Retail Inequality

Reframing the Food Desert Debate

Kenneth H. Kolb (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38418-7 (ISBN)

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Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods in Greenville, South Carolina. For decades, outsiders ignored residents' complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of town—until the well-intentioned but flawed "food desert" concept took hold in popular discourse. Soon after, new allies arrived to help, believing that grocery stores and healthier options were the key to better health. These efforts, however, did not change neighborhood residents' food consumption practices. Retail Inequality explains why and also outlines the history of deindustrialization, urban public policy, and racism that are the cause of unequal access to food today. Kolb identifies retail inequality as the crucial concept to understanding today’s debates over gentrification and community development. As this book makes clear, the battle over food deserts was never about food—it was about equality.

Kenneth H. Kolb is Professor of Sociology at Furman University. He is the author of Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

1. What We Got Wrong
2. A Concept Catches Fire
3. Food Desert Realities: Perception, Money,
and Transportation
4. Food Desert Realities: Social Capital,
Household Dynamics, and Taste
5. The “Healthy Food” Frame
6. The Problem Solvers
7. A Path Forward
Epilogue: Wins and Losses

Appendix: Food Desert Media Database
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38418-0 / 0520384180
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38418-7 / 9780520384187
Zustand	Neuware