
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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Narrated by:
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Paul Costanzo
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By:
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Seth Holmes
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the US, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This "embodied anthropology" deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequalities and suffering come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care.
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a must read
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Pronunciation is poor
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Had to read this for a Chicano studies class
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An important read-please read it!
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Some excellent material
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The voice is worse than text to speech software
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Still the best book on the issue
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The book is a real eye-opener, and should be required reading in every high school.Any additional comments?
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What a thought provoking book! It's a must read!
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