Building houses out of chicken legs [electronic resource] : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.Description: xii, 317 p. : illISBN:- 0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780807830222
- 9780807856864
- 394.1/2 22
- GT2868.5 .W55 2006eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-302) and index.
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.
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