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Abstract
This paper offers some perspectives concerning the centrality of food for the way Dominican immigrants in New York City negotiate the micro-politics of place and community. It examines how immigrants navigate the urban spaces through food routes, form new social networks and re-imagine places of home in a new society. Using the concept of “Afro-diasporic seasonings” is a way to point to the struggles, movements, and wider contexts of memory-history that made possible the present relations between these people, foods and places. This exploration is approached from three angles. First, I share some findings about how Dominican immigrants season their foods and lives in New York City. Second, I discuss place-seasonings, or how the process of finding housing has a tremendous impact on self-making and community formation. Third, I contextualize Dominican migrants' food practices within Afro-diasporic trajectories.
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Lidia Marte
Lidia Marte is a critical ethnographer and cultural studies scholar, whose research focuses primarily on food, place-memory, and issues of migrant “home.” She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently an adjunct instructor at St. Edwards University. Cultural Foundations/UNPG, St. Edwards University, PO Box 7864, Austin, TX 78713, USA ([email protected]).
