Geographies of Race and Food

Rachel Slocum is Assistant Professor in the Geography and Earth Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. USA, Arun Saldanha is Senior Lecturer at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.

1: Geographies of Race and Food: An Introduction; 2: Race in the Study of Food 1; I: Fields – Ecology, Labor, Inequality; 3: Fields of Survival, Foods of Memory; 4: ‘The Issue is Basically One of Race': Braceros, the Labor Process, and the Making of the Agro-Industrial Landscape of mid-Twentieth-Century California; 5: Sensations of Food: Growing for the Nation and Eating with the Hand in Bahia, Brazil; 6: Urban Agriculture and Race in South Africa; 7: Peas and Praxis: Organizing Food Justice through the Direct Action of the Newtown Florist Club; II: Bodies – Diet, Taste, Biopolitics; 8: Sustaining Difference: Climate Change, Diet and the Materiality of Race; 9: Objet Petit, Eh? Consuming Multiculturalism and Superorganic Food at the Persian Nowruz Celebrations, West Vancouver; 10: Dishing up Difference: Assemblages of Food, Home and Migrant Women in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand; 11: Meatify the Weak! Cannibalism and (Post) Colonial Politics; 12: Food in Australia's Northern Territory Emergency Response: A Foucauldian Perspective on the Biopolitics of New Race/Pleasure Wars; III: Markets – Exchange, Commodification, Empire; 13: Linking Food Deserts and Racial Segregation: Challenges and Limitations; 14: White Bread Biopolitics: Purity, Health, and the Triumph of Industrial Baking 1; 15: Skinning the Banana Trade: Racial Erotics and Ethical Consumption; 16: Monopoly's Violence: Georges Bataille Explains the Early Dutch Spice Trade; III: Afterword: Biocultural Entanglements