Sending on behalf of M. Jahi Chappell, Director of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability in Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. 

 

I am writing to request your help identifying citations for the tenth edition of the Center for Regional Food Systems’ publication: An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System. 

 

The mission of CRFS is to engage Michigan, the United States and the world in applied research, education and outreach to develop regionally integrated, sustainable food systems. The Center is committed to shedding light on the ways in which power and inequity manifest within the food system. 

 

An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System contains selected resources and publications focused on recent research and outreach on structural racism in the U.S. food system. The ninth edition of the resource, published in March 2022, contains 510 sources, including 25 new videos and 100 new journal citations. In recent editions, our video curation includes recordings from webinars that focused on the intersection of food systems and racial equity. All entries in the annotated bibliography are also available in Zotero, a free software that lets users easily save, manage, and cite sources. You can access the Zotero group library here.

 

While there are many important resources on racism and anti-racism in the U.S., and/or on the state of the food system, our key filter for inclusion in the bibliography is a link between structural racism and one or more aspects of the U.S. food system. We are seeking citations that refer to research, analysis, outreach, and commentary on BOTH structural racism AND the U.S. food system. This includes citations on food justice and food sovereignty in the United States. 

• The following citations will be accepted for review: 
• Peer-reviewed journal articles, and peer-critiqued articles, reports, bulletins, or books
• Other scholarly or substantive information produced outside traditional commercial publishing and distribution channels (e.g., theses and dissertations, technical reports, working papers, evaluation reports, conference proceedings, publications from non-profit organizations, think tanks and policy institutes, and preprints)
• Video resources including documentaries, motion pictures, television series, TED Talks and interviews 
• Webinar recordings    

We will not be including blogs, newspaper articles, tweets, podcasts, etc. because of the sheer volume of these resources. 

 

Once a suggestion is submitted there will be a simple vetting process to determine the fit of submission; please note that not all submissions may be included in the 10^th edition if they do not meet the criteria above. We hope to publish the 10^th edition online in the late spring of 2023. 

 

Please share this request widely on listservs and with colleagues, friends, who may have additional resources to include! 

 

Deadline for citation submission is January 31, 2023 at 11:59 PM, PST. 

 

Please submit all submissions via this google form or send directly to Rachel Kelly at [log in to unmask].

 

When making a submission please include: author(s), title, and a URL to locate the resource.

 

Explore the 9th edition of An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System at foodsystems.msu.edu/annotated-bib 

  

Please visit the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems website for more information about the center.  Thank you for helping us continue to update this resource!

 

Sincerely, 

Jahi 
 

M. Jahi Chappell 

Director, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems 

Professor, Department of Community Sustainability  

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair in Food & Society