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Food justice is a growing movement that seeks to shift global, industrial food systems towards more equitable, just, and sustainable foodways. Food justice can be measured through a community’s ability to acquire healthy food (food access), and it's right to define its own food systems (food sovereignty). Using this framework, students will uncover how institutional racism and classism prevent certain communities from accessing healthy and culturally appropriate food. By the end of the course, students will have gained a comprehensive understanding of the historical, conceptual, and theoretical underpinnings of grassroots movements and the wider social, political, and economic systems that impact foodways.