edited by Meredith E. Abarca and Consuelo Carr Salas
University of Arkansas Press, 2016
Paper: 978-1-55728-693-2 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-579-5
Library of Congress Classification HD9333.U62L38 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.808968073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry takes the holistic culinary approach of bringing together multidisciplinary criticism to explore the diverse, and not always readily apparent, ways that Latin@s relate to food and the food industry.


The networks Latin@s create, the types of identities they fashion through food, and their relationship to the US food industry are analyzed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based communities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. This vibrant new collection acknowledges issues of labor conditions, economic politics, and immigration laws—structural vulnerabilities that certainly cannot be ignored—and strives to understand more fully the active and conscious ways that Latina@s create spaces to maneuver global and local food systems.