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Author Williams-Forson, Psyche A., author.

Title Eating while black : food shaming and race in America / Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Worry about yourself: when food shaming Black folk is a thing -- It's a low-down, dirty shame: food and anti-Black racism -- In her mouth was an olive leaf pluck'd off: food choice in times of dislocation -- What's this in my salad? Food shaming, the real unhealthy ingredient -- Eating in the meantime: expanding African American food stories in a changing food world -- When racism rests on your plate, indeed, worry about yourself
Summary "Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed June 13, 2022)
Subject African Americans -- Food
Black people -- Food -- United States
Food habits -- United States
Food -- Social aspects -- United States
Stigma (Social psychology) -- United States
Racism against Black people -- United States
Cooking / History.
Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Black people -- Food
Food habits
Food -- Social aspects
Racism against Black people
Stigma (Social psychology)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021060590
ISBN 9781469668475
1469668475
9781469668468
1469668467
Other Titles Food shaming and race in America