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Biographic Data
| ID | 39227 |
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| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4419-9408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The White Man Question: Race, Sex, and the Politics of American Sociological Review
During the Spring 2020 uprisings, the American Sociological Association professed an alignment with the goals of racial justice and gender equity. These statements, however, were met with those of the many BIPOC sociologists, who countercharged the discipline with a legacy of violent forms white male exclusivity. Today, this legacy of exclusivity arguably remains the most evident within faculty hires and promotions. Although the mechanisms behind…
BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased: The Hypocrisy of “The Normal (White) Man”
“Obesity”, is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. Yet the tool, BMI, has been shown to be flawed in its weight classing. BMI categories were made by relying nearly exclusively on data about middle-class white males, creating “the normal (white) man”. Yet, BMI continues to be used as a diagnostic tool, and is increasingly deployed to stigmatize fat persons as “diseased”. This has critical implications for women—especially Black women and Lati…
How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia
This article describes how size-based health and beauty ideals made their way into the medical field through the eugenics movement of the 19th to 20th centuries and were validated using so-called "standard weight" tables. They became even more mainstream with the 20th-century tool to replace standard weight tables: body mass index (BMI). BMI, then, is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of …
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Journal Article Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Get access New York University Press, 2019, 304 pages. https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/ $89 hardcover, $28 paperback. Reviewer: Laura Jennings, Independent Scholar/Sociologist Sabrina Strings Sabrina Strings Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1, September 2020, Page e3, https://do…
Women (Re)making whiteness: The sexual exclusion of the fat "Black" Irish
Much of the extant whiteness literature treats "white" as a self-evident racial category and focuses largely on white men. Investigations into how the category transformed over time, and how or why white women would have participated in its transformation, have been limited. I performed a qualitative content analysis of articles from Godey's Lady's Book, the top women's media outlet of the 19th century. Findings reveal that elite white women were…
Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the National Imaginary
Studies on the development of fat stigma in the United States often consider gender, but not race. This chapter adds to the literature on the significance of race in the propagation of fat phobia. I investigate representations of voluptuousness among “white” Anglo-Saxon and German women, as well as “black” Irish women between 1830 and 1890—a time period during which the value of a curvy physique was hotly contested—performing a discourse analysis…
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. …
Yoga as a technology of femininity: Disciplining white women, disappearing people of color in Yoga Journal
Yoga has seen an explosion of popularity in the United States. Though the practice can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization, its mass media representation is dominated by young, thin, white women. Little is known about how the practice came to be portrayed in this manner. However, scholars suggest that when media outlets target (white) women, they often encourage them to adopt “technologies of femininity” that may include instructions on ho…
Every Body Yoga
Yoga1 in the United States has never been more popular, and yoga studios can be found in most major metropolitan cities. Beyond studio walls, yoga is available in a variety of institutions, from sc
Mythologizing Black Women: Unveiling White Men's Deep Frame on Race and Gender
Race and Sex Differences in the Association between Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes
The relationship between FI and T2D may be moderated by race and sex. For African Americans and Latino men, other distal factors may modify the effect of FI on rates of T2D
Obese Black Women as 'Social Dead Weight: Reinventing the 'Diseased Black Woman
A flurry of recent articles in the medical and popular press have decried black women’s “alarmingly high” rates of obesity. The number of high-profile publications lamenting the “epidemic” among black women has grown, even as mounting evidence indicates that obesity (defined as a body mass index ≥ 30) does not necessarily lead to poor health outcomes. Indeed, given its functional limitations in explaining or predicting health status, a number of …
She Is Not Acting, She Is”: The conflict between gender and racial realness on RuPaul's Drag Race
This essay examines the popular television show RuPaul's Drag Race to reveal the ways drag performance provides an ambivalent, contradictory space for wrestling with contentious issues surrounding cultural identity and authenticity in reality TV. Focusing on the show's controversial season three, the authors demonstrate how drag queens subvert and play with ideas of gender “realness” but find an impasse in open discussions of race. The racial min…
Obese Black Women as 'Social Dead Weight: Reinventing the 'Diseased Black Woman
A flurry of recent articles in the medical and popular press have decried black women’s “alarmingly high” rates of obesity. The number of high-profile publications lamenting the “epidemic” among black women has grown, even as mounting evidence indicates that obesity (defined as a body mass index ≥ 30) does not necessarily lead to poor health outcomes. Indeed, given its functional limitations in explaining or predicting health status, a number of …
She Is Not Acting, She Is”: The conflict between gender and racial realness on RuPaul's Drag Race
This essay examines the popular television show RuPaul's Drag Race to reveal the ways drag performance provides an ambivalent, contradictory space for wrestling with contentious issues surrounding cultural identity and authenticity in reality TV. Focusing on the show's controversial season three, the authors demonstrate how drag queens subvert and play with ideas of gender “realness” but find an impasse in open discussions of race. The racial min…
Women (Re)making whiteness: The sexual exclusion of the fat "Black" Irish
Much of the extant whiteness literature treats "white" as a self-evident racial category and focuses largely on white men. Investigations into how the category transformed over time, and how or why white women would have participated in its transformation, have been limited. I performed a qualitative content analysis of articles from Godey's Lady's Book, the top women's media outlet of the 19th century. Findings reveal that elite white women were…
Mythologizing Black Women: Unveiling White Men's Deep Frame on Race and Gender
She Is Not Acting, She Is”: The conflict between gender and racial realness on RuPaul's Drag Race
This essay examines the popular television show RuPaul's Drag Race to reveal the ways drag performance provides an ambivalent, contradictory space for wrestling with contentious issues surrounding cultural identity and authenticity in reality TV. Focusing on the show's controversial season three, the authors demonstrate how drag queens subvert and play with ideas of gender “realness” but find an impasse in open discussions of race. The racial min…
Obese Black Women as 'Social Dead Weight: Reinventing the 'Diseased Black Woman
A flurry of recent articles in the medical and popular press have decried black women’s “alarmingly high” rates of obesity. The number of high-profile publications lamenting the “epidemic” among black women has grown, even as mounting evidence indicates that obesity (defined as a body mass index ≥ 30) does not necessarily lead to poor health outcomes. Indeed, given its functional limitations in explaining or predicting health status, a number of …
Race and Sex Differences in the Association between Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes
The relationship between FI and T2D may be moderated by race and sex. For African Americans and Latino men, other distal factors may modify the effect of FI on rates of T2D
Mythologizing Black Women: Unveiling White Men's Deep Frame on Race and Gender
Fat as a Floating Signifier: Race, Weight, and Femininity in the National Imaginary
Studies on the development of fat stigma in the United States often consider gender, but not race. This chapter adds to the literature on the significance of race in the propagation of fat phobia. I investigate representations of voluptuousness among “white” Anglo-Saxon and German women, as well as “black” Irish women between 1830 and 1890—a time period during which the value of a curvy physique was hotly contested—performing a discourse analysis…
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. …
Yoga as a technology of femininity: Disciplining white women, disappearing people of color in Yoga Journal
Yoga has seen an explosion of popularity in the United States. Though the practice can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization, its mass media representation is dominated by young, thin, white women. Little is known about how the practice came to be portrayed in this manner. However, scholars suggest that when media outlets target (white) women, they often encourage them to adopt “technologies of femininity” that may include instructions on ho…
Every Body Yoga
Yoga1 in the United States has never been more popular, and yoga studios can be found in most major metropolitan cities. Beyond studio walls, yoga is available in a variety of institutions, from sc
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Journal Article Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Get access New York University Press, 2019, 304 pages. https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/ $89 hardcover, $28 paperback. Reviewer: Laura Jennings, Independent Scholar/Sociologist Sabrina Strings Sabrina Strings Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1, September 2020, Page e3, https://do…
Women (Re)making whiteness: The sexual exclusion of the fat "Black" Irish
Much of the extant whiteness literature treats "white" as a self-evident racial category and focuses largely on white men. Investigations into how the category transformed over time, and how or why white women would have participated in its transformation, have been limited. I performed a qualitative content analysis of articles from Godey's Lady's Book, the top women's media outlet of the 19th century. Findings reveal that elite white women were…
How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia
This article describes how size-based health and beauty ideals made their way into the medical field through the eugenics movement of the 19th to 20th centuries and were validated using so-called "standard weight" tables. They became even more mainstream with the 20th-century tool to replace standard weight tables: body mass index (BMI). BMI, then, is a continuation of white supremacist embodiment norms, racializing fat phobia under the guise of …
BMI Is Bunk, but Fat Women Are Diseased: The Hypocrisy of “The Normal (White) Man”
“Obesity”, is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. Yet the tool, BMI, has been shown to be flawed in its weight classing. BMI categories were made by relying nearly exclusively on data about middle-class white males, creating “the normal (white) man”. Yet, BMI continues to be used as a diagnostic tool, and is increasingly deployed to stigmatize fat persons as “diseased”. This has critical implications for women—especially Black women and Lati…
The White Man Question: Race, Sex, and the Politics of American Sociological Review
During the Spring 2020 uprisings, the American Sociological Association professed an alignment with the goals of racial justice and gender equity. These statements, however, were met with those of the many BIPOC sociologists, who countercharged the discipline with a legacy of violent forms white male exclusivity. Today, this legacy of exclusivity arguably remains the most evident within faculty hires and promotions. Although the mechanisms behind…
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