{"id":34186,"date":"2011-03-13T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34186"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:29:02","slug":"the-color-of-food-production-processing-distribution-and-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/13\/the-color-of-food-production-processing-distribution-and-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Food: Production, Processing, Distribution, and Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Colorlines<\/a> I discovered an Applied Research Center report titled The Color of Food<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0The report found that Blacks, Latinos, and Asians were overrepresented in food service work:<\/p>\n

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The report also discovered a wage gap between White workers and non-White workers at every level of food production:<\/p>\n

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Race intersected with gender, such that women earned less than men of their same race for each group studied:<\/p>\n

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The authors go on to break down the data further by each part of the commodity food chain —\u00a0production, processing, distribution and service — and by racial group. \u00a0For example, they show that the average wage of Latinos and Asians differs by ethnic background (always a good reminder that racial categories obscure variability):<\/p>\n

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Lots more\u00a0at\u00a0The Color of Food<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Colorlines I discovered an Applied Research Center report titled The Color of Food. \u00a0The report found that Blacks, Latinos, and Asians were overrepresented in food service work: The report also discovered a wage gap between White workers and non-White workers at every level of food production: Race intersected with gender, such that women earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,55,778,23695,274,285,1759,1760,1754,1757,76],"class_list":["post-34186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-intersectionality-gender-x-race","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59033,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions\/59033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}