Title

Author Responds to 'Black Women and Fat'

Author(s)

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw-Nevins, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Department

Department of Literature and Modern Languages

Publication Date

5-30-2012

Publication Title

The Grio

Abstract

Excerpt

When Alice Randall’s New York Times opinion piece Black Women and Fat appeared on May 5th, the blogosphere erupted in aggravation over her claim that “many black women are fat because we want to be.”

NSUWorks Citation

Shaw-Nevins, A. E. (2012). Author Responds to 'Black Women and Fat'. The Grio Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/846