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Title: Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2014
ISBN: 0520277457, 9780520277458
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Abstract: Territorial presumptions about culture have been challenged by research on interconnected histories, borderlands, and oceans.¹ Drawing on that work, I contend that food traditions are as much a matter of movement and emplacement, as they are of roots. National figures often excise migrants from their cultural sphere with arguments about belonging, yet the construction of place-based food cultures, developed without acknowledging the significance of immigrant habitation, can produce virulent locavorism. For instance, Northern Leaguers in Italy mobilize around slogans of “polenta, not couscous” to exclude doner kebab sellers from the city-center in Lucca, and Mikkel Dencker, of the Danish People’s...
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Authors: Krishnendu, Ray
Editors: Freedman, Paul; Chaplin, Joyce, E; Albala, Ken
Pages: 209-229
Volume Title: Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Publisher: University of California Press
Publisher Location: Berkeley, CA
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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