Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements

decolonial perspectives

469 pages

English language

Published Dec. 27, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-68226-036-4
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OCLC Number:
1001815394

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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. …

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Subjects

  • Decolonization
  • Food
  • Food habits
  • Social aspects
  • Mexicans
  • Food sovereignty
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Mexican Cooking
  • Social movements

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