Mint Grows Through the Cracks in the Foundation
Food Practices of the Assimilated Lebanese Diaspora in New England (USA)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5377978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy E Rowe (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 211-232 |
| 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 | 10.1080/07409710.2012.715964 |
| OpenAlex | W2042669059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 34 |
With an ethnographic focus on descendants of Lebanese migrants in the U.S.A., this paper examines what ethnic foods means for people who consider themselves to be “assimilated” into the American white, middle-class mainstream, and who are eager to remain accepted as unhyphenated Americans, as neither Lebanese-American nor Arab-American. The paper traces their food practices and analyzes how they use food within kinship networks to honour ancestors, communicate, and generate bonds between people of Lebanese ancestry. It illustrates how preparation and consumption of “Lebanese” cuisine has become embedded in social practices of these residents of small towns across rural New England. The findings presented in the paper provide an analysis of an identity practice with both a white, assimilated American aspect and a Lebanese diasporic one
Archaeology · Consumption (sociology) · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Foodways · Foundation (evidence) · Genealogy · Honour · Identity (music) · Immigration · Kinship · Mainstream · Middle class · Political science · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Organic Food and Agriculture
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Ethnic identity
The Lebanese in the world
Exotics at home
Crossing the Waters
Backlash 9/11
Between Arab and White
Global Diasporas
Inventing New England
Minority Rights in a Nation-State
Between Arab and White
"Becoming "White
Arab Americans
Children of Circumstances
Rethinking the Color Line
All Over the Map
Imagining New England
The Maine That Never was
Ethnic Options
Beyond Us and Them
Towards a Comparative Theory of Locality in Migration Studies
Roots Too
Beyond the ethnic lens
The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Food and Memory
The Presentation of Ethnic Authenticity
Migration, assimilation and the cultural construction of identity
Compelling culture
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |