Food Power Politics

@inproceedings{SmithII2023FoodPP,  title={Food Power Politics},  author={Bobby J. Smith II},  year={2023},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:261603810}}
  • Bobby J. Smith II
  • Published29 August 2023
  • History, Political Science, Sociology, Environmental Science
This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white economic and political actors used food as a weapon against Black sharecropping communities in the Yazoo-Mississippi… 
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As the nation prepares to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 on August 31, 2024, this essay reframes the “iron triangle” of agricultural policy that…

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