Black hunger : soul food and America /

Black hunger : soul food and America / Doris Witt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witt, Doris.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Edition:First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Subjects:
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.
Racism.
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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