Cooking in other women's kitchens [[electronic resource] ] : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / / Rebecca Sharpless

• Autore: Sharpless Rebecca
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/816415
• Soggetto topico: African American women household employees - Southern States - History; Women cooks - Southern States - Social conditions; African American women - Southern States - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cooking in other women's kitchens
• ISBN: 1-4696-1102-3; 0-8078-9949-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807948703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.