| Edition |
1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
| Description |
292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999, in series: Race and American culture. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index. |
| Contents |
1. "Look ma, the real Aunt Jemima!" : consuming identities under capitalism -- 2. Biscuits are being beaten : Craig Claiborne and the epistemology of the kitchen dominatrix -- 3. "Eating chitterlings is like going slumming" : soul food and its discontents -- 4. "Pork or women" : purity and danger in the nation of Islam -- 5. Of watermelon and men : Dick Gregory's cloacal continuum -- 6. "My kitchen was the world" : Vertanae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora -- 7. "How Mama started to get large" : eating disorders, fetal rights, and black female appetite -- Appendix : African American cookbooks |
| Subject |
African American women -- Race identity.
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African American women -- Race identity. |
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African American women. |
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African American women -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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African American women -- Social conditions.
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African American women -- Social conditions. |
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Food -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Food -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism. |
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Racism. |
| ISBN |
0816645515 paperback alkaline paper |
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