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Einband grossBlack Hunger: Soul Food and America
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Black Hunger: Soul Food and America

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
306 Seiten
Englisch
University of Minnesota Presserschienen am15.10.2004
Explores the complex relationship between food and African American history In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a character called Aunt Jemima. This character went on to become one of the most pervasive stereotypes of black women in the United States, embodying not only the pancakes she was appropriated to market but also post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies-including the subordination of African American women as servants and white fantasies of the nurturing mammy.Using the history of Aunt Jemima as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate a complex web of political, economic, religious, sexual, and racial tensions between whites and blacks and within the black community itself. Celebrated by many African Americans as a sacramental emblem of slavery and protest, soul food was simultaneously rejected by others as a manifestation of middle-class black slumming. Highlighting the importance of food for men as well as women, Doris Witt traces the promotion of soul food by New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne and its prohibition by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and comedian-turned-diet guru Dick Gregory. A discussion of cookbook author Vertamae Grosvenor, who distanced herself from the myth of plantation mammy by reimagining soul food as "vibration cooking," sets the stage for Witt's concluding argument that the bodies and appetites of African American women should be viewed as central to contemporary conversations about eating disorders and reproductive rights.Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes. Raising her fist in a Black Power salute, wielding her spatula like a sword, Aunt Jemima steps off the pancake box in a righteous fury.mehr

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KlappentextExplores the complex relationship between food and African American history In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a character called Aunt Jemima. This character went on to become one of the most pervasive stereotypes of black women in the United States, embodying not only the pancakes she was appropriated to market but also post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies-including the subordination of African American women as servants and white fantasies of the nurturing mammy.Using the history of Aunt Jemima as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate a complex web of political, economic, religious, sexual, and racial tensions between whites and blacks and within the black community itself. Celebrated by many African Americans as a sacramental emblem of slavery and protest, soul food was simultaneously rejected by others as a manifestation of middle-class black slumming. Highlighting the importance of food for men as well as women, Doris Witt traces the promotion of soul food by New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne and its prohibition by Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and comedian-turned-diet guru Dick Gregory. A discussion of cookbook author Vertamae Grosvenor, who distanced herself from the myth of plantation mammy by reimagining soul food as "vibration cooking," sets the stage for Witt's concluding argument that the bodies and appetites of African American women should be viewed as central to contemporary conversations about eating disorders and reproductive rights.Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes. Raising her fist in a Black Power salute, wielding her spatula like a sword, Aunt Jemima steps off the pancake box in a righteous fury.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8166-4551-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2004
Erscheinungsdatum15.10.2004
Seiten306 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 149 mm, Höhe 227 mm, Dicke 17 mm
Gewicht413 g
Artikel-Nr.12044489
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GenreKochen & Geniessen

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ProloguePart I Servant Problems One "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!" Consuming Identities under Capitalism Two Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen DominatrixPart II Soul Food and Black masculinity Three "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents Four "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam Five Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal ContinuumPart III Black Female Hunger Six "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora Seven "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female AppetiteEpilogue Appendix African American Cookbooks Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans Notes Works Cited Indexmehr