{"product_id":"getting-something-eat-jackson-race-class-food-american-south-9780691253879-new","title":"Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee - Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social Problems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid portrait of African American life in today's urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and class\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGetting Something to Eat in Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e uses food--what people eat and how--to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how \"foodways\"--food availability, choice, and consumption--vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEwoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans--from upper-middle-class patrons of the city's fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoodzie goes food shopping, cooks, and eats with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He works in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, and he meets a man who decides to become a vegan for health reasons but who must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. Ewoodzie also learns about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Throughout, he shows how food choices influence, and are influenced by, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy tracing these contemporary African American foodways, \u003ci\u003eGetting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Something to Eat in Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRINCETON UNIV PR","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51566153335074,"sku":"9780691253879-new","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780691253879.jpg?v=1777010893","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/getting-something-eat-jackson-race-class-food-american-south-9780691253879-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}