Building houses out of chicken legs Black women, food, and power - Williams-Forson, Psyche A.; ebrary, Inc. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: African American cooking; African American women -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Food; Chickens -- Social aspects; Cooking (Chicken); Food habits -- United States; Food preferences -- United States; Meat -- Symbolic aspects; Electronic books