2025 (Winter), 2026 (Winter)

This fully-online course examine a diversity of topics in food justice. The course situates the contemporary US food system within histories of Indigenous dispossession, trans-Atlantic slavery, and racial capitalism. The course covers topics including prison agriculture, labor migration, gentrification, industrialization, globalization, genocide, colonialism, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, local food movements, and food activism.

Students in the course produce a class zine called the Food Justice Atlas which includes case studies of organizations working toward food justice.

This course is an introduction to the concept of environmental justice that explores how environmental questions and the idea of ‘nature’ are intimately connected to forms of social difference (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability) and systems of oppression. After complicating dominant narratives of Western environmentalism – which tend to erase questions of class, race, gender, and colonialism – we gradually develop an intersectional conception of environmental (in)justice. To do so, the course surveys alternative and intersectional environmental perspectives, including Black Ecologies, Indigenous Ecologies, Feminist Ecologies, Queer/Trans Ecologies, and Disabled Ecologies.