Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements : decolonial perspectives /
"This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities. The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place wel...
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| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas,
2017.
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| Series: | Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Mexican Deep Food: Bodies, the Land, Food, and Social Movements / Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle
- Theorizing: Decolonial Food and Movements. Poem. From Borderlands/La Frontera / Gloria Anzaldúa ; Autonomía and Food Sovereignty: Decolonization across the Food Chain / Devon G. Peña ; Indigenous Women in the Food Sovereignty Movement: Lessons from the South Central Farm / Rufina Juárez ; Food Values: Urban Kitchen Gardens and Working-Class Subjectivity / Gabriel R. Valle ; Del alivio y coraje la tuna nacera: A Re-membering of Land and Place / Silvia Patricia Solís
- Witnessing: Heritage Cuisines and Decolonial Foodways. Essay. El Quelite / Teresa Vigil ; Tracing Food Packs and Tuna Cans on La Línea: Food, Water, and Foodways during Transborder Travel / Consuelo Crow ; Norteada/o en el barrio: Decolonizing Foodscapes in South Central Texas and Reclaiming Belonging / Lee Ann Epstein ; Tortilleras, testimonios, y recetas: Decolonial Foodways from the México-US Borderlands / Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel ; Chicos del horno: A Local, Slow, and Deep Food / Joseph C. Gallegos ; Travels of a Diaspora Community: From La Sierra Madre y Tierra Caliente to the Pacific Northwest / María Guillen Valdovinos ; Food, Class, Ethnicity, and Race in the Classroom: A Teacher's Testimony / Julia Curry Rodríguez
- Organizing: Decolonial Movements for Food Autonomy. Poem. "When Corn Silk Withers" / Tezozomoc ; Fragmentary Food Flows: Autonomy in the "Un-signified" Food Deserts of the Real / Tezozomoc and the South Central Farmers ; Growing Justice in the Fields: Farmworker Autonomy and Food Sovereignty / Rosalinda Guillen and C2C ; "We Are Human!": Farmworker Organizing across the Food Chain in Washington / Tomás Madrigal ; Organic Intellectuals and Direct Action Fifty Years Past Chicago's "War on Poverty" / Pancho McFarland ; Sin maíz, no hay país: Mesoamericans and Civil Society in the Defeat of Monsanto / Adelita Sanvicente Tello and Araceli Carreón (Translated by Devon G. Peña) ; Sodbusters and the "Native Gaze": Soil Governmentality and Indigenous Knowledge / Devon G. Peña.