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Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
Psyche A. Williams-Forson
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Paperback. Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird". Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and ... Read more
Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856864
SKU
V9780807856864
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About Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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