Food as Racial Empathy
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Alison Alkon |
TEDxEmory
• February 2018
Alison Hope Alkon is a professor of sociology and food studies at University of the Pacific, where she teaches and writes about the relationship between food, environmental sustainability and social inequalities. Her work seeks to understand the ways that inequalities constrain our abilities to imagine and create sustainable futures, and to work with communities as they pursue their visions for social change. She is the author of Black White and Green: Farmers Markets, Race and the Green Economy and co-editor of The New Food Activism and Cultivating Food Justice.