| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Food and foodways |
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Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
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| Contents |
Introduction / Meredith E. Abarca and Consuelo Carr Salas -- part 1. A mother's food : the production of place and knowledge -- 1. Desde el Corazón : nourishing bodies, feeding souls / Josie Mendez-Negrete -- part 2. Displacement and re-creation : food and place -- 2. Mexican food in El Paso, 1880-1940 : its path and discordant voices / Juan Manuel Mendoza Guerrero -- 3. The "New Mexican way" : the New Mexico Agricultural Extension Agency, Hispanas, and making a regional cuisine / Monica Perales -- 4. Food gentrification in downtown Puebla : UNESCO World Heritage Site / Sandra C. Mendiola García -- 5. From working the farm to fast food and back again : rural Mexicans in the neoliberal food system / Elizabeth Fitting -- part 3. Food professionalism from the ground up -- 6. Las gallinitas de Doña Luz : Dominican women public kitchens and trans-ethnic networks in San Juan / Lidia Marte -- 7. Queering the chili queens : culinary citizenship through food consciousness in the new borderlands / Norma L. Cárdenas -- 8. More than "just a waitress" : the waitress as artist and activist in contemporary Chicana literature / Cristina Herrera -- part 4. Producing and reproducing identities -- 9. Conspicuous consumption? : Eating disorders as nervous immigrant conditions in contemporary Latina fiction / Marion Christina Rohrleitner -- 10. Writing against food-based aesthetics of objectification : the work of Judith Ortiz Cofer / Karen Cruz -- 11. Food marketing industry : cultural attitudes made visible / Consuelo Carr Salas and Meredith E. Abarca |
| Summary |
Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry takes the holistic culinary approach of bringing together multidisciplinary criticism to explore the diverse, and not always readily apparent, ways that Latin@s relate to food and the food industry. The networks Latin@s create, the types of identities they fashion through food, and their relationship to the US food industry are analyzed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based communities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. This vibrant new collection acknowledges issues of labor conditions, economic politics, and immigration laws--structural vulnerabilities that certainly cannot be ignored--and strives to understand more fully the active and conscious ways that Latina@s create spaces to maneuver global and local food systems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans -- Food.
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Food industry and trade -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Food industry and trade
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Hispanic Americans -- Food
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abarca, Meredith E., 1967- editor.
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Salas, Consuelo Carr, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781610755795 |
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1610755790 |
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