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A 19th century illustration from Fearing the Black Body, titled The Hottentot Venus in the Salon of the Duchess of Berry, by Sebastien Coeure. Sara Baartman was an enslaved woman whose voluptuous physique was displayed in exhibitions in England and France. Sabrina Strings explains in her book how this helped contribute to the idea that fatness was related to blackness.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/893006538/fat-phobia-and-its-racist-past-and-pre…
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July 21, 2020
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