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Social Science Agriculture & Food

Beyond the Kitchen Table

Black Women and Global Food Systems

edited by Priscilla McCutcheon, Latrica E. Best & Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2023
Category
Agriculture & Food, Essays, Black Studies (Global)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781469675947
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $133.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781469675954
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $40.95

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Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of scholarship focused on race and food inequity. Much of this research is focused on the United States and its densely populated urban centers. Looking deeply into Black women's roles—economically, environmentally, and socially—in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance. They also examine matrilineal food-based education; the importance of Black women's social, cultural, and familial networks in addressing nutrition and food insecurity; the ways gender intersects with class and race globally when thinking about food; and how women-led science and technology initiatives can be used to create healthier and more just food systems.

Contributors include Agnes Atia Apusigah, Neela Badrie, Kenia-Rosa Campo, Dara Cooper, Kelsey Emard, Claudia J. Ford, Hanna Garth, Shelene Gomes, Veronica Gordon, Wendy-Ann Isaac, Lydia Kwoyiga, Gloria Sanders McCutcheon, Eveline M. F. W. Sawadogo/Compaore, Ashante M. Reese, Sakiko Shiratori, shakara tyler, and Marquitta Webb.

About the authors

Priscilla McCutcheon is assistant professor of geography at the University of Kentucky.

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Latrica E. Best is associate professor of sociology and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College.

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Theresa Rajack-Talley is professor in Pan-African studies at Dalhousie University.

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Editorial Reviews

A needed, intersectional contribution to scholarly studies on the role of Black women in creating and maintaining global food systems."—CHOICE