About this Event
Join Bold Fork Books for the a celebration of the release of INSATIABLE CITY: FOOD AND RACE IN NEW ORLEANS with author Theresa McCulla in conversation with Dr. Mireya Loza.
ABOUT INSATIABLE CITY: FOOD AND RACE IN NEW ORLEANS
In INSATIABLE CITY, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city’s economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people.
A story of pain and pleasure, labor and leisure, Insatiable City goes far beyond the task of tracing New Orleans's culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power.
ABOUT THERESA McCULLA
Theresa McCulla is a curator and historian, and the former curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Her work investigates how Americans have used material and visual culture to understand race, ethnicity, and gender, especially in the realm of food and drink.
ABOUT DR. MIREYA LOZA
Dr. Mireya Loza is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the American Studies Program at Georgetown. Her areas of research include Latinx History, Social Movements, Labor History and Food Studies. Her book, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC Press), examines how guest workers negotiated the intricacies of indigeneity, intimacy, and transnational organizing.
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Bold Fork Books, 3064 Mount Pleasant Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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