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Black food geographies : race, self-reliance, and food access in Washington, D.C. / Ashanté M. Reese.
LIBRA F205.N4 R44 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reese, Ashanté M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food security--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.).
- Food security.
- Food industry and trade--Social aspects.
- Food industry and trade.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- Social aspects.
- Deanwood (Washington, D.C.)--Social conditions.
- Deanwood (Washington, D.C.).
- African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions.
- Food supply--Social aspects--Washington (D.C.).
- Food supply.
- Food supply--Social aspects.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Food industry and trade--Social aspects--United States.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Washington (D.C.)--Deanwood.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 162 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Ashanté M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Reese not only documents racism and residential segregation in the nation's capital, but also tracks the ways transnational food corporations have shaped food availability. By connecting community members' stories to the larger issues of racism and gentrification, Reese shows there are hundreds of Deanwoods across the country.
- Contents:
- Black food, black space, black agency
- Come to think of it, we were pretty self-sufficient: race, segregation, and food access in historical context
- There ain't nothing in Deanwood: navigating nothingness and the unsafeway
- What is our culture? I don't even know: the role of nostalgia and memory in evaluating contemporary food access
- He's had that store for years: the historical and symbolic value of community market
- We will not perish; we will flourish: community gardening, self-reliance, and refusal
- Black lives and black food futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469651491
- 1469651491
- 9781469651507
- 1469651505
- OCLC:
- 1052456732
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