Have You Eaten Yet? Black/Indigenous Foodways Across and Beyond the Americas

(4 Credits)

Have you eaten yet? will be a course on the ways in which Black and Indigenous foodways converge. This course will contend with the overlapping traditions concerning foodstuffs, practices, and food sovereignty movements that meet in the Americas, linking Indigenous practices from the Philippines to the western coasts of Africa; and the tips of Canada to Brazil. We will utilize cookbooks, food writing, novels, poetry, works on sustainability, and food practices to follow the Black/Indigenous threads that make up the mosaic of what we eat today, what our ancestors ate, and what we could create. Topics include Food sovereignty, Seed saving, farming practices, cultivation of plants and dishes alike.