Ivy League course chews on 'racial otherness'

Ivy League course chews on 'racial otherness'

• An Ivy League institution will host a course called “Literature, Food, and the American Racial Diet” during the spring 2019 semester.
• The Princeton course will be taught by English professor Anne Cheng, who incorporates “critical race studies” and “feminist theory” into her analyses.
• The course will explore “how ‘taste’ informs the ways in which we ingest or dispel racial otherness,” noting that “food, like books, is the site of our greatest consumption of and most vulnerable encounter with ‘otherness.’”

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