Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

10 reviews

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Slavery, and Colonisation

tracey1981's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

Some very interesting info here that makes a strong case for fatphobia being rooted in racism, but it wasn’t written in a way I found particularly compelling. I wanted more analysis, more narrative, or a little more of both.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Fatphobia, Racism, and Body shaming

meganmalonefranklin's review against another edition

challenging informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Slavery, Infertility, Bullying, Colonisation, Classism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Racism, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Misogyny

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

I had seen Fearing the Black Body recommended in pretty much every antifatness related book list, so when I saw it was available on my audiobook app, I immediately added it to my shelf. Anyone who wants to dive a little deeper than the basics and learn about the history of antifatness and its roots in racism and eugenics should read this book.

It’s not long and while the language is academic, it’s not overly complicated. The audiobook was easy to follow. I haven’t listened to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks yet so I was afraid that my attention would waver, but it was the opposite: I listened for much longer stretches than I usually do because I was so intrigued.

Fearing the Black Body helps put the current discussions around antifatness into a historical context and shows how much we are still influenced by decades or centuries old ideas of eugenicist doctors and ‘race scientists’ who spouted ‘scientific’ ideas with no basis in research or reality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Antisemitism, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry

minty_3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism

la_lela's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Racial slurs

jaiari12's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Classism, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

orlagal's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Torture, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

lowkeymarie's review

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

This was a lot drier in tone than I was anticipating, and the section on medical fatphobia was especially triggering. Glad to have read it, but I don't know that I would recommend it to just anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Slavery

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Another one for the Non-Fiction Favorites/Recommend to Everyone/Hi My Name Is Kylie Have You Read This Book list. I feel like I'm a broken record when I comes to non-fiction, but the truth is that I just don't read non-fic unless it centers topics that I am passionate about, so I generally find myself rating it very highly. Fearing the Black Body is an exploration of racism and fatphobia, the examination (and eradication) of which are central to the philosophy of body liberation, which I follow. I could gush about this book for days, but it really does speak for itself. A stunning academic work that is also very accessible and unbiased. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Genocide, and Fatphobia