy.
期刊介绍:
Founded in 1969 and hailed by The New York Times as "a journal in which the writings of many of today"s finest black thinkers may be viewed," THE BLACK SCHOLAR has firmly established itself as the leading journal of black cultural and political thought in the United States. In its pages African American studies intellectuals, community activists, and national and international political leaders come to grips with basic issues confronting black America and Africa.