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Author Williams-Forson, Psyche A.

Title Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  641.3 W723B    Check Shelf
Description xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
Subject Chickens -- Social aspects.
Meat -- Symbolic aspects.
African Americans -- Food.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American cooking.
Cooking (Chicken)
Food habits -- United States.
Food preferences -- United States.
ISBN 0807830224 cloth alkaline paper
080785686X paperback alkaline paper
9780807830222
9780807856864
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