Black hunger soul food and America / Doris Witt.

Author/creator Witt, Doris
Format Electronic
Edition1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Description292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
African American women--Race identity.
African American women--Ethnic identity.
African American women--Social conditions.
Food--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --20th century.
Racism--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents 1. "Look ma, the real Aunt Jemima!" : consuming identities under capitalism -- 2. Biscuits are being beaten : Craig Claiborne and the epistemology of the kitchen dominatrix -- 3. "Eating chitterlings is like going slumming" : soul food and its discontents -- 4. "Pork or women" : purity and danger in the nation of Islam -- 5. Of watermelon and men : Dick Gregory's cloacal continuum -- 6. "My kitchen was the world" : Vertanae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora -- 7. "How Mama started to get large" : eating disorders, fetal rights, and black female appetite -- Appendix : African American cookbooks
General noteOriginally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999, in series: Race and American culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-281) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004012751
ISBN0816645515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816645510 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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