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Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate

Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate

Kolb, Kenneth H.

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AgricultureGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520384180
ISBN13: 9780520384187
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 14 2021
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research in Greenville, SC, Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods. Outsiders ignored their complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of town until the emergence of the well-intentioned but flawed food desert concept. Soon after, new allies arrived to help, believing grocery stores and healthier options were the key to better health. Their efforts, however, did not change locals' food consumption practices. Retail Inequality explains why and 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.

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