Food as Cultural Identity: European, African, and Indigenous Foods and Crops in America

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Food as Cultural Identity: European, African, and Indigenous Foods and Crops in America

Food as Cultural Identity: European, African, and Indigenous Foods and Crops in America

Presented by the Fort Worth Public Library and The Center for Texas Studies at TCU, these workshops are aimed at increasing the historical awareness of the community. The series is designed to make the public aware of the important, yet often overlooked historical resources around them, and how to preserve them for posterity. The goal of the workshops is to prove that “every person is a historian,” and that they can, by their deeds and actions, preserve a small part of the cultural and historical fabric of this region. Register for the virtual events here: http://fortworthtexas.gov/library/programs/community-history/

Sept. 12, 2020 – Food as Cultural Identity: European, African, and Indigenous Foods and Crops in America

Dr. Peter Martínez, Associate Professor of History, Tarrant County College

Join us for the return of our Preserving our Past Community History Workshops with Dr. Peter Martínez! In honor of Hispanic American Heritage Month, Dr. Martínez’s will discuss how crops and foods in the Pre-Columbian Americas impacted European and Asian countries through the Columbian Exchange beginning in the sixteenth century. You will hear how Europeans and Mexican elites viewed indigenous American foods and learn how the relationship between food and cultural identity evolved as European, African, and Indigenous foods and crops to combine to give us foods that are common to us today.

Dr. Peter Martínez serves as an Associate Professor of History at Tarrant County College – Northeast Campus. He earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History from the University of Texas at Arlington and his Doctorate in History from the University of North Texas in 2017. Dr. Martínez’s dissertation, “Ready to Run: Fort Worth’s Mexicans in Search of Representation, 1960-2000,” was awarded Best Dissertation in Tejano/a Studies by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies – Tejas Foco in 2018. He is an active Board Member for HOLA (History of Latino Americans) Tarrant County.