Books
2020 Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
**Reviews, Press, and Interviews about Food in Cuba**
Edited Books
2020 Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, Hanna Garth and Ashanté Reese, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Re-released as an audiobook by Tantor on Audible, GooglePlay and iTunes
2013 Food and Identity in the Caribbean. Hanna Garth, Ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
2023 Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Published online 11 Nov.
2022 [with Natali Valdez, Megan Carney, Emily Yates-Doerr, Abril Saldana, Jessica Hardin, Alyshia Galvez, Maggie Dickinson] Duoethnography as Transformative Praxis: Conversations about Nourishment and Coercion in the COVID-era Academy. Feminist Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12085
2021 Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and “Non-Sovereign” Food Futures. Journal of the Anthropology of North America. https://doi.org/10.1002/nad.12152
2021 “There is no race in Cuba”: “Level of Culture” and the Logics of Transnational Antiblackness" Anthropological Quarterly 94 (3) 385-410.
2021 The 2020 Los Angeles uprisings: fighting for Black lives in the midst of COVID-19. In Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, Edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg. London: University College London Press.
2020 [With Hope Bastian] Cuban Food Security in the Time of COVID-19 Anthropology News In Focus Feature. Sept 25.
2020 “The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles’ Obesity “Epidemic.” American Anthropologist Vital Topics, Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Non-Communicable Chronic Disease.
2019 Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Santiago de Cuba. American Anthropologist.
2019 [with Jessica Hardin] On the Limitations of Barriers: Social Visibility and Weight Management in Cuba and Samoa. Social Science & Medicine.
2019 Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
2018 Studying Food Acquisition: Lessons from Santiago de Cuba and South Los Angeles. Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.
2017 [with Michael Powell] Curating Value(s) with the Retail Brand: Rebranding a Corner Store in South Los Angeles. Journal of Business Anthropology. 6(2):175-198.
2017 Food in Contemporary Cuba. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. William H. Beezley and Robin Derby (Eds.)
2017 "“There is no food”: Coping with Food Scarcity in Cuba Today." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology, March 23.
2014 “They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol’s Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking. Food, Culture & Society.
2013 Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare: Identity, Consumption, and Mental Distress in Santiago de Cuba. In Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) on and off the Island. Nancy J. Burke, Ed., Pp. 54-84. San Francisco, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press.
2013 Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today. In Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, Eds., Pp. 89-106. New York: Berghahn Books.
2013 Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Eds., Pp. 47-60. London: Bloomsbury.
2012 (Reprinted) Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now (Reprint), In Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, Eds., Pp.59-70. New York: Routledge.
2009 Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now. NAPA Bulletin 32: 178-192.
2020 Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
**Reviews, Press, and Interviews about Food in Cuba**
Edited Books
2020 Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, Hanna Garth and Ashanté Reese, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Re-released as an audiobook by Tantor on Audible, GooglePlay and iTunes
2013 Food and Identity in the Caribbean. Hanna Garth, Ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
2023 Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Published online 11 Nov.
2022 [with Natali Valdez, Megan Carney, Emily Yates-Doerr, Abril Saldana, Jessica Hardin, Alyshia Galvez, Maggie Dickinson] Duoethnography as Transformative Praxis: Conversations about Nourishment and Coercion in the COVID-era Academy. Feminist Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12085
2021 Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and “Non-Sovereign” Food Futures. Journal of the Anthropology of North America. https://doi.org/10.1002/nad.12152
2021 “There is no race in Cuba”: “Level of Culture” and the Logics of Transnational Antiblackness" Anthropological Quarterly 94 (3) 385-410.
2021 The 2020 Los Angeles uprisings: fighting for Black lives in the midst of COVID-19. In Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, Edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg. London: University College London Press.
2020 [With Hope Bastian] Cuban Food Security in the Time of COVID-19 Anthropology News In Focus Feature. Sept 25.
2020 “The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles’ Obesity “Epidemic.” American Anthropologist Vital Topics, Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Non-Communicable Chronic Disease.
2019 Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Santiago de Cuba. American Anthropologist.
2019 [with Jessica Hardin] On the Limitations of Barriers: Social Visibility and Weight Management in Cuba and Samoa. Social Science & Medicine.
2019 Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
2018 Studying Food Acquisition: Lessons from Santiago de Cuba and South Los Angeles. Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Items: Insights from the Social Sciences.
2017 [with Michael Powell] Curating Value(s) with the Retail Brand: Rebranding a Corner Store in South Los Angeles. Journal of Business Anthropology. 6(2):175-198.
2017 Food in Contemporary Cuba. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. William H. Beezley and Robin Derby (Eds.)
2017 "“There is no food”: Coping with Food Scarcity in Cuba Today." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology, March 23.
2014 “They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol’s Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking. Food, Culture & Society.
2013 Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare: Identity, Consumption, and Mental Distress in Santiago de Cuba. In Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) on and off the Island. Nancy J. Burke, Ed., Pp. 54-84. San Francisco, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press.
2013 Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today. In Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, Eds., Pp. 89-106. New York: Berghahn Books.
2013 Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Eds., Pp. 47-60. London: Bloomsbury.
2012 (Reprinted) Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now (Reprint), In Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, Eds., Pp.59-70. New York: Routledge.
2009 Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now. NAPA Bulletin 32: 178-192.