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Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry: Changing How We Think about Food (Food and Foodways)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Abarca, Meredith E. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ana- lyzed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based commu- nities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. This vibrant new collection acknowledges issues of labor conditions, eco- nomic politics, and immigration laws—structural vulnerabilities that certainly cannot be ignored—and strives to ... Read more
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 ana- lyzed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based commu- nities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. This vibrant new collection acknowledges issues of labor conditions, eco- nomic politics, and immigration laws—structural vulnerabilities that certainly cannot be ignored—and strives to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286932
SKU
V9781557286932
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Ref
99-15
About
Meridith E. Abarca is associate professor of literature and food studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Voices in the Kitchen and coeditor of Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food. Consuelo Carr Salas is a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research focuses on the rhetoric ... Read more
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