{"product_id":"feeding-the-other-rebecca-t-de-souza-9780262536769","title":"Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eFeeding the Other\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca T. de Souza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262536765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262536769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019","brand":"Rebecca T. de Souza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981524926719,"sku":"9780262536769","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c41833a3-ad55-423c-bfb2-8a6e16e67173.jpg?v=1683256091","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feeding-the-other-rebecca-t-de-souza-9780262536769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}