03135nam 2200565Ia 450 991080794870332120240513032822.01-4696-1102-30-8078-9949-6(CKB)2670000000058476(EBL)605937(OCoLC)676697396(Au-PeEL)EBL605937(CaPaEBR)ebr10425418(CaONFJC)MIL929757(MiAaPQ)EBC605937(EXLCZ)99267000000005847620100426d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCooking in other women's kitchens domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 /Rebecca Sharpless1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (304 p.)The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-3432-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 I Done Decided I'd Get Me a Cook Job: Becoming a Cook; 2 From Collards to Puff Pastry: The Food; 3 Long Hours and Little Pay: Compensation and Workers' Resistance; 4 Creating a Homeplace: Shelter, Food, Clothing, and a Little Fun; 5 Mama Leaps off the Pancake Box: Cooks and Their Families; 6 Gendering Jim Crow: Relationships with Employers; 7 If I Ever Catch You in a White Woman's Kitchen, I'll Kill You: Expanding Opportunities and the Decline of Domestic Work; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Cook's Wages, 1901-1960; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAs African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restrictionJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.African American women household employeesSouthern StatesHistoryWomen cooksSouthern StatesSocial conditionsAfrican American womenSouthern StatesSocial conditionsSouthern StatesRace relationsHistoryAfrican American women household employeesHistory.Women cooksSocial conditions.African American womenSocial conditions.331.4/816415Sharpless Rebecca1607518MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807948703321Cooking in other women's kitchens4041225UNINA