Race, culture, and practice

Segregation and local food in Birmingham, Alabama

Bibliographic Data

ID11670264
AuthorsZachary Floyd Henson (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Zachary Henson, Genevieve Munsey (San Francisco State University)
Year2014
Volume35
Issue7
Pages998-1019
Publication date2014-08-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2014.941691
OpenAlexW2019076300
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited49

In this study, we use a combination of geographic information systems and Bourdieuan social theory to analyze the development of a food policy council in Birmingham, Alabama. The questions we investigate are: What is the relationship between race and culture? How is this relationship manifest in practice within the alternative food and agriculture movement? In our work, we show how the racially segregated conditions of metropolitan Birmingham forge divergent habitus among Blacks and Whites in the region. Consequently, Whites have difficulty producing practices and interpretations of those practices that Blacks can recognize as legitimate, and vice versa. As a result, the food policy council emerges from and remains trapped within a space of Whiteness, and few Blacks serve on the council or participate in its production

Agriculture · Cultural capital · Geography · Habitus · Metropolitan area · Political science · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Organic Food and Agriculture · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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