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Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama Paperback - 2015
by Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Editor); Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; Afterword by Rebecca Sharpless
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- Title Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
- Author Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Editor); Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson; Afterword by Rebecca Sharpless
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 295
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9781557286796 / 1557286795
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
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Paperback / softback. New. The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used foodpractices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression-through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic-or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing…
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