Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans on Food, Identity, Health & Society

Breeze Harper is a PhD Candidate at University of California Davis in the department of geography. Her emphasis is on critical food geographies and critical race studies. She is the creator of the Sistah Vegan Project, and the author of Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health & Society (Lantern Books, March 2010). Her research activism focuses on the questions: (1) How does race (racialization, racisms, anti-racisms, "whiteness as the norm") manifest in the USA vegan/vegetarian movement? and (2) How does the concept of "decolonizing the body" manifest in the vegan praxis of black female vegans?