Title Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / Rebecca Sharpless.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©[2010].
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xxix, 273 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	I done decided I'd get me a cook job: becoming a cook -- From collards to puff pastry: the food -- Long hours and little pay: compensation and workers' resistance -- Creating a homeplace: shelter, food, clothing, and a little fun -- Mama leaps off the pancake box: cooks and their families -- Gendering Jim Crow: relationships with employers -- If I ever catch you in a white woman's kitchen, I'll kill you: expanding opportunities and the decline of domestic work.
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.
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Subject	African American women household employees -- Southern States -- History.
	African American women household employees.
	Southern States.
	History.
	Women cooks -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Women cooks.
	Social conditions.
	African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	African American women.
	Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
	Race relations.
	African American women.
	African American women household employees.
	History.
	Race relations.
	Social history.
	Social history.
	Southern States.
	Women cooks.
	Business.
	Business.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Sharpless, Rebecca. Cooking in other women's kitchens. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807834329 (DLC) 2010015805 (OCoLC)607975644
ISBN	9780807899496 (electronic book)
	0807899496 (electronic book)
	9781469606323 (electronic book)
	1469606321 (electronic book)
	9781469611020
	1469611023
	9780807834329 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0807834327 (print)

Title Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / Rebecca Sharpless.

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