Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens : Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960 /

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As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping south...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharpless, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Köchin
Hauswirtschaftsgehilfin
Schwarze Frau
Women cooks.
Social history.
Race relations.
History.
Business.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women household employees.
African American women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
social history.
history (discipline)
Affaires.
Cuisinieres (Personnes)
Histoire sociale.
Relations raciales.
Histoire.
Employees de maison noires americaines.
Noires americaines.
Noires americaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Cuisinieres (Personnes) > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Employees de maison noires americaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Social Conditions
History
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions.
Women cooks > Southern States > Social conditions.
African American women household employees > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469606323

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