Title Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	GT2868.5 .W55 2006	Available	---

Description	xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-302) and index.
Contents	I: Encounters with the bird -- 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 -- II: African women and gender malpractice -- 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.
Subject	Chickens -- Social aspects.
	Chickens.
	Social aspects.
	Meat -- Symbolic aspects.
	Meat.
	African American women -- Food.
	African American women.
	Food.
	African American women -- Social conditions.
	African American women -- Social conditions.
	African American cooking.
	African American cooking.
	Cooking (Chicken)
	Cooking (Chicken)
	Food habits -- United States.
	Food habits.
	United States.
	Food preferences -- United States.
	Food preferences.
ISBN	080785686X paperback alkaline paper
	0807830224 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No.	9780807830222
	9780807856864