Week 4 (2/4) – Food apartheid and food justice (PP&C)
Course Access Dates: Students from 12/19/2020 until 4/28/2024; Faculty from 7/22/2020 until 4/28/2024
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