ALISON HOPE ALKON is a professor of community studies in the department of sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability.

Alkon’s deeply contextualized ethnography of two Bay Area farmers markets traces the transformation of local food and food justice movements from anticapitalist roots to neoliberal green growth agendas. Black, White, and Green is a must-read for those seeking to untangle the complexity of the ‘food movement’ and for those who believe we can buy and sell our way out of the environmental crisis.

ALISON HOPE ALKON is a professor of community studies in the department of sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability.

Alkon’s deeply contextualized ethnography of two Bay Area farmers markets traces the transformation of local food and food justice movements from anticapitalist roots to neoliberal green growth agendas. Black, White, and Green is a must-read for those seeking to untangle the complexity of the ‘food movement’ and for those who believe we can buy and sell our way out of the environmental crisis.

ALISON HOPE ALKON is a professor of community studies in the department of sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability.

Alkon’s deeply contextualized ethnography of two Bay Area farmers markets traces the transformation of local food and food justice movements from anticapitalist roots to neoliberal green growth agendas. Black, White, and Green is a must-read for those seeking to untangle the complexity of the ‘food movement’ and for those who believe we can buy and sell our way out of the environmental crisis.