{"product_id":"dethroning-the-deceitful-pork-chop-jennifer-jensen-wallach-9781557286796","title":"Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama","description":"\u003cb\u003e2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The fifteen essays collected in \u003ci\u003eDethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Jensen Wallach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557286795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557286796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016","brand":"Jennifer Jensen Wallach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047106179327,"sku":"9781557286796","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e934906b-0efa-4a91-9bde-072cf0c8a3f0.jpg?v=1684988292","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dethroning-the-deceitful-pork-chop-jennifer-jensen-wallach-9781557286796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}