Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements : Decolonial Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Mexican Deep Food: Bodies, the Land, Food, and Social Movements / Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and 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 and 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 and 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 and Araceli Carreón (Translated by Devon G. Peña) -- Chapter 16. Sodbusters and the "Native Gaze": Soil Governmentality and Indigenous Knowledge / Devon G. Peña -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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