Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- From Alison -- From Julian -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Food Movement as Polyculture -- Situating Food Justice -- Food Justice and Environmental Justice -- Food and (Poly)culture -- Overview -- Notes -- References -- I. The Production of Unequal Access -- Chapter 2. A Continuing Legacy: Institutional Racism, Hunger, and Nutritional Justice on the Klamath -- Institutional Racism, Racial Formation, and Racial Projects -- Environmental Justice -- The Production of Food Insecurity: A Racialized Environmental History -- Genocide and Relocation -- Lack of Recognition of Land Occupancy and Title -- Forced Assimilation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. From the Past to the Present: Agricultural Development and Black Farmers in the American South -- " Rural Livelihoods " Theoretical Framework -- Agriculture, Black Farmers, and Livelihood Systems -- Responses from the Grassroots -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 4. Race and Regulation: Asian Immigrants in California Agriculture -- The Law and Asian American Farmers -- Chinese Agriculture and the Exclusion Act of 1882 -- Japanese Farmers and the Alien Land Laws of 1913 - 1927 -- The Hmong 1975 - 2009: Protecting Workers, Challenging Family Farmers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- II. Consumption Denied -- Chapter 5. From Industrial Garden to Food Desert: Demarcated Devaluation in the Flatlands of Oakland, California -- Root Structure: Devaluation of Urban Capital -- An Industrial Garden Grows -- Demarcated Desertifi cation -- Retail in the Red -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Farmworker Food Insecurity and the Production of Hunger in California -- Producing Hunger, Constructing Vulnerability -- California Farmworkers: Hunger in the Nation ' s Breadbasket.

Situating Farmworker Food Insecurity -- California ' s Racialized Agricultural Working Class -- The Politics and Policy of " Othering " -- Uneven Development and Neoliberal Trade Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- III. Will Work for Food Justice -- Chapter 7. Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems -- Food Justice in Historical and Contemporary Economic Context -- Food Security and the Community Food Security Coalition -- Food Justice and the Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative -- Growing Food and Justice for All - The First Conference -- Concluding Thoughts and New Research Opportunities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8. Community Food Security " For Us, By Us: "The Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church -- Organizational Histories -- Why the NOI and PAOCC -- The FUBU Principle -- Preaching Self-reliance through the NOI ' s Muhammad Farms -- Self-reliance and Beulah Land Farms -- " Community " in the Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church -- Community in the Community Food Movement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. Environmental and Food Justice: Toward Local, Slow, and Deep Food Systems -- Local Food in a Global World? -- Environmental Justice Principles and Food Justice: A Necessary Connection -- Decommodifying Food in Autonomous Spaces: Lessons from the (Corn)field -- Conclusion: Rebalancing Power in the Global Food System -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10. Vegans of Color, Racialized Embodiment, and Problematics of the " Exotic " -- Eating the " Exotic " -- Whiteness, Vegan Spaces, and Racialized Bodily Places -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11. Realizing Rural Food Justice: Divergent Locals in the Northeastern United States.

The State of Food Access and Local Foods -- Grafton County: Rural Aspirations for Food System Relocalization -- Methods: Qualitative Inquiry -- Divergent Locals: Traditional and Contemporary Localism -- Divergent Localism: Intentions and Motivations -- Future Directions in Rural Food Justice: The Role of Traditional Localism -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- IV. Future Directions -- Chapter 12. " If They Only Knew: "The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food -- Coding Alternative Food as White -- Evidence of Colorblindness and Universalism in Alternative Food Institutions -- Evidence of Lack of Resonance -- " If They Only Knew " ? -- If Who Only Knew? -- Note -- References -- Chapter 13. Just Food? -- Theories of Justice -- Food Justice -- Toward Refl exive Food Justice -- Conclusion: Embracing Imperfect Politics -- References -- Chapter 14. Food Security, Food Justice, or Food Sovereignty? Crises, Food Movements, and Regime Change -- Hunger, Harvests, and Profits: The Tragic Records of the Global Food Crisis -- Understanding the Crisis -- The Corporate Food Regime -- Food Enterprise, Food Security, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty -- The Food Regime and the Food Movement -- Solving the Food Crisis: The Imperative of Regime Change -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15. Conclusion: Cultivating the Fertile Field of Food Justice -- Lessons from the Food Justice Movement -- Lessons for the Food Justice Movement -- Summary -- Note -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

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