Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate

by Kenneth H. Kolb

Book Overview

Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods in Greenville, South Carolina. For decades, outsiders ignored residents' complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of town--until the well-intentioned but flawed "food desert" concept took hold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520384180
• ISBN13: 9780520384187
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"