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How the other half eats : the untold story of food and inequality in America / Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD.
Van Pelt Library TX360.U6 F54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding-Singh, Priya, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food security--United States.
- Food security.
- Food habits--United States.
- Food habits.
- Equality.
- History.
- Food--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Food--Social aspects--United States.
- Food.
- Equality--United States--History--21st century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 326 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how--and why--we eat the way we do"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Divides
- ch. 1 Diverging Destinies
- ch. 2 Families in an Age of Inequality
- ch. 3 Feeding Kids
- ch. 4 All That Matters
- pt. II Nourishment
- ch. 5 Scarcity, Abundance
- ch. 6 Within Reach
- ch. 7 Being "Good"
- ch. 8 Hunger and Pickiness
- ch. 9 Status Symbols
- ch. 10 Kale Salad
- pt. III Compromises
- ch. 11 Mom's Job
- ch. 12 Time and Money
- ch. 13 Stuck
- ch. 14 Fluctuating Finances
- ch. 15 Becoming American
- pt. IV Emotion
- ch. 16 Downscaling
- ch. 17 Upscaling
- ch. 18 Priorities
- ch. 19 Control
- ch. 20 Stacking Up
- pt. V Conclusion
- ch. 21 Windfall
- ch. 22 Where We Go.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316427265
- 0316427268
- OCLC:
- 1285070137
- Publisher Number:
- 99989196057
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