Caribeños at the table, how migration, health, and race intersect in New York City, Melissa Fuster
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Caribeños at the table, how migration, health, and race intersect in New York City, Melissa Fuster
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Caribeños at the table
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electronic resource
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Melissa Fuster
Sub title
how migration, health, and race intersect in New York City
Summary
Melissa Fuster thinks expansively about the multiple meanings of comida, food, from something as simple as a meal to something as complex as one's identity. She listens intently to the voices of New York City residents with Cuban, Dominican, or Puerto Rican backgrounds, as well as to those of the nutritionists and health professionals who serve them. She argues with sensitivity that the migrants' health depends not only on food culture, but also on important structural factors that underlie their access to food, employment, and high-quality healthcare. People in Hispanic Caribbean communities in the United States present high rates of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related diseases, conditions painfully highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both eaters and dietitians may blame these diseases on the shedding of traditional diets in favor of highly processed foods. Or, conversely, they may blame these on the traditional diets of fatty meat, starchy root vegetables, and rice. Applying a much, needed intersectional approach, Fuster shows that nutritionists and eaters often misrepresent, and even racialize or pathologize, a cuisine's healthfulness or unhealthfulness if they overlook the kinds of economic and racial inequities that exist within the global migration experience
Target audience
adult
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- Health + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- Cuban Americans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- Caribbean Americans + Health and hygiene -- New York (State) -- New York
- Health and race + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration
- Dominican Americans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
- Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Puerto Ricans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
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- Subject9
- Health + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- Cuban Americans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
- Electronic books
- Caribbean Americans + Health and hygiene -- New York (State) -- New York
- Health and race + Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration
- Dominican Americans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
- Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Puerto Ricans + Food -- New York (State) -- New York
- Content1
- Author1