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To live and dine in Dixie : the evolution of urban food culture in the Jim Crow South /

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooley, Angela Jill (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Colección:Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places like urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to property rights a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 207 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780820347608
0820347604