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White dominant culture is inherent in the way individuals, organizations, and governments discuss the food system and in what ideals the same groups uphold as normative. Some white dominant culture narratives include defensiveness, perfectionism, “only one right way” thinking, and quantity over quality. All these narratives create oppressive cultures in organizations, perpetuating white supremacy and feeding into systems that hold whiteness and white ideals as the default. White dominant culture and whiteness are pervasive across systems, including the food system.
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This podcast is part of our series on racial equity in the food system. Today, we're talking with Alison Conrad, a research associate here at the World Food Policy Center. She has just published a research brief on Identifying and Countering White supremacy Culture in the Food System.