Educational Resources on Food Justice

Photo: Kelly Miller, Director of Department of Indian Work

Current opportunities to learn more about food justice

Documentaries 

• Watch the documentary “Food Justice” from TPT
• Watch the docuseries “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America” on Netflix
• Watch the documentary “Gather” on Netflix
• Check out the trailer for “Rooted,” a documentary about food apartheid in America, coming in 2022

Books

Dig deeper with books covering the history of race and the food system

• An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
• In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
• The Color of Food
• Farming While Black

Articles

• Familiarize yourself on the background of food justice
• Building the Case for Racial Equity in the Food System
• 4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System

Resources

• Resources from recent food justice facilitation workshops hosted by U of M extension
• Food justice resources including podcasts, videos, and articles from Slow Food Minnesota

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