Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.
Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N305.800973/76
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English
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Physical content
xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Servant Problems. 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 -- Pt. II. Soul Food and Black Masculinity. 3. "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and...
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
"The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural, sociopoli...
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Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity / Doris Witt.
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Race and American culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-281) and index.
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N305.800973/76
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74VvMQvy48xZ
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0195110625 :
9780195110623 (acid-free paper)
0195110625 (acid-free paper)
9780195110623 :
DDC
305.896073
305.800973
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991007273389702626
