Food power politics : the food story of the Mississippi civil rights movement / Bobby J. Smith II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Bobby J., II, author.

Series:

Black food justice.

Black food justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History.

Civil rights movements.

Black people--Food--Mississippi--History.

Black people.

Food--Political aspects--Mississippi--History.

Food.

Social justice--Mississippi--History.

Social justice.

Mississippi.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press [2023].

Summary:

"In this sociology-based history, Bobby J. Smith II uses archival research, interviews, and oral histories to unearth a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Thinking with multiple disciplines, including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology, agri-food studies, and southern studies, Smith uncovers a neglected period of the movement--what he calls the food story of the Mississippi civil rights movement--when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Food Denied, Food for Freedom: The 1962-1963 Greenwood Food BlockadeAnother Kind of Oppression: Civil Rights, Food Stamps, and the Segrenomics of the Lewis Grocer Company

Black Food, Black Jobs: Emancipatory Food Power and the North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative

From Civil Rights to Food Justice: Black Youth and the North Bolivar County Good Food Revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4696-7509-9

OCLC:

1395907034