{"product_id":"racial-indigestion-9780814770023","title":"Racial Indigestion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion\u003c\/i\u003e explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children’s literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising,\u003ci\u003e Racial Indigestion\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/i\u003esheds light on contemporary “foodie” culture’s vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more, visit the author's tumblr page: http:\/\/racialindigestion.tumblr.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kyla Wazana Tompkins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274256789755,"sku":"9780814770023","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2cdab578-5fde-4d73-a912-0c08d84a5db7.jpg?v=1771083194","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/racial-indigestion-9780814770023","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}