Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America

by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Book Overview

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469668459
• ISBN13: 9781469668451
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"