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Gabaccia Donna R. <1949-> |
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We are what we eat [[electronic resource] ] : ethnic food and the making of Americans / / Donna R. Gabaccia ; [illustrations by Susan Keller] |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998 |
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1 online resource (278 p. ) : ill |
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Food habits - United States |
Ethnic food industry - United States |
Ethnic attitudes - United States |
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United States Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Do We Eat? -- 1. Colonial Creoles -- 2. Immigration, Isolation, and Industry -- 3. Ethnic Entrepreneurs -- 4. Crossing the Boundaries of Taste -- 5. Food Fights and American Values -- 6. The Big Business of Eating -- 7. Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots -- 8. Nouvelle Creole -- Conclusion: Who Are We? -- Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles. How ethnicity has influenced American eating habits—and thus, the make-up and direction of the American cultural mainstream—is the story told in We Are What We Eat. It is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon—and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism. The story of successive generations of Americans experimenting with their new neighbors’ foods highlights the marketplace as an important arena for defining and expressing ethnic identities and relationships. We Are What We Eat follows the fortunes of dozens of enterprising immigrant cooks and grocers, street hawkers and restaurateurs who have |
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cultivated and changed the tastes of native-born Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. It also tells of the mass corporate production of foods like spaghetti, bagels, corn chips, and salsa, obliterating their ethnic identities. The book draws a surprisingly peaceful picture of American ethnic relations, in which “Americanized” foods like Spaghetti-Os happily coexist with painstakingly pure ethnic dishes and creative hybrids. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we? Americans’ multi-ethnic eating is a constant reminder of how widespread, and mutually enjoyable, ethnic interaction has sometimes been in the United States. Amid our wrangling over immigration and tribal differences, it reveals that on a basic level, in the way we sustain life and seek pleasure, we are all multicultural. |
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UNINA9910777009903321 |
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Benjamin Andrew |
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Walter Benjamin and History [[electronic resource]] |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2005 |
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1-281-29887-5 |
9786611298876 |
1-84714-330-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then, and Modernity; 2 The Shortness of History, or Photography In Nuce: Benjamin's Attenuation of the Negative; 3 'Now': Walter Benjamin on Historical Time; 4 Down the K. Hole: Walter Benjamin's Destructive Land-surveying of History; 5 |
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The Sickness of Tradition: Between Melancholia and Fetishism; 6 Trembling Contours: Kierkegaard-Benjamin-Brecht; 7 The Subject of History: The Temporality of Parataxis in Benjamin's Historiography |
8 Tradition as Injunction: Benjamin and the Critique of Historicisms9 Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity; 10 Walter Benjamin's Interior History; 11 What is the Matter with Architectural History?; 12 Messianic Epistemology: Thesis XV; 13 Non-messianic Political Theology in Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'; Notes; Contributors; Index |
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The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses. |
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