Fearing The Black Body: Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Abstract

beyond the everyday, or, in Raymond and Alice Bauer’s words, “day to day” forms. Holden’s book has rightfully pushed the field to revisit existing archives and known records in search of Black women’s relationships to rebellion and revolt, and to the agentive and resistive geographies that make overt resistance attainable realities within enslaved communities. Future scholarship, inspired by Surviving Southampton, will continue to locate Black women’s insurgency and will be better poised to question whether Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 Rebellion, Charles Deslondes’ 1811 German Coast Uprising, Denmark Vesey’s 1822 plot, and scores of lesser known conspiracies and rebellions were in fact the exclusive workings of these famous men and their male lieutenants.