The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the Americas
Can education lead to social and economic equity? Think of your own educational experience, your current position in social and economic spheres and how you got there. Do you have…
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Theme: Food
Sustainable Agriculture
Famine and undernourishment are not due to lack of food availability. Rather they result from the inability of people to grow their own food or to purchase it from those that grow it. In other…
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The Supermarket as Cultural Spaces
It wasn’t exactly a shopping trip. Nam was investigating supermarkets and department stores as social, cultural spaces. Consumption is not simply an economic practice, but one of the most…
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Sugary Avocados, Mystery Flan
Food is the ultimate expression of one’s culture, and even our smallest assumptions about what we eat reveal a lot about where we come from. Sometimes this happens not only for those who…
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In Search of Mexico’s National Cuisine
Growing up in the Midwest in the 1970s, I ate a bland diet of meat and potatoes and soothing Jell-O salads. Mexican food remained unknown territory until my brother moved to Las Cruces…
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