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African Americans -- Food.
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Food habits -- United States.
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Food preferences -- United States.
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Foreword / Psyche Williams-Forson -- Introduction -- part I. Archives -- 1. Foodways and resistance: cassava, poison, and natural histories in the early Americas / Kelly Wisecup -- 2. Native American contributions to African American foodways: slavery, colonialism, and cuisine / Robert A. Gilmer -- 3. Black women's food writing and the archive of black women's history / Marcia Chatelain -- 4. A date with a dish: revisiting Freda De Knight's African American cuisine / Katharina Vester -- 5. What's the difference between soul food and Southern cooking? The classification of cookbooks in American libraries / Gretchen L. Hoffman -- part II. Representations -- 6. Creole cuisine as culinary border culture : reading recipes as testimonies of hybrid identity and cultural heritage / Christine Marks -- 7. Feast of the Mau Mau: Christianity, conjure, and the origins of soul food / Anthony J. Stanonis -- 8. The sassy black cook and the return of the magical negress : popular representations of black women's food work / Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón -- 9. Mighty matriarchs kill it with a skillet : critically reading popular representations of black womanhood and food / Jessica Kenyatta Walker -- 10. Looking through prism optics : toward an understanding of Michelle Obama's food reform / Lindsey R. Swindall -- part III. Politics -- 11. Theft, food labor, and culinary insurrection in the Virginia plantation yard / Christopher Farrish -- 12. Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : food reform at the Tuskegee Institute / Jennifer Jensen Wallach -- 13. Domestic restaurants, foreign tongues : performing African and eating American in the US civil rights era / Audrey Russek -- 14. Freedom's farms : activism and sustenance in rural Mississippi / Angela Jill Cooley -- 15. After forty acres : food security, urban agriculture, and black food citizenship / Vivian N. Halloran -- Afterword / Rebecca Sharpless. |
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Alt author |
Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
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Williams-Forson, Psyche A.,
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Sharpless, Rebecca,
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ISBN |
9781610755689 (electronic bk.) |
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1610755685 (electronic bk.) |
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9781557286796 |
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