Description Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization.
She is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants and Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox..
About the Author Alyshia Gálvez is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York.
Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people\'s everyday lives.
Mexicans are faced with a Food system that favors Food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health.
In her gripping new book, Alyshia G lvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico--sustenance.
The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes--attributed to changes in the Mexican diet--has resulted in a public health emergency.
Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness.
Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are Eating fewer tortillas and more processed food.
Description Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization
