Forthcoming Events

2019 Black History Month
January 15, 2019, 9:00 AM
Cookbooks by Early Black Californians 1900-1936
with Dr. Hanna Garth
Monday, February 11, 2019
Geisel Library, Seuss Room
Noon – 1:00 PM

Doors open at 11:45am. Light refreshments will be served.

The theme for this year’s Black History Month is Black Migration: The Movement of African People Across the Diaspora. Join us for an engaging lecture by Dr. Hanna Garth on “Cookbooks by Early Black Californians 1900-1936.”  This talk documents culinary practices in early patterns of Black migration to Southern California.  This talk draws on an analysis of two cookbooks, The Federation Cookbook: A Collection of tested Recipes by the Colored Women of Southern California (1909) and Eliza’s Cookbook Favorite Recipes of the Negro Culinary Art Club (1936).  Based on this analysis this talk illuminates the forms of cooking that were central to early Black migrants to Southern California, tracing the culinary influences from other regions of the United States.

Recent Engagements

Black Food Matters:
Race, Food Consumption, and Resistance in the Age of "Food Justice"
Friday, December 1, 2017 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Washington DC.

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Discussing my work on the
Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
"The Business of Neighborhood Markets"
on July 22, 2015
a luncheon with the LA Food Policy Council (LAFPC) and
Leadership for Urban Renewal Network (LURN).