Panel: Lantinx Foodways in North America: Stories for Changing Food Systems, Culture, and Migration

Day 2, Morning Session I, 8:30 am - 10:10 am, RH 316

(Theme: Food, Race, Migration, and Mobility)

Panel organizer & chair: Colleen Hammelman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte & Consuelo Salas, UNC Charlotte

Discussant: Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto

  1. “The Stories of Taco Literacy: Writing Mexican Foodways in the College Classroom,” Steven Alvarez, St. John’s University 
  2. “Latinx Food Narratives in Los Angeles: Decolonization and Resistance in Boyle Heights,” Sarah Portnoy, University of Southern California
  3. “Telling stories of Latinx foodways in Charlotte,” Consuelo Salas and Colleen Hammelman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte