在她的新书中黑色时吃饭：美国的食物羞辱和种族,Psyche Williams-Forson打开了反黑种族主义塑造对健康饮食和食物羞辱的看法的方式。
马里兰州大学公园的教授兼美国研究系主席威廉姆斯·福森（Williams-Forson）说，她开始her book注意到了美元商店中冷藏食品的出现之后。她告诉《食品坦克》：“我开始质疑为什么我们没有关于烹饪，从美元商店购买食品的更大对话，同时我们就社区花园进行了很多对话。”w88优德老虎机平台威廉姆斯·福森（Williams-Forson）解释说，集中在这些空间上的讨论变得“道德主义”和“非常一维”。
In the years that followed, the focus of the book expanded in response to the world around her. “The summer of 2020 happened, the murder of George Floyd, our political landscape really became much more insidious, and then we began to hear all of this conversation around divisiveness and critical race theory being a bad thing,” she says.
As she wrote, Williams-Forson identified anti-Black racism as a through line connecting these events. “A lot of this is about policing bodies, Black people’s whole beings,” Williams-Forson tells Food Tank. “In society as a whole, it’s about policing all of us, right? Women in particular, people of color. But around what I was focused on—and that’s Black folks eating—I said, oh yeah, this is also a part of that same conversation: How do we control people? How do we execute power?”
黑色吃饭开头是分析2019年在社交媒体上风靡一时的活动。那一年的五月，华盛顿特区大都会的通勤者拍摄了一张在火车上进食的公交员工的照片。然后，骑手在Twitter上分享了这张照片，并带有标题为工人在该公共空间中食用食物。
威廉姆斯·福森（Williams-Forson）说：“我觉得那是一个完美的，不必要的例子，这是不需要发生的公众羞辱。”她继续说：“我想[以这种方式开始这本书，这是我们要做的，这是很多时候我们对人们在做什么以及他们如何消费食物做出判断。而且我们绝对不知道我们现在正在目睹的那个特定的决定。”
从那里开始，威廉姆斯·福森（Williams-Forson）承担了食物和身份之间的关系，在不同环境中对食物选择的监视以及种族刻板印象，这些观念在历史上和今天都造成了粮食和身体的羞辱。借鉴自己的经验，以及对大众媒体，政策，营养科学等的分析，以强调这些观念的普遍性。
Through the book, Williams-Forson says she hopes to make the case to “allow for maximum flexibility to embrace the fact that people have different lives,” she tells Food Tank, “That’s the point of the book: let’s take our foot off of people’s backs and necks that say you have to do this, or you have to do that.”
Listen to the full conversation with Psyche Williams-Forson on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” to hear more about the ways that food and body shaming affect Black women and girls, the importance of avoiding assumptions around eaters’ food preferences, and reaching substantive change through hard conversations.
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