February 13, 2018 Rooted in personal and family experience, Chef Kabui will discuss the role of race in the food movement. He asserts that food is the new instrument of oppression. Chek Kabui’s talk will cover family history, philosophy about a new cuisine, and practical actions to bring about change.
Chef Kabui | “Colonized Plate: A Tale of African Activism in the South” Read More »
March 28, 2017 Food justice, social justice, environmental justice, food sovereignty—and entire language has developed around how we want to see and live in a better world where fairness and right action prevail. In an extension of these concepts, Michael has begun to promote his notion of culinary justice—the idea that historically oppressed peoples have
Michael Twitty | “Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty” Read More »
March 21, 2017 Monica White examines the work of Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers of the late 1960s who fought for the right to participate in the food system as producers and to earn a living wage in the face of racially, socially, and politically repressive conditions. Using a Collective Agency and Community Resilience theoretical
“The Long Green Revolution” Everything we understand today about the food system, from its influence on wage work to the nation-state, has its origins in the 15th century. By looking at these origins, the politics of feeding the world in the last century, and 21st century ways of re-imagining them, it becomes easier to see
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