Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.
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TextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 1602561621
- 9781602561625
- 9780195110623
- 0195110625
- 1423759567
- 9781423759560
- 9786610453351
- 6610453357
- African American women -- Race identity
- African American women -- Ethnic identity
- African American women -- Social conditions
- Food -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Racism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Noires américaines -- Identité ethnique
- Noires américaines -- Conditions sociales
- Aliments -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Racisme -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
- African American women -- Race identity
- African American women -- Social conditions
- Food -- Social aspects
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 305.896/073 21
- E185.86 .W58 1999eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.
Print version record.
Prologue; One: "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!": Consuming Identities under Capitalism; Two: Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen Dominatrix; Three: "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents; Four: "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam; Five: Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal Continuum; Six: "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora; Seven: "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite; Epilogue.
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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