Dr. Bobby J. Smith II
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Associate Professor, AfAm Studies, @UofIllinois. (Re)writing agriculture/food in Black life. Author of FOOD POWER POLITICS (@UNC_Press): bit.ly/m/FPP
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In case y’all didn’t hear last week (and even if ya did), screaming to the world that my friend Dr. Bobby J. Smith II is TENURED!! Congratulations to one of the most dedicated & thoughtful to ever do it 🖤 #nightcapsforever #CMB
Congratulations, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II !!!
I recommended some of my favorite food books for Shepherd.com 📚 highlighting delectable work by Naa Oyo A. Kwate Dr. Bobby J. Smith II @kwazana and Marcia Chatelain. shepherd.com/best-books/foo…
New Agricultural History Society issue arrived w/the forum I put together, "Revisiting the 'Iron Triangle' of Agricultural History." I think it turned out really well! Thanks to Adam Sheingate, Sarah Phillips, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II, @ProfSecchi, Bill Winders and Anne Effland, and editor Bert Way.
My first sole-authored publication is out in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity ✨ Drawing on an ethnography of Abundance Junior High School*, I argue that school discipline in the rural northeast Louisiana Delta is shaped by racial, spatial, and social dimensions of place. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
"In his debut book, 'Food Power Politics: The Food History of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement,' Bobby Smith II [Dr. Bobby J. Smith II] vividly recounts the story of the slow but continued and covert weaponization of food."—Society for U.S. Intellectual History s-usih.org/2024/10/food-p…
We are honored to welcome Bobby J. Smith II, MS ‘13 (Cornell Dyson), Ph.D. ‘18 (Cornell Global Development) back to campus this week! Join us on Wednesday as Bobby presents on his new award-winning book, Food Power Politics. Open to the public, in-person + online: cals.cornell.edu/food-power-pol…
What an honor to host Dr. Bobby J. Smith II back on campus! Bobby Smith II graduated from our PhD program in 2018. He is the award-winning author of Food Power Politics, and received early tenure this year University of Illinois. We are so proud! 👏 Missed his seminar? Stay tuned for a recording!
How did sweet potato pie become a tool of Black American resistance? Find out in this Guardian US piece featuring Dr. Bobby J. Smith II, author of FOOD POWER POLITICS: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement ⤵️ theguardian.com/culture/2024/n…