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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series:Black women writers series.
Subjects:
Chickens > Social aspects.
Meat > Symbolic aspects.
African American women > Food.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American cooking.
Cooking (Chicken)
Food habits > United States.
Food preferences > United States.
Viande > Aspect symbolique.
Noires américaines > Alimentation.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Cuisine noire américaine.
Cuisine (Poulet)
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis.
Préférences alimentaires > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
African American cooking
African American women > Social conditions
Food habits
Food preferences
Soziale Situation
Schwarze Frau
Essgewohnheit
Kochen
Vrouwen.
Kippen.
Koken (natuurkunde)
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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