Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

Book Overview

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 color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016265
• ISBN13: 9780262016261
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 389 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher