![]() ![]() , end of the middle paragraph, “The racialized female body became legible, a form of ‘text’ from which racial superiority and inferiority were read.” Okay WOW - something to track is WHITE femininity, thinness, and morality. How has this changed from then till now? How has it remained the same? In what ways are we complicit?Ĭhapter 3: The Rise of the Big Black Woman Journal about how art and storytelling play a role in perpetuating anti-Black racism in the Chapter 2. Think about what you focus on, and why.Ģ. Then, take out a paper and draw yourself. Take a further look into the types of Renaissance paintings that Dr. How does it feel to view cultural attitudes towards fatness as having changed over time, instead of from within the current cultural moment which seeks to impose a universality on our fatphobia?ġ. Can you sum up the arguments being made in chapters one and two in a few sentences?Ĥ. If you've ever wandered through a museum from art of this time period, or looked at it in books, have you ever been presented with this kind of lens? What are the general ways you've been taught to look at artworks that are missing a lens of racial analysis?ģ. Have you ever noticed a focus on "concerns over ascetics, not aesthetics" (p.63) in portrayals of the fatness or thinness of men? How might our modern imaginings of a lean, lanky academic/intellectual character play into this? (I hope this idea is tracked more throughout the book, it's a super interesting one!)Ģ. Okay, now questions - send us your answers to these, if you'd like to be featured!ġ. Don't hesitate to make notes of things, concepts, sentences you don't understand or don't remember and might be interested in further reading or googling of! I spent a little time looking at some of the artists mentioned in Chapter 1 on wikipedia and google images, for example. Endnotes can also give you more rich detail that the author wanted to share but doesn't quite fit in the sequential steps of the argument being made.Ĥ. ![]() Note 20, for example, gives you a handy list of other books about fatness to read. Look at endnotes! They can be both fun, interesting, and helpful in exploring a text like this. Make sure you read the intro! It's a little dense, but it's a great layout of the overall argument the book will make and the plan for that argument, which helps me situate my reading and helps with those context clues.ģ. If you run across words you don't know, feel free to look them up! Approaching a more academic text like this is a balance of looking things up and using context clues to noodle out what's going on and accepting you might not understand every sentence exactly.Ģ. Part 1: The Beauty of the Robust (pages 15-61)įirst of all, we wanted to give you some thoughts on how to approach a more academic book, if you're new to or unfamiliar with this kind of reading!ġ. ![]()
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