<p>(Same as World Arts and Cultures M179.) Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history and praxis of local interventions into food insecurity and food oppression, such as community gardens, pop-up markets, and care farms. Through ethnographic and oral history methodologies, students learn how food activists organize themselves, and mobilize creativity to counteract injustice. Focus on relationships between food access, food oppression, food politics, and food ethics; and social histories of race, class, urban planning, and housing discrimination. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Food Studies

Combining rigorous, inclusive pedagogy with opportunities for co-curricular activities—including research, internships, and community engagement—the College provides students with diverse learning experiences that helps them thrive, become critical thinkers, and transform society.

College of Letters and Science

The minor uses food—its production, preparation, sharing, consumption, and disposal—as a lens for understanding individual, sociocultural, and global issues.

General Catalog

Food Activism in Los Angeles: Narrating Pasts, Imagining Futures

FOODSTM179

4 units