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Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements

decolonial perspectives

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"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 well before the Oñate Entrada of 1598, to tomorrow's transborder travelers who will be negotiating entry into the United States. Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways from Chiapas to Alaska. Global food systems are also considered from a critical agroecological perspective, which takes into account the ways colonialism affects native biocultural diversity, ecosystem resilience, and equality across species and generations. Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements is a major contribution to the understanding of the ways that Mexican-origin peoples have resisted and transformed food systems through daily lived acts of producing and sharing food, knowledge, and seeds in both place-based and displaced communities. It will animate scholarship on global food studies for years to come."--Page 4 of cover.

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Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements: decolonial perspectives
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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, Gabriel R. Valle
Part I. Theorizing: Decolonial Food and Movements. Poem. From Borderlands/La Frontera / Gloria Anzaldúa
Chapter 1. Autonomía and Food Sovereignty: Decolonization across the Food Chain / Devon G. Peña
Chapter 2. Indigenous Women in the Food Sovereignty Movement: Lessons from the South Central Farm / Rufina Juárez
Chapter 3. Food Values: Urban Kitchen Gardens and Working-Class Subjectivity / Gabriel R. Valle
Chapter 4. Del alivio y coraje la tuna nacera: A Re-membering of Land and Place / Silvia Patricia Solís
Part II. Witnessing: Heritage Cuisines and Decolonial Foodways. Essay. El Quelite / Teresa Vigil
Chapter 5. Tracing Food Packs and Tuna Cans on La Línea: Food, Water, and Foodways during Transborder Travel / Consuelo Crow
Chapter 6. Norteada/o en el barrio: Decolonizing Foodscapes in South Central Texas and Reclaiming Belonging / Lee Ann Epstein
Chapter 7. Tortilleras, testimonios, y recetas: Decolonial Foodways from the México-US Borderlands / Luz Calvo, Catriona Rueda Esquibel
Chapter 8. Chicos del horno: A Local, Slow, and Deep Food / Joseph C. Gallegos
Chapter 9. Travels of a Diaspora Community: From La Sierra Madre y Tierra Caliente to the Pacific Northwest / María Guillen Valdovinos
Chapter 10. Food, Class, Ethnicity, and Race in the Classroom: A Teacher's Testimony / Julia Curry Rodríguez
Part III. Organizing: Decolonial Movements for Food Autonomy. Poem. "When Corn Silk Withers" / Tezozomoc
Chapter 11. Fragmentary Food Flows: Autonomy in the "Un-signified" Food Deserts of the Real / Tezozomoc and the South Central Farmers
Chapter 12. Growing Justice in the Fields: Farmworker Autonomy and Food Sovereignty / Rosalinda Guillen, C2C
Chapter 13. "We Are Human!": Farmworker Organizing across the Food Chain in Washington / Tomás Madrigal
Chapter 14. Organic Intellectuals and Direct Action Fifty Years Past Chicago's "War on Poverty" / Pancho McFarland
Chapter 15. Sin maíz, no hay país: Mesoamericans and Civil Society in the Defeat of Monsanto / Adelita Sanvicente Tello, Araceli Carreón, Devon G. Peña
Chapter 16. Sodbusters and the "Native Gaze": Soil Governmentality and Indigenous Knowledge / Devon G. Peña.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-439) and index.

Series
Food and foodways, Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)

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Dewey Decimal Class
394.1/20972
Library of Congress
TX716.M4 M48 2017, TX716.M4M48 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 469 pages
Number of pages
469

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OL26933635M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781682260364
ISBN 10
1682260364
ISBN 13
9781682260364
LCCN
2017942332
OCLC/WorldCat
1001815394

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