Roy Vu

Broschiertes Buch

Farm-To-Freedom

Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens

Beschreibung

Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a sense of self identity. This groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodways brings to light how the Vietnamese diasporic population in Texas uses gardens literally and figuratively to set down roots in a new country.

Autor

Roy Vu is a history faculty member at Dallas College North Lake Campus. His publications include Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainable Topics (Kendall Hunt, 2017) and Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics Vols. 1 and 2 (Kendall Hunt, 2015, 2018). He is the director of Plant It Forward, an organization working to empower refugees to develop sustainable farming businesses that produce fresh, healthy food for the community. He lives in Irving, Texas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781648431852
• ISBN-10: 1648431852
• Artikelnr.: 69647177