Mushroom Tacos: Multicultural Festivals and Environmental Racism in a Rural Pennsylvania Town.
Advancing recent literature that critically examines multicultural efforts to generate socio-economic inclusion, this article studies how, in a small yet affluent Pennsylvania town, multicultural festivals are part of a social milieu in which Latinx immigrants face continuing erasure and exploitatio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Intercultural Studies Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 899 - 919 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2023
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