ABC (0101) 257 - Food, Movies, and Texts in the Afro-Latinx World

Credits: 3.00

Students will focus on how Indigenous, African, Hispanic, Caribbean, Spanish, and Afro-Latinx culinary culture has been represented in a selection of movies and texts. Among the topics to be developed are the operations of transatlantic networks, stereotypes of gender, race, and ethnicity, and the importance of media in global society.

Repeatable: No Grade Type: Regular
Course Learning Goals: Students will be able to:
● Demonstrate how different disciplines have constructed ideas about food and its connection with colonization and decolonization processes.
● Explain how what we eat today cannot be understood without analyzing historical, cultural, social, and political contexts.
● Develop a greater awareness of how food and eating are represented in literature, cinema, and the arts. In our discussion we will also address topics related to exotization, appropriation, and globalization.
● Gain a greater awareness of their own values, beliefs, assumptions, and experiences by reflecting on the relationships between culinary traditions of Africa, Asia, Native communities, the Afro-Caribbean, and connections between Spain and America.
● Analyze the effects of oppression and privilege in relation to access to food.
● Develop strategies to advocate for social justice and food justice.