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Every nation has its dish : black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America / Jennifer Jensen Wallach.

Author/creator Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Descriptionxiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Creating the foodways of uplift -- Booker T. Washington's multifaceted program for food reform at the Tuskegee Institute -- W.E.B. du Bois, respectable child-rearing, and the representative black body -- Regionalism, social class, and elite perceptions of working-class foodways during the era of the great migration -- World War I, the Great Depression, and the changing symbolic value of black food traditions -- The civil rights movement and the ascendency of the idea of a racial style of eating -- Culinary nationalism beyond soul food.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018023985
ISBN9781469645216 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1469645211 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GT2853 .U6 W35 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold