Week 4 (2/4) – Food apartheid and food justice (PP&C)
This page hosts the two courses that comprise the WCSC Seminar: (1) CCSSC 387 The Urban Landscape: Race, Space, and Inequality; AND (2) SOC 375 People, Place, and Community: The Politics and Practice of Community Development. Outcomes, assignments, and expectations for each course are separately identified, although the coursework is interspersed and intended to function as an integrated learning experience.
Section outline
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What shapes food access in our communities? Why do some places not have grocery stores? Should we be growing more of our own food?
Watch:
Soul Fire Farm (2016). Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community.
Read:
Hunger Report 2020: The State of Food Insecurity in Greater Washington. (2020, Oct. 5). Capital Area Food Bank.
Food Access & Food Security in the District of Columbia: Responding to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. (2020). Office of the DC Food Policy Director.
Penniman, L. (2017, April 27). 4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System. Yes.
Massey, B. (2017, February 27). D.C.’s urban farms wrestle with gentrification and displacement. Civil Eats.
Field journal PPC-2: Identify the five closest grocery stores or supermarkets to the WCSC house. Write up a transportation plan for getting to each location without a car. Report the quickest option. What things should government do to increase access to healthy food for lower income families?
Due by 11:00am:
The neighborhood in physical space. Submit on Moodle. (UL)
Speaker: Lillie Rosen, Deputy Director, DC Greens