Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama

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Label

Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama

Title remainder

rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Contributor

• Sharpless, Rebecca
• Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
• Williams-Forson, Psyche A.

Editor

• Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Subject

• African Americans -- Food
• Ernährungsgewohnheit
• Food habits -- United States
• Food preferences -- United States
• Kochen
• Lebensmittel
• Rassismus
• Schwarze
• USA
• Unterdrückung

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

Member of

• Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

394.12

Government publication

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

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Food and foodways

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