Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability / edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alkon, Alison Hope, editor.

Agyeman, Julian, editor.

Series:

Food, health, and the environment.

Food, health, and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food consumption--United States.

Food consumption.

Minorities--Nutrition--United States.

Minorities.

Poor--Nutrition--United States.

Poor.

African Americans--Nutrition.

African Americans.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

Contents:

Introduction: the food movement as polyculture / Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

A continuing legacy: institutional racism, hunger, and nutritional justice on the Klamath / Kari Marie Norgaard, Ron Reed, and Carolina Van Horn

From the past to the present: agricultural development and black farmers in the American South / John J. Green, Eleanor M. Green, and Anna M. Kleiner

Race and regulation: Asian immigrants in California agriculture / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Nancy Peluso, Jennifer Sowerwine, and Christy Getz

From industrial garden to food desert: demarcated devaluation in the flatlands of Oakland, California / Nathan McClintock

Farmworker food insecurity and the production of hunger in California / Sandy Brown and Christy Getz

Growing food and justice: dismantling racism through sustainable food systems / Alfonso Morales

Community food security "for us, by us": the Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon

Environmental and food justice: toward local, slow, and deep food systems / Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Peña

Vegans of color, racialized embodiment, and problematics of the "exotic" / A. Breeze Harper

Realizing rural food justice: divergent locals in the Northeastern United States / Jesse C. McEntree

"If they only knew": the unbearable whiteness of alternative food / Julie Guthman

Just food? / E. Melanie DuPuis, Jill Lindsey Harrison, and David Goodman

Food security, food justice, or food sovereignty?: crises, food movements, and regime change / Eric Holt-Gimenez

Conclusion: cultivating the fertile field of food justice / Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613343710

9780262300223

0262300222

9781283343718

1283343711

9780262300216

0262300214

OCLC:

767579490

Publisher Number:

9786613343710