# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Talk: Eating While Black - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 24 May, 2025 at 01:30 pm – Sat, 24 May, 2025 at 03:45 pm - **Event Description**: Author Psyche A. Williams-Forson will share insights on how anti-Black racism operates in American food cultureAbout this EventJoin Thinking Food for a book talk:Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in AmericaShields Library, Room 1671:30 P.M. Book Talk with Q&A and Signing3:00 P.M. Wine & Dessert Pairing with CocoNoir & Midtown Bakery3:45 P.M. Event concludesThis event is sponsored by:Thinking Food | African American and African StudiesPsyche Williams-Forson, Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food.Sustainable culture—what keeps a community alive and thriving—is essential to Black peoples' fight for access and equity, and food is central to this fight. Starkly exposing the rampant shaming and policing around how Black people eat, Williams-Forson contemplates food's role in cultural transmission, belonging, homemaking, and survival. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, this book urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on both personal and structural levels.Alicia Kidd, CocoNoir Wine ShopAngela Harris, Midtown BakeryDirections to Peter J. Shields LibraryShields Library - Room 167Directions to Shields Library with Google MapsParking is available at Visitor Parking 5Thinking Food events are free and open to the public. Please RSVP only if you are able to attend, and cancel your registration if you are no longer able as we use registration to determine food quantities and event logistics. If you have any questions about access, or would like to talk to our small but mighty team, please email postdoctoral fellow . - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/davis/book-talk-eating-while-black/100001321830323079 - **Event Categories**: sports, art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Davis - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Peter J. Shields Library, First Floor - **lat**: 38.53972700000001 - **long**: -121.7491981 - **full address**: Peter J. 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