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Community organizer KJ Kearney learns about the link between food and the freedoms this country promised for all:
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Dinner with the president : food, politics, and a history of breaking bread at the White House by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023We see how these gustatory messages touch on not only sometimes curious personal tastes, but also local politics, national priorities, and global diplomacy-not to mention all those dinner-table-conversation-taboos: race, gender, class, money, and religion.
Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2018Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
Gastronativism : Food, Identity, Politics by Location: APublication Date: 2022Gastronativism is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and why food has become a powerful political tool.
Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty: Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience by Location: APublication Date: 2017This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance.
The political economy of food system transformation : pathways to progress in a polarized world by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023This volume analyses the political economy dynamics of food system transformation from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Power Hungry by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021Two unsung women whose power using food with the Black Panther Party was a political weapon during the civil rights movement.
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The following are a selection of the articles available to you through BU Libraries:
- "Sumud and Food: Remembering Palestine Through Cuisine in Chile" by Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley (2019). Available online.
- "Peasant Struggles in Times of Crises: The Political Role of Rural and Indigenous Women in Chile Today" by Mariana Calcagni (2023). Available online.
- "A Cultural Dimension of American-Indonesian 'Fast Food Diplomacy'" by Sri Herminingrum (2020). Available online.
- "Food fights for life: Food diplomacy for food security" by Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović (2018). Available online.
