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“The Color of Food” Author to Discuss Food, Race and Farming at UW

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Author and food activist Natasha Bowens will be on UW’s campus Wednesday to discuss her book, The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming.

Bowen’s book chronicles the experiences of several farmers of color across the country and her lecture will use these stories as well as portraits to discuss food justice and the roles and inclusion of communities of color in the food movement.

“In environmental studies and in food studies there’s been a terrible bias to a pretty narrow demographic,” said Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. “When you think about the food movement the first that comes to my mind is a Brooklyn white hipster, when in fact the food movement is huge and involves a whole range of communities.”

The lecture is one in a series of talks called “Everyone’s Earth” that’s geared towards gathering people from all backgrounds together to discuss the universal topics regarding food and the environment.

Bowen’s lecture is being sponsored by several campus departments and offices including the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Art Department in an effort to bring different communities together.

“I hope that people that are in the justice movement who are working with issues of equity come to think of the environment as part of their scope of concern and I hope that people who are interested in the environment and healthy foods and the organic movement come away thinking more critically about how communities engage with food on a social level,” said Robins.

The lecture will take place at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard, at 7p.m.