Building Houses out of Chicken Legs : : Black Women, Food, and Power
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Call Number: Black Studies 394.12 Wi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: xii, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper)
080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Chickens -- Social aspects.
Meat -- Symbolic aspects.
African American women -- Food.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American cooking.
Cooking (Chicken)
Food habits.
Food preferences.