After the Reapers: Place Settings of Race, Class, and Food Insecurity

摘要

Combining personal narrative and cultural theories by food and performance scholars, this qualitative case study on hunger analyzes the nutritional issues, hegemony, and sanctions that shape race and class identity in the United States. It focuses on the social disparity negotiated by one urban, low-income African-American family from the early 1950s through the 1970s by engaging the harvest metaphor of reapers and gleaners to critique the USDA euphemism of “food insecurity” and to define anticipatory performance.