Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Getting What We Need Ourselves

How Food Has Shaped African American Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This multi-generational story begins before the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa and ends with a discussion of contemporary African American vegans. Demonstrating that food has been both a tool of empowerment and a weapon of white supremacy, this study documents the symbolic power of food alongside an ongoing struggle for food access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781442253902
• ISBN-10: 1442253908
• Artikelnr.: 54618836

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author, most recently, of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. She is also the editor of the University of Arkansas Press' Food and Foodways series.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Culinary Exchanges and Origins during the Transatlantic Slave
Trade
Chapter 2: Africanisms and Adaptation during the Era of Slavery
Chapter 3: Foodways, Resiliency, and White Supremacy after the Civil War
Chapter 4: The Quest to Cook and Eat with Dignity during the Jim Crow Era
Chapter 5: The Search for a Common Table during the Great Depression and
World War II
Chapter 6: Food as Politics during the Black Freedom Struggle
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author