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The racist origins of fat phobia

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Anti Fatness and Anti Blackness in the United States

You talk a lot about how this plays out in the courts and in policing. I wanto tk a little bit more about this intersection of anti fatness and anti blackness that you talk about in your book. How is this played out across american hist an for example? Yes, i write all about the policing of the black fact,. Given a chronology of the murders that we witnessed overtime between 20 14 through 20 20, some of the biggest names we saw cross television screens were fat or larger in size. That reality was oftentimes used as a way to justify the murders by police.

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