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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451375203321

Autore

Witt Doris

Titolo

Black hunger [[electronic resource] ] : soul food and America / / Doris Witt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8166-9715-9

Edizione

[1st University of Minnesota Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African American women - Race identity

African American women - Ethnic identity

African American women - Social conditions

Food - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Racism - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999, in series: Race and American culture.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. "Look ma, the real Aunt Jemima!" : consuming identities under capitalism -- 2. Biscuits are being beaten : Craig Claiborne and the epistemology of the kitchen dominatrix -- 3. "Eating chitterlings is like going slumming" : soul food and its discontents -- 4. "Pork or women" : purity and danger in the nation of Islam -- 5. Of watermelon and men : Dick Gregory's cloacal continuum -- 6. "My kitchen was the world" : Vertanae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora -- 7. "How Mama started to get large" : eating disorders, fetal rights, and black female appetite -- Appendix : African American cookbooks

Sommario/riassunto

Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960's to illuminate a complex web of political, economic, religious, sexual, and racial tensions between whites and blacks and within the black community itself. Doris Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes.