@article{Parker_2015, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={Using the Interconnections and Complexities of Food Systems to Teach About Human Diversity and White Privilege}, volume={5}, url={https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/381}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.022}, abstractNote={<p>How can diversity courses at land-grant universities be shaped to better prepare the next generation of food systems practitioners, educators, and researchers? This is the question I approach in a discussion of the first undergraduate diversity requirement course in a college of agriculture focusing on domestic issues of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and equity in the development of U.S. food systems. I discuss the benefits I found of using food systems studies as a framework for learning about diversity by highlighting the interconnections among people through discussions of issues every student can appreciate: food and eating.</p> <p>See the <a title="press release archive " href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=488966&f=60033&s=84565&m=878679&t=257c360ddc23fcec50d37942ed548ee4169a6c0d76d51e227fa886af9ecdf0c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> for this article. </p>}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Parker, Jason S.}, year={2015}, month={Sep.}, pages={159–163} }