Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food practice
Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food practice
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DOI：
10.1177/1474474008094315
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Guthman, Julie
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作者：
Guthman, Julie
在食品正义的旗帜下，过去几年出现了大量的项目，专注于在非洲裔美国人居住的社区出售，捐赠，带来或种植新鲜水果和蔬菜，通常低于市场价格-或教育他们当地种植的质量，季节性和有机食品。这篇文章的重点是这些项目的对象--那些“为了给别人带来好的食物”而参加这些项目的人，在这种情况下，圣克鲁斯的加州大学社区研究专业的本科生在这些组织中进行为期六个月的实地研究。利用与我的正式和非正式交流，我表明，他们受到一套反映白化文化历史的话语的欢迎，例如把手放在土壤中的价值。当他们发现这些项目在他们所在的社区缺乏共鸣时，我会表现出他们的失望。然后，我展示了有多少人看到，目前的行动主义反映了白色的愿望比他们所服务的社区。通过这种方式，本文提供了对替代食品运动中白度的生产和再现的洞察，以及它如何被破坏。我的结论是，更多地关注替代食品的文化政治可能使白人在反种族主义斗争中成为更有效的盟友。
Under the banner of food justice, the last few years has seen a profusion of projects focused on selling, donating, bringing Or growing fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods inhabited by African Americans often at below market prices - or educating them to the quality of locally grown, seasonal, and organic food. The focus of this article is the subjects of such projects - those who enroll in such projects 'to bring good food to others,' in thiS case undergraduate majors in Community Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz who do six-month field studies with such organizations. Drawing on formal and informal communications with me, I show that they arc hailed by a Set Of discourses that reflect whitened Cultural histories, such as the value of putting one's hands in the soil. I Show their disappointments when they find these projects lack resonance in the communities in which they are located. I then show how many come to See that Current activism reflects white desires more than those of the communities they putatively serve. In this way, the article provides insight into the production and reproduction of whiteness in the alternative food movement, and how it might be disrupted. I conclude that more attention to the cultural politics of alternative food might enable whites to be more effective allies in anti-racist struggles.