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Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama, edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

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  • Uses a variety of methodological perspectives to demonstrate that throughout time black people have used both overt and subtle food practices to resist white oppression
  • "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 up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come."--Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xxvi, 296 pages
Note
Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; afterword by Rebecca Sharpless
Contents
  • Gretchen L. Hoffman
  • Creole cuisine as culinary border culture : reading recipes as testimonies of hybrid identity and cultural heritage
  • Christine Marks
  • Feast of the Mau Mau : Christianity, conjure, and the origins of soul food
  • Anthony J. Stanonis
  • The sassy black cook and the return of the magical negress : popular representations of black women's food work
  • Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón
  • Mighty matriarchs kill it with a skillet : critically reading popular representations of black womanhood and food
  • Jessica Kenyatta Walker
  • Looking through prism optics : toward an understanding of Michelle Obama's food reform
  • Foodways and resistance : cassava, poison, and natural histories in the early Americas
  • Lindsey R. Swindall
  • Theft, food labor, and culinary insurrection in the Virginia plantation yard
  • Christopher Farrish
  • Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : food reform at the Tuskegee Institute
  • Jennifer Jensen Wallach
  • Domestic restaurants, foreign tongues : performing African and eating American in the US Civil Rights era
  • Audrey Russek
  • Freedom's farms : activism and sustenance in rural Mississippi
  • Angela Jill Cooley
  • After forty acres : food security, urban agriculture, and black food citizenship
  • Kelly Wisecup
  • Vivian N. Halloran
  • Native American contributions to African American foodways : slavery, colonialism, and cuisine
  • Robert A. Gilmer
  • Black women's food writing and the Archive of Black Women's History / Marcia Chatelain
  • A date with a dish : revisiting Freda De Knight's African American cuisine
  • Katharina Vester
  • What's the difference between soul food and Southern cooking? : the classification of cookbooks in American libraries
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9781557286796
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Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama
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Dethroning the deceitful pork chop
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rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama
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edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • Uses a variety of methodological perspectives to demonstrate that throughout time black people have used both overt and subtle food practices to resist white oppression
  • "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 up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come."--Publisher's description
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394.12
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.89.F66
LC item number
D48 2015
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non fiction
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bibliography
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1974-
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  • Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
  • Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
  • Sharpless, Rebecca
Series statement
Food and foodways
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  • African Americans
  • Food habits
  • Food preferences
  • Schwarze
  • Ernährungsgewohnheit
  • Lebensmittel
  • Unterdrückung
  • Kochen
  • Rassismus
  • USA
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Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama, edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
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Publication
Note
Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; afterword by Rebecca Sharpless
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-282) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Gretchen L. Hoffman
  • Creole cuisine as culinary border culture : reading recipes as testimonies of hybrid identity and cultural heritage
  • Christine Marks
  • Feast of the Mau Mau : Christianity, conjure, and the origins of soul food
  • Anthony J. Stanonis
  • The sassy black cook and the return of the magical negress : popular representations of black women's food work
  • Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón
  • Mighty matriarchs kill it with a skillet : critically reading popular representations of black womanhood and food
  • Jessica Kenyatta Walker
  • Looking through prism optics : toward an understanding of Michelle Obama's food reform
  • Foodways and resistance : cassava, poison, and natural histories in the early Americas
  • Lindsey R. Swindall
  • Theft, food labor, and culinary insurrection in the Virginia plantation yard
  • Christopher Farrish
  • Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : food reform at the Tuskegee Institute
  • Jennifer Jensen Wallach
  • Domestic restaurants, foreign tongues : performing African and eating American in the US Civil Rights era
  • Audrey Russek
  • Freedom's farms : activism and sustenance in rural Mississippi
  • Angela Jill Cooley
  • After forty acres : food security, urban agriculture, and black food citizenship
  • Kelly Wisecup
  • Vivian N. Halloran
  • Native American contributions to African American foodways : slavery, colonialism, and cuisine
  • Robert A. Gilmer
  • Black women's food writing and the Archive of Black Women's History / Marcia Chatelain
  • A date with a dish : revisiting Freda De Knight's African American cuisine
  • Katharina Vester
  • What's the difference between soul food and Southern cooking? : the classification of cookbooks in American libraries
Control code
ocn908991265
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xxvi, 296 pages
Isbn
9781557286796
Lccn
2015938420
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
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  • (Sirsi) i9781557286796
  • (OCoLC)908991265
Label
Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama, edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Link
Publication
Note
Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; afterword by Rebecca Sharpless
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-282) 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
  • Gretchen L. Hoffman
  • Creole cuisine as culinary border culture : reading recipes as testimonies of hybrid identity and cultural heritage
  • Christine Marks
  • Feast of the Mau Mau : Christianity, conjure, and the origins of soul food
  • Anthony J. Stanonis
  • The sassy black cook and the return of the magical negress : popular representations of black women's food work
  • Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón
  • Mighty matriarchs kill it with a skillet : critically reading popular representations of black womanhood and food
  • Jessica Kenyatta Walker
  • Looking through prism optics : toward an understanding of Michelle Obama's food reform
  • Foodways and resistance : cassava, poison, and natural histories in the early Americas
  • Lindsey R. Swindall
  • Theft, food labor, and culinary insurrection in the Virginia plantation yard
  • Christopher Farrish
  • Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : food reform at the Tuskegee Institute
  • Jennifer Jensen Wallach
  • Domestic restaurants, foreign tongues : performing African and eating American in the US Civil Rights era
  • Audrey Russek
  • Freedom's farms : activism and sustenance in rural Mississippi
  • Angela Jill Cooley
  • After forty acres : food security, urban agriculture, and black food citizenship
  • Kelly Wisecup
  • Vivian N. Halloran
  • Native American contributions to African American foodways : slavery, colonialism, and cuisine
  • Robert A. Gilmer
  • Black women's food writing and the Archive of Black Women's History / Marcia Chatelain
  • A date with a dish : revisiting Freda De Knight's African American cuisine
  • Katharina Vester
  • What's the difference between soul food and Southern cooking? : the classification of cookbooks in American libraries
Control code
ocn908991265
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xxvi, 296 pages
Isbn
9781557286796
Lccn
2015938420
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781557286796
  • (OCoLC)908991265

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