Feeding the Other Whiteness Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries 1st edition by Rebecca 0262352796 9780262352796

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• ISBN 10: 0262352796
• ISBN 13: 9780262352796
• Author:  Rebecca T De Souza

How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households, single parents, and communities of color disproportionately affected. Food pantries—run by charitable and faith-based organizations—rather than legal entitlements have become a cornerstone of the government’s efforts to end hunger. In Feeding the Other, Rebecca de Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. De Souza describes this “framing, blaming, and shaming” as “neoliberal stigma” that recasts the structural issue of hunger as a problem for the individual hungry person. De Souza shows how neoliberal stigma plays out in practice through a comparative case analysis of two food pantries in Duluth, Minnesota. Doing so, she documents the seldom-acknowledged voices, experiences, and realities of people living with hunger. She describes the failure of public institutions to protect citizens from poverty and hunger; the white privilege of pantry volunteers caught between neoliberal narratives and social justice concerns; the evangelical conviction that food assistance should be “a hand up, not a handout”; the culture of suspicion in food pantry spaces; and the constraints on food choice. It is only by rejecting the neoliberal narrative and giving voice to the hungry rather than the privileged, de Souza argues, that food pantries can become agents of food justice.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Neoliberal Stigma, Food Pantries, and an Unjust Food System

What Is This Book About?

Neoliberal Stigma

Food, Discourse, and the Political Economy of Stigma

The Entrepreneurialism of Hunger Solutions

A Deer Caught in the Headlights

The Study

Reflexivity in the Research Process

Of Sacred Cows and Trigger Warnings

A Note about Interpretation

The Place

Defining Hunger and Food Insecurity

An Unjust Food System

Legal Entitlements and Entitlement Failure

Industrial Surplus Food

Poverty Governance and SNAP Fraud

Dominant Hunger Narratives

Hunger in an International Context

The Problem with Charity

Rights-Based Perspectives

Chapter Overview

The Hope: Food Pantries as Allies in Shifting the Narrative

2 Key Conceptual Themes

“People Who Do Not Want to Work and Will Not Work”

Stigma and the Political Economy of Stigma

Ideological Formations, Discursive Practices, and Discursive Erasures

Neoliberalism

The Stigma of Poverty and Welfare

Intersectionality: Race, Gender, and Whiteness

Religion and Faith-Based Organizing

Conclusion

3 Voices of Hunger: Making the Invisible Visible

John: The Environmental Chemist

Goal of the Chapter

The Livelihood Toggle: “You Can’t Really Survive on Minimum Wage”

Caring for Children and Grandchildren

Hunger Is Not Just about Nutrition

Jumping through Hoops

Physical Health Issues, Anxiety, and Depression

Trauma

Violet: “I Don’t Know What Kind of Disorder I’ve Got”

The “Buffering Effect” of Social Support

Volunteerism, Not Activism

Conclusion

Policy and Practical Implications

4 The “Good White Women” at the Chum Food Shelf

Lisa and Her Daughter

Goal of the Chapter

Contradictory Discourses at Chum

Institutional Pressures

“Good (White) Women, Basically”

Reaching Out and Breaking the Rules

White Fragility

The Hardworking, the Regulars, and Discourses of Suspicion

A Discourse of Hopelessness

Conclusion

Implications for Practice and Policy

5 Spiritual Entrepreneurs at Ruby’s Pantry

Introduction: Conservative Christian Entrepreneurialism

Ruby’s Pantry–Duluth

Goal of the Chapter

Hard Work at the Thursday Distribution

RP: A Ministry for the Body and Soul

Fracturing of Conservative Christian Ideology at RP–Duluth

Fun and Festive!

“A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out”

Food Surplus and Cost Explained through Spirituality

Poverty Governance at RP

Conclusion

Implications for Policy and Practice

6 A Culture of Suspicion: Making the Invisible Visible

The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen!

Goal of the Chapter

Scarcity Model at the Food Pantry

Reluctant to Complain

Cadillacs and Lincolns: Making Favorable Comparisons

Constructing “Us and Them” at RP

Denouncing “Them”

Suspicious Skin

“White Folks Used to Whip Black People, and … Now They’re Living Together”

Conclusion

Implications for Practice and Policy

7 Health Citizens: Choosing Good Food amid Scarcity

Politics, Public Health, and Citizenship: America’s Harvest Box

Goal of the Chapter

Quantity and Quality of Food at Chum and RP

Meanings of Good Food

People of Color and the Long Arc of Food Injustice

In Context: Good Food Is Safe Food

In Context: Good Food Is “Fancy Food”

Stretching Food and Health Concerns

Making Adjustments: One Bad Potato and Tomato Bisque Soup

Urban-Rural Gardening

Commodity Foods

Conclusion

Policy Implications

8 Conclusion: Imagining a Future for Food Pantries

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