Book
Meatpacking America: how migration, work, and faith unite and divide the heartland
The University of North Carolina Press
2021
DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663494.001.0001
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Abstract
"Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent more than seven years interviewing Iowans-native-born residents and recent migrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia alike. In Meatpacking America, she portrays the gritty realities of a Midwest that is a global hub for migration and food production-and also for religion. Here, Protestants, Catholics, and Muslims share space every day as worshippers, employees, and employers. Speaking from the bloody floors of meatpacking plants, bustling places of worship, and modest homes across vast flatlands dotted with confined animal feeding operations and processing plants, both native born and newly arrived Iowans explain their passion for religious faith and desire to work hard for their families. At the same time, their stories reveal how faith-based aspirations for mutual understanding blend uneasily with rampant economic exploitation of migrants and common racial biases"--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Meatpacking America: how migration, work, and faith unite and divide the heartland
- Creators
- Kristy Nabhan-Warren - University of Iowa, Religious Studies
- Resource Type
- Book
- DOI
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663494.001.0001
- ISBN
- 9781469663494; 146966349X; 9781469663487; 1469663481
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- xxii, 255 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- History; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Religious Studies; Vice President for Research
- Record Identifier
- 9984199050602771
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