Resource Spotlight
In a report examining the US Farm Bill, the Haas Institute finds that corporate control and structural racialization within the US food system leaves marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by the agricultural policies and outcomes generated by the Farm Bill.
Find Books
Black Food Matters by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today.
Blood Sugar by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016How medical researchers use metabolic syndrome to address racial inequalities have reconstructed race without incorporating inequalities.
Addressing Environmental and Food Justice Toward Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016This series of essays presents voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements.
The New Food Activism by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice.
Find Articles
The following articles are a selection of resources available through BU Libraries:
- "Blackness and food resilience: black culinary epistemologies, the slow food movement and racial justice" by Marilisa C Navarro (2022). Available here.
- "Addressing social and racial justice in public policy for healthy living" by Laurie Whitsel and Janay Johnson (2022). Available here.
- "Relational Life: Lessons from Black Feminism on Whiteness and Engaging New Food Activism" by Carrie Chennault (2022). Available here.
- "Feeding Revolution: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Food" by Mary Potorti (2014). Available here.
- "Neighborhood racial composition, income, and distance to grocery retailers in Seattle" by Brandon Ware et. al (2021). Available here.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources:
- University of Wisconsin Extension: The Food System Racial Equity Assessment Tool: A Facilitation Guide Racial inequities in the food system create unfair differences in access to fresh and culturally appropriate foods, increase the disproportionate prevalence of diet-related diseases, create barriers to owning land and starting food or farm businesses, and limit the voice and power of those most impacted in policy-making processes. By using the Food System Racial Equity Assessment tool in planning, groups can look carefully at how their decision-making processes can advance racial equity in the food system
- Food First: Dismantling Racism in the Food System Racism—the systemic mistreatment of people based on their ethnicity or skin color—affects all aspects of our society, including our food system.
- Race Forward: Racial Equity Implementation Guide for Food Hubs: A Framework for Translating Values Into Organizational Action The report presents the basic elements of our Racial Equity Implementation Guide framework, which privileges racial equity at multiple levels of food hub operations.
- Setting an Anti-Racist Table: Racial Justice in the Food System Links to organizations, conferences, papers and articles.
- Black Culinary History: Food Justice and the Good Food Movement "These are the books we love written by some of the soldiers on the battlefield of the good food and food justice movement."
- Center for Social Inclusion: Building the Case for Racial Equity in the Food System The food system works for some, but fails too many of us. Yet, we already have a glimpse of the possibility of a just and healthy food system. To get there, we must use a critical race lens to diagnose what is wrong with our current system, assess entry points for change, and determine ways that we can work together to build a better system for all of us. This report shares an analysis of what it means to build a racially equitable food system – from field to farm to fork – and lays out steps toward achieving that goal.
- Dissent Magazine: Food Justice About food justice issues in New Orleans schools and beyond
- Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD): BLM Community Resources In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement we have compiled a list of resources amplifying Black chefs and food producers, Black-owned businesses, and organizations helping the food insecure during protests and COVID-19.
- Civil Eats: Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups. Food justice is racial justice. As the nation rises up to protest atrocities against Black people, here are some organizations working to advance Black food sovereignty.
- "Recipes for Resistance: Practical Applications of Restorative Food Justice in New Haven, Connecticut." Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 10, no. 4 (2021): 43-46. The intersections between race, food security, and release from prison are starting to be recognized. However, food justice should be informed by the perspectives and work being done by returning citizens and people of color. With the help of EMERGE CT, a transitional employment social enterprise for returning citizens in New Haven, Connecticut, I collected food access survey data and narratives of crewmembers at EMERGE to explore these issues.
- Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives
