Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1557286795 ISBN 13: 9781557286796

Casa editrice: University of Arkansas Press, 2015

Riassunto

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.

The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression—through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic—or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas where she teaches African American history and United States food history. She is the author of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and the co-editor of American Appetites: A Documentary Reader.

Psyche Williams-Forson is the author of Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World and Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power.

Rebecca Sharpless is the author of Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Arkansas Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1557286795
• ISBN 13: 9781557286796
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322
• Redattore: Wallach Jennifer Jensen
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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