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The Black Student Union

Meeting time: Wednesdays' 8:00PM

Zoom Link: https://susqu.zoom.us/j/92928611364?pwd=VE02a0svZ3ZPUzI3NURCcWlsSFZpUT09

President: Claire Townsend Townsendc@susqu.edu

Gender Sexuality Alliance

Meeting Time: Thursdays' 4:30PM Discord Link: https://discord.gg/dgsdVs

President: Carrigan Honeyfield honeyfield@susqu.edu

Feminist Collective

Meeting Time: Thursday's 7:00PM

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President: Erin Mccabe mccabee@susqu.edu

International Club

Meeting Time: Thursdays' 5:00PM

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Asian Cultural Association

Meeting Time: Thursdays' 6:00PM

Teams Link: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/2ac8fc88-fcb7-418c-80b0-187d9c52c1fb

President:

PIER- Professional Internship and Employment Readiness

Meeting Time: Tuesdays' 6:00PM

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President: Khaela Harrod

SMARTS- Helping minorities succeed in STEM

Meeting Time: Mondays' 7:00PM

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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2010
ISBN: 9781595585301
Publication Date: 2010-02-09
As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status—much like their grandparents before them. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

Is the limited access to healthy food caused by the industrial food production system unethical?

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Effects of industrial food production
Food deserts and race
Food deserts and socioeconomic class
Industrial food production and food borne illnesses
Food production and capitalism
Food insecurity and health outcome
Ethics and the food production industry
CAFOs (+ public health, or environment)
Environmental racism and food access
Food security and racial disparities
industrial food production pros and cons
Leading cause of death of African Americans

Cultivating Food Justice by Alison Hope Alkon (Editor); Julian Agyeman (Editor)
Call Number: HD9005 .C88 2011
ISBN: 9780262516327
Publication Date: 2011-10-21
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in "food deserts" where fast food is more common than fresh food. Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement. These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture.

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