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Author:

Williams-Forson, Psyche A.

Title:

Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Chickens--Social aspects.
Meat--Symbolic aspects.
African American women--Food.
African American women--Social conditions
African American cookery
Cookery (Chicken)
Food habits--United States.
Food preferences--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780807856864
9780807830222
9780807856864 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807830222 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62762178

LCCN:

2005035088

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)