Desert or Naw?
There are not enough supermarkets in the community.
Food desert
The mass exodus of African Americans from the South to points North and West. The population of Deanwood grows a lot during this time.
The Great Migrations
A public policy supported by the US housing market that designated African American neighborhoods as undesirable.
redlining
The nickname for Safeway according to a Deanwood participant.
Unsafeway
Based on a article by Isabel Wilkerson and featured in the Reese reading, this food is said to be responsible for sustaining a local grocery in Deanwood even as others struggled.
Soul Food
The shift toward governing the food system with a rights based approach to the entire food chain.
Naw (Food sovereignty)
The result of large federal investments after WW2 this included the construction of highways, large homes with lawns, and supermarkets. It would forever changed the urban landscape.
Suburbia
A mapping tool showing layers of variables related to food access.
ERS (Economic Research Service) Food Access Research Atlas
Caylon talked about his childhood food restrictions and how he would limit this for his child as well.
candy
Guides for the management of everything from the body to entertaining guests. They were utilized by advocates of racial uplift and especially geared toward women and girls
African American etiquette manuals
A condition that produces and reinforces the expendability of Black people Within the food system it looks like a continued divestment from Black neighborhoods.
Naw (Anti-Blackness, an important part of food apartheid)
Although seven food stores were identified by participants in Reese's study this community owned commercial properties that residents would often frequent.
Jewish owned business and grocery stores.
"how residents physically navigate the foodscape” and the work of ”memory, nostalgia, personal and communal priorities, hope, engagements with history, and racialized responsibility.” (8)
Geographies of self reliance
Reese argues we should avoid this idea when thinking of food insecurity. Instead, we should focus on how residents critique their own foodways and navigate the inequity.
The lack of supermarkets
The ideological advocacy of professionalism, civility, and middle class food habits amongst African American professionals at the turn of the 20th century.
Racial uplift
This term often obscures the process that led to unequal access and reflects a long standing interest in uncritical and deficit based evaluations of Black communities.
Food desert
In 1909 they created the National Training School for Women and Girls in Deanwood
Nannie Helen Burroughs
educational opportunities, word of mouth, better enviornment, progressive racial and economic climates
The term draws from racial inequities of the housing market to comment on disparities in food access.
supermarket redlining
This term emphasizes how films, newspapers, and literature perpetuate the myths, stereotypes, and distortions around African American Foodways.
Visual Dynamics
Systematic divestment from Black communities with an emphasis on structural inequities.
Naw (food apartheid)
In 1987 he recounts how his parents moved to Deanwood and planted squash, peppers, tomatoes, and had seven peach trees, two apple trees and one plum trees.
Vincent
see, read, and document
He said "I dont care how bad the neighborhood is and it looks that terrible, you're going to find some people that have each other's back" and emphasized what relying on neighbors meant for relationships especially for those who lived in public housing.
Mr. Harris
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