Students will actually eat tacos and learn.
A professor at University of Kentucky in Lexington has done what some academics, and their students, may have only dreamed of — lead an entire class about tacos.
A man carries a plate of tacos at the Hispanic Heritage Festival on July 20, 2014 in Valhalla, New York.
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The undergraduate class is called "Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. South" where students will explore Mexican migration in the South through food.
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"It really encompasses more about migration foodways and looking at the South throgh the prism of food," Professor Alvarez told BuzzFeed News. "The course is on food but it's really about the culture around food."
One of the class' first exercises in taco literacy was to plug in search terms for Mexican food into Google maps, which "showed the segregation" of Kentucky's neighborhood and mapped out its barrios with concentrated Mexican communities, said Alvarez.
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