University of North Carolina Press
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19
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- Lori A Flores
- University of North Carolina Press
- Paperback
- 9781469679860
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- Social Science > Ethnic Studies - Caribbean & Latin American Studies
- English
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Spanning the experiences of food workers with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Central America, Flores's narrative travels from New Jersey to Maine and examines different links in the food chain, from farming to restaurants to seafood processing to the deliverista rights movement. What unites this eclectic material is Flores's contention that as our appetite for Latinx food has grown exponentially, the visibility of Latinx food workers has demonstrably decreased. This precariat is anything but passive, however, and has historically fought--and is still fighting--against low wages and exploitation, medical neglect, criminalization, and deeply ironic food insecurity.
Author Bio
I am Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University and teach classes in U.S. Latino/x, labor, immigration, and food history, as well as U.S.-Mexico and global borderlands history.
I was born and raised in a small town in south Texas, and never traveled far from home until I decided to attend Yale University against my parents’ wishes. To make the journey, I earned as many scholarships as I could and held multiple work-study jobs. During my sophomore year, I took my first class in Mexican American history, and fell in love with the subject.
I pursued my doctorate in history at Stanford University, received my Ph.D. in 2011, and enjoyed a postdoctoral fellowship at Bowdoin College before entering my current position.
My award-winning first book, Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (Yale University Press, 2016), analyzes the relationships between Mexican Americans, bracero guestworkers, and undocumented immigrants in their struggles for civil and labor rights in California’s Salinas Valley from the 1940s to the present.
I am also the co-editor of the anthology The Academic’s Handbook (Duke University Press, 2020) and currently writing a new book on the history of Latino/x food workers in the U.S. Northeast from 1940 to the present day.
I have received fellowships for my research and writing from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Huntington Library, and the Beinecke Library. I am also a proud Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship alumna.
When I’m not writing or teaching, I spend my time running, kayaking, and taking photos of beautiful places.
Source: www.loriaflores.com Photo Credit: Ananda Shorey
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