Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements : decolonial perspectives /
Decolonial perspectives
edited by Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 469 pages) : maps.
- Food and foodways .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Mexican Deep Food: Bodies, the Land, Food, and Social Movements / Theorizing: Decolonial Food and Movements. Autonomía and Food Sovereignty: Decolonization across the Food Chain / Indigenous Women in the Food Sovereignty Movement: Lessons from the South Central Farm / Food Values: Urban Kitchen Gardens and Working-Class Subjectivity / Del alivio y coraje la tuna nacera: A Re-membering of Land and Place / Witnessing: Heritage Cuisines and Decolonial Foodways -- El Quelite / Tracing Food Packs and Tuna Cans on La Línea: Food, Water, and Foodways during Transborder Travel / Norteada/o en el barrio: Decolonizing Foodscapes in South Central Texas and Reclaiming Belonging / Tortilleras, testimonios, y recetas: Decolonial Foodways from the México-US Borderlands / Chicos del horno: A Local, Slow, and Deep Food / Travels of a Diaspora Community: From La Sierra Madre y Tierra Caliente to the Pacific Northwest / Food, Class, Ethnicity, and Race in the Classroom: A Teacher's Testimony / Organizing: Decolonial Movements for Food Autonomy -- "When Corn Silk Withers" / Fragmentary Food Flows: Autonomy in the "Un-signified" Food Deserts of the Real / Growing Justice in the Fields: Farmworker Autonomy and Food Sovereignty / "We Are Human!": Farmworker Organizing across the Food Chain in Washington / Organic Intellectuals and Direct Action Fifty Years Past Chicago's "War on Poverty" / Sin maíz, no hay país: Mesoamericans and Civil Society in the Defeat of Monsanto / Sodbusters and the "Native Gaze": Soil Governmentality and Indigenous Knowledge / Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- Devon G. Peña -- Rufina Juárez -- Gabriel R. Valle -- Silvia Patricia Solís -- Teresa Vigil -- Consuelo Crow -- Lee Ann Epstein -- Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel -- Joseph C. Gallegos -- María Guillen Valdovinos -- Julia Curry Rodríguez -- Tezozomoc -- Tezozomoc and the South Central Farmers -- Rosalinda Guillen and C2C -- Tomás Madrigal -- Pancho McFarland -- Adelita Sanvicente Tello and Araceli Carreón (Translated by Devon G. Peña) -- Devon G. Peña.
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.