Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue
1. Auflage, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39863-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

With a new preface and a new epilogue co-written with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, this updated edition of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes was invited to trek with his companions clandestinely through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with Indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This “embodied anthropology” deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequities come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care. In a new epilogue, Holmes and Indigenous Oaxacan scholar Jorge Ramirez-Lopez provide a substantive update about the protagonists in the book, focusing on the ways in which they have been involved individually and collectively in movements for Indigenous immigrant rights, farmworker rights, and the right to health over the last decade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Seth M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bourgois, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois 
Acknowledgments 
Preface to the Updated Edition 

1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?” 
2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration 
3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work 
4. “How the Poor Suffer”:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum 
5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 
6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering
7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond 
Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table:

Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change,
coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez 

Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and
Contextual Knowledge 
Notes 
References 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seth M. Holmes is an anthropologist and medical doctor, Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley, Founder of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in medical anthropology, ICREA Researcher at the University of Barcelona, and recipient of a European Research Council Award for the project FOODCIRCUITS.

Philippe Bourgois is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (Triqui/Putleco) is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA in the American Indian Studies Center. He writes about Indigenous migration, social movements, culture, and politics.