This conversation will focus on histories of early Black food sovereignty especially those that engage the potential and pitfalls of euthenics. Understood as the twin term of eugenics, euthenics leveraged nutrition and the standard of living to address social inequalities. We will explore how the concept framed the new knowledge of domestic and nutritional science during the progressive era which was adopted by Black land grant universities and USDA reformers. Yet, African American early foodways already constituted a world of knowledge connecting land, expressive culture and the culinary arts. We will discuss how these two knowledge systems make contact, the aftermath of that convergence and the legacies of these histories in our contemporary conception of food apartheid and anti-Blackness in the food system
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