#22: Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America with Psyche Williams-Forson

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In this episode, I sat down with Psyche A. Williams-Forson, she is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland and author of the book Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America.

Some of topics in the episode we discussed includes:

• How this book is about: 'worrying about yourself' and its purpose is also to give the reader/listener a window into thinking.
• Why do African Americans food culture and eating habits elicit so much commentary from others and where does this stem from?
• Linking the subject matter of the book with the occurrences of the Black Americans experience i.e. the killings of unarmed black men at the hands of the police and incident of a young man having the police called on him while waiting for his friend in a coffee shop
• How easy it is to blur the truth by starting a story with 'secondly'
• How much has Sacralization been used to justify the treatment of African Americans?
• Why must we always consider context when it comes to debating whether fast food such as McDonalds is right or wrong?

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