Cultivating food justice : race, class, and sustainability

Cultivating food justice : race, class, and sustainability / edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alkon, Alison Hope, Agyeman, Julian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Series:Food, health, and the environment.
Subjects:
Food consumption > United States.
Minorities > Nutrition > United States.
Poor > Nutrition > United States.
African Americans > Nutrition.
Discrimination > United States.
Social justice > United States.
Table of 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.

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