TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams-Forson,Psyche A.
TI  - Eating while Black: food shaming and race in America 
SN  - 9781469668451
AV  - E185.89 .F66 W55 2022
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Food
KW  - Black people
KW  - United States
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Racism against Black people
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Worry about yourself: when food shaming Black folk is a thing -- It's a low-down, dirty shame: food and anti-Black racism -- In her mouth was an olive leaf pluck'd off: food choice in times of dislocation -- What's this in my salad? Food shaming, the real unhealthy ingredient -- Eating in the meantime: expanding African American food stories in a changing food world -- When racism rests on your plate, indeed, worry about yourself
N2  - "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 people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food"--
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