Migrant Rights and the Labor of Food Justice, a platica

Time: Oct. 30, 2018, 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location: 319 Sims

Steven Alvarez (St. John's University)
Crispin Hernandez (CNY Workers Center)
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern (Falk Food Studies)
Gretchen Purser, moderator (Maxwell-Sociology)

Bringing together academic and community-based knowledges on food, work, and immigration, this talk focuses on ideas from Alvarez's new book project,“Taco Literacy,” exploring the cultural politics of transnational foodways. Purser moderates discussion between Alvarez, Hernandez, and Minkoff-Zern.

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Additional supporters:

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Falk College
Sociology
Writing Our Lives
Cultural Foundations of Education
Xicanxs Empowering Xicanxs

Aja Martinez, Democratizing Knowledge, Writing Studies