Black hunger : soul food and America

Black hunger : soul food and America / Doris Witt.

Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s 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 ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witt, Doris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Edition:1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
African American women > Race identity
African American women > Social conditions
Food > Social aspects
Racism
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of 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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