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Podcast: New Books in African American Studies
Episode: Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Description: Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses foodâwhat people eat and howâto explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how âfoodwaysââfood availability, choice, and consumptionâvary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.
Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americansâfrom upper-middle-class patrons of the cityâs fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days...