Abarca Meredith E. Abarca (EDT), Salas Consuelo Carr Salas (EDT) Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry

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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.