This course traces the development of the global industrial food system—from large-scale agriculture to the long-distance supply chains that disconnect modern diets from seasonality and place. We will examine the deep, interdependent relationships between people, food, and the environment. Our work will pay close attention to the power dynamics, politics, class biases, racial associations, and gender formations that have shaped food production and consumption in the United States from colonization to the present. Along the way, we will explore shifting meanings and experiences of food, how knowledge about food is created and circulated, and how social movements have sought to confront systemic inequities within the food system.