The Resource Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power, Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power, Psyche A. Williams-Forson
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- Summary
- Publisher description from Library of Congress cataloging record: Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness in relationship to these foods and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these phenomena clarifies how present interpretations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 317 pages
- Contents
-
- We called ourselves waiter carriers
- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear
- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class
- Traveling the chicken bone express
- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food
- Taking the big piece of chicken
- Still dying for some soul food?
- Flying the coop with Kara Walker
- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets
- Isbn
- 9780807856864
- Label
- Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
- Title
- Building houses out of chicken legs
- Title remainder
- Black women, food, and power
- Statement of responsibility
- Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- Subject
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- African American women -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Food
- Afro-amerikaner
- Afro-amerikaner -- Förenta staterna
- Afro-amerikanska kvinnor -- Förenta staterna
- Chickens -- Social aspects
- Cooking (Chicken)
- Essgewohnheit
- Essgewohnheit
- Food habits -- United States
- Food preferences -- United States
- Geschichte.
- Huhn
- Kippen
- African American cooking
- Koken (natuurkunde)
- Kyckling -- symboliska aspekter -- Förenta staterna
- Kött -- symboliska aspekter -- Förenta staterna
- Matvanor -- Förenta staterna
- Meat -- Symbolic aspects
- Negers
- Soziale Situation
- USA
- USA
- Verenigde Staten
- Vrouwen
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Kochen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher description from Library of Congress cataloging record: Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness in relationship to these foods and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these phenomena clarifies how present interpretations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams-Forson, Psyche A
- Dewey number
- 394.1/2
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GT2868.5
- LC item number
- .W55 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- GT2868.5
- NAL item number
- .W55 2006
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- Chickens
- Meat
- African American women
- African American cooking
- Cooking (Chicken)
- Food habits
- Food preferences
- Negers
- Vrouwen
- Kippen
- Koken (natuurkunde)
- Verenigde Staten
- Essgewohnheit
- Huhn
- Weibliche Schwarze
- USA
- Soziale Situation
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Kochen
- Essgewohnheit
- USA
- Matvanor
- Afro-amerikanska kvinnor
- Afro-amerikaner
- Kyckling
- Kött
- Afro-amerikaner
- Label
- Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power, Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- We called ourselves waiter carriers -- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear -- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class -- Traveling the chicken bone express -- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food -- Taking the big piece of chicken -- Still dying for some soul food? -- Flying the coop with Kara Walker -- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets
- Control code
- ocm62762178
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807856864
- Lccn
- 2005035088
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780807856864
- (OCoLC)62762178
- Label
- Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power, Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- We called ourselves waiter carriers -- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear -- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class -- Traveling the chicken bone express -- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food -- Taking the big piece of chicken -- Still dying for some soul food? -- Flying the coop with Kara Walker -- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets
- Control code
- ocm62762178
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807856864
- Lccn
- 2005035088
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780807856864
- (OCoLC)62762178
Subject
- African American women -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Food
- Afro-amerikaner
- Afro-amerikaner -- Förenta staterna
- Afro-amerikanska kvinnor -- Förenta staterna
- Chickens -- Social aspects
- Cooking (Chicken)
- Essgewohnheit
- Essgewohnheit
- Food habits -- United States
- Food preferences -- United States
- Geschichte.
- Huhn
- Kippen
- African American cooking
- Koken (natuurkunde)
- Kyckling -- symboliska aspekter -- Förenta staterna
- Kött -- symboliska aspekter -- Förenta staterna
- Matvanor -- Förenta staterna
- Meat -- Symbolic aspects
- Negers
- Soziale Situation
- USA
- USA
- Verenigde Staten
- Vrouwen
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Kochen
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