Sabrina Strings Wins a Hellman Fellowship to Complete a Book on Fat Stigma

Sabrina Strings, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine was awarded a 2017-18 Hellman Fellowship so she can complete work on her book, Thin, White & Saved: Fat Stigma and the Fear of the Big Black Body. The book, under contract with New York University Press,...

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Published in:The Journal of blacks in higher education 2017-07
Format: Article
Language:English
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Resistance (Psychology)
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Stigma
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Summary:Sabrina Strings, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine was awarded a 2017-18 Hellman Fellowship so she can complete work on her book, Thin, White & Saved: Fat Stigma and the Fear of the Big Black Body. The book, under contract with New York University Press, documents the development of fat stigma and the adulation of slimness in the Western World and how this may have contributed to racial/ethnic and gender disparities in health outcomes.
ISSN:2326-6023