Lecture: African Food Legacies in the Americas

Professor Judith Carney will present a talk on African agency in creolizing the foodways of the Americas, the ways the enslaved made African foods part of the New World dietary traditions, and the role of subaltern food plots in making this possible in plantation societies. Light refreshments will be served.
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita Judith Carney’s research centers on African ecology and development, food security, gender and agrarian change, and African contributions to New World environmental history. She is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and two books: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2001) and In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (University of California Press, 2009).
Photo courtesy of David P. Gamble
This program is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at UCLA.

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