Abstract
Raspando Coco is an award-winning film about the culinary and medicinal traditions of Afro-Ecuadorians, that has been screened in three different languages to audiences in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Japan. The film documents the health impacts and culinary traditions surrounding coconut as remembered and experienced by Afro-Ecuadorians in the coast of Ecuador. The movie positions communities of color as important knowledge bearers about health and food and shows the tensions that can arise when development and public health authorities label staple foods, like coconuts, unhealthy. The film and this discussion is for students and faculty interested in food justice and sovereignty, race and racism, Afro-Latin America, oral history and ethnography, public and community health, and sustainable development and agriculture. View the film trailer, synopsis, awards, testimonials, and other details at www.raspandococo.com
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Food heritage, Food gentrification, Culinary justice, Food sovereignty, Public health
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