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Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, (2020, University of Minnesota Press), edited by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, analyzes how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance “healthy,” and Black individuals’ own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. This comprehensive look at Black food culture and the various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine centers Blackness in a field that has too often framed Black issues through a white-centric lens, offering new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice.
Join us for a moderated panel discussion of this important new work. The evening will begin with an overview of the volume, followed by short readings by several chapter authors, a moderated panel, and questions from the audience.
Speakers:
• Dr. Hanna Garth
• Dr. Ashanté M. Reese
• Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg
• Dr. Kimberly Kasper
• Dr. Andrew Newman
• Dr. Yuson Jung
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Kristin Reynolds, Lecturer in the Food Studies and Environmental Studies programs at The New School.
This event is part of the Spring 2021 Food Studies event series “Food and Power.”
Presented by Food Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement and the Tishman Environment and Design Center.
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Dr. Hanna Garth a sociocultural and medical anthropologist at Princeton University, specializing in the anthropology of food. Her work addresses issues of inequality and structural violence, with regional interests in Latin American, the Caribbean, and the United States. She is the author of Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, and co-editor of Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. Dr. Garth will read from her chapter “Blackness and ‘Justice’ in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement.”
Dr. Ashanté Reese is an assistant professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the co-edited volume with Hanna Garth, she is the author of Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Opening the panel, Dr. Reese will give an overview of Black Food Matters and its key themes.
Dr. Analena Hope is a scholar, activist, educator and mother committed to organizing low-income communities of color around food justice and environmental justice. Dr. Hope is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Women’s Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellow, and an active member of several social justice organizations throughout Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research investigates and complicates notions of food security and food sovereignty, and situates food as central to freedom struggles and contemporary liberation movements. Dr. Hope will read from her chapter “Nurturing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and the Early Seeds of the Food Justice Movement.”
Dr. Kimberly Kasper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology with a specialization in anthropological archaeology. Her first M.Sc. in Anthropology was obtained from Florida State University and her second M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology and Paleoeconomy was acquired from Sheffield University. Her Ph.D. in Anthropology was completed at UMass, Amherst. Her research and teaching focuses on the ecological and cultural legacy of food. She has published articles in the journals, Archaeologies and Advances in Archaeological Practices and has a forthcoming book (co-edited with Dr. Susan Kus), Materiality of Gendered Practices: Archaeological Perspectives across Historical Landscapes (University Press of Colorado). Dr. Kasper will read from her chapter “’Preserve and Add Flavor’”: Barbecue as Resistance in Memphis.”
Dr. Andrew Newman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University. He is the author of Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris and a co-editor of A People's Atlas of Detroit (with Linda Campbell, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann). Newman conducts ethnographic and historical research related to environmentalism and social movements in cities. In collaboration with Dr. Yuson Jung, he has been conducting research about the politics of race, food procurement, grocery stories, and food justice activism in Detroit since the early 2010s.
Dr. Yuson Jung is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research explores issues of consumption, food politics, globalization and postsocialism. She is the author of Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism (Indiana University Press, 2019) which examines everyday consumer experience in postsocialist Bulgaria, and the co-editor (with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell) of Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World (University of California Press, 2014). She is working on a book project, The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization, Heritage, and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry, and a collaborative research project (with Andrew Newman) regarding food politics and urban governance in Detroit. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. Drs. Newman and Jung will read from their chapter “Good Food in a Racist System: Competing Moral Economies in Detroit.”
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