Black hunger : soul food and America / Doris Witt.

  • Witt, Doris
Date:
2004
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Physical description

292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contributors

Notes

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

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    CBZ.W.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0816645515
  • 9780816645510