LibGuides: Environmental Justice: Food

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In this box you will see examples of some of the kinds of searches you can do in the DUQSearch online catalog or a database on the "Additional Research Tools" page.

Farm Labor AND Social Justice
Food Deserts and Social Justice
Food Justice AND Pesticides
Food Sovereignty AND Native Americans
Hunger AND Minorities
Social Justice and Food
Nutrition policy AND Food Justice
Also, search for specific crops, places, or nutrition-related health issues.

Selected Books on Food Justice

"Food justice refers to the efforts to understand and combat the intersections between inequalities of race, class, gender, and national status, and the production, distribution, and consumption of food" (Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues, 2015)

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Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Analyzes and challenges the ways in which “metabolic syndrome” has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people.

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Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

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Food Justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.

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Food Justice Now!
A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates and the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.

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More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change
Explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.

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Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.

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