Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class and Food in the American South

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class and Food in the American South by Joseph C. Ewoodzie, Jr. (Princeton University Press, 2021). Hardcover with dust jacket in Like New condition. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsA vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and classGetting Something to Eat in Jackson 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 shap