Ewoodzie, Joseph C.

Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.

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Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. is associate professor of sociology at Rice University. He is the author of Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop鈥檚 Early Years.

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Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee 鈥� Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists 鈥� Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social Problems

A vivid portrait of African American life in today鈥檚 urban...

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PUP Speaks: 鈥淭he neighborhood is no longer what it used to be鈥� 鈥淭he neighborhood is no longer what it used to be. The experience of blackness is not either.鈥� Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. explains how talking to Jacksonians about their food choices helped him to understand more about their changing racial and cultural ... Read More

Ideas Podcast: Getting Something to Eat in Jackson, Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food鈥攚hat people eat and how鈥攖o explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Read More

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Poverty, pandemic, and peace of mind When COVID-19 spread around the world, I was living in the south of France, but my mind was in the U.S. south. Read More