Stories We Tell, Stories We Eat: Mexican Foodways, Cultural Identity, and Ideological Struggle in Netflix’s Taco Chronicles

dc.contributor.advisorWooten, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorSanchez, Bela
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T15:30:52Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T15:30:52Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-26
dc.description.abstractFood is a biological necessity imbued with numerous social, cultural, and economic implications for identity production and everyday meaning-making. Food television is a unique medium for the meanings of food and foodways to be illustrated and communicated. This research analyzes the food docuseries Taco Chronicles as a popular media text that reflects cultural and national identities and ideological struggle in Mexico. Specific themes which emerged include the interplay of indigeneity, Europeanness, and mestizaje as racialized identities; food as a way to uphold or challenge heteronormative gender roles and expectations; and shared cultural identity and the everyday practices of the nation as conveyed through food. This thesis interrogates the multiple sociocultural hierarchies at stake in Taco Chronicles and argues that the show (re)creates the boundaries of shared identity through its visual and discursive elements.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27766
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCultural studiesen_US
dc.subjectFood cultureen_US
dc.subjectFood studiesen_US
dc.subjectFoodwaysen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectMexican fooden_US
dc.titleStories We Tell, Stories We Eat: Mexican Foodways, Cultural Identity, and Ideological Struggle in Netflix’s Taco Chronicles
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Studies Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.S.

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