THEORY

BLACK FOOD GEOGRAPHIES

“Black Food Geographies examines both the macro-level structures that influence and shape local food systems, including grocery store access, and the ways that residents have sought alternatives. Some of those alternatives are material: stores and gardens. Others are more abstract: memories, nostalgia, hopes and dreams. In all cases, the lives, stories, struggles, and triumphs represented in this book are as much about the endurance of Black life as they are about precarity produced by white supremacist patriarchal capitalist structures that shape the contours of food access and the lives we lead. The two—life and precarity—exist in tension; the people profiled in this book are constantly figuring out ways to navigate that tension and the spaces in between.” (Reese 2019, pg 132-133)