FYS 19 Latinx Foodways
This seminar explores the relationship between food, race, and migration for Latinx populations in historical and contemporary U.S. contexts. The course is organized thematically with a fundamental consideration of how and why food has shaped Latinx migrant communities and collective identities. Through Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies frames and topics such as cultural memory, labor, agriculture, authenticity, gentrification, and health, we will examine debates about the role of food in assimilation and transculturation as well as the interplay between production, distribution and consumption of food. California as a subject of study will play a prominent role in our studies. Open only to first-year frosh.