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Apr 20, 2024
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HIST 4342 - Food, Race and MedicineCredit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent.
Description
Examination of the historical relationships between food, race, medicine, and power throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In particular, focus on the politics of health, the business of race and ethnicity in medicine, and the unique ways food in various contexts influence relationships of power in American society. Consumption of food and mobilizations around food as a portal into contemporary questions of race, ethnicity, class, immigration, politics, exclusion, regionalism, and access that are essential for understanding American history.
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