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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Doris Witt |
ISBN: | 0195110625 9780195110623 9786610453351 6610453357 |
OCLC Number: | 38732146 |
Description: | xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | pt. I. Servant Problems -- 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 -- pt. II. Soul Food and Black Masculinity -- 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 -- pt. III. Black Female Hunger -- 6. "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora -- 7. "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite -- African American Cookbooks -- Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans. |
Series Title: | Race and American culture. |
Responsibility: | Doris Witt. |
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Abstract:
The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African-American women and food. This work demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic in 20th-century America.
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- 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.
- Racism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Food -- Social aspects.
- Racism.
- United States.
- Schwarze Frau
- Ethnische Identität
- Ernährung
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- Negers.
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- Levensmiddelen.
- Stereotypen.
- Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Racism -- Social aspects -- United States.
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