Food and Poverty

Leslie Hossfeld, Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University, is founding executive director of Feast Down East in southeastern North Carolina and current director of the Mississippi Food Insecurity Project.E. Brooke Kelly is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Pembroke.Julia Waity is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

• IntroductionPart I: Concepts1. Security via Sovereignty: Lessons from the Global SouthMyriam Paredes and Mark Edwards2. Can You Put Food on the Table? Redefining Poverty in AmericaMaureen Berner and Alexander Vazquez3. Food, Poverty, and Lifestyle Patterns: How Diversity MattersMichael Jindra and Nicolas LarchetPart Two: Problems4. Food Spending Profiles for White, Black, and Hispanic Households Living in PovertyRaphaël Charron-Chénier5. The Geography of Risk: A Case Study of Food Insecurity, Poverty, and Food Assistance between the Urban and the RuralMichael D. Gillespie6. Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Health among YouthDon Willis and Kevin M. Fitzpatrick7. The Role of Coupons in Exacerbating Food Insecurity and ObesityKaitland M. Byrd, W. Carson Byrd, and Samuel R. Cook8. The Rise and Falter of Emergency Food AssistanceJennifer W. Bouek9. The Complex Challenges to Participation in Federal Nutrition ProgramsRachel Wilkerson, Kathy Krey, and Linda English10. Access to Food Assistance for Food Insecure SeniorsMarie C. Gualtieri11. Food Deserts and Injustice: Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Food Sovereignty in Three Rust Belt CitiesStephen J. Scanlan and Sam Regas12. Shifting Access to Food: Food Deserts in Atlanta, 1980–2010Gloria Ross and Bill WindersPart Three: Solutions13. Together at the Table: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships to Alleviate HungerErin Nolen, Jeremy Everett, Doug McDurham, and Kathy Krey14. Race, Class, Privilege, and Bias in South Florida Food MovementsMarina Karides and Patricia Widener15. Food Insecurity in Southeast Grand Rapids, Michigan: How Our Kitchen Table Is Building Food Justice in the Face of Profiteering and Exclusionary PracticesChristy Mello16. Community Leadership and Participation to Increase Food Access and Quality: Notes from the FieldAmeena Batada and Olufemi Lewis17. Hunger in the Land of Plenty: Local Responses to Food Insecurity in IowaGabrielle Roesch-McNally, Jacqueline Nester, Andrea Basche, Eric Christianson, and Emily Zimmerman18. Food Pantries on College and University Campuses: An Emerging Solution to Food InsecurityCarmel E. Price and Natalie R. SampsonContributorsIndex