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

Jennifer Patico

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Description:Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the cupcake warsIn 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting. To get started finding The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the cupcake warsIn 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting. To get started finding The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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