Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama /

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The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors dem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- (Editor ), Williams-Forson, Psyche A. (writer of foreword.), Sharpless, Rebecca (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Colección:Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Temas:
African Americans > Food.
Food habits > United States.
Food preferences > United States.
Noirs américains > Alimentation.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Préférences alimentaires > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Food habits
Food preferences
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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