Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs Black Women, Food, and Power

Name: Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs Black Women, Food, and Power
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ISBN: 9780807856864

ISBN-10: 080785686X

ISBN-13: 9780807856864

Edition: 2006

Authors: Psyche A. Williams-Forson

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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 relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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



African American 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


Notes


Bibliography


Index