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Food Justice Undone eBook

Lessons For Building A Better Movement

by Hanna Garth
language: english
Publisher: University of California Press, February of 2026 ‧
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"A piercing ethnographic study of the power dynamics and misunderstandings that plague 'food justice' nonprofits."—Publishers Weekly

Breaks open the privilege and promise of food justice to envision a radical liberatory future.
 
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions, they often perpetuate food access inequalities and racial stereotypes. Hanna Garth shows how the movement has been affected by misconceptions and assumptions about residents, as well as by unclear definitions of justice and what it means to be healthy. Focusing on broad structures and microlevel processes, Garth reveals how power dynamics shape social justice movements in particular ways.
 
Drawing on twelve years of ethnographic research, Garth examines what motivates people from more affluent, majority-white areas of the city to intervene in South Central Los Angeles. She argues that the concepts of "food justice" and "healthy food" operate as racially coded language, reinforcing the idea that health problems in low-income Black and Brown communities can be solved through individual behavior rather than structural change. Food Justice Undone explores the stakes of social justice and the possibility of multiracial coalitions working toward a better future.

Food Justice Undone

Lessons For Building A Better Movement

by Hanna Garth

Property Description
ISBN: 9780520396708
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: February of 2026
Language: English
Pages: 304
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility:
Collection: California Studies In Food And Culture
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9780520396708
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