ABSTRACT
Editors’ Note: This chapter brings together the themes of access, environment, race, and structure in exploring the topics of health and nutrition with two food justice activists – Navina Khanna and Hank Herrera. The chapter’s contribution to doing nutrition differently is to express why it is crucial to bring matters of institutional racism and economic inequity into any discussion of nutrition. Alkon’s exchange with Khanna and Herrera also makes clear that we must attend to the divisions that are produced through mainstream nutritional rhetoric that sets up some as experts while low-income and minority communities figure as lacking in knowledge about their own nutrition.
