“白人、肥胖者和种族主义者”:肥胖的种族主义和环境因素

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/ken.2022.0024
Megan Dean, Nabina Liebow
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摘要:有观点认为,肥胖的“环境”解释有助于解决种族健康差异,但实际上可能会加剧种族主义。虽然有些人认为这些解释强化了种族主义和尺寸主义的种族间动态,但我们认为环境解释可以加强种族内部的白人等级制度,从而强化白人至上主义。在美国这样的背景下,环境账户的部署引发并交织了两种破坏性的二分法:“好胖子/坏胖子”和“好白人/坏白人”。这支持了一种压迫有色人种的文化体系,使瘦弱的白人支持者能够将自己定位为“好白人”,而不是那些对肥胖进行种族主义、道德化描述的人,也不是那些被暗中诬陷为道德低下的肥胖白人。这一分析进一步加深了我们对种族主义和体型主义关于肥胖的话语的理解,以及试图解决种族主义的阴险方式可能会强化它。
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"White, Fat, and Racist": Racism and Environmental Accounts of Obesity.

This paper offers a novel argument for the claim that "environmental" explanations of obesity meant to help address racial health disparities may actually reinforce racism. While some contend that these explanations reinforce racist and sizeist interracial dynamics, we argue that environmental explanations can bolster intraracial hierarchies of whiteness that reinforce white supremacy. Deployments of environmental accounts in contexts like the U.S. invoke and intertwine two damaging dichotomies: the "good fatty/bad fatty" and the "good white person/bad white person." This supports a cultural system that oppresses people of color and enables thin, white proponents to position themselves as "good white people" against those who deploy racist, moralizing accounts of obesity, and against fat white people, who are implicitly framed as morally inferior. This analysis furthers our understanding of racist and sizeist discourse about fatness and the insidious ways that attempts to address racism can reinforce it.

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期刊介绍: The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal offers a scholarly forum for diverse views on major issues in bioethics, such as analysis and critique of principlism, feminist perspectives in bioethics, the work of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, active euthanasia, genetics, health care reform, and organ transplantation. Each issue includes "Scope Notes," an overview and extensive annotated bibliography on a specific topic in bioethics, and "Bioethics Inside the Beltway," a report written by a Washington insider updating bioethics activities on the federal level.
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