Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia with Sabrina Strings

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Celebration Month, Featured, Author Talk, Community Engagement

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All Ages, Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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University of San Diego and San Diego Public Library Present: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia with Sabrina Strings as this year's speaker for our annual Black History Month Author Talk.

 

Join us for a talk with Sabrina Strings, Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Strings is the author of the award-winning book: Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia and appeared on Netflix's "The Black Beauty Effect." She will be speaking to San Diego about Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, which argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist.

 

Author talk and Q&A will be from 1pm-2pm. Dr. Strings will be signing books from 2pm-3pm.

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