cpsylist: FW: Oct 6 - Mexican Bracero Food and Foodways, 4-5:30, Browsing Room

[Ellen McWhirter]

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Ellen Hawley McWhirter, Ph.D.
Ann Swindells Professor in Counseling Psychology
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From: Center for Latino/a and Latin Am. Studies [mailto:cllas at uoregon.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 11:44 AM
To: cllas <cllas at uoregon.edu>
Subject: Oct 6 - Mexican Bracero Food and Foodways, 4-5:30, Browsing Room


Mexican Bracero Food and Foodways:

New Mexico and West Texas, 1942-1964

Please join us October 6, 2016 from 4:00-5:30 in the Browsing Room of the Knight Library
for this presentation by

Juan Manuel Mendoza Guerrero
Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico
[cid:147517465457ed60fe7f319707454785 at uoregon.edu]

Food was a central concern for the Mexican workers who arrived to the U.S. under the so-called Bracero Program (BP), from 1942-1964 and “braceros’” decisions about migrating, remaining, or returning to their home country. Food was a source of diplomatic controversy between the signatory countries to the BP; at the same time, food served as raw material for those sectors of U.S. society that were opposed to this massive immigration coming from Mexico. Southern New Mexico and West Texas formed a region of intense immigration of Mexican laborers, attracted by the cultivation of cotton, alfalfa, and vegetables. Unlike in California, the food patterns of laborers in this region were influenced by the proximity to Mexico, by the size of farms (smaller than in California), and by the existence of people of Mexican origin who acted as employers. While bracero food in this area did not escape the influence of U.S. national guidelines, which sought to make the tastes and preferences of braceros consistent with “scientific” food, bracero eating habits were a dynamic reflecting disadvantages such as low wages and vulnerabilities in hiring with the ability to cook for themselves and the reality of having Mexico nearby.
[cid:147517465457ed60fe7f4d2873693396 at uoregon.edu]

Juan Manuel Mendoza Guerrero received his PhD from the Borderlands History Program at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has taught at the Monterrey Institute of Technology. He won the national award for research on foreign trade (Mexico, 2003), and the Fellowship Mexico-North Research Network. He currently teaches at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). His areas of interest are migration, ethnic businesses, and studies of food and poverty. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin America and Border Studies at New Mexico State University. He is Co-PI on the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research-funded project, “Transit Migration through Mexico’s Ruta Pacifica,” along with Kristin Yarris (UO, International Studies) and Heide Castañeda (Univ. South Florida).



This event is sponsored by: The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS),

 The Department of International Studies, and Food Studies.

 Light refreshments will be served

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