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Comment: Plenty of citations to stuff written by Reese. How about anything written about her in independent sources? WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:10, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Ashanté M. Reese is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As an anthropologist by training, Reese’s work spans disciplinary bounds to understand Black geographies, food justice, and ethnographic methods[1]. Her work has called attention to the ways Black communities navigate systemic anti-Blackness to produce vibrant Black food cultures of resistance. This work builds on growing literature in critical food studies on food justice and food apartheid. Her scholarship broadly engages with Blackness, food justice, care, ethnographic methods, and writing.
Biography edit
Ashanté M. Reese received a Bachelor’s Degree in History with a minor in African-American Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Before pursuing graduate school she taught middle school students in Atlanta, Georgia[1]. She then joined the Anthropology Department at American University, where she received her MA in Public Anthropology in 2013 and PhD in 2015[2]. Along the way she also found a passion for yoga and completed her 200 RYT at Sacred Chill in Atlanta, GA[1].
Academic Work edit
Reese’s body of work centers everyday experiences of Black life within conditions of anti-Black systems of violence[1]. She addresses these themes explicitly in her first book Black Food Geographies : Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D. C. published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019[3]. In this ethnography, she follows Black residents in Washington D.C. through experiences of food access, and the creation of “geographies of self-reliance,” (pg. 8). Along with her second book, a co-edited collection with Hanna Garth, Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, Reese and her contributors shift pervasive narratives of “lack” to narratives of creative survival[4]. Her books have been celebrated with awards from the Association of American Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology, such as the 2020 Margaret Mead Award.
Along with Reese’s book projects she has published in multiple scholarly journals such as Antipode, Environment and Society, Southern Cultures, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. These publications aim to understand Black life and its’ narrative and ethnographic methodological engagements. Her current projects include the Carceral Life of Sugar [1] and a multimodal project, Gather.
Teaching edit
Over the course of Reese’s academic career she has taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and currently at the University of Texas in Austin, TX. Her current courses include Black Geographies, exploraitons of Food, justice, and geographies, and methodologies in ethnography and Black Studies[5]. Reese’s website also showcases several resources for students, including curated reading lists, frequently asked questions, and media engagements. She has also been faculty for the National Science Foundation’s camp of methodologies, “Methods4All”.
Public Engagement edit
Ashanté M. Reese’s commitment to teaching and public scholarship is showcased in her writing for Anthropology News and Civil Eats. She is also a member of Civil Eats’ Advisory Board.
Publications edit
Books edit
- Reese, A. M. (2019). Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (1st edition). The University of North Carolina Press.
- Reese, A. M., & Garth, H. (Eds.). (2020). Black food matters : racial justice in the wake of food justice. University of Minnesota Press.
Articles edit
- Aboii, S. M., & Reese, A. M. (2023). Fieldwork with the Dead and Other Considerations: An Interview with Ashanté M. Reese. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12780
- Reese, A. M. (2023). Sweetness in the Key of Black: Notes on Baking and Belonging. Topia (Montreal), 46, 183–186. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0038
- Reese, A. M. (2022). Dickinson, Maggie. Feeding the crisis: Care and abandonment in America’s food safety net . Berkeley: University of California press, 2019, \29.95 (paperback), \29.95 (ebook), $85.00 (hardback), 224 pages, ISBN:9780520307674. Food and Foodways, 30(1–2), 142–144. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2021.1942425
- Reese, A. M., & Johnson, S. A. (2022). We All We Got: Urban Black Ecologies of Care and Mutual Aid. Environment and Society, 13(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2022.130103
- Reese, A. M., & Sbicca, J. (2022). Food and carcerality: From confinement to abolition. Food and Foodways, 30(1–2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2022.2030931
- Reese, A. M., Cottom, T. M., & Laymon, K. (2021). Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon: Money, Racism, and Success. Critical Sociology, 47(6), 1027–1032. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520928014
- Reese, A. M. (2020). “D.C. is mambo sauce”: Black cultural production in a gentrifying city. Human Geography, 13(3), 253–262. https://doi.org/10.1177/1942778620962046
- Reese, A. M. (2018). “We will not perish; we’re going to keep flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self‐Reliance. Antipode, 50(2), 407–424. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12359
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Home". Ashanté M. Reese. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). ASHANTE´ M. REESE. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Reese, Ashanté M. (2019). Black food geographies: race, self-reliance, and food access Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5151-4.
- ^ Garth, Hanna; Reese, Ashanté M. (2020). Black food matters: racial justice in the wake of food justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-5179-0814-0.
- ^ "Profile for Ashanté Reese at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 19 October 2023.