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There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating--or, at least, no food--preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive. Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation's founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture--from Thomas Jefferson's emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell's Domestic Cookbook, the first African American-authored culinary text. The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.

African Americans --- Slaves --- Cooking, American --- Food habits --- Food --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Enslaved persons --- Black people --- Cookery / food & drink etc

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"Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship examines business formation and success among Latinos by identifying arrangements that enhance entrepreneurship and by understanding the sociopolitical contexts that shape entrepreneurial trajectories. While it is well known that Latinos make up one of the largest and fastest growing populations in the U.S., Latino-owned businesses are now outpacing this population growth and the startup business growth of all other demographic groups in the country. The institutional arrangements shaping business formation are no level playing field. Minority entrepreneurs face racism and sexism, but structural barriers are not the only obstacles that matter; there are agentic barriers and coethnics present challenges as well as support to each other. Yet minorities engage in business formation, and in doing so, change institutional arrangements by transforming the attitudes of society and the practices of policymakers. The economic future of the country is tied to the prospects of Latinos forming and growing business. The diversity of Latino experience constitutes an economic resource for those interested in forming businesses that appeal to native-born citizens and fellow immigrants alike, ranging from local to national to international markets. This book makes a substantial contribution to the literature on entrepreneurship and wealth creation by focusing on Latinos, a population vastly understudied on these topics, by describing processes and outcomes for Latino entrepreneurs. Unfairly, the dominant story of Latinos-especially Mexican Americans-is that of dispossession and its consequences. Advancing U.S. Latino Entrepreneurship makes clear the undiminished ambitions of Latinos as well as the transformative relationships among people, their practices, and the political context in which they operate. The reality of Latino entrepreneurs demands new attention and focus"--

Entrepreneurship --- Hispanic American business enterprises. --- Hispanic American businesspeople. --- Businesspeople, Hispanic American --- Hispanic Americans in business --- Businesspeople --- Business enterprises, Hispanic American --- Hispanic American-owned business enterprises --- Business enterprises

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Certaines logiques de migration internationale de travail s’apparen­tent de plus en plus à des logiques de circulation – l’émigration ne se déclinant plus en termes de rupture ou de nouveau départ. Aujourd’hui, les liens maintenus de part et d’autre de l’espace migratoire, le va-et-vient des personnes, l’échange de biens et d’idées constituent un système migratoire dynamique dans lequel le mouvement se perpétue selon des lois qui lui sont propres. La circulation migratoire entre le Mexique et les Etats-Unis en est sans doute l’exemple le plus manifeste, et l’incessante activité à la frontière entre les deux pays en témoigne au quotidien. La traditionnelle image du paysan mexicain traversant le Rio Grande pour rejoindre une grande ville des Etats-Unis ne recouvre que très partiellement la réalité ; celle du norteño revenant régulièrement au pays ou celle des familles acheminant des marchandises pour des proches à l’étranger peuvent aujourd’hui l’accompagner. Mais comment s’organisent ces mobilités de personnes et de biens ? Quel est le rôle des individus et des réseaux sociaux dans la mise en place et le maintien des logiques du mouvement ? Plus largement, quels peuvent être les impacts de ces mises en relation multiformes pour les sociétés et les territoires qu’elles traversent ? C’est à de telles questions que s’attache l’auteur en proposant ici une lecture socio-spatiale du système migratoire mexicain. Analysant les stratégies mises en place par les migrants, il révèle les différentes étapes du processus migratoire et les logiques d’investissement dédoublé des individus dans les lieux de départ et d’installation. En s’intéressant à des espaces de vie complexifiés à la fois par le mouvement et par des situations de multiculturalisme, l’étude offre une réflexion sur la façon dont les logiques transnationales de mobilité produisent des formes spécifiques de rapport au territoire.

Mexicans --- Mexicains --- Social networks --- Réseaux sociaux --- Mexico --- United States --- Mexique --- Etats-Unis --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration et immigration --- Réseaux sociaux --- Mexican Americans --- Foreign workers, Mexican --- Immigrants --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Emigration and immigration. --- migration --- société --- Amérique --- Êtats-Unis --- territoire --- États-Unis --- Émigration et immigration

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A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed. A deep meditation on and expansion of the figure of the Negro and insurrectionary effects of the “X” as theorized by Nahum Chandler, The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender thinks through the problematizing effects of blackness as, too, a problematizing of gender. Through the paraontological, the between, and the figure of the “X” (with its explicit contemporary link to nonbinary and trans genders) Marquis Bey presents a meditation on black feminism and gender nonnormativity. Chandler’s text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the “radical alternative” in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Race --- African Americans --- Social aspects --- Philosophy. --- Intellectual life. --- Race identity. --- Chandler, Nahum Dimitri. --- Du Bois, W. E. B. --- Political and social views. --- Negritude --- African American intellectuals --- Physical anthropology --- Ethnic identity --- Gender identity --- Gender --- African American --- black feminism --- gender nonnormativity --- nonbinary --- transgender --- cis gender --- race identity --- Black

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these changes and the multiple effects they have had on identity across religious, political, class, gender, and generational lines. The perspectives that emerge through this rich ethnography challenge prevailing understandings of secularity and religion, offering critical insight into current debates about immigration and national belonging.

Palestinian Americans --- Palestinian Arabs --- Social conditions. --- History --- 1990s. --- academic. --- american cities. --- american history. --- american immigrants. --- chicago. --- classism. --- fieldwork. --- gender roles. --- generational. --- government. --- immigrant communities. --- immigrant population. --- immigrant story. --- interviews. --- islam. --- islamic. --- nationalism. --- nationalist. --- palestine. --- palestinian immigrant. --- political. --- politics. --- religion. --- religious persecution. --- religious studies. --- scholarly. --- secular. --- social class. --- us history.