{"product_id":"culinary-mestizaje-racial-mixing-and-foodways-across-the-united-states-9781477332566","title":"Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing and Foodways Across the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow cross-racial and ethnic communities have created new culinary traditions and food cultures in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulinary Mestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e is about food, cooking, and community, but it's also about how immigrant labor and racial mixing are transforming established US food cultures from Hawai'i to the coast of Maine, South Philadelphia to the Pacific Northwest. This collection of essays asks what it means that Chamorro cooking is now considered a regional specialty of the Bay Area, and that a fusion like brisket tacos registers as \"native\" to Houston, while pupusas are the pride of Atlanta. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Combining community scholarly insights, cooking tips, and recipes, the pieces assembled here are interested in how the blending of culinary traditions enables marginalized people to thrive in places fraught with racial tension, anti-immigrant sentiment, and the threat of gentrification. Chefs and entrepreneurs matter in these stories, but so do dishwashers, farm laborers, and immigrants doing the best they can with the ingredients they have. Their best, it turns out, is often delicious and creative, sparking culinary evolutions while maintaining ancestral connections. The result is that cooking under the weight of colonial rule and white supremacy has, in revealing ways, created American food. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelipe Hinojosa is the John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America and professor of history at Baylor University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eApostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. is professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBecoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475227017490,"sku":"9781477332566","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4cf884cc-b504-494e-9e15-aef9c0ae61e0.jpg?v=1755852683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/culinary-mestizaje-racial-mixing-and-foodways-across-the-united-states-9781477332566","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}