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Leah's Pantry > News & Updates > Our Favorites > Books > What to Read: Non-Fiction Deep Dive (Part 2)

What to Read: Non-Fiction Deep Dive (Part 2)

Today’s Friday Favorites are three more important titles from our deep dive into nutrition and public health non-fiction. (Here’s the first three from last week.)


Big Hunger

By Andrew Fisher

From Amazon: Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement… [Keep reading]


Feeding the Other

By Rebecca de Souza

From Amazon: Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement… [Keep reading]


White Fragility

By Robin Diangelo

From Amazon: In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively… [Keep reading]

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December 6, 2019 By Adrienne Markworth Filed Under: Books, Our Favorites

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