Fresh Fruits And Broken Body Chapter Summary

1) Define and explain the terms “naturalization” and “denaturalization” with examples from Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies.

“Naturalization” is an example of symbolic violence. It can be also understood as a symbolic violence, which people learn to be mystified where misperceive their situation and start taking as normal, or not dealing with actual reality. In the book “Fresh Fruits and Broken Body” Holmes has used the term “Bad Phase” which means the idea that people are fooling themselves. Like, if a person living out side the community say–“well I worked their for summer and was not that bad and farmworkers fooling themselves and deciding to use it as a justification even when they realize that it is not same thing for a white teenager working on the field as part time and them (migrant labor).

“Denaturalization” can be defined as the way of by going against of social inequalities and uncovering linkage between symbolic violence and

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The manifestation of social experience in the body shapes our habits and the ways we perceive the world manifests social inequality in the body. Embodiment focuses on how social influences the physical body. It is important because it helps to link individual cases, their particular cases of suffering, illness, in the boarder tem known as embodiment. It is also known as different way of seeing world, sensing and perceiving the world.

•Abelino’s knee:

Social inequalities can transform your body and you to lead the unhealthy body, which is more prone to suffer from disease. Abelino was forced to work, as it was only the economic source provided to him. He had to lean over and moving back and forth and he injured his knee and then diagnose disease named palpitations. Holmes in the book described his injury as direct result of a border structure and result of structural violence.

•Crescencio’s