Doris Witt

Black Hunger: Soul Food and America

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the history of "Aunt Jemima" as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, "Black Hunger" focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate tensions between whites and blacks, and within the black community itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Univ of Minneso
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780816645510
• ISBN-10: 0816645515
• Artikelnr.: 13839590

Autorenporträt

Doris Witt is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I Servant Problems
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
Part II Soul Food and Black masculinity
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
Part III Black Female Hunger
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
Appendix
African American Cookbooks
Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans
Notes
Works Cited
Index