Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Hardcover - Sabrina Strings

Reducere. 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 particular...

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 particular...

This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mi...

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Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More tha...

Reducere. Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized...

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Reducere. Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter seg...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ahmed AlmheiriIllustration(s): 84 black and white illustrations, 7 colour platesNumber of pages: 312Publication ...

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Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

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From LAIKA, the Academy Award(R)-nominated studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls, comes a new adventure set in a mythical ancient J...

Reducere. American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins o...

Reducere. From his unique executive-level position at a Fortune 100 Company for almost two decades, Eugene Mitchell observed how other races, religions and e...

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This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multig...

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The groundbreaking science behind why we need to rethink our relationship with a much-maligned organ: fat

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial pro...