• Point 1: Perceptions of what food is “healthy” or “unhealthy” is mostly culturally determined. It is society, not science, assigns moral (and health) value to food. And dominant systems of power define who is worthy and not worthy of eating it.

• Point 2: The primary function of hierarchized binaries is to maintain imbalances of power. Social identities shape our lived experiences and interpersonal interaction. The power (disproportionate control over labor, history, and resources) social identities hold can change and are contextual to place and time.

• Point 3: Today’s Food Justice movement is connected to issues within the environment, land use, health, immigration, worker rights, economic and community development, cultural integrity, and social justice. The vast majority of Food Justice efforts in the US, which stemmed from the Civil Rights Movement and Black Liberation, have shifted to focus more on weight-centric and diet-centered outcomes than maintaining dignity and sovereignty within historically marginalized communities. Beliefs that people experiencing chronic food insecurity are in poor health because they make "uneducated" "irresponsible", or “unhealthy” eating decisions is rooted in white supremacist and colonial ideology.

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty  by Dorothy Roberts

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

• Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese

• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shawn Harrison

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