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Title: Race, culture, and practice: segregation and local food in Birmingham, Alabama

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: In this study, we use a combination of geographic information systems and Bourdieuan social theory to analyze the development of a food policy council in Birmingham, Alabama. The questions we investigate are: What is the relationship between race and culture? How is this relationship manifest in practice within the alternative food and agriculture movement? In our work, we show how the racially segregated conditions of metropolitan Birmingham forge divergent habitus among Blacks and Whites in the region. Consequently, Whites have difficulty producing practices and interpretations of those practices that Blacks can recognize as legitimate, and vice versa. As a result, the food policy council emerges from and remains trapped within a space of Whiteness, and few Blacks serve on the council or participate in its production.

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2014.941691#.VAccdvm-1cY

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Authors: Henson, Zachary; Munsey, Genevieve

Periodical (Full): Urban Geography

Issue: 7

Volume: 35

Pages: 998-1019

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Natural Resource Management, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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