Black Women’s Food Work is from the Future
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Author: A. Reese
Blackness, Food, and State-Sanctioned Violence
I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about a) what people were eating b) where they were shopping, and c)…
Food Insecurity in a Globalized World: The Politics and Culture of Food Systems
This conference, taking place at Middlebury College on March 4-6, will be live streamed and recorded. The conference schedule is posted below. More information can be found here: http://www.middlebury…
CFP: Food Insecurity in West Africa
Multidisciplinary approaches to food security, public health and governance: Emerging research for sustainable development in West Africa The University of Ibadan, Nigeria September 5 & 6, 2016 Th…
Hospital Food
Guest Contributor: David Shane Lowry, Assistant Professor, Chicago Medical School and College of Health Professions I worked as a technician for five years (between 2007 and 2012) in…
“D.C. is Mambo Sauce”
Early in my fieldwork, I met Kameron (pseudonym) at Denny’s, the only sit down restaurant in Ward 7 at the time. Our conversation spanned several topics, but when…