Review of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies This post is a review of anthropologist and physician Seth Holmes' Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies , published in 2013 by the University of California Press. This book is where Holmes recounts his experiences in his fieldwork in Mexico, and the hardships he and his friends had encountered while crossing the border, their experiences at the Border Patrol jail, and the trials and difficulties of migrant workers in the United States. Holmes' expos é sheds light on the suffering that Mexican migrants endure in order to make a living. The hard work of Mexican migrants in fields and farms is crucial to our food system and Holmes attempts to persuade his audience that these migrants deserve better, in terms of healthcare, living conditions, wages, and respect, among other things. Holmes connects the structural violence that is ingrained in the US migrant labor system to the social processes by which this gets normalized. This audience is not exclusive to anthropo