Racial Indigestion SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays the thread of Peshawa’s story

the thread of Peshawa’s story immerses readers in the everyday and extraordinary world of Iraqi Kurds between the late 1980s and 2022

transnationalism

Engaging and dynamic

gave me fertilizer

yet threats to individuals and communities persist

Racial Indigestion SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays the thread of Peshawa’s storyWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater