The History of Thinness, Whiteness and Status

Slave people were imagined to be as slender, yaso because they didn't have the access to the same resources as white people at this time. This change oso we start to see the popping up of grotesquely overweighed black women in the american popular imaginary. And the same is true forur immigrants, yesor immigrant women are often depicted as grotesquely overWeighed and as not being able to control their appetites for sweets. All these races ideas are projected on to bodies at this point. Any form of corpulence in other people's bodies is used to legitimize, by i, superiority.