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.