Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

Brunache, Peggy

doi:10.1111/traa.12156

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“…The findings relayed above contribute to a growing literature on the ingenuity of enslaved and free Africans in adapting their foodways to new and hostile environments of the Americas (e.g., [33][34][35][36][37]). My argument here is that both traditional and modern foods are tied to the ongoing 'culinary inventiveness' [34] of Afrodescendant peoples, past and present.…”

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The Value of Ethnographic Research for Sustainable Diet Interventions: Connecting Old and New Foodways in Trinidad

Wilson

2023

Sustainability

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Recent policy and scholarly attention to traditional food has highlighted its importance for developing culturally-appropriate sustainable diet interventions. Yet most approaches to traditional food maintain an unhelpful dichotomy between traditional and modern foodways. Ethnographic research into the ways people experience and articulate the substitution of previously homegrown foods with modern industrial foods can uncover aspects of local food heritage that have been previously hidden or undermined. The central aim of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of ethnographic approaches for recent policy debates around the importance of tradition for sustainable diets. An ethnographic ontology, which takes cultural meanings and values of ultra-processed foods as well as so-called traditional foods seriously, can provide a more nuanced picture of food system transitions that can inform sustainable dietary interventions. A combination of ethnographic methods was used for this paper, including participant observation, photo elicitation, questionnaires and go-along/shop-along interviews with N = 200 research participants. Subsequent ‘armchair’ research revealed important insights about Afrodescendant and Indigenous food heritage in Trinidad and Tobago, indicating the need for future research in this area. In particular, the findings suggest that cultural values of ‘colour’ and ‘(local) flavour’ connect old and new foodways in Trinidad and Tobago. Values of colour and flavour, along with shared feelings elicited through the ethnographic research such as concerns about agrochemical use and nostalgia for household food production, can inform the development of culturally-appropriate sustainable diet interventions.

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The Value of Ethnographic Research for Sustainable Diet Interventions: Connecting Old and New Foodways in Trinidad

Wilson

2023

Sustainability

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“…Anti‐racism pedagogy, repatriation, and the significance of monuments and memory become important elements in this discussion. Although some scholars write about the exclusion they felt as a student in graduate school, these reflections tend to speak to only aspects specific to the authors’ identity, such as gender and sexuality (Heath‐Stout 2019, 2020; Rutecki and Blackmore 2016), disability (Kok 2011), Blackness (e.g., Battle‐Baptiste 2011; Brunache 2019; Odewale et al. 2018), indigeneity (e.g., Atalay 2008, 2012), and Asian Americanness (Fong 2020).…”

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Chapter 2 Diversity is Not Enough: Advocating and Organizing for Inclusion in Archaeology

Lee,

Carr,

Herzing

et al. 2023

Archaeological Papers of the American

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Racism, microaggressions, sexism, gendered, financial, ableism, and many more facets of discrimination are legacies still prevalent within the field of archaeology, perpetuating an environment of exclusion. Graduate students are particularly cognizant of the ways in which exclusion impacts their academic experiences and their choices to continue pursuing archaeology professionally and academically. Despite the rise of critical and collaborative approaches to the historical archaeologies of Indigeneity, the African Diaspora, and more, graduate programs often do not critically examine the historical and structural elements preventing an inclusive environment when courting students of visibly diverse backgrounds. There is a pragmatic disconnect between institutional discussions surrounding diversity and the tangible outcomes of these discussions at a grassroots level. Through the creation of the Community, Anti‐Racist, Respect, Engagement (CARE) Inclusivity Committee, conversations among the student body in an interdisciplinary, community‐centered, and collaborative historical archaeology graduate program have begun to address problems with exclusion and identify ways in which inclusion can be furthered. This chapter outlines the process and methodology used in the creation of the CARE Inclusivity Committee and subsequent workshop and offers thoughtful reflection about the effectiveness of grassroots organization at the graduate student level in advocating for change. CARE aims to create safe spaces where uncomfortable conversations are encouraged, to help both students and faculty acknowledge the different levels of exclusion. The goal is not only to foster an inclusive environment, but to create a sustainable process for future cohorts and empower other graduate students to enact tangible change.

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“…Drawing from Crenshaw (1989) and Collins (2000) on Black feminist thought, we recognize the value of epistemic privilege as knowledge created from cumulative everyday experiences as racialized people with intersectional identities. Other scholars (Bonilla-Silva & Zuberi 2008, Smith 2012 and archaeologists (Battle-Baptiste 2011; Fong 2013Fong , 2020Franklin 1997Franklin , 2001Mack & Blakey 2004) have advocated for centering BIPOC voices in research whether as scholars or as community stakeholders. We cannot separate our work from our experiences as racialized people.…”

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“…Lee 2017). As such, we locate our work in dialogue with archaeological research across the diaspora in Australia (e.g., Boileau 2017, Byrne 2016, Canada (Ross 2013), Peru (e.g., González-Tennant 2011), and New Zealand (Ritchie 2003), as well as Chinese diaspora archaeologies in the United States (for overviews, see Rose & Kennedy 2020; Ross 2013Ross , 2020Staski 2009;Voss 2015;Voss & Allen 2008).…”

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Race and Racism in Archaeologies of Chinese American Communities

Fong

Lee

et al. 2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article provides a critical review of archaeological research that addresses race and racism in Chinese American communities. Future directions for Chinese diaspora archaeologies include employing an Asian American studies praxis that centers community-engaged research, using diasporic frameworks, and applying emic language to naming material culture and identities. Other innovative archaeological scholarship on the racialization of Chinese Americans reframes Chinese American communities as part of larger multiethnic neighborhoods, highlights gender and sexuality, and traces the transpacific connections of Chinese transmigrants. The interventions outlined provide archaeologists who are engaged in the study of the Chinese American past with the pathways needed to begin practicing antiracist Chinese diaspora archaeologies. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

Cited by 10 publications

References 66 publications

The Value of Ethnographic Research for Sustainable Diet Interventions: Connecting Old and New Foodways in Trinidad

The Value of Ethnographic Research for Sustainable Diet Interventions: Connecting Old and New Foodways in Trinidad

Chapter 2 Diversity is Not Enough: Advocating and Organizing for Inclusion in Archaeology

Race and Racism in Archaeologies of Chinese American Communities

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