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BLACK HUNGER: SOUL FOOD AND AMERICA By Doris Witt **BRAND NEW**
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-10
- 0816645515
- Publication Name
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780816645510
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816645515
ISBN-13
9780816645510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30776036
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Hunger : Soul Food and America
Number of Pages
306 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2004-012751
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"What emerges from this deeply critical, at times humorous, foray into African American food history is a theoretical work as sensuous as the subject matter. Witt takes the reader on a journey through popular food discourses and along the way unpacks the signifiers of belonging, resistance, abjection, purity, and lust. Reading Black Hunger, I was reminded that food is not simply good to eat, it is also good to think with."-- American Anthropologist "A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."-- Chicago Sun-Times "A well-researched and insightful discussion of the creation of mythology about black women and food."-- Women's Review of Books "The work is an impressive collection of cultural artifacts that allow a reader to understand the political implications of purchasing a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup, or the gender-specific implications that adopting a vegetarian diet may hold for African American women."-- MultiCultural Review
Dewey Decimal
305.896/073
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Prologue Part I Servant Problems One "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!" Consuming Identities under Capitalism Two Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen Dominatrix Part II Soul Food and Black masculinity Three "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents Four "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam Five Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal Continuum Part III Black Female Hunger Six "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora Seven "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite Epilogue Appendix African American Cookbooks Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans Notes Works Cited Index
Synopsis
Explores the complex relationship between food and African American history In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a character called Aunt Jemima. This character went on to become one of the most pervasive stereotypes of black women in the United States, embodying not only the pancakes she was appropriated to market but also post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies--including the subordination of African American women as servants and white fantasies of the nurturing mammy. Using the history of Aunt Jemima as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, 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. Celebrated by many African Americans as a sacramental emblem of slavery and protest, soul food was simultaneously rejected by others as a manifestation of middle-class black "slumming." Highlighting the importance of food for men as well as women, Doris Witt traces the promotion of soul food by New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne and its prohibition by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and comedian-turned-diet guru Dick Gregory. A discussion of cookbook author Vertamae Grosvenor, who distanced herself from the myth of plantation mammy by reimagining soul food as "vibration cooking," sets the stage for Witt's concluding argument that the bodies and appetites of African American women should be viewed as central to contemporary conversations about eating disorders and reproductive rights. Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes. Raising her fist in a Black Power salute, wielding her spatula like a sword, Aunt Jemima steps off the pancake box in a righteous fury., Assesses the complex interrelationships between food, race, and gender in America, with special attention paid to the famous figure of Aunt Jemima and the role played by soul food in the post-Civil War period, up through the civil rights movement and the present day. Original., Highlighting the importance of food for men as well as women, Doris Witt traces the promotion of soul food. A discussion of cookbook author Vertamae Grosvenor, who distanced herself from the myth of plantation mammy by reimagining soul food as "vibrant cooking," sets the stage for Witt's concluding argument that the bodies and appetites of African American women should be viewed as central to contemporary conversations about eating disorders and reproductive rights.
LC Classification Number
E185.86.W585 2004
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