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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Williams-Forson, Psyche A. Building houses out of chicken legs. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005035088 (OCoLC)62762178 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Psyche A Williams-Forson |
ISBN: | 9780807877357 0807877352 |
OCLC Number: | 81888830 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Black women writers series. |
Responsibility: | Psyche A. Williams-Forson. |
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"[Williams-Forson's] interdisciplinary methods--incorporating literature, print culture, history, personal interviews, and media studies--yield fascinating insights. . . . ["Building Houses out of Chicken Legs"] shows the potential of interdisciplinary study of food culture."-"American Quarterly" "A highly informative read. . . . I am sure it will become a permanent part of the foodway canon. Williams-Forson is an excellent writer who has done some interesting research and pieced together a highly readable book." -- "The Journal of Folklore" "Likely to prove useful to students of cultural identity and stereotype." -- "Western Folklore" "Forces the reader to think carefully about the role of food in black women's history. And this alone, as one cookbook author might say, is a good thing." -- "American Historical Review" "I cannot recall an occasion on which I learned so much from a single text."Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "This is a wonderful book, a thoroughly researched, wonderfully conceptualized, and well-written study."Amy Bentley, New York University Read more...


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