Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements [electronic resource] : decolonial perspectives / edited by Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle.

"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 bef...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Other Authors:	Peña, Devon Gerardo (Editor) Calvo, Luz, 1960- (Editor) McFarland, Pancho (Editor) Valle, Gabriel R. (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas, 2017.
Series:	Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Subjects:	Mexicans > Food. Cooking, Mexican. Indigenous peoples > Food. Food habits > Social aspects. Food sovereignty. Decolonization. Social movements.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: A Decolonial Reader
Format:	Electronic eBook

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.