| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages) |
| Series |
Food, health, and the environment |
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| 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-Giménez -- Conclusion: cultivating the fertile field of food justice / Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman |
| Summary |
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives |
| Analysis |
ENVIRONMENT/General |
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ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Food consumption -- United States
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Minorities -- Nutrition -- United States
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Poor -- Nutrition -- United States
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African Americans -- Nutrition.
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Discrimination -- United States
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Social justice -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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African Americans -- Nutrition
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Discrimination
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Food consumption
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Poor -- Nutrition
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Social justice
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Ekologiska livsmedel.
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Social rättvisa.
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Livsmedelskonsumtion -- sociala aspekter.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alkon, Alison Hope, editor.
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Agyeman, Julian, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262300216 |
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0262300214 |
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9780262300223 |
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0262300222 |
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