Food Power Politics : The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement /

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"In this sociology-based history, Bobby J. Smith II uses archival research, interviews, and oral histories to unearth a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Thinking with multiple disciplines, including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Bobby J., II (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social justice.
Civil rights movements.
Black people > Food.
Social justice > Mississippi > History.
Food > Political aspects > Mississippi > History.
Black people > Food > Mississippi > History.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History.
Mississippi.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In this sociology-based history, Bobby J. Smith II uses archival research, interviews, and oral histories to unearth a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Thinking with multiple disciplines, including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology, agri-food studies, and southern studies, Smith uncovers a neglected period of the movement--what he calls the food story of the Mississippi civil rights movement--when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
ISBN:9781469675091

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