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.
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