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Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557286796)
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x2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection. The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.
Author: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
ISBN-10: 1557286795
ISBN-13: 9781557286796
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2015
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2016
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection. The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.
Author: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
ISBN-10: 1557286795
ISBN-13: 9781557286796
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2015
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2016
By Jennifer Jensen Wallach
xJennifer Jensen Wallach is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas where she teaches African American history and United States food history. She is the author of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and the co-editor of American Appetites: A Documentary Reader. Psyche Williams-Forson is the author of Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World and Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. Rebecca Sharpless is the author of Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960.
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