Food for freedom: The Black freedom struggle and the politics of food
[Thesis]
[Thesis]
[Thesis]
[Thesis]
Mary E. Potorti
Schulman, Bruce J.; Phillips, Sarah T.
Boston University
2015
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-60278-4
Ph.D.
American and New England Studies GRS
Boston University
2015
This dissertation situates concerns of food access and nutrition at the center of United States struggles for racial justice during the long civil rights era. The persistence of widespread hunger amidst agricultural abundance created a need and an organizing opportunity that proponents of black freedom readily seized, recognizing the capacity of food to perpetuate oppression and to promote human equality.
African American Studies; American studies; American history
Social sciences;Black panther party;Civil rights;Food;Hunger;Nation of islam;SNCC