ASFS/AFHVS Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Association for the Study of Food and Society / Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society.

Scroll to see our newest releases!

Since we can’t be together at the conference, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.

From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Cate Hodorowicz, learn about our brand-new Black Food Justice book series, and more.


NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: BLACK FOOD JUSTICE

The Black Food Justice series publishes new scholarship at the intersection of Black studies and critical food studies. While books may address any aspect of producing, distributing, or consuming food, the series features scholarship that explores how Blackness can be theorized and understood through the study of food and/or how the meaning of food itself is challenged and transformed when analyzed through theoretical frameworks grounded in Black thought and liberation. As ethnographers of everyday life who have been working as both food justice scholars and activists in the U.S. and beyond for over a decade each, the series editors shaped this series with the intention to name, define, and create future visions for Black food justice scholarship that can have material implications for protecting, nourishing, and cherishing Black life.

The series editors are especially interested in original work by emerging scholars (especially first-time authors) and well-established scholars that builds on the strengths of UNC Press in African American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, Food Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Southern Studies.

For more information, visit the Black Food Justice series page.


Congratulations!

2023 Association for the Study of Food & Society
First Book Award


All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.

Follow the links at the left for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.

Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.


Feeding New Orleans

Feeding New Orleans

Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice

Jeanne K. Firth

Boardinghouse Women

Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Beyond the Kitchen Table

Beyond the Kitchen Table

Black Women and Global Food Systems

Priscilla McCutcheon, Latrica E. Best, Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley

Sharing Yerba Mate

Sharing Yerba Mate

How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region

Rebekah E. Pite

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived

The Surprising Story of Apples in the South

Diane Flynt, Angie Mosier, Sean Brock

Food Power Politics

Food Power Politics

The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Bobby J. Smith II

Landscapes of Care

Landscapes of Care

Immigration and Health in Rural America

Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Guaraná

Guaraná

How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant

Seth Garfield

Eating While Black

Eating While Black

Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Grain and Fire

Grain and Fire

A History of Baking in the American South

Rebecca Sharpless

Edible North Carolina

Edible North Carolina

A Journey across a State of Flavor

Marcie Cohen Ferris, Katherine Hysmith, Baxter Miller, Vivian Howard

Every Nation Has Its Dish

Every Nation Has Its Dish

Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Caribeños at the Table

Caribeños at the Table

How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City

Melissa Fuster

Springer Mountain

Springer Mountain

Meditations on Killing and Eating

Wyatt Williams

Black Smoke

Black Smoke

African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

Adrian Miller

Freedom Farmers

Freedom Farmers

Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

Monica M. White, LaDonna Redmond

Edna Lewis

Edna Lewis

At the Table with an American Original

Sara B. Franklin

Diners, Dudes, and Diets

Diners, Dudes, and Diets

How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture

Emily J. H. Contois

Food Fights

Food Fights

How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates

Charles C. Ludington, Matthew Morse Booker

Stirrings

Stirrings

How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

Lana Dee Povitz

Rice in the Time of Sugar

Rice in the Time of Sugar

The Political Economy of Food in Cuba

Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Black Food Geographies

Black Food Geographies

Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.

Ashanté M. Reese, Dara Cooper

Organic Resistance

Organic Resistance

The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France

Venus Bivar

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs

Black Women, Food, and Power

Psyche A. Williams-Forson