Experience MLA 2023
Book Discussion - Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Join us for a 2-part discussion of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche Williams-Forson. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows 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.
Book Discussion
Join us for a 2-part discussion of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche Williams-Forson.
2:00 - 3:30 PM (CST)/3:00 - 4:30 PM (EST)
Session 1 - February 16
Session 2 - February 23
These sessions were not recorded.
Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson discusses "Eating While Black"
Words of Wisdom (WOW) Series
In honor of Black History Month and as part of MLA Experience, join AAMLA for our Words of Wisdom series. This series will feature conversations with seasoned African American Librarians to honor the historical footprint of AAMLA and the African American community.
Panel Discussion
