Title Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Race and American culture.
	Race and American culture.
Bibliography	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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Subject	African American women -- Race identity.
	African American women -- Race identity.
	African American women.
	African American women -- Ethnic identity.
	Ethnicity.
	African American women -- Social conditions.
	African American women -- Social conditions.
	Food -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Food -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Racism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Racism.
	Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Computer network resources.
Subject	Racism.
Other Form:	Print version: Witt, Doris. Black hunger. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98014128
ISBN	1602561621
	9781602561625
	9780195110623 (acid-free paper)
	0195110625 (acid-free paper)
	1423759567 (electronic book)
	9781423759560 (electronic book)
	0195110625 (acid-free paper)

Title Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.

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