Farm-to-freedom : Vietnamese Americans and their food gardens /

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Author / Creator:	Vũ, Roy, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2024]
Description:	247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Gideon Lincecum nature and environment series Gideon Lincecum nature and environment series.
Subject:	Vietnamese Americans -- Food -- Texas. Vietnamese Americans -- Texas -- Ethnic identity. Kitchen gardens -- Social aspects -- Texas. Cooking, Vietnamese. Food sovereignty -- United States. Vietnamese diaspora. Transnationalism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13561196

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ISBN:	9781648431852 1648431852 9781648431869
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a sense of self identity. In this groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodways, Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens brings to light how the Vietnamese diasporic population in Texas uses gardens literally and figuratively to set down roots in a new country. These gardens, often hidden in plain sight, establish the seat of Vietnamese immigrant culture, according to author Roy Francis Vũ. They can also offer Vietnamese Americans an empowering pathway to forging a new homeland duality by retaining ties to the foods and environs they drew comfort from in Vietnam. Farm-to-Freedom uses the concept of emancipatory foodways as a lens into gardens that serve a semi-palliative purpose by succoring the experienced tragedies of war and exile for Vietnamese immigrants and Vietnamese Americans, which arguably adds another dimension to the importance of the home garden. Vũ covers topics including but not limited to culinary citizenship, food democracy, culinary justice, and food sovereignty. Farm-to-Freedom reveals how these gardens not only provide those who tend them a greater sense of security and agency in an unfamiliar land but also give them the means to preserve and expand Vietnamese cuisine for themselves while simultaneously enriching food culture in the United States. With a wealth of original oral histories, community-based recipes and poetry, and photographs of home gardens in suburban and urban settings, Farm-to-Freedom provides a deeper understanding of the Vietnamese diaspora in Texas for scholars, professionals, and general readers alike."--
Other form:	Online version: Vũ, Roy. Farm-to-freedom College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2024 9781648431869

Table of Contents:

Introduction: In Our Garden, After the War
Chapter 1. Kitchen and Food Gardens in War and Refuge
Chapter 2. Gardens on the Margins-Asian Immigrants and Vietnamese Refugees Resettle in America
Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Freedom-Gardening an Emancipated Life
Chapter 4. Global South Meets the New South-Perseverance and Expansion of Vietnamese Foodways
Chapter 5. Emancipatory Foodways-Food Sovereignty, Culinary Citizenship, and Homeland Duality
Chapter 6. Conclusion-From Refuge to Redemption
Epilogue: Farm-to-Freedom for Congolese and Syrian Refugees
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A gallery of illustrations follows page 120

Farm-to-freedom : Vietnamese Americans and their food gardens /

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