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Every nation has its dish : black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America /

This text gives a nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century, challenging traditional narratives of 'soul food' as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. It details the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American acti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creating the foodways of uplift
  • Booker T. Washington's multifaceted program for food reform at the Tuskegee Institute
  • W.E.B. du Bois, respectable child-rearing, and the representative black body
  • Regionalism, social class, and elite perceptions of working-class foodways during the era of the great migration
  • World War I, the Great Depression, and the changing symbolic value of black food traditions
  • The civil rights movement and the ascendency of the idea of a racial style of eating
  • Culinary nationalism beyond soul food.