Black vegan men discuss masculinity, sexuality, race, diet,
health, fatherhood, social justice, animal rights, and the
environment in this companion volume to Sistah
Vegan.
In
2010, Lantern published Sistah Vegan, a landmark anthology edited by
A. Breeze Harper that highlighted for the first time the diversity of
vegan women of color's response to gender, class, body image,
feminism, spirituality, the environment, diet, and nonhuman animals.
Now, a decade later, its companion volume, Brotha Vegan,
unpacks the lived experience of black men on veganism, fatherhood,
politics, sexuality, gender, health, popular culture, spirituality,
food, animal advocacy, the environment, and the many ways that
veganism is lived and expressed within the Black community in the
United States.
Edited
by Omowale Adewale--founder of Black Vegfest, and one of the leading
voices for racial and economic justice, animal rights, and black
solidarity--Brotha Vegan includes interviews with and articles
by folks such as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Doc (of Hip
Hop is Green), chef Bryant Terry, physicians Anteneh Roba and Milton
Mills, DJ Cavem, Stic of Dead Prez, Kimatni Rawlins, and many others.
At once inspiring, challenging, and illuminating, Brotha Vegan
illustrates the many ways it is possible to be vegan and reveals the
leading edge of a "veganized" consciousness for social
renewal.