TeamPeds Book Club - NAPNAP

TeamPeds Book Club

Connect with Your Fellow NAPNAP Members

Whether you like to cozy up with a nice book on a rainy day, listen to audiobooks on your way to work or relax beachside with the latest best seller, books are give us the chance to focus on personal interests. With our virtual book club, you can share your love of reading with your pediatric-focused APRN peers!

Please join us as we dive deeper into meaningful books and open the door for robust conversation about each books themes, messages and more. No comment is wrong, so don’t hesitate to share your insights!

Thank you to members who joined us for our in-person meeting on March 12 during NAPNAP’s national conference in Chicago.

Our Next Book Club Meeting

“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings.

August 26 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom.

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. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.

Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals―where fat bodies were once praised―showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority.

The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Want to share your favorite book?

If you have a favorite book you think would appeal to TeamPeds Book Club members, please email the title and author to [email protected]. Please note if you would like to lead the discussion because we are looking to expand our hosts. Staff provide all logistical and technical support.

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