Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of the award-winning Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power and Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America.

Published Works

Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power

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Food and Blackness

March 24, 2023 11AM – 12:30PM
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Cultural critic Clarkisha Kent and scholar Psyche A. Williams-Forson meet to discuss how racism operates in the practice and culture of eating.

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