12 February 2012

Granted, no amount of fresh produce will solve the under- lying socioeconomic problems of chronic unemployment, labor exploitation, crumbling public education, land and real estate speculation, and violence visited upon underserved communi- ties of color. But within a historicized framework of structural racism, the centrality of food to a community’s collective cul- tural identities provides links between racial identity and activ- ism (Pulido 2000). Food-justice activism is an important social change driver that, if allied with other, radical social move- ments, could seriously challenge the corporate food regime’s structural inequities.

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