Migrant Marketplaces

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252083297

Food and Italians in North and South America

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By Elizabeth Zanoni
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"Elizabeth Zanoni's innovative 'migrant marketplace' framework offers an invaluable global perspective on migrant cuisines and commodity networks through the lens of gender. Challenging scornful views of Italian foods in the Americas as inauthentic products of assimilation, she reveals them instead to be strategic and creative responses to transnational family life." - Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
 
"Most important among the strengths of the book is that it coins and convincingly defines the paradigm of 'migrant marketplace' to describe the material and symbolic space created by human mobility for the trade and circulation of goods and consumer imaginaries. A great and important book."--Simone Cinotto, author of The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City and editor of Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
 
"Clear and engaging. By focusing on the products, as opposed to the people, Zanoni highlights the ways in which the distribution and products by and for migrant communities played a pivotal role in shaping notions of national and ethnic belonging."--Linda Reeder, author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880–1928
 
 

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