Feeding Black: Community Power and Place

with MUSEUM OF LONDON

What is the relationship between contemporary food cultures and power?

What do social activities around food tell us about contemporary
Black experiences and the local Black economy?

How can contemporary collecting use food cultures to examine the
relationship between people and place?

Food has always been a site of survival, culture, resistance and homemaking. While food has always been associated with maintaining culture away from home, Afro-Caribbean cafes, markets and shops in London also serve as social spaces for communities beyond the focal living room. Using the Museum of London Dockland’s London, Sugar and Slavery gallery as a site of potential repair, Feeding Black considered contemporary ways of surviving in an ever-changing city.