Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Psyche A. Williams-Forson
University of North Carolina Press
In Eating While Black, Psyche A. Williams-Forson illuminates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating, showing how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat.
Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food.