J. Kenyatta Walker

soul food is a map. Black fem cultural crit meets critical food studies. Ph.D American Studies. Asst Prof. UMich Depts of AfroAmerican Studies /American Culture

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

great to talk with Tia Graham about Aunt Jemima, objectification, and Food Branding.

How Corporate Branding Embedded Racist Stereotypes In American Culture https://t.co/y3tKCSRxn7

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

reading Marcia Chatelain's Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America this week in class. Tmrws digital scavenger hunt will include this gem:

Rosa Parks cooking at a McDonald's restaurant grill. , None. [Between 1980 and 1990?] Photograph. https://t.co/7CgWKCmQLC.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

Waiting 11 hours to vote is a poll tax

[Victor LaValle @victorlavalle]

The number of brilliant non-white folks who lost out on a job or a promotion because their bosses couldn’t “imagine having a beer with them after work.”

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8-9, I am participating in the Scholar Strike for Racial Justice, a mass action of higher education professionals protesting racist policing, state… https://t.co/XlxixBcJJz

[Maryland Arts & Humanities @umd_arhu]

.@UofMaryland names academic department after legendary Marylander Harriet Tubman. Tubman’s legacy will be incorporated into curricula, programming and service impacting the entire campus. https://t.co/rwfcs22d9j #IAmARHU

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

“Gower and Fowler propose a physiologic basis for obesity in ‘obesity‐prone’ Black women who consume high‐glycaemic diets. This premise rests on inappropriate notions of racial essentialism, which reinforce false beliefs in ‘innate’ genetic abnormalities within Black bodies.”

[Annelise Riles @AnneliseRiles]

I was articles editor when this was published. The controversy was unbelievable. Other editors and even faculty telling us this wasn’t serious scholarship

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

The outcomes from COVID are not live vs die. There is a world of suffering, morbidity, and disability in between.

[ℝ𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕒 @Rashona]

I find it hilarious that Bill Nye joined TikTok on some ”cut the shit” energy. 😆

[Dr. Marcia Chatelain @DrMChatelain]

This was so fun! Loved talking to @romanmars of @99piorg about my book FRANCHISE @LiverightPub!

I got to meet Roman IRL in the before times when I visited @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyLaw in convo with @hosam_christian and hosted by @JWillJuice #imisspeople

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

Because that Mcds BLM commercial has so many entanglements. Read FRANCHISE

[Rim⚡️ @brent_cebul]

Check out this excellent episode of @99piorg for a great conversation with @DrMChatelain about her *fantastic* new book on black capitalism, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America https://t.co/glkmlSvve4

[J. Kenyatta Walker @nervouskitchens]

Gullah! Gullah!