Beyond the Kitchen Table

Black Women and Global Food Systems

Priscilla McCutcheon, Latrica E. Best, Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley, Priscilla McCutcheon, Latrica E. Best, Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781469675954, 9781469675947
• eBook ISBN: 9781469675961
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of scholarship focused on race and food inequity. Much of this research is focused on the United States and its densely populated urban centers. Looking deeply into Black women’s roles—economically, environmentally, and socially—in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance. They also examine matrilineal food-based education; the importance of Black women’s social, cultural, and familial networks in addressing nutrition and food insecurity; the ways gender intersects with class and race globally when thinking about food; and how women-led science and technology initiatives can be used to create healthier and more just food systems.

Contributors include Agnes Atia Apusigah, Neela Badrie, Kenia-Rosa Campo, Dara Cooper, Kelsey Emard, Claudia J. Ford, Hanna Garth, Shelene Gomes, Veronica Gordon, Wendy-Ann Isaac, Lydia Kwoyiga, Gloria Sanders McCutcheon, Eveline M. F. W. Sawadogo/Compaore, Ashanté M. Reese, Sakiko Shiratori, shakara tyler, and Marquitta Webb.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Halftitle Page
• INTRODUCTION: Beyond the Kitchen Table
• PART 1: From the Fields
• CHAPTER 1: Rural Women, Household Food Provisioning, and Dry-Season Groundwater Irrigation in Northern Ghana
• CHAPTER 2: From Farm to Kitchen
• CHAPTER 3: The Role of Women in Sustainable Agriculture in Three Global Regions
• CHAPTER 4: Fish Farming
• PART 2: Food and Social Justice
• CHAPTER 5: Making Spaces Something Like Freedom
• CHAPTER 6: Mothering in Historical Black Agrarian Pedagogies
• CHAPTER 7: Recipes for Resistance
• CHAPTER 8: My Planting Is to Farm Community
• PART 3: Food Security, Health, and Well-Being
• CHAPTER 9: Black Women, Food, and Health
• CHAPTER 10: I Put Food on Everyone’s Table
• CHAPTER 11: Tasting Freedom
• CONCLUSION: Exercising Agency, Navigating Marginalization, and Maintaining Silent Control in Global Food Systems
• Contributors
• Index