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Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
- Title
- Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.
- Author
- Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xii, 317 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-881
- ISBN
- 0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005035088
- 9780807830222
- 9780807856864
- OCLC
- 62762178
- Author
- Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
- Title
- Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97808078302229780807856864
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-881