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🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 📅 2019 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781442253902

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This multi-generational story begins before the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa and ends with a discussion of contemporary African American vegans. Demonstrating that food has been both a tool of empowerment and a weapon of white supremacy, this study documents the sy...

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