Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice

For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays that analyze 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.



Primarily written by nonwhite scholars, and framed through a focus on Black agency instead of ...