04198oam 2200697I 450 991055748110332120231211201058.09780262352796026235279697802623527890262352788(CKB)4100000007986098(MiAaPQ)EBC5750434(OCoLC)1082365019(OCoLC-P)1082365019(MaCbMITP)11701(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78562(PPN)236075047(FR-PaCSA)88867624(ScCtBLL)1141f04b-5d79-4921-866c-d8d82b7f3c3d(OCoLC)1139863690(FRCYB88867624)88867624(oapen)doab78562(EXLCZ)99410000000798609820190116d2019 uy 0engurcnu|||unuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFeeding the other whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries /Rebecca de SouzaCambridgeThe MIT Press2019Cambridge :MIT Press,[2019]1 online resource (313 pages)Food, health, and the environment9780262039819 0262039818 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: neoliberal stigma, food pantries, and an unjust food system -- Key conceptual themes -- Voices of hunger: making the invisible visible -- The "good white women" at the Chum Food Shelf -- Spiritual entrepreneurs at Ruby's Pantry -- Cultures of suspicion: making visible the invisible -- Health citizens: choosing good food amid scarcity -- Conclusion: imagining a future for food pantries.How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households, single parents, and communities of color disproportionately affected. Food pantries--run by charitable and faith-based organizations--rather than legal entitlements have become a cornerstone of the government's efforts to end hunger. In Feeding the Other , Rebecca de Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. De Souza describes this "framing, blaming, and shaming" as "neoliberal stigma" that recasts the structural issue of hunger as a problem for the individual hungry person. De Souza shows how neoliberal stigma plays out in practice through a comparative case analysis of two food pantries in Duluth, Minnesota. Doing so, she documents the seldom-acknowledged voices, experiences, and realities of people living with hunger. She describes the failure of public institutions to protect citizens from poverty and hunger; the white privilege of pantry volunteers caught between neoliberal narratives and social justice concerns; the evangelical conviction that food assistance should be "a hand up, not a handout"; the culture of suspicion in food pantry spaces; and the constraints on food choice. It is only by rejecting the neoliberal narrative and giving voice to the hungry rather than the privileged, de Souza argues, that food pantries can become agents of food justice.Food, health, and the environment.Food banksMinnesotaCase studiesPoorMinnesotaCase studiesStigma (Social psychology)Social stratificationPaternalismRacismFood banksPoorStigma (Social psychology)Social stratification.Paternalism.Racism.363.8/8309776De Souza Rebecca1220308OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910557481103321Feeding the other2824316UNINA