Dominican Migrant Cooking
Food Struggles, Gendered Labor, and Memory-Work in New York City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5377973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lidia Marte (Brooklyn College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 279-306 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food and Foodways (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07409710.2012.715967 |
| OpenAlex | W2170561015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 24 |
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 significance of first generation immigrant choices of what to eat and why, how to procure it, and the gendered labor needed to maintain ‘traditional’ food practices, this essay argues that first generation Dominican working-class women in New York City utilize cooking as ‘political memory-capital’ for self-empowerment, as a healing strategy, and as a site of demands for culturally appropriate survival. Home cooking, usually considered a private ritual, has public implications as an investment of labor, energy, and time that helps migrant women exercise some measure of control over socio-economic uncertainties, while indirectly helping to defray the costs to receiving societies of their productive integration into local communities
Citizenship · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Ethnic group · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Organic Food and Agriculture
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |