Recipes for Respect: Black Foodways in the United States

3 units

This course will illustrate the ways that African Americans have interacted with the farmed environment, domestic service, and cookery to gain social mobility and civil rights. At least one site/community/restaurant space in St. Louis exemplary of the issues surrounding Black foodways will be examined as a way to understand food -- its production, its preparation and its distribution -- as expressive culture and a means of social justice.