Stuck behind kitchen doors? Assessing the work prospects of latter-generation Latino workers in a Los Angeles restaurant

Wilson, Eli R.

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1329541

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“…Latinx workers' presence on the lawns of Southern California homeowners is not a unique feature of the region's service sector economies but part of a broader field of Latinx labor outside of the so‐called domestic sphere being staffed by an increasingly diverse worker pool coming from indigenous communities in Mexico as well migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. These Latinx workers toil in restaurants (Wilson, 2017), hotels (Hsieh et al., 2014), in janitorial services (Alvarez, 2022), and street vending (Rosales, 2020), to name a few occupations. Their experiences today are shaped by a deep regional history of anti‐migrant policies and sentiment (Chavez, 2008), much of which has been leveraged through public health institutions (Molina, 2006) as well as carceral (Hernández, 2017), and deportation regimes (Baker, 2021).…”

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The Orange County gardeners of COVID‐19: Making breath in landscapes of racial suffocation

Zárate

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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This article examines Latinx residential gardening in Orange County, California during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The pandemic laid bare how the suburban home is a realm of racial suffocation, where the US white propertied subject is secured through unfettered access to the life, not just labor, of racialized and gendered workers of the domestic economy. Despite disposability, residential gardeners' frontline botanical work foments a practice of making breath that, beyond expanding life in the Southern California suburban ecology of lawns, gardens, and property, also crafts more than human mutuality from the grounds of the suburban home. Thinking beyond the paradigm of gardeners' “mow, blow, and go” labor, I track how their more than human mutuality, despite appearing to be pruned back, tarries on other's property with plants, soil, and trees in ways that reemerges beyond liberal humanist categorizations of labor and the human. In doing so, I demonstrate that, despite racial suffocation, residential gardeners' practices of breathing befuddle the aims of racial capitalist COVID‐19 inequity.

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The Orange County gardeners of COVID‐19: Making breath in landscapes of racial suffocation

Zárate

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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“…Often Latinos who lack English proficiency also lack access to diverse networks with class-privileged Whites. Without access to these social capital outlets, some immigrants and second-generation Latinos can find themselves stuck on a broken economic ladder (Wilson, 2018). **** Most of the visitors/tourists at the farm tended to be White.…”

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“…As a result, Spanish-only speakers, or even employees whose English is perceived as "accented," are deterred from the same employment opportunities as their White, English-speaking peers. Furthermore, bilingual employees may be expected to take on additional roles as "cultural brokers" between customers, management, and fellow workers with no financial incentive (Wilson, 2018). Even as Latinos gain qualities of assimilation through language acquisition, political affiliation, and religion, they are continually denied opportunities of social mobility granted to previous European immigrants (Dávila, 2008).…”

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“…This perception of raciolinguistic difference, in turn, creates further division within workplace structures. Particular customer-facing roles may only be accessible to employees seen as “looking good and sounding right” (Wilson, 2018, p. 214). As a result, Spanish-only speakers, or even employees whose English is perceived as “accented,” are deterred from the same employment opportunities as their White, English-speaking peers.…”

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Working on the Farm: An Autoethnography Exploring Gender, Race, and Labor Divisions in Middle America

Eberline

2022

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In this paper, the author reflects on her own work in the agritourism field as a Latina woman in the Midwest. Connecting place to lived experience, the author describes how her gender, ethnicity, language, and education are positioned within the food industry and within her career trajectory. By examining her individual journey, the author reveals systems of oppression that continue to maintain colonial divisions of labor in ways often overlooked or ignored in the everyday. Her story is an example of the struggle many women of color face as they navigate upward mobility within White and/or male-dominated arenas. Utilizing logics based in intersectionality, feminism, raciolinguistic, and racial capitalism, this story bears witness to the ways identities continue to be perceived, performed, accepted, and rejected against dominant narratives in small-town America.

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“…Cuban Americans have historically been concentrated in South Florida and New Jersey, whereas Puerto Ricans have settled in New York City and most recently in Orlando, Florida. With respect to Latino representation, the little work that has been published focuses on city councils, school boards, state legislatures, and Congress (Casellas, 2010; Espino, Leal, & Meier, 2008; Leal, Martinez-Ebers, & Meier 2004; Rouse, 2013; E. R. Wilson, 2018; W.…”

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Latino Judges on the Federal District Court: ¿Cómo Deciden?

Hofer

Casellas

2019

American Politics Research

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As the Latino population in the United States grows, it is increasingly important to understand how the unique experience of Latino judges translates into legal decisions. This experience has included, until recently, a bipartisan prioritization to appoint Latinos to the federal judiciary. For the first time, we analyze the judicial decision-making of Latino judges with enough observations to provide robust results. We find that the differences in priorities between the two parties have typically meant more conservative Latino judges on the bench. Using the Carp-Manning U.S. District Court Case Database, we analyze the decisions of Latino judges to determine policy areas where they diverge from their non-Latino counterparts. We find strong evidence that, under certain partisan, ideological, and policy-specific conditions, Latino judges decide differently than non-Latino judges.

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Stuck behind kitchen doors? Assessing the work prospects of latter-generation Latino workers in a Los Angeles restaurant

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

The Orange County gardeners of COVID‐19: Making breath in landscapes of racial suffocation

The Orange County gardeners of COVID‐19: Making breath in landscapes of racial suffocation

Working on the Farm: An Autoethnography Exploring Gender, Race, and Labor Divisions in Middle America

Latino Judges on the Federal District Court: ¿Cómo Deciden?

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