Building houses out of chicken legs: black women, food, and power
Auteur :
Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9780807856864
Date de publication :
29 mai 2006
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
477 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird"