WORKS CITED
Kate Meals, Nurturing the Seeds of Food Justice: “Unearthing the Impact of Institutionalized Racism on Access to Healthy Food in Urban African-American Communities”, 15 Scholar: St. Mary 's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 97 (2012) (266 Footnotes)
This source was written by Kate Meals to bring awareness to a damaged and flawed food system. It recognizes food as more than just nourishment to our bodies but as a major factor of our livelihood as individuals. She highlights that the reason for society’s unbalanced and unequal access to healthy foods is because of corporate interests. She points out the urban areas in many countries in addition to the U.S that are becoming concentrated zones of hunger and malnutrition. She supports her ideas with the fact that thirty million people in the U.S are unable to buy sufficient food to maintain good health. This article supports the thesis of this paper by stating that African-American youth are exposed to 50 percent more fast food advertising then their white peers. This source supports the ideology of segregation in food markets.
Morland, K. and Filomena, S. (2007) ‘Disparities in the availability of fruits and vegetables between racially segregated urban neighborhoods’, …show more content…
Food desserts are defined as typically low income areas where individuals have to travel twice as far to get to the nearest supermarket as their wealthier counterparts. This report identifies race and income as to factors immediately associated with the location of food outlets and the selection of food available. The data concluded that those who lived in mixed lower income communities were less likely to have healthy food options available. They concluded that there is a growing and incomplete body of research associated with food insecurity and obesity .This source is relevant to my paper in reiterating the relation with race and food
Kate Meals, Nurturing the Seeds of Food Justice: “Unearthing the Impact of Institutionalized Racism on Access to Healthy Food in Urban African-American Communities”, 15 Scholar: St. Mary 's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 97 (2012) (266 Footnotes)
This source was written by Kate Meals to bring awareness to a damaged and flawed food system. It recognizes food as more than just nourishment to our bodies but as a major factor of our livelihood as individuals. She highlights that the reason for society’s unbalanced and unequal access to healthy foods is because of corporate interests. She points out the urban areas in many countries in addition to the U.S that are becoming concentrated zones of hunger and malnutrition. She supports her ideas with the fact that thirty million people in the U.S are unable to buy sufficient food to maintain good health. This article supports the thesis of this paper by stating that African-American youth are exposed to 50 percent more fast food advertising then their white peers. This source supports the ideology of segregation in food markets.
Morland, K. and Filomena, S. (2007) ‘Disparities in the availability of fruits and vegetables between racially segregated urban neighborhoods’, …show more content…
Food desserts are defined as typically low income areas where individuals have to travel twice as far to get to the nearest supermarket as their wealthier counterparts. This report identifies race and income as to factors immediately associated with the location of food outlets and the selection of food available. The data concluded that those who lived in mixed lower income communities were less likely to have healthy food options available. They concluded that there is a growing and incomplete body of research associated with food insecurity and obesity .This source is relevant to my paper in reiterating the relation with race and food