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Summary:

"Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and migrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this desirable food. Lori A. Flores traces how our dual appetite for Latinx food and Latinx food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic, using the US Northeast as an unexpected microcosm of this national history. 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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A national craving and contradiction
• We need to be fed : Latinx guestworker and farmworker food activism, 1940-1980. Appetites gained and lost : Mexican and Puerto Rican guestworkers and food ; The United Farm Workers' northeastern food boycotts and discourses of hunger, 1965-1989
• How Latinx newcomers transformed foodscapes, 1980-2011. Changing Mexican foodscapes and food entrepreneurs in New York City ; Not everybody's vacationland : the lives of Latinx food workers in Maine
• Food labor flows and futures, 1990-2024. Latinx seafood workers on the New England coast ; Empty cups : Latinx dairy and wine workers in Vermont and New York State ; COVID-19 and the food labor chain
• Conclusion: Food is pleasurable and political.

Author/Creator:

Flores, Lori A. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Awaiting their feast: Latinx food workers and activism from World War II to COVID-19 [by Flores, L.A.]

Related Series:

Latinx histories

Subjects:

Hispanic Americans — Employment — United States — History

Food industry and trade — United States — Employees — History

Foreign workers, Latin American — United States — History

Hispanic Americans — Food — History

Hispanic Americans — Economic conditions

Hispanic Americans — Social conditions

Labor movement — United States — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HD8081.H7 F56 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781469679877 (electronic bk.)
1469679876 (electronic bk.)
9781469679853 [Invalid]
146967985X [Invalid]
9781469679860 [Invalid]
1469679868 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40032624164

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31253451 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21388687