FS 018 PZ -Latinx and Africana Food Identity and Resistance

Institution: Pitzer

Description: In this seminar we will explore African/a and Latinx foodways and systems in the US. We will study how these were impacted by exchange, enslavement of people plus the desires to retain their traditional cuisines. We will explore the knowledges that enslaved Africans brought to las Americas, in particular how their cuisine used maize as well as domesticated animals; how Amerindians were able to retain their knowledge of the land and ecology and maintain their own foodways; the colonial project and how Europeans forced Africans and Amerindians to cultivate and produce their foods. (Instructors: Maria Soldatenko & Kebokile Dengu-Zvobgo)

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.