Podcast Topic: Food System Narratives
The Leading Voices in Food
Podcast Topic: Food System Narratives
E244: US Food History – Food as a tool for oppression
September 4, 2024
E244: US Food History – Food as a tool for oppressionToday we discuss a new and provocatively titled book written by Southwestern Law School professor Andrea Freeman, an expert on issues of race, food policy, and health from both legal and policy perspectives. The book’s title, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground, the Politics of Food in the United States from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch, has been called the first and definitive history of the use of food in the United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control. Freeman argues that the U. S. food law and policy process has both created and maintained racial and social inequity. She documents governmental policies from colonization to slavery; to the commodities supplied to Native American reservations. She argues that the long-standing alliance between government and the food industry has produced racial health disparities to this day.
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E234: White Burgers, Black Cash – a history of fast food discrimination
April 8, 2024
E234: White Burgers, Black Cash – a history of fast food discriminationFast food is part of American life. As much a part of our background as the sky and the clouds. But it wasn’t always that way, and over the decades, the fast food landscape has changed in quite profound ways. Race is a key part of that picture. A landmark exploration of this has been published by today’s guest, Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. Her book, recently published, is entitled White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food From Black Exclusion to Exploitation. The book has been received very positively by the field. And was recently named the best book in the field of urban affairs by the Urban Affairs Association.
Related podcasts: Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Industry Behavior & Marketing | Food System Narratives |
E224: Mississippi Delta History Describe Food Power Against and For Blacks in US
January 16, 2024
E224: Mississippi Delta History Describe Food Power Against and For Blacks in USStories from the past help us understand who we are and who we can be. In today’s podcast, we will explore a gripping new book titled “Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement,” written by African American Studies Assistant Professor Bobby J. Smith II at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The book tells how food was used as a political weapon against African Americans and describes how black people fought against oppressive regimes by creating their own food systems, Bobby sets the stage for understanding how black youth today in Mississippi and beyond are building food justice movements and grappling with inequalities that attempt to contort their lives.
Related podcasts: Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Insecurity | Food System Narratives | History & Food |
E180: Chris Carter and the Spirit of Soul Food
September 14, 2022
E180: Chris Carter and the Spirit of Soul FoodSoul food has played a critical role in preserving black history, community and culinary genius and has also been a response to centuries of food in justice. Today we’re speaking with author, Dr. Christopher Carter about these new book entitled, “The Spirit of Soul Food.” Chris Carter is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego and also a pastor in the United Methodist church.
Related podcasts: Equity, Race & Food Justice | Faith & Food | Food System Narratives | History & Food |
E175: Striving for Black Food Sovereignty – Stewards for the Land
July 14, 2022
E175: Striving for Black Food Sovereignty – Stewards for the LandToday, we’re talking to Dr. Jasmine Ratliff, who goes by Dr. Jas, and is an applied food systems research and policy specialist, and co-executive director of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. She believes that your zip code should not determine your life expectancy and that building relationships are essential to creating a sustainable and just food system.
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