Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
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The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery to the present. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression and more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity.

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The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery to the present. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression and more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity.
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Jennifer Jensen Wallach is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas where she teaches African American history and United States food history. She is the author of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and the co-editor of American Appetites: A Documentary Reader. Psyche Williams-Forson is the author of Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World and Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. Rebecca Sharpless is the author of Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960.