Sabrina Strings

Biographic Data

ID8746752
NAMESabrina Strings
GIVEN NAMESSabrina
FAMILY NAMEStrings
SIGNATURESTRINGS S
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    Open AccessString, Sabrina String et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2020

    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

    String, Sabrina String et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2020Cited by: 5References: 29

    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

    String, Sabrina StringsCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the Sociology…2019

    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

    String, Sabrina StringsBOOKFearing the Black Body The Racial…2019

    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

    String, Sabrina Strings et al.ARTICLEFat Studies2019

    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

    String, Sabrina String et al.ARTICLEFat Studies2019References: 1

    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

    Open AccessString, Sabrina String et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2017Cited by: 3

  • Race and Sex Differences in the Association between Food Insecurity and Type 2 Diabetes

    String, Sabrina Strings et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2016

    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

    String, Sabrina String et al.ARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2015Cited by: 18References: 43

    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

    String, Sabrina Strings et al.ARTICLEFeminist Media Studies2013Cited by: 16References: 8

    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…