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Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability / edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Food, health, and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food consumption--United States.
- Food consumption.
- Poor--Nutrition.
- Poor.
- Minorities.
- Nutrition.
- United States.
- Minorities--Nutrition--United States.
- Poor--Nutrition--United States.
- African Americans--Nutrition.
- African Americans.
- Discrimination--United States.
- Discrimination.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- 1 Introduction: The Food Movement as Polyculture / Alison Hope Alkon Alkon, Alison Hope, Julian Agyeman Agyeman, Julian 1
- I The Production of Unequal Access 21
- 2 A Continuing Legacy: Institutional Racism, Hunger, and Nutritional Justice on the Klamath / Kari Marie Norgaard Norgaard, Kari Marie, Ron Reed Reed, Ron, Carolina Van Horn Horn, Carolina Van 23
- 3 From the Past to the Present: Agricultural Development and Black Farmers in the American South / John J. Green Green, John J., Eleanor M. Green Green, Eleanor M., Anna M. Kleiner Kleiner, Anna M. 47
- 4 Race and Regulation: Asian Immigrants in California Agriculture / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne, Nancy Peluso Peluso, Nancy, Jennifer Sowerwine Sowerwine, Jennifer, Christy Getz Getz, Christy 65
- II Consumption Denied 87
- 5 From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Demarcated Devaluation in the Flatlands of Oakland, California / Nathan McClintock McClintock, Nathan 89
- 6 Farmworker Food Insecurity and the Production of Hunger in California / Sandy Brown Brown, Sandy, Christy Getz Getz, Christy 121
- III Will Work for Food Justice 147
- 7 Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems / Alfonso Morales Morales, Alfonso 149
- 8 Community Food Security "For Us, By Us": The Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon McCutcheon, Priscilla 177
- 9 Environmental and Food Justice; Toward Local, Slow, and Deep Food Systems / Teresa M. Mares Mares, Teresa M., Devon G. Peña Peña, Devon G. 197
- 10 Vegans of Color, Racialized Embodiment, and Problematics of the "Exotic" / A. Breeze Harper Harper, A. Breeze 221
- 11 Realizing Rural Food Justice: Divergent Locals in the Northeastern United States / Jesse C. McEntee McEntee, Jesse C. 239
- IV Future Directions 261
- 12 "If They Only Knew": The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food / Julie Guthman Guthman, Julie 263
- 13 Just Food? / E. Melanie DuPuis DuPuis, E. Melanie, Jill Lindsey Harrison Harrison, Jill Lindsey, David Goodman Goodman, David 283
- 14 Food Security, Food Justice, or Food Sovereignty?: Crises, Food Movements, and Regime Change / Eric Holt-Giménez Holt-Giménez, Eric 309
- 15 Conclusion: Cultivating the Fertile Field of Food Justice / Alison Hope Alkon Alkon, Alison Hope, Julian Agyeman Agyeman, Julian 331.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262300216
- 0262300214
- 9780262300223
- 0262300222
- OCLC:
- 767579490
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613343710
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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