Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry - Changing How We Think About Food

Informationen zum Autor Meredith E. Abarca is associate professor of literature and food studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Voices in the Kitchen and coeditor of Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food . Consuelo Carr Salas is a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of visual food advertisements by bridging the areas of rhetoric and food studies. Klappentext 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 analysed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based communities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. Zusammenfassung The "A" in "Latinas'" in the title is represented by an at symbol.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith E. (EDT)/ Salas Abarca
• Assisted by: Meredith E Abarca (Editor), Meredith E. Abarca (Editor), Consuelo Carr Salas (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781557286932
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-693-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Food and Foodways; Food and Foodways
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories