by Maurice M. Manring From the publisher: The figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct […]
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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
by Rebecca Sharpless From the publisher: As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs […]
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
by Psyche A. Williams-Forson From the publisher: 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 […]
Black Rice: a history of rice and enslaved Africans
by Judith A. Carney From the publisher: Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the […]
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: a history of blacks in food advertising
by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth From amazon: Kern-Foxworth chronicles the stereotypical portrayals of Blacks in advertising from the turn of the century to the present. Beginning with slave advertisements, she discusses how slavery led […]