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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.
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xii, 317 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
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  • 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.
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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.
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9780807856864
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Sc E 06-881
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