Participation Type
Panel
Presentation #1 Title
Equitable Food Assistance: Designing Community Food Security Strategies to Overcome Racialized Obstacles
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
This project contributes to the study of the nexus of health equity, racism, program design, policy, and food security in diverse rural places in the contemporary U.S. The study focuses on food assistance agencies’ challenges and strategies for equitably assisting economically marginalized populations in a cluster of ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) counties in North Carolina. The study pays particular attention to the ways in which these agencies understand, strategize with, and attempt to serve the Latinx population during the current U.S. historic moment of anti-immigration policy. The work was funded by the Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Post-doctoral Research Fellowship and the Public Policy Institute of Western Carolina University.
Part of the Panel: Cultural Traces in Appalachian Food.
In program titled: Food or Security? Policy, Equity and Food Assistance in Southern Appalachia.
Equitable Food Assistance: Designing Community Food Security Strategies to Overcome Racialized Obstacles
This project contributes to the study of the nexus of health equity, racism, program design, policy, and food security in diverse rural places in the contemporary U.S. The study focuses on food assistance agencies’ challenges and strategies for equitably assisting economically marginalized populations in a cluster of ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) counties in North Carolina. The study pays particular attention to the ways in which these agencies understand, strategize with, and attempt to serve the Latinx population during the current U.S. historic moment of anti-immigration policy. The work was funded by the Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Post-doctoral Research Fellowship and the Public Policy Institute of Western Carolina University.
Part of the Panel: Cultural Traces in Appalachian Food.
In program titled: Food or Security? Policy, Equity and Food Assistance in Southern Appalachia.
