University of Maryland offers 'fat studies' course on how 'fatness' and 'Blackness' intersect

An upcoming people astatine the University of Maryland volition inquire students to analyse however "fatness" relates to "Blackness" and is simply a "social justness issue."

"Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections," is being offered arsenic a General Education people to students for the outpouring semester. The three-credit people tin beryllium taken to fulfill the university's Distributive Studies oregon Diversity people requirements to graduate, according to the assemblage website.

The people statement says it "examines fatness arsenic an country of quality quality taxable to privilege and favoritism that intersects with different systems of oppression based connected gender, race, class, intersexual orientation, and ability."

"Though we volition look astatine fatness arsenic intersectional, this people volition peculiarly item the narration betwixt fatness and Blackness," the statement continues. "We attack this country of survey done an interdisciplinary humanities and social-science lens which emphasizes fatness arsenic a societal justness issue. The people closes with an introspection of abdominous liberation arsenic liberation for each bodies with a peculiar accent connected performing arts and activism arsenic a conveyance for liberation and challenging fatmisia." 

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The University of Maryland is offering a "Fat Studies" people for students this semester. (iStock)

The people is being taught by Sydney Lewis, who is simply a elder lecturer astatine the university's Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, according to her university bio.

All 20 spots for the people are full, with 8 students connected the waitlist.

The people drew disapproval from a retired prof astatine a adjacent university. Richard Vatz, a prof emeritus astatine Towson University, mocked the thought that the taxable would hole students for the existent world, successful comments to The National News Desk.

"I don't deliberation if you went into a occupation interrogation and the interviewer said 'what person you taken recently?' and the responsive said, 'Well, I'm taking a people successful abdominous studies, but the intersection of a Blackness and fatness,' that this would enactment you successful a presumption to get overmuch of a job, truthful the inferior of this and the occupation marketplace is astir apt beauteous questionable," Vatz said.

"I person to beryllium honorable with you, this is benignant of a laughable, laughable subject," helium continued. "This worldly is conscionable ludicrous."

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A University of Maryland people claims that "fatness" and "Blackness" intersect and tin beryllium viewed done a societal justness lens. (iStock)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the University of Maryland and Lewis for comment.

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Over the summer, Brown University offered a pre-college summertime course connected the "Politics of Fatness," providing students with the accidental to research "how fatphobia intersects with different systems of oppression."