Two professors from San Diego State University claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like “white spaces” responsible for oppression.
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco are part of an anthology released this month titled “Just Green Enough.” The work, published by Routledge, claims there is a correlation between the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” and gentrification.
“Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized,” the SDSU professors write, the education watchdog Campus Reform reported Wednesday.
The geology professors claim that 44 percent of San Diego’s farmers’ markets cater to “households from higher socio-economic backgrounds,” which raises property values and “[displaces] low-income residents and people of color.”
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13 comments:
Citizens claim professors cultivate racism. Wanna read that story.
Farmers don't accept ebt cards, credit cards, or other cards. Get it?
They go where the consumers are best able to pay for their goods.
56% of the markets DON'T cater to higher socio-economic groups, so what's the point?
Just fomenting Racism, in accordance with O'b's orders. Bet they both got a bundle of under-the-table cash for that..
I don't know how these racist professors can live in society without being assaulted.
So does a store selling work boots. Who cares.
Want to lower the debt, hide EBT cards in work boots.
3:33, hell yes. (map)
Insane asylums needed.
So what if farmer's market don't take ebt cards? You can't buy UGGs or get your hair/nails did with ebt cards either, but that doesn't seemed to have stopped anybody. Find a real problem to gripe about... "Academics" are so out of touch.
These people are friggin nut jobs!
Many farmers, including organic farmers, use manure as fertilizer before bringing their goods to market. It seems there is a correlation between teaching kids at SDSU and having a cranium filled to the top with manure. Not the fault of the farmers or their products.
May need a multi-year research grant to learn more.
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