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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “meredith e abarca”
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  • Dialogues across Diasporas

    Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation

    by Selfa Chew, Yvette Christiansë, Angie Cruz, Kerry Doyle, Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ana-Maurine Lara, Olumide Popoola, Nelly Rosario, Kathleen Staudt, Meredith E. Abarca, Gabriela Durán Barraza, Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Karma R. Chávez, Ayo Abiétou Coly, Veronica Savory McComb, Milena Simões Murta ...
    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three major goals: ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry

    Changing How We Think about Food

    Edited by Meredith E. Abarca, Consuelo Carr Salas ...
    Series series Food and Foodways
    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 ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The End of Overeating

    Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

    by David A. Kessler M.D. ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former commissioner of the FDA exposes how the food industry manufactured a nationwide health crisis and offers research-based solutions for taking back control of our diets.“Fascinating.”—The New York Times“Groundbreaking.”—USA Today“Disturbing, thought-provoking, and important.”—Anthony BourdainMost of us know what it feels like to f... ... Read more

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  • The Case Against Sugar

    by Gary Taubes ...
    From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty ... Read more

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  • A Strange Stirring

    The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today.“An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.” —Wall Street Journal**In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The ... Read more

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  • Women of the Revolution: Forty years of feminism

    by Kira Cochrane ...
    When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the UK's first women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act and live. In the 40 years since then, the feminist movement has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull. The Guardian has ... Read more

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  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

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  • Bitter Chocolate

    Anatomy of an Industry

    by Carol Off ...
    This shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is "an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners" ( Quill & Quire, starred review).Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist Carol Off traces ... Read more

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  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next wave
    In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in ... Read more

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  • Meatonomics

    How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Men Birthday Gift, for Readers of Comfortably Unaware)

    by David Robinson Simon ...
    Stop Being Manipulated by the Animal Foods IndustryStop the meat industry from eating into your wallet. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than ... Read more

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  • Fleshing the Spirit

    Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives

    Edited by Elisa Facio, Irene Lara ...
    Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood experience” as a site of knowledge. They argue that spirituality—something quite different from ... Read more

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