Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

analyze any specific sub-cultures or Latin American beauty standards and how they informed European and North American cultures, it does trace the racial origins of fat phobia. Strings answers the questions of why we regard fatness poorly especially in womenofAfricandescent. In her explanation, she details the immorality and savagery connotated into the very flesh of African peoples. Strings’ scholarship is a pillar in the field of sociology and provides an excellent examination of historical and contemporary body studies involving the Black body in adjacency to white supremacy.