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How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

Monica Bhagwan ·
Often, when I serve watermelon in a program or workshop, there is at least one African American person who looks askance at this fruit. On many occasions, people have declared definitively, "I don't eat watermelon." I have always known that this food has a racially-charged meaning for the African American community so I never try to convince them to try it. This essay, gets to the difficult and painful history of watermelon and its use, like so many things, in the oppression of African...
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Racism at Food Pantries

Monica Bhagwan ·
http://kvpr.org/post/spanish-speakers-experience-discrimination-valley-food-pantries
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She, The People: Dara Cooper On Food Redlining, Reparations, And Freeing The Land

Monica Bhagwan ·
"From Houston, Texas , and Atlanta, Georgia , to Birmingham, Alabama ; Baltimore, Maryland ; Nashville, Tennessee , and Jackson, Mississippi , the long, treacherous history of redlining in this country aligns with where food redlining (or food apartheid) is prevalent today—and that is unambiguously state violence. “Just looking at food alone, hunger, the inability to feed ourselves,” Cooper tells ESSENCE. “ That’s violent . To be hungry and malnourished is a very violent phenomenon. ...
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Re: How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

Gail Kennedy ·
Very informative article - thanks for posting.
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What the pandemic has done to racial inequality in North Carolina [charlotteobserver.com]

Carey Sipp ·
By Gene Nichol, The Charlotte Observer, December 28, 2020 It doesn’t happen as often as one might wish. But, on occasion, you can still be surprised by what someone says. For example, earlier this month, the Donald Trump-appointed Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, explained to the Senate Banking Committee: “Disparate economic outcomes on the basis of race, have been with us for a very long time, they are a long-standing aspect of our economy, and there is a great risk that the...
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The American Food System Is Failing Women

Ashley Guido ·
Americans today are both obese and starving. We’re spending more than ever on an ever-widening array of diets, and yet hunger and obesity are increasingly driven by a web of overlapping factors. According to the latest data, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in March 2018, some 40 percent of American adults are obese. Meanwhile, nearly 15 percent of Americans live in food-insecure households, unsure where their next meal will come from. We have a tendency in this...
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Incorporating Racial Equity into Trauma-Informed Care

Ashley Guido ·
Takeaways: Racism is trauma and should be treated as such in any comprehensive trauma-informed care framework. Trauma-informed care requires a nuanced understanding of not only how trauma impacts the lives and care of patients, but the root causes behind that trauma. This brief offers practical considerations to help health systems and provider practices incorporate a focus on racial equity to enhance trauma-informed care efforts. It draws from the experiences of two federally qualified...
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Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms

Ellen Fink-Samnick ·
Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.
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Re: Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms

Monica Bhagwan ·
Thank you for drawing attention to this. I also find it frustrating. In addition to your point about "gender disparities present in pain management, especially for those who identify as women" I would also add that there are sex based differences in that females are more likely to suffer from immune disorders, inflammatory, menstrual, and menopausal health issues that are under recognized and under treated.
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