My Year Of Meats Analysis

In My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki portrays Jane Takagi Little as an unwavering light which reveals the veracity of the many intertwined and diverse people in the world. Jane’s crusade as a bona fide documentarian for an American meat show, My American Wife!, uncovers the many hidden implications of the American culture that affect the views of Japanese culture. In a small, yet significant flashback, Jane evokes a memory from her life as a young twelve-year-old at the Quam Public Library in which she reads a section from Frye’s Grammar School Geography, an old and outdated geography book, titled, “The Races of Men”. By tactfully employing stylistic devices such as including a diction that differentiates Jane’s thoughts regarding her ideals of
In this article detailing the many racial components intertwined in the Green Revolution of Africa, Eddens relays the notion that ignoring or overlooking an indigenous culture’s crop knowledge and farming practices is far from the correct method to further agricultural technologies around the world. According to the article, the American scientists sent to improve Mexico’s agriculture had “constructed a racial hierarchy that equated whiteness with scientific superiority and indigeneity with underdevelopment” (Eddens 3). In both Eddens’ article and Ozeki’s novel, the oversimplified concept that whiteness equates to something better is challenged. In the Green Revolution, the American scientists attempting to accelerate Mexico’s agriculture had implemented a preconceived and biased hierarchy of knowledge in which the large amount of Mexican agricultural information was simply disregarded and tossed aside. However, Eddens realizes that “race is embedded in the … long Green Revolution” (Eddens 18); therefore, there should be greater attention to the effects of race in the many modalities of power implemented in agriculture. Similarly, Ozeki crafts Jane’s recognition of the flaw in putting BEEF-EX’s ideal white family on a pedestal while ignoring the many constituents that make up the ‘real’ America in order to portray the significance of racial inclusion. Despite both authors writing about entirely different subjects, a point of agreement can be found in the acknowledgment of racial equity’s positive influence in many facets of the