{"product_id":"racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century","title":"Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion\u003c\/i\u003e explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising, \u003ci\u003e Racial Indigestion\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eRacial Indigestion \u003c\/i\u003esheds light on contemporary \"foodie\" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more, visit the author's tumblr page: http: \/\/racialindigestion.tumblr.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Rice Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47543279911090,"sku":"9780814770030","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/imageloader_baf4a8e1-9069-4f4d-9b04-44281aa1022c.jpg?v=1780354898","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/racial-indigestion-eating-bodies-in-the-19th-century","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}