Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia 1479819808, 9781479819805, 9781479886753

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia 1479819808, 9781479819805

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Menti

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia 9781479891788

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and po

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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice 9780199745982

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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body 9781472431400, 9781315583976

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being

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Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 0807882933, 9780807882931

In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans

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The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice 9780226873190

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-a

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The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture 9780231555807

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that

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The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 9780226806884

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers’ experiments with new technologies of racial data produced ex

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Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires 9780226307244

The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by

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The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America 147981038X, 9781479810383

Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award A powerful insight into the historical and cultural role

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