Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America

The Last Negroes at Harvard

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. Her book illustrates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, she urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on both personal and structural levels.