LEADER 03135nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910807948703321 005 20240513032822.0 010 $a1-4696-1102-3 010 $a0-8078-9949-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000058476 035 $a(EBL)605937 035 $a(OCoLC)676697396 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL605937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10425418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929757 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC605937 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000058476 100 $a20100426d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCooking in other women's kitchens $edomestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 /$fRebecca Sharpless 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-3432-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aAs African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restriction 410 0$aJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. 606 $aAfrican American women household employees$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aWomen cooks$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women household employees$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen cooks$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions. 676 $a331.4/816415 700 $aSharpless$b Rebecca$01607518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807948703321 996 $aCooking in other women's kitchens$94041225 997 $aUNINA