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Political Gastronomy
\"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is decided at a banquet.\"-Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin,The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental GastronomyThe first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power: the venison brought to Plymouth by the Indians, for example, was resonant of both masculine skill with weapons and the status of the men who offered it. These meanings were clearly understood by Plymouth's leaders, however weak they appeared in comparison.Political Gastronomyexamines the meaning of food in its many facets: planting, gathering, hunting, cooking, shared meals, and the daily labor that sustained ordinary households. Public occasions such as the first Thanksgiving could be used to reinforce claims to status and precedence, but even seemingly trivial gestures could dramatize the tense negotiations of status and authority: an offer of roast squirrel or a spoonful of beer, a guest's refusal to accept his place at the table, the presence and type of utensils, whether hands should be washed or napkins used. Historian Michael A. LaCombe places Anglo-Indian encounters at the center of his study, and his wide-ranging research shows that despite their many differences in language, culture, and beliefs, English settlers and American Indians were able to communicate reciprocally in the symbolic language of food.
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Food Across Borders
The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes \"American\" in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, from \"the line in the sand\" that separates Mexico and the United States, to the grassland boundary with Canada, to the imagined divide in our collective minds between \"our\" food and \"their\" food. Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between \"us\" and \"them.\"
The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
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Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food
Planet Taco examines the historical struggles between globalization and national sovereignty in the creation of \"authentic\" Mexican food. By telling the stories of the \"Chili Queens\" of San Antonio and the inventors of the taco shell, it shows how Mexican Americans helped to make Mexican food global.
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Sweet tyranny
In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest through the introduction of large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Sweet Tyranny calls into question the traditional portrait of the rural Midwest as a classless and homogenous place untouched by industrialization and imperialism. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to the ongoing expansion of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of people involved in this industry, including midwestern family farmers, industrialists, eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial interests. _x000B__x000B_Engagingly written, this book demonstrates that capitalism was not solely a force from above but was influenced by the people below who defended their interests in an ever-expanding market of imperialist capitalism. The fact that the United States acquired its own sugar producing empire at the very moment that its domestic sugar beet industry was coming into its own, as well as the fact that the domestic sugar beet industry came to depend on immigrant workers as the basis of its field labor force, magnified the local and global ties as well as the political battles that ensued. As such, the issue of how Americans would satiate their growing demand for sweetness--whether with beet sugar grown at home or with cane sugar raised in colonies abroad--became part of a much larger debate about the path of industrial agriculture, the shape of American imperialism, and the future of immigration.
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Food Across Borders
The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes \"American\" in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, from \"the line in the sand\" that separates Mexico and the United States, to the grassland boundary with Canada, to the imagined divide in our collective minds between \"our\" food and \"their\" food. Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between \"us\" and \"them.\"The stories told inFood Across Bordershighlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University..
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The Banana
The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation of this highly perishable good to distant markets. Since its inception the banana industry has been fraught with controversy, exhibiting many of the issues underlying the basic global economic relations that first emerged in the era of European colonialism. Perhaps more than any other agricultural product, the banana reflects the evolution of the world economy. At each stage changes in the global economy manifested themselves in the economic geography of banana production and trade. This remains true today as neoliberal imperatives drive the globalization process and mandate freer trade, influencing the patterns of the transatlantic banana trade.
The Bananademystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of such major players as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. It also analyzes the forces driving today's economy, such as the competitiveness imperative, diversification processes, and niche market strategies. Its final chapter suggests how the outcome of the recent banana war will affect bananas and trade in other commodities sectors as well.
The Bananabelies the common perception of globalization as a monolithic and irresistible force and reveals instead various efforts to resist or modify the process at local and national levels. Nevertheless, the banana does represent another step toward a globalized and industrialized agricultural economy.
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Say Brother. Hustlers, Drugs and Prison
The program focuses on illegal drugs, and the continued effect they have on the African American community via an exploration of the recent drug-culture film Superfly and discussions with local drug rehabilitation employees. Program includes clips from the recent film, an interview with actor Ron O'Neal conducted by John Slade, a discussion among community members who oppose the film (John Chatterton of the Bay State Banner and David Booker and Fred Smallwood of First Incorporated, a drug rehabilitation program in Roxbury that is among the oldest in the country), 'man on the street' interviews regarding drug use, and a discussion with South End Community Drug Council employees Joseph Nkunta, Rochelle Lee, and Steve Moss about the specific ways they handle drug abuse in the community.
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Conclusion
PROHIBITION, LIKE MOST REFORM initiatives of the Progressive Era, did not originate in the South. Both Ted Ownby and Dewey Grantham have argued that few reforms can be called “distinctively southern.”¹ Nevertheless, it seems clear that in some ways prohibition is an exception to this rule. Though birthed far north of the Mason-Dixon Line, prohibition was southernized in the years following the Civil War, transformed into a movement with a distinctly southern accent. Postwar efforts to reform the morals of Americans were in no way limited to the Southeast. Evangelicals in the Northeast and Midwest also sought to impose prohibition
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