||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| insightful and challenging analysis|By 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||"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|
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with t...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (California Series in Public Anthropology) | Seth Holmes.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
