Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South (Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.)

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 African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.