Book Interviews and Press
Page 99 Test: Mariana Chilton's “The Painful Truth about Hunger in America”
Page 99 is the crux of the Painful Truth About Hunger in America. It’s the culmination of three chapters that carefully bring the reader to understand how trauma is underneath hunger. My narrative moves from people’s lived experiences revealing the transfer of violence and hunger across the generations to a segment called “violence in numbers.”
Interview: Q&A w. Deborah Kalb
Because it’s so hard to be open to the truth, I make it a slow unveiling to help readers learn along with me in a way that is non-threatening. I’m trying to show people how I got to the painful truth. That required me to show my own emotions, my own questions and insecurities, especially when the scientific and advocacy communities were hesitant to accept my findings on the violence underneath hunger.
Podcast Interview: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds
Hunger is far more than the immediate and tangible experience of not being able to find or buy food. While it is true that hunger is often depicted as the physical sensation of an empty stomach—a condition that can be temporarily alleviated by food—the issue runs much deeper. Hunger is more than the absence of food; it is a manifestation of deeper, societal and structural failings leading to individual and collective trauma.
Interview - 5 best books on hunger in America
The best books on Hunger in the United State recommended by Mariana Chilton
Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. She recommends books to get a better understanding of hunger and argues that food banks have become part of the problem.
Weekend reading: Hunger in America
Marianna Chilton’s uncompromising book cuts to the heart of what’s wrong with America’s “safety net” for poverty and hunger. Her tough analysis derives from the lived experience of people dependent on this system despite its demonstrable inadequacies, inequities, and indignities.
Interview: Hunger Isn’t About Food; It’s About Power
Building on over 25 years of research and advocacy, Mariana Chilton’s incendiary new book, “The Painful Truth about Hunger in America,” offers a deep, structural analysis of the many harms of hunger. This study is relentless in its examination of state violence and intergenerational trauma and how both are directly related to marginalized folks’ experience of food insecurity.