How Much Race and Culture Plays Into Assimilation?

Priya: I'm thinking of two examples in your book that really stuck out about assimilation. There was Lattisha, an upwardly mobile black mom who wanted her kids to be educated in food and fed the best things. And at the same time, there's also the story of Teresa, who's a Mexican immigrant whose stories used to talk about how immigrants' pallets get Americanized. How much Priya do you think that race and culture plays into the relationships these different families have with food?