Building houses out of chicken legs [electronic resource] : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.
By: Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006Description: xii, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Chickens -- Social aspects | Meat -- Symbolic aspects | African Americans -- Food | African American women -- Social conditions | African American cooking | Cooking (Chicken) | Food habits -- United States | Food preferences -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 394.1/2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index.
We called ourselves waiter carriers -- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear -- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class -- Traveling the chicken bone express -- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food -- Taking the big piece of chicken -- Still dying for some soul food? -- Flying the coop with Kara Walker -- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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