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Georges-Louis LeClerc furthers racist stereotypes of Black Africans as "plump" and "idle."
Date: 1749
History of race
Europe
Racism/white supremacy
Fatness, fatphobia, fat activism
In his chapter on race in Natural History: General and Particular, the French naturalist claims that the "plumpness" of Black Africans is indicative of their supposed "idleness."
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