Mexican-Origin foods, foodways, and social movements : decolonial perspectives / edited by Devon G. Pena, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pena, Devon G., editor.

Calvo, Luz, editor.

McFarland, Pancho, editor.

Series:

Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Food and Foodways

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Food.

Indigenous peoples.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : The University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Purchased with funds from the Emilia Schunior Ramírez Endowment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61075-618-5

OCLC:

1000502236