Building Houses out of Chicken Legs : Black Women, Food, and Power.
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| Author / Creator: | Williams-Forson, Psyche A. |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (332 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10364507 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE BIRD; 1 We Called Ourselves Waiter Carriers; 2 ""Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd"": Black Men, Visual Imagery, and the Ideology of Fear; 3 Gnawing on a Chicken Bone in My Own House: Cultural Contestation, Black Women's Work, and Class; 4 Traveling the Chicken Bone Express; 5 Say Jesus and Come to Me: Signifying and Church Food; PART II. AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND GENDER MALPRACTICE; 6 Taking the Big Piece of Chicken; 7 Still Dying for Some Soul Food?; 8 Flying the Coop with Kara Walker
- Epilogue: From Train Depots to Country BuffetsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z