How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn

Authors

Jennifer Jensen Wallach, University of North Texas

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Beginning in the late 1960s, an increasing number of black food reformers rejected, or at least complicated, what they regarded as standard American food practices. They asserted a separate black national identity and a competing value system. Culinary black nationalists did not conceive of food decisions as a series of trivial personal consumer choices but rather as an arena for communal activism. The construction of black nationalist foodways was both an evolutionary process and a dialectical one. Radical food reformers analyzed white-owned eating establishments and dominant American foodways in opposition to southern, regional cuisine and in contrast to a vegetarian-inclined diet.

Publication Date

7-2-2014

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journal article

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Includes embedded videos for:

• Comedian Activist Dick Gregory Talks Health
• Food Rebel Dr. Alvenia Fulton

Recommended Citation

Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, "How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn" (2014). Study the South. 25.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/25

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