Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race

María Elena García is Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington.

List of Illustrations
Preface: Understories
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stories of Resurgence and Coloniality

Part One: Structures of Accumulation
Interlude: Hauntings
1 • Gastropolitics and the Nation
Interlude: Eating the Nation
2 • Cooking Ecosystems: The Beautiful Coloniality of Virgilio Martínez
Interlude: "Gastronomy Is a Display Case"
3 • Staging Difference: The Gastropolitics of Inclusion and Recognition

Part Two: Narratives from the Edge
Interlude: "Apega Needs Us to Look Pretty"
4 • Gastropolitics Otherwise: Stories in and of the Vernacular
Interlude: Of Humor and Violence
5 • Guinea Pig Matters: Figuring Race, Sex, and Nation
Interlude: Chemical Castration 
6 • Death of a Guinea Pig

Epilogue. Huacas Rising 

Notes
References
Index