Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power /
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Black women writers series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- We called ourselves waiter carriers
- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear
- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class
- Traveling the chicken bone express
- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food
- Taking the big piece of chicken
- Still dying for some soul food?
- Flying the coop with Kara Walker
- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets.