The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice

Soul food has played a significant role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius, but it also reflects centuries of food injustice. Christopher Carter's book "The Spirit of Soul Food" explores how racism and colonialism have shaped US food policy and offers a Christian ethical response to food injustice, promoting a way for people of color to eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while aligning with principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 21 December 2021
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to and a marker of centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?

Christopher Carter's answer to this question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized.

Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food justice and Christian practice.

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to and a marker of centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?

Christopher Carter's answer to this question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized.

Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food justice and Christian practice.

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to and a marker of centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?

Christopher Carter's answer to this question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized.

Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food justice and Christian practice.

Weight: 452g
Dimension: 236 x 156 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252044120