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Black food geographies : race, self-reliance, and food access in Washington, D.C. / Ashanté M. Reese.

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"Ashanté M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the his...

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Main Author: Reese, Ashanté M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Food security > Social aspects > Washington (D.C.)
Deanwood (Washington, D.C.) > Social conditions.
African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Social conditions.
Food supply > Social aspects > Washington (D.C.)
Food industry and trade > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Food industry and trade > Social aspects.
Food supply > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
United States.
Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > Deanwood.
Table of Contents:
  • Black food, black space, black agency
  • Come to think of it, we were pretty self-sufficient: race, segregation, and food access in historical context
  • There ain't nothing in Deanwood: navigating nothingness and the unsafeway
  • What is our culture? I don't even know: the role of nostalgia and memory in evaluating contemporary food access
  • He's had that store for years: the historical and symbolic value of community market
  • We will not perish; we will flourish: community gardening, self-reliance, and refusal
  • Black lives and black food futures.

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