Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. Nuevo South

Autor/in	Alvarez, Steven
Titel	Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. Nuevo South
Quelle	In: Composition Studies, 45 (2017) 2, S.151-166 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-9322
Schlagwörter	Advocacy; Food; Writing Instruction; Literacy; College Curriculum; Hispanic American Culture; Rhetoric; Kentucky + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialanwaltschaft; Lebensmittel; Schreibunterricht; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Hispanistik; Rhetorik
Abstract	This article describes a brief moment when the University of Kentucky (UK) became the national focus of conversations around food literacies for a writing class about tacos in the U.S. South. Author Steven Alvarez explains to "Munchies" writer Javier Cabral that taco literacy goes beyond an appreciation of tacos. Alvarez describes his vision of taco literacy as a course engaging qualitative research studying foodways and the social, cultural, economic, and symbolic practices of producing and consuming food as a prism for understanding demographic change and social issues facing Mexican immigrants in their new home of Lexington, Kentucky. Alvarez established four goals in organizing the course. Students would: (1) write about their personal connections to Mexican food and their sense of Mexican food as part of Southern and global cuisines; (2) engage with food politics by researching the production of ingredients in a particular dish of their preference; (3) further research local variances of their chosen dish and its movement to different locations; and (4) explore foodways social movements and both Southern and transnational food activist voices. Course texts, course goals, major assignments, and the grading breakdown are provided. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	University of Cincinnati. Department of English, P.O. Box 210069, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Tel: 513-556-6519; Fax: 513-556-5960; e-mail: compstudies@uc.edu; Web site: http://www.uc.edu/journals/composition-studies.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01