Description: "String's "Fearing the Black Body" critically examines the concepts of fat phobia and race"--
Brief description: Sabrina Strings is Chancellor's Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She was a recipient of the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Review Quotes: "This accessible academic title ... makes a heavily cited case that modern society's idolization of thinness is less rooted in medical science than in racist ideas born during the Enlightenment."-- "The New York Times"