Dethroning the deceitful pork chop
Subtitle: rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama
By: edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Contributors: Williams-Forson, Psyche A., writer of foreword; Sharpless, Rebecca, writer of afterword
Series: Food and foodways; Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781557286796
Subjects: Food; Food habits; African Americans; Food preferences
Description: Uses a variety of methodological perspectives to demonstrate that throughout time black people have used both overt and subtle food practices to resist white oppression.
Notes: Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; afterword by Rebecca Sharpless.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foodways and resistance : cassava, poison, and natural histories in the early Americas  -- Kelly Wisecup; title: Native American contributions to African American foodways : slavery, colonialism, and cuisine  -- Robert A. Gilmer; title: Black women's food writing and the Archive of Black Women's History / Marcia Chatelain --; title: A date with a dish : revisiting Freda De Knight's African American cuisine  -- Katharina Vester; title: What's the difference between soul food and Southern cooking? : the classification of cookbooks in American libraries  -- Gretchen L. Hoffman; title: Creole cuisine as culinary border culture : reading recipes as testimonies of hybrid identity and cultural heritage  -- Christine Marks; title: Feast of the Mau Mau : Christianity, conjure, and the origins of soul food  -- Anthony J. Stanonis; title: The sassy black cook and the return of the magical negress : popular representations of black women's food work  -- Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón; title: Mighty matriarchs kill it with a skillet : critically reading popular representations of black womanhood and food  -- Jessica Kenyatta Walker; title: Looking through prism optics : toward an understanding of Michelle Obama's food reform  -- Lindsey R. Swindall; title: Theft, food labor, and culinary insurrection in the Virginia plantation yard  -- Christopher Farrish; title: Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : food reform at the Tuskegee Institute  -- Jennifer Jensen Wallach; title: Domestic restaurants, foreign tongues : performing African and eating American in the US Civil Rights era  -- Audrey Russek; title: Freedom's farms : activism and sustenance in rural Mississippi  -- Angela Jill Cooley; title: After forty acres : food security, urban agriculture, and black food citizenship -- Vivian N. Halloran.