Sustainable Communities TAE talk Nov. 5: Food Justice and Food Access in South Los Angeles

Hanna Garth, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, will speak on "Food Justice and Food Access in South Los Angeles" at noon Thursday, Nov. 5, via Zoom.

Join the meeting at https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/96253505287

There is a growing food justice movement in Los Angeles. This talk traces the ways in which Los Angeles based community, non-profit, and governmental entities have developed programming to improve access to healthy food among residents of lower-income areas, such as South Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. South LA and East LA have been characterized as food deserts, or food swamps, and are the intervention sites of increasing numbers of public health and community development programs. Based on ongoing ethnographic research in Los Angeles beginning in 2009, I discuss the ways in which organizations working to improve access to "healthy food" in low-income areas frame their food work as part of a larger effort toward racial and economic justice in Los Angeles. Building on a critical analysis of the term food desert, I interrogate the ways in which organizations frame the need to intervene in these predominantly Black and Latinx communities.

Find additional information about Garth on her faculty page at http://anthro.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/hanna-garth.html

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