AMST 2421
Borderlands Food and Culture
Course Description
Disciplines
Cultures & Societies of the World
This course examines foodways (the ideas, practices, and material realities surrounding food) through the interdisciplinary lens of American Studies. Focusing on borderlands as sites of cultural exchange, conflict, and creativity, we will explore how food shapes and is shaped by histories of migration, empire, race, class, gender, and labor.