Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

Book Overview

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516322
• ISBN13: 9780262516327
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher