Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.
Contents
Prologue; One: "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!": Consuming Identities under Capitalism; Two: Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen Dominatrix; Three: "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents; Four: "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam; Five: Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal Continuum; Six: "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora; Seven: "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite; Epilogue.
Summary
The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African-American women and food. This work demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic in 20th-century America.
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