"An invitation to pivot how we address hunger in America, rooted in the personal, political, and spiritual work critical to making change"--

Series Foreword
Notes on Reading This Book
Prologue
Introduction
Part I: The Trauma of Hunger
1 When You Can’t Lay with Yourself Comfortable
2 Hunger in Mind and Body
3 Knowing and Not Knowing
4 Breaking the Chain
Part II: Reconsider Everything
Preamble
5 Public Assistance as Divide and Conquer
6 Welfare to Work Makes You Free?
7 Nutrition Assistance as Corporate Welfare
8 Pounds of Food Does Not Feed America
Part III: Nourishing our World
Preamble
9 The Personal—Undoing Racism and Sexism
10 The Political—Solutions from Reparations to Abolition
11 The Political—Human Rights and Rights of Nature
12 The Spiritual—On Becoming a Loving Living Ancestor
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: USDA/ERS Definitions of Food Security as Measured by the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM)
Appendix 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Questions and Scoring
Appendix 3: Example of Adversity over Multiple Generations as Explained by Keisha (Interviewed for Child Hunger Study)
Appendix 4: Index of Acronyms
Works Cited
Notes