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Professor Joseph Ewoodzie will discuss his book, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in The American South, which provides a vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and class. Getting 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 Afri...

Getting 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.

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FIRST thought? I was seeing things. BBC1 Scotland, last Monday, just before 7pm. Reporting Scotland had curtailed the weather blether early, so something was afoot. Sure enough, the continuity man announced, “And now a party political broadcast by the Scottish Labour Party”. Half way out the room, I did a comedy turn on my heels. A PPB from Scottish Labour? This was a commendable display of initiative and multi-tasking from a party meant to be up to its oxters electing its fifth leader in a decade. Would it be a conciliatory farewell by departing leader Richard Leonard; maybe an inn...