Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

by Anne Helen Petersen

As Brittney C. Cooper of Crunk Feminist Collective points out, “these narratives about Black bodies as ‘naturally athletic,’ ‘more powerful,’ ‘more wild,’ ‘less thoughtful,’ and ‘less strategic’ and black female bodies as ‘(un)naturally strong, invulnerable, and unattractive’—are central to Western narratives of white racial superiority.”40