Feeding the Other Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries

• Main Author: Souza, Rebecca T. de (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
• Subjects: Food & society; Food security & supply; food justice; food insecurity; food system; stigma; neoliberalism; whiteness; white privilege; feminism; charity; food assistance; volunteers; volunteerism; race; class; gender; political economy; politics; poverty governance; racism; intersectionality; Duluth; social construction; difference; Us and Them; Other; identity; otherizing; entitlements; SNAP; food stamps; hunger industrial complex; starvation; obesity; food shelves; emergency food assistance; discourse; discursive ideological formation; hard work; personal responsibility; accountability; citizenship; neoliberal subjectivities; self-blame; entrepreneurialism; Christian; Christianity; religion
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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 p...