Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0002
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"Come to Think of It, We Were Pretty Self-Sufficient","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an historical overview of Deanwood, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. It details several key periods in the neighborhood’s development and the role food played in each, arguing that self-reliance was integral to the early sustainability of the neighborhood, as it undergirded the development of schools, small businesses, and small grocery stores. Secondly, this chapter explores the systematic decline of supermarkets in the poorest and blackest areas of Washington, D.C., and examines what that decline meant for residents and the city.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"489 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123888077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0007
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter summarizes the main arguments of the book, reprises the usefulness of centering the narratives of everday residents, and explores the limits of self-reliance through a reflection on the death of a research participant. This chapter also connects Deanwood to a larger food justice agenda by discussing the role of organizations in the pursuit of an equitable, justice food system.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131967165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0005
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"He’s Had That Store for Years","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, Community Market emerges as a hopeful symbol of racial progress and self-reliance. Placed within the historical and contemporary contexts outlined in the previous two chapters, this chapter examines the paradox of residents exhibiting pride in the store while at the same time not shopping there on a regular basis. It also explores the role the second generation owner, Mr. Jones, plays in the community at large, making the argument that the position of authority that many residents claim he has is in part due to the longevity of the store, even in the face of impending gentrification.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121410928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0004
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"What Is Our Culture? I Don’t Even Know","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter turns to the role of nostalgia in placemaking, community building, and the ways residents evaluated their local food system. In it, residents discuss self-reliance as a foundational ethos in the neighborhood’s history and also offer critiques of themselves and each other for not embodying self-reliance in the present, reflecting on the question “who is responsible?” for unequal food access. This chapter makes a claim that nostalgia plays an important role in the stories that people tell about food in the neighbourhood.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128077271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0006
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"We Will Not Perish; We Will Flourish","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter revisits self-reliance, examining it as a lens through which contemporary efforts to increase food access are framed. In it, a community garden at a public housing community is featured, focusing on the ways the gardeners attempted to build community, maintain the garden to meet food needs, and develop programming for youth development. The chapter also examines how this garden functions within a broader landscape of precarity: how they continued gardening despite displacement.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125300384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black Food GeographiesPub Date : 2019-04-29DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0003
Ashanté M. Reese
{"title":"There Ain’t Nothing in Deanwood","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651507.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the nearest supermarket, a Safeway, this chapter explores how residents made decisions about where and when to shop. The chapter examines the many considerations at the heart of grocery shopping: time, money, stores’ reputation, and transportation. Secondly, the chapter examines how these considerations are connected to socioeconomic status and class, demonstrating the heterogeneity present in the neighborhood and the challenges this presents for food justice efforts in the neighborhood.","PeriodicalId":207942,"journal":{"name":"Black Food Geographies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122389971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}