The Foodways Experience: A Student-Constructed Pop Up Exhibit at SHA 2024 

The C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State University East Bay (CSUEB) invites you to take a seat at our table, opening yourself to observe and understand foodways practices across the Americas and to learn what you can do to get involved in food justice and food sovereignty efforts. This student-constructed exhibit brings together examples of Indigenous, Latinx, and industrial food practices from around California and the United States, past and present, with an eye toward equity and reparation. Please join us at the CSUEB Oakland Center campus, just across the street from the Oakland Marriott, on Saturday, January 6 to engage our student docents and take part in hands-on activities. There you'll have the opportunity to exchange seeds at our traveling seed bank, produce foodways zines at our Foodways Zine Stop, observe and handle experimentally-produced adobe (mud-brick) ovens, discover what ails acorns while learning to grind them, and discuss migrant farmworkers’ rights.  Free entry – and tamales! -- to those with an SHA badge.