November 7 – Representation and Identity

Hello everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. Here is the plan for the class. 

1 – Introduction and check-in

2 – Finish lecture from previous course. Introduction to Food, Representation and Identity

3 – Reading discussion

Chapter 9 – Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (p. 141 – 150) 

Chapter 10 – The Nourishing Arts (p. 151 – 162)

Chapter 11 – Towards Queering Food Studies: Foodways, Heteronormativity and Hungry Women in Chicana Lesbian Writing (p. 163 – 176)

Chapter 12 – A Way Outa No Way: Eating Problems Among African-American, Latina, and White Women (p 177 – 190)

Chapter 14 – I Haven’t Eaten If I don’t Have My Soup and Fufu: Cultural Preservation Through Food and Foodways Among Ghanaian Migrants in the United States (p. 205 – 220)

Chapter 15 – The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women’s Cookbooks (p. 221 – 235)

Questions