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The taco truck : how Mexican street food is transforming the American city / Robert Lemon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lemon, Robert, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Nutrition.
- Mexican Americans.
- Food trucks--United States.
- Food trucks.
- Tacos--United States.
- Tacos.
- Food habits--Social aspects--United States.
- Food habits.
- United States--Social life and customs--21st century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- When primarily immigrant, day-labouring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This text uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2019).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780252051296
- 0252051297
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