Professor Joseph Ewoodzie will discuss his book, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in The American South, which provides a vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and class. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food what people eat and how to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how “foodways” food availability, choice, and consumption vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity. Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoo
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food what people eat and how to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South.
FIRST thought? I was seeing things. BBC1 Scotland, last Monday, just before 7pm. Reporting Scotland had curtailed the weather blether early, so something was afoot. Sure enough, the continuity man announced, “And now a party political broadcast by the Scottish Labour Party”. Half way out the room, I did a comedy turn on my heels. A PPB from Scottish Labour? This was a commendable display of initiative and multi-tasking from a party meant to be up to its oxters electing its fifth leader in a decade. Would it be a conciliatory farewell by departing leader Richard Leonard; maybe an innovative show of unity from leadership candidates Monica Lennon and Anas Sarwar; or some bland but well meant gee-up to show Scottish Labour was still alive and about to start kicking again?