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The Trouble with Snack Time: Children's Food and the Politics of Parenting

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jennifer PaticoPublish date:2020-08-18Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479845989ISBN-10:1479845981UPC:9781479845989Book Category:Family & Relationships, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Parenting, Anthropology, Parent ParticipationBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC3DDTGEZM

Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the "cupcake wars"

In the wake of school-lunch reform debates, heated classroom cupcake wars, and concerns over childhood obesity, the diet of American children has become a "crisis" and the cause of much anxiety among parents.

Many food-conscious parents are well educated, progressive and white, and while they may explicitly value race and class diversity, they also worry about less educated or less well-off parents offering their children food that is unhealthy. Jennifer Patico embedded herself in an urban Atlanta charter school community, spending time at school events, after-school meetings, school lunchrooms, and private homes. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observation, she details the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children's eating. Ultimately, Patico argues that the attitudes of middle-class parents toward food reflect an underlying neoliberal capitalist ethic, in which their need to cultivate proper food consumption for their children can actually work to reinforce class privilege and exclusion.

Listening closely to adults' and children's food concerns, The Trouble with Snack Time explores those unintended effects and suggests how the "crisis" of children's food might be reimagined toward different ends.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479845989ISBN-10:1479845981UPC:9781479845989Book Category:Family & Relationships, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Parenting, Anthropology, Parent ParticipationBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC3DDTGEZM
Patico, Jennifer: - Jennifer Patico is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class.
Publisher: New York University Press

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