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Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power /
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| Author |
Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
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| Call Number |
394.12 WIL |
| Publisher |
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, |
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Subject
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Chickens -- Social aspects.
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Meat -- Symbolic aspects.
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African American women -- Food.
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African American women -- Social conditions.
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African American cookery.
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Cookery (Chicken)
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Food habits -- United States.
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Food preferences -- United States.
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| URL |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005035088.html |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005035088-d.html |
| Title Statement |
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson. |
| Description |
xii, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
I: Encounters with the bird -- 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 -- II: African women and gender malpractice -- 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. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index. |
| ISBN |
0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780807830222 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780807856864 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| LCCN |
2005035088 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
1048787 |
