Well, We've Been Found Out

[Snaggletiger]

I love me a good Farmer's Market.  It's not just the fresh produce and the variety of goodies that people offer.  More importantly, it's a chance for me to be around other white people who eat the way I do.  Now, we've been outed.  What.  The.  Fuck?  foxy

Two California professors are criticizing farmers’ markets for causing “environmental gentrification” in which “habits of white people are normalized.”

San Diego State University geography professors Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco contend that farmers’ markets are “white spaces” oppressing minorities in a chapter for "Just Green Enough," an environmental anthology focused on urban development.

Environmental gentrification is defined as a process where “environmental improvements lead to … the displacement of long-term residents,” according to the anthology.

The professors, as reported by Campus Reform, say farmers’ markets are “exclusionary” because locals cannot “afford the food and/or feel excluded from these new spaces.”

The SDSU professors, who teach classes like “Geography of Food” and “Food Justice,” argue that “farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized.”

While such markets are typically set up to help combat “food deserts” in low-income and minority communities, the academics argue that they instead “attract households from higher socio-economic backgrounds, raising property values and displacing low-income residents and people of color.”

“The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals,” the professors argue.

They claim that, while “curbing gentrification is a vexing task,” the negative externalities of “white habitus” formed at farmers’ markets can be managed through “slow and inclusive steps that balance new initiatives and neighborhood stability to make cities ‘just green enough.’”

Joassart-Marcelli and Bosco received funding from the National Science Foundation to research “the role of food in structuring everyday life in immigrant and low-income urban neighborhoods.”

[Buzz Killington]

Used our white habitus tax dollars to find it out too.  How humiliating.
Don't get me started on the fishing industry in Oregon.  Those guys might as well wear hoods when they work.

[jmar]

"Curb Market" is going to be the next great kickass video game.
Whitey, vegetables and violence.   

[Snaggletiger]

Used our white habitus tax dollars to find it out too.  How humiliating.
Don't get me started on the fishing industry in Oregon.  Those guys might as well wear hoods when they work.

Isn't nook originally from the South?

[chinook]

Isn't nook originally from the South?

breed and raised in Georgia...moved across the state line for a few years...then packed up the Subaru and headed west. 

wtf?   first and foremost I would like to see which cities they did the research in.  secondly, i would like to see more demographics of these white folks...how they voted? ...income?  etc...

i can tell you a west coast urban "farmer's market" is much different than the ones we grew up picking okra and tomatoes.  it's expensive.  it's organic.  funky shit like mushrooms, stinky cheeses, hand massaged goats and argula.

[Snaggletiger]

I found a few Markets  in my area. I think I'm starting to understand what the authors of the article were getting at. Never noticed it before.


Ashford White People's Farmers Market   
FM 
312 Midland Street 
Ashford, AL 36312 
Saturdays, 8Am-12Pm, June 2-August 26 
Covered Facility:   
SFMNP 

 Contact: Kimberly Vann 334-714-3520 
Email: kvann@dothan.org       

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Poplar Head Caucasian Farmers Market   
FM 
Dothan Civic Center Parking Lot, 126 N St Andrews Street 
Dothan, AL 36301 
Saturdays, 8 Am - 12 Pm, June 3-July 30 
Covered Facility: NO 
SFMNP
 

 Contact: Donna Balzaratti Jaime Bienvu 334-655-0330 or 334-278-4420 
Email: donna@thebasketcasecafe.com; donna_balzaratti@yahoo.com; davidabell@gmail.com
Website: www.poplarheadfarmersmarket.com     
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Poplar.Head.Farmers.Market 

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Wiregrass Normal White Cracka' Eating Style Farmers Market   
FM 
1699 Ross Clark Circle 
Dothan, AL 36302 
Tuesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 7Am-12Pm, June 3- August 5 
Covered Facility: NO 
SFMNP 
 
 

 Contact: Peewee Bell 334-726-0844 
Email: davidabell640@gmail.com       

Click here for a map of this location (Uses Google Maps).
 

[chinook]

same theme...



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