MyNDTALK Fearing the Black Body Dr Sabrina Strings

MyNDTALK with Dr. Pamela Brewer

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years. There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.