Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1515951030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 116 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the U.S., planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Holmes's material is visceral and powerful. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. This "embodied anthropology" deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequalities and suffering come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care.
"insightful and challenging analysis" according to nolabookworm. Holmes' moving work reveals the "bad faith" American consumerism that criminalizes migrant laborers even as it depends on them for access to the dinner table. While his theoretical framework is at times awkward, his analysis of the social plight of his Triqui companions more than compensates for this deficiency. The larger issues of neoliberal market inequalities may at times seem a. this book for my anthropology class and I really enjoyed it. I really changed my outlook on how robert235 I bought this book for my anthropology class and I really enjoyed it. I really changed my outlook on how people are treated on farms and the cost of where our fruits and vegetables come from. I recommend this for anybody to read.. AnthroNerd said Amazing.. I've not even finished reading this book yet, and I've already decided that this is one of the most important ethnographies ever written. It is theoretically rich, yet written in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. This ethnography has the potential to transform the way people think about immigration, forcing them to examine the global system that allows undocumented worke
"Dr. Holmes exposes the links among suffering, the inequalities related to the structural violence of global trade which compel migration, and the symbolic violence of stereotypes and prejudices that normalize racism." ---New York Journal of Books