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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Harrison, Da’Shaun, 1996– author.

Title: Belly of the beast : the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness

/ Da’Shaun Harrison.

Description: Berkeley, CA : North Atlantic Books, [2021] | Includes

bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An exploration of

anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police

violence, gender identity, fatness, and health”— Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020055026 (print) | LCCN 2020055027 (ebook) | ISBN

9781623175979 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781623175986 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African American men—Social conditions. | Obesity in

men—Social aspects—United States. | Overweight men—United

States—Social conditions. | Body image—Social aspects—United States.

| Masculinity—United States. | African American men—Violence against.

Classification: LCC E185.86 .H376 2021 (print) | LCC E185.86 (ebook) |

DDC 305.38/896073—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055026

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055027

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