

When We go Meet the Trains: Black Women, Food, and Power in the American South
February 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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On February 26 at 6 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Room of Highsmith Union, author Psyche Williams-Forson will delve into the ways Black women have used, and continue to use, food to shape cuisines in and beyond the south, while defining their sense of self.
Using sound, virtual, visual, and written evidence, this immersive conversation will focus on Black women’s labor with food and thus their influence and power, publicly and privately.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tdLCFoSmruYQKuCFCjCqIyJtn3ew8CL_0YjFbKVV8XA/edit
This is the final event in the Thomas Howerton “Diverse Roots at the Common Table: Culinary Conversations in the American South” series. Malaprop’s will be attending the event and selling books.
About the Speaker
Psyche Williams-Forson is professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is author of several books including the award winning “Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America” (winner of the James Beard Media Award for Food Issues and Advocacy, 2023) and “Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power.” Williams-Forson is known nationally and internationally for her work in building the scholarly subfield of Black food studies, and she has published extensively in this area and been interviewed and cited widely.
Accessibility
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Advance notice is necessary to arrange for accessibility needs. All requests must be made ten business days prior to the event. We will attempt to implement late requests but cannot guarantee they will be met.
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