PolicyJune 4, 2020
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Prescribing weight loss to Black women ignores barriers to their health
Sabrina Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (N.Y.U. Press, 2019).
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
Prescribing weight loss to Black women ignores barriers to their health