Lidia Marte

• University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

The most common conceptions of immigrant foodways as enactment and preservation of ‘ethnic’ identity underplay the politicized struggles immigrants endure in their process of place-making in a new society, and the intersecting negotiations of class, gender, race, and citizenship implicated in everyday household reproduction. Foregrounding the signi...

This paper offers some perspectives concerning the centrality of food for the way Dominican immigrants in New York City negotiate the micro-politics of place and community. It examines how immigrants navigate the urban spaces through food routes, form new social networks and re-imagine places of home in a new society. Using the concept of “Afro-dia...

Even though I got initiated as an anthropologist by eating durian and spicy Mexican grasshoppers (my academic adviser offered these "exotic" foods to me in Austin, Texas, as we were discussing my future dissertation project), the most challenging eating events happened while doing fieldwork research on food, memory, and narratives of "home" among D...

This paper aims to explain food mappings as a methodology to research spatial-temporal aspects of food relations as experienced from the cultural perspectives of people in specific communities. It proposes the concept of foodmaps as a useful tool to trace gendered boundaries of home among working class immigrant communities. I ground this discussio...

Report (M.F.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. Includes bibliographical references.