| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm). |
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| Series |
Food, health, and the environment |
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Food consumption -- United States.
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Discrimination -- United States.
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African Americans -- Nutrition.
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Poor -- Nutrition -- United States.
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Minorities -- Nutrition -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Social justice -- United States.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Nutrition -- United States.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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| Added Author |
Alkon, Alison Hope.
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Agyeman, Julian.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultivating food justice. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262016261 (DLC) 2011002082 (OCoLC)700205612 |
| ISBN |
9780262300216 (electronic bk.) |
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0262300214 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786613343710 |
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