Eating while black :: food shaming and race in America /

"Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public...

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Main Author: Williams-Forson, Psyche A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:"Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food"--
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469668475
1469668475
9781469668468
1469668467

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